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“Don’t hold back, Nash,” she whispers in my ear, once I’ve rested for a long beat after filling her to the hilt. “Fuck me the way we’ve both been wishing you would.”

My restraint snaps in two. Maybe I had some idea of taking this slow, making it drawn-out and romantic for our first time. But with the frenzied excitement jumping through my veins and Piper talking to me like that, I lose composure.

I thrust into her with abandon, losing myself in the pleasure, in the sensation of her clenching around me, in the way she responds by bringing her hips up to meet mine as I thrust into her, in the sound of her moans, in her soft skin and pillowy hair that I groan and gasp into.

“Piper, fuck. I can’t believe how good you feel.” I’ve never felt anything like this before, not with anyone, not even close.

I shift my hips, hitting a different angle, and I can feel something in Piper’s body change. The grip of her pussy tightens, and her chest heaves against my own.

“Nash, I’m, I’m about to …”

I race toward release with her, barreling closer with every thrust of my hips. She gasps my name, locks her legs around my back, and then falls apart underneath me.

She brings me with her. A rough groan pulls from my throat as the final thrust sends me over the edge. Reality smashes into a million pieces as the most searing, all-consuming pleasure erupts through my body.

My release jets from my cock in thick, hot streams. I’m wrung dry, right into my wife.

I collapse at her side, still riding aftershocks of bliss. I’m utterly spent and worn out in a way I’ve never felt before, and an almost otherworldly buzz of satisfaction fills my chest.

I reach over and fold Piper into my arms, holding her close against me.

“Worth the wait?”

I can’t help barking a laugh at her question. “Yeah. Worth the fucking wait.”

Her hair shakes against my face as she nods. She presses a kiss to the forearm that’s looped around her chest. “Yep. Definitely worth the wait. But let’s not wait so long for the second time.”

It doesn’t seem possible. It must defy biology. Physics, even. But even though I’ve just been wrung dry to the damn bone, my cock twitches.

“Piper, I don’t know if we’re gonna wait ‘til morning.”

42

NASH

The next morning, the sky is so clear and blue it’s almost impossible to believe it was cloudy and pouring rain. Except for the freshness of the soft air that drifts through the open windows of our bedroom, proving that the heat that’s been hanging around for weeks was cooled by yesterday’s storm.

Our bedroom. A light, buoyant sensation fills me at those words. A feeling of trepidation, a lingering sense that giving into my feelings and desires with Piper was a mistake, still stalks the corners of my conscience. But in this moment at least, I’m too happy to pay it much attention.

“That was downright unfair,” I laugh, feeling Piper’s laughter, too, with her naked body tucked snug against mine under the blanket.

We’re reminiscing about the last week, during which she was not-so-slowly driving me insane after I told her we didn’t have any chemistry.

“Pretty soon I’ll show you that I wasn’t lying,” she says with a coy note that makes my morning wood come roaring back to life, raising the blanket.

She’s talking about that comment she made about her lipstick. The image of her wearing nothing but that shade of red on her lips, on her knees in front of me, makes me groan.

“You have anything you need to do today?” Piper asks.

“Nope,” I answer.

She flings the blankets off of us and rolls over, straddling my hips and leaning over me with every inch of her perfect body fully exposed. She dips down and kisses me, then whispers against my lips, “Let’s have the busiest day off ever.”

We manage to do so without even leaving the bedroom.

The next day, I walk into the footage review room for a team meeting to dissect the games we’ve played so far this season. Most of the team is already here, waiting for Coach and the analytics staff who lead the meeting.

Unsurprisingly, I walk in on the middle of Hayden leading a completely ridiculous conversation with Noah and Cooper.