“It is.” His eyes are bolted to mine.
“Thank you for a lovely night,” I add. I’m trying to keep my laugh from bubbling up.
“Will there be a second date?”
I slowly nod my head. “I think so.”
“Think?” His brows knit together, unimpressed with my word choice.
“There will be. Would you maybe like to come in?” I hitch my hand holding the keys over my shoulder.
He snatches my keys, and in a flash, he presses me up against my front door. “Very much so. Now, if I have to play another second of your little game, then so help me, I’ll flip you around and take you right now.”
My mouth turns into an O shape. “So I shouldn’t go for the come in for a nightcap routine?”
He manages to open my door. “Fuck no. We have things I want to do with you.”
When his lips find mine and he shuts the door behind him with his foot, I’m already falling into our little world.
And I think I’m falling for him, too.
18
HAYES
Vaguely, I hear the door slam shut behind us, but I already feel her fingers gripping my shirt through my open coat. The tension all night has been palpable. I’ve been desperate for the minutes on the clock to disappear so we could end up in this very moment with my mouth on hers. Every kiss is shameless because our tongues are quick and our mouths slick and warm.
“If this is great sex, then I’m going to give credit to the chocolate,” Elodie murmurs against my mouth as our lips struggle to part.
I rumble a chuckle in my throat as I back her farther into her apartment. “Someone might be getting spanked for that, and I would much rather go slow with you right now.”
She smiles against the corner of my mouth. I’m testing my restraint because I’ve wanted her naked since the moment I saw her in this black dress. Her coat disappears along our journey toward her room, and my fingers find the zipper of her dress. I really need to pace myself because I want to trace every curve of her, but she is clawing at my shirt, and it seems we’re desperate.
I snake my arms around her to hoist her up. Her legs wrap tightly around me as I lead us straight to her room and deposit her onto the bed, quick to slide off her loose dress, leaving her in her matching black lace lingerie and her hair splayed on the mattress.
Taking a step back, I hiss with my grin. “Indulge, I shall.”In harsh movements, I take off my shirt while I watch her lift one knee up, and her finger finds the corner of her mouth to nibble. But it’s her eyes that will be my undoing. Hers narrow with challenge and an invitation.
We are both sure about all of this. Every minute of tonight. We don’t need to discuss it; it’s all blatantly obvious.
I continue to appraise her and the way she squeezes her thighs tightly.Joining her on the bed, I’m careful not to smother her as I pin her body to the mattress.
“Fucking beautiful,” I whisper to her before I trace the curve of her neck with my teeth.
Her breath is already heavy, and her body arches up off the blanket, summoning my body to be closer.
I nip near her collarbone. “Slow,” I remind her.
“Hayes,” she groans in a playful way.
I wrap my hand carefully around her throat, applying just enough pressure to keep her in place but not enough to hurt her.
“I’ll show you what we do when we wait,” I say against her skin as my free hand parts her thighs open. “I can already feel how wet and needy you are, and I’m not even touching your pussy yet.”
My thumb strokes her inner thigh, feeling her hot skin.
“You’re going to make me beg tonight, aren’t you?”she asks quietly.
I release her throat, and my long finger taps her mouth. “And we’re going to love every second of it.”
