“Or I could make you come again.”He skated his fingers down my stomach, teasing, stroking, caressing.“I could spread you open and devour you until you’re shaking.”
I whimpered.I should have been too wrung out, too exhausted to want more.But…
He smirked against my throat.“I think that’s a yes.”
And with one last kiss on my chest, Liam slid down my body and settled between my thighs once more.
Maybe he was telling the truth.Maybe it really was the best part.
twenty-eight
let’s get you fed
Liam
“Goodmorning.”Maya’seyesfluttered open at my greeting, and the drowsy smile she gave me was so adorable I couldn’t resist pulling her closer to press a kiss to her forehead.“How’d you sleep?”
I’d been trying to convince myself she was real for the better part of an hour.Part of me kept expecting to wake up alone in my bed at the B&B, doomed to realize last night had been nothing more than an amazing dream.
She stretched, the press of her naked breasts on my bare skin a reminder that I really was here, and that last night was blissfully, deliciously real.
“Better than I have in years.Possibly ever.”
“Good.”I nuzzled her neck, pressing my lips to the hollow behind her ear—a spot that, thanks to last night, I knew made her shiver every damn time I kissed it.God, I loved kissing that spot.I forced myself to pull away.Before I got too distracted, there was something I needed to know.“We need to talk.”
Maya tensed, then shoved me away with surprising strength.“Ah, shit,” she muttered.“This is the part when you tell me you have a girlfriend back home, right?Or that you don’t do monogamy?Or that you had fun, but you’re not really a relationship kind of guy?”
“What?No, it’s nothing like that at all.”I cupped her face, urging her to look at me.“There’s only you.”I kissed her forehead, lingering longer than strictly necessary but unable to stop myself.“In case I wasn’t clear before, I really like you.”
The tension in her shoulders dissolved, and she relaxed against me, slipping an arm around my waist and burrowing closer.She fit so perfectly, as though she were made to be in my arms.
“Good,” she whispered, her brows pinching.“Because I don’t share.”
I chuckled.“Good to know.I don’t share either.In case you were wondering.”
“Good.So, what then?”
I hesitated before diving in.She’d sounded nervous last night when she mentioned it, but no matter what her answer was, I wouldn’t want her any less.I wanted to make sure I didn’t scare her off by coming on too strong when we finally had sex.Because one thing was certain: after watching her come all over my fingers and tongue last night, Ineededto be inside her.“Last night, you mentioned it had been a while for you.How long is a while?”
“I haven’t been with anyone since high school,” she admitted after several long moments.“And my high school boyfriends and I didn’t do much.”
“That means it’s been what?Four years?Five years?”How oldwasshe, anyway?“More?How is that possible?”
She shrugged, tracing her fingers over my ribs.“Five years,” she mumbled against my chest.“After my last high school boyfriend and I broke up, I didn’t find anyone else I was interested in.And then I moved here, and I’ve been busy with Nana and the store ever since.”
Something about her detached tone didn’t sit quite right, as though there was more to it than what she was telling me.Then again, what did I know?I was just the asshole lucky enough to have her in my arms right now.
I gripped her chin and pressed my lips to hers.“That makes me even more thankful you let me be the first to taste you.”I smirked against her mouth.“Because Maya?”My thumb brushed her jaw, teasing.“You’re fucking delicious.”
She gasped as I swept my tongue into her mouth, morning breath be damned.I couldn’t have this gorgeous, warm, willing woman wrapped around me andnotkiss her.I’d never forgive myself.
She pulled away first, lips swollen and cheeks flushed as her chest rose and fell in tempting little gasps.
I groaned and patted her ass, then hopped out of bed.“Come on.Let’s take a shower.”
Initially, when I’d woken up next to Maya with morning wood tenting the hell out of the sheets, I planned to bury myself inside her so deeply she’d never feel anything but empty without me.Now that I knew how long it had been for her, I was determined to make our first time special.She deserved more than a quick morning bang, no matter how desperate I was to get inside her.
Stepping under the spray, I let the water wash away the last remnants of sleep.As I scrubbed my hands through my hair, a memory from last night flashed at the tender sting when my fingers grazed my scalp.I’m surprised I had any hair left with how hard Maya yanked on it.Not that I cared.She could rip out every last strand if she wanted to—as long as she let me go down on her again.
