“Please what?” he asked as she rocked against him. “Please make you come?”
“Yes, yes,” she sobbed.
“Open your eyes and look at me.”
She stared at him, her breathing erratic and her pulse clearly racing. Leaning down, he kissed her. Hot and hard and full of need.
As he drew back, he saw something move across her face. It was barely visible but it was there and he knew he needed to slow things down.
So he stopped moving.
“Nooo,” she cried. “What are you doing?”
“You aren’t ready,” he told her.
Fuck. This was harder than he’d thought it would be.
“I am ready. I think I’m ready. I could be ready.”
Who was she trying to convince? Him or herself?
“No, you aren’t.”
“Well. I came to see what the two of you were doing and then I find this,” Jared said.
North turned his head to look at the other man as he leaned against the wall next to them, watching with that intense gaze.
North held her carefully. As though she was precious.
“She thinks she’s weird because she can’t come,” North explained to Jared who narrowed his gaze as he glanced down at him. “That she’s defective.”
“I am!”
“You are not,” Jared said firmly. “And I’m going to spank you if you say that again.”
North spun them so he had his back to the wall with her held against his chest.
“She also thinks her scars are ugly. I think you need to show her differently.”
What the fuck?
Shit. Had Jared made a mistake last night when she’d told him about the scars? Should he have asked to see them?
He’d just been so fucking furious after what she’d told him that he hadn’t wanted to upset her more.
“Is that true, baby girl?” Jared moved to her side so he could see her face.
But she had it buried in North’s chest. Reaching for her chin, he turned her to face him.
“Yes,” she said quietly. “They’re ugly and I thought that maybe you wouldn’t want to see them.”
Oh, they were going to change that mindset right now.
Moving behind her, he lifted up her exercise top to see them. Fuck. Each mark on her skin made him so mad. But he never wanted her to think that she was anything less than perfect.
He started kissing each one. After he’d kissed them, he ran his tongue over them until she started to relax in North’s arms.
Finally, he took her from the other man, holding her tight as North studied her scars.
