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“God, that feels so good,” I gasp.

“Good.”

Good?Good?

My vision is nothing but white-hot sparks! If I didn’t know better, I’d think I was getting a sex-induced ocular migraine, lungs forgetting how to function. I swear my soul could slip free and he’d just keep going, dragging me apart piece by piece until there’s nothing left but the frantic beat of my heart.

“Please . . .” I whine. Whisper.

I feel him smile again. “I love it when you beg.”

I shake my head; I never beg.

He pulls his mouth away.

He crawls up over me slowly, predator sure, bracing his weight on his forearms so his mouth hovers just above mine. The mattress dips as he cages me in. Every breath he exhales brushes across my lips, and I realize—he’s giving me a choice. A pause.

Do I want more than just his tongue on my pussy ...

The answer is immediate. Reckless.Certain.

“Yes.”

He lifts his head just enough to search my face. “Okay?”

“Please.” No hesitation.Not even a bit ...

I swear the simple, practical intimacy of being in this moment with him does something unruly to my chest. He’s so fucking hot.

“Look at me,” he whispers as he guides himself to me, the broad head nudging where I’m already desperate. He waits one breath—two—like he’s giving me time to reconsider what we’re about to do, and of course I don’t, because I want him to screw me senseless.

And then he glides inside.

Heat. Stretch. That glorious,mind-blanking slide, where every thought leaves my brain and my body.

I am putty in his hands.

Blissfully limp beneath him as rain beats down at the windowpanes. He sets a lazy tempo, one palm sliding up my torso to cup my breast while the other braces itself next to my head. His thumb strums across my nipple, the sensation ricocheting straight down to where we’re joined.

“Keep doing that,” I quietly demand when he pinches lightly.

Maverick tells me I’m perfect. That I feel like heaven. I’m hot. Tight. That if I keep squeezing him like that he’s not going to last, and the sexy whispered words send a shock wave through my already oversensitized body.

“Touch yourself,” he tells me. I comply, sliding a hand up my stomach and over my other breast so he can watch. I clench my muscles around him tighter, tremors rippling through me in a series of pulses. He groans.

I moan.

So, so good . . .

Chapter 12

Maverick

Sometime in the middle of the night, the storm stopped raging and the power went back on.

This morning I have no idea what to say to Annabelle, so it’s a good thing she’s in the bathroom. Door shut. Water running.

But I hear her humming. A soft, melodic little thing I’ve noticed she does. Cute. Adorable. It drifts out through the door like a thread, tugging at something behind my rib cage. Something unfamiliar.