He pulled back to gaze into her eyes, his own clouded with lust and something deeper. Something that didn’t seem to match the words that poured out of his luscious mouth. “Sex could be the one thing in our lives that’snotcomplicated right now. Wouldn’t you like a distraction from all the bullshit we’re dealing with?”
Was sex all he wanted from her? Did she care?
“I…I’m not ready for that yet,” she said, but made no attempt to untangle herself.
I don’t think my heart can take it.
She swallowed that confession.
He ran his soft, plush lips down the side of her neck as he trailed a teasing hand up under the hem of her nightshirt, tracing his fingers along her spine and lighting up her breasts, her sex.
“I’m a patient male, Cass.” He nipped at the pulsing vein in her throat. “Plenty of fun to be had until youareready. Quit denying yourself and renew our agreement. I promise I can be extremely diverting.”
Eight days. She’d lasted eight days.
Fu…dge it.
She ran her hands down the smooth, hard planes of his chest, then traced those muscles just inside his hips that she couldn’t get enough of. She tucked her fingers inside his waistband, and her body rippled with aching desire at his responding groan. Arching her neck to give him better access, she whispered, “Prove it.”
It was all the permission he needed.
He trailed his lips up over her jaw and claimed her mouth before hoisting her effortlessly onto the bureau, perching her at the edge. Nestling between her open thighs, he cupped his hand under her tailbone and hauled her hips against his.
Every painful, confusing, worrying thought scattered, chased away by his powerful hands roving over her body, his soft lips and probing tongue pillaging her mouth.
She threw her arms around his shoulders, needing him closer, and his responding growl bloomed wet heat between her legs.
Scenting her arousal, his fingers found the front of her panties, and she moaned into his mouth as he circled her clit.
“Your body isn’t confused about what it wants.” He pressed into the spot harder, and a strangled cry parted her lips. “You’re fucking soaked for me.”
He replaced his fingers with his cock, stroking her through his thin, cotton pants and over her panties. He snaked a hand up under her shirt and palmed her breast, running his thumb over her peaked nipple and squeezing tenderly in time with his thrusts.
“That’s because it’s a horny idiot who doesn’t realize we’re just friends,” she whimpered, her statement losing its power as she ground against his erection.
A rumbling chuckle trickled out of him. “You really want me to correct that?” He drove against her harder. One hand massaged her breast as the other braced the base of her spine, holding her in place against him.
“Of course not,” she breathed as her hips bucked.
“Didn’t think so.” He dipped a hand to the hem of her nightshirt. “Arms up,” he commanded before dragging it up over her head.
“Fuckme,” he exhaled at the sight of her exposed flesh, and she braced her arms behind her, arching her back and pushing her chest forward. She let him look his fill, drunk on his yearning.
“High Gods, I am dying to show you all the depraved things your delectable body was made for.” He mapped her curves with gentle reverence, his fingertips caressing her breasts, her ribs, her stomach. As if she were a priceless piece of art.
He teased his knuckles along the waistband of her panties.
“I can tell you want me to take these off. But if I do, I won’t be able to stop myself from burying my cock inside you.”
She tilted her hips up, then almost sobbed with frustration as he removed his fingers from her panties and placed his hand at her jaw, pulling at her lower lip with his thumb.
“So better keep them on,” he grinned wickedly. “Because right now, I think you’d let me.”
She grabbed his thumb with her teeth and bit down. Hard. The flash of anger-tinged lust in his eyes tingled through her, stiffening her already painfully tight nipples.
“How badly do you want to fuck me right now, Daredevil? Grind harder and show me. It can’t possibly be as badly as I want to fuckyou.”
She dug her heels into the firm muscles of his ass and pulled him as close as possible.
