A kind that said everything that needed to be spoken without words.
His balls were getting tighter, almost heavy waiting for his release.
Christ, at this rate, it was going to be an explosion.
“I’m so close,” she hissed between kisses.
“Grind harder. Faster. Do what you can. I’m right there with you,” he groaned.
She pressed down on him, rubbed against him, squirming so much that she might not have realized that her inner walls were squeezing him so tight he was barely hanging on.
The way her fingers were crushing his, he knew she was close, so he lifted his hips higher, sending him as deep as he could with her rubbing against him.
Then she was pulsing.
He felt every single one, thrust two more times and he was right there with her, his hips landing on the bed as their bodies released together.
“Wow,” she said, almost with wonder in her voice. “I should be on top like that more often.”
He pulled his hands out and shook them off.
“As long as you don’t break my fingers. I need these, you know.”
She inched down a bit more and put her head on his chest. “Sorry. I always seem to lose myself with you in the moment. Then afterwards…it’s a bit scary.”
He ran his hand down her back. “Yeah, it is,” he whispered. “But we’re strong, right?”
She lifted her head to put her chin on his chest. “I am now. Thanks to you.”
Her eyes were searching his. It felt like one of them needed to say those three words.
But neither of them did.
29
BIG SECRET
Over a month later, Dean realized he had nothing under control at all.
He and Molly still had their weekly dinner date alone, but the rest of the time, they spent it as the three of them.
It was her idea. That he was a package deal and she loved being around Jonah.
The more his son warmed up to Molly, the more Jonah’s inner devil came out. Nothing horrible, more tiredness and stubbornness, but he wasn’t always on his best behavior.
Yet Molly never had an issue with it.
Not once.
And those weekly alone dinners, that was his doing. Because he felt she deserved to have a little time where she was the center of attention in a good way.
That it could be about them and not him as a single father. Or her hanging with him and his son.
He never thought he’d look forward to time with someone as much as he did her and wondered what was keeping him from saying he loved her.
But she gave no indication of what she was feeling so that was holding him back as much as his secret was.
After growing up in his household where the only love was for a green Benjamin, he figured he could do without it in his life.
