When at last he couldn’t take any more, he scooped under her arms, lifting her right off of him and yanking her up to his face, then he rolled her onto her back and stared into her bright-green eyes.
Without having to say a word, she opened her legs for him. He positioned himself between her bent knees and entered her slowly, inch after luscious inch. Her warm, wet channel engulfed him completely. The glorious friction of withdrawing and plunging again and again was incredible. As if this ancient dance had been choreographed specifically for them, they followed each other’s lead, meeting each other thrust for thrust.
The pressure built at the base of his spine like a hot ball of fire. He knew he wouldn’t last much longer. He hadn’t brought a condom to bed with him. They hadn’t had the talk. And it seemed like a terrible time to stop. Damn. But he had to.
“I’m sorry. I forgot all about having a condom available. There’s one in my wallet in my pants pocket.”
She nodded. “Sure, go get it. I’ll just wait right here,” she said with a smile.
He chuckled but withdrew quickly and grabbed what he needed. When he returned to her, she parted her thighs and welcomed him back with her arms opened wide.
“You know, maybe it’s a good thing we had to pause. I almost forgot something else,” he said.
“What’s that?”
He looked deeply into her eyes and, seeing no guile at all, decided to risk it. “I love you.”
She smiled up at him. “I love you back.”
He kissed her soundly, and without another word, he reentered her and resumed his rhythm. She picked right up where they’d left off. Their movements soon intensified, becoming harder and faster, more urgent and passionate.
He kissed her ear, her cheek, whatever he could reach of her, as he thrust into her warm, willing center. The sensation grew so quickly and so desperately that he found himself pounding deep into her without even realizing it. However, she was not complaining.
She appeared to be in the throes of her own passion. With eyes closed and unsteady breaths, she began to shiver. Her voice became a crescendo of moans, climaxing into a scream. Her sex clenched his as she orgasmed around him.
He couldn’t have held back any longer if he’d wanted to. But coming together seemed so perfect, he just let go and rode the wave of his own deeply satisfying climax. He let her milk every drop from him before he stilled and then continued with aftershocks from a few more surprise spasms.
At last, he collapsed beside her and rolled to the side. They were both breathing heavily, staring into each other’s eyes, and grinning.
“That was…” He had no words to describe the best orgasm of his life.
“Yeah. It was.”
She smiled, and he knew she understood. He tucked her head under his chin and held her close. This wonderful woman, someone he never would have seen himself with, was now someone he couldn’t see himself without.
Chapter 13
“I love you.”
“I love you back.”
Dawn had just shut down her computer at work and was on her way to the hospital to visit her grandmother when Luca called. She was practically walking on air as she made her way to the elevator.
“I’ll meet you at your place, okay?”
“Okay.”
“Promise me you’ll go straight home after you visit your grandmother.”
“I promise.” Luca’s concern over her made her feel loved and cared for. But it did take some getting used to.
It had been exactly six days since they had first made love…and about ten hours since the last time. She’d lost count of how many times occurred between. Sometimes it was just once at night and once in the morning. Sometimes, well, more. A lot more.
Annette had been recovering at Boston General all week, affording them the kind of privacy they usually didn’t have, considering their living situations. Although she missed Annette and worried about her day and night, Dawn had never slept better than she had wrapped in Luca’s arms after a hot night of sex with her stud.
The only sadness between them was that Mandy was still missing. Luca had followed up with the detectives on the case. He gave them a bogus story about a tip he got from someone who wanted to stay anonymous. The supposed tipster said he’d heard from a gang member about a little girl hidden in the basement of Keene Street Convenience. The detectives brought along Luca, Officer Gulliver, and a few members of the gang squad to back them up when they went to investigate, but they came up empty-handed. If the girl had been there, she wasn’t any longer.
