Page 59 of Honor ’N’ Duty

“I want this. I want you!” she cried, then clasped the sides of his face and pulled his mouth back to hers.

Suddenly, her back was slammed down on the blanket. Kade’s big body covered hers. His tongue delved deeper, swirling, tasting, and sending her on a one-way trip to Lustville. The bone-liquifying sensation she’d experienced moments ago was magnified by a factor of a thousand, and all she could do now was hang on for the ride.

Kade’s rough fingers tugged down the thin spaghetti straps of her dress, baring her breasts. Warm air blew across her nipples, tightening them to hard nubs. His hand closed over one breast, massaging and squeezing gently before capturing it between his thumb and forefinger.

Thankfully, his mouth was still firmly over hers, because the moan she heard next—hers—would have been loud enough to summon the dead.

He tugged the straps of her dress down to her waist. She lifted her hips, urging him to tear the garment from her body. Anything to get them skin-to-skin faster. Her tiny little thong was the next to go.

She reached for his shirt, yanking it up his arms and over his head. Next she fumbled with the snap of his jeans, somehow managing to pop it open, but her fingers were so shaky she couldn’t manage the zipper over his erection.

“I’ve got this.” He stood, then shucked his shorts and underwear.

A shaft of moonlight took that moment to peek through the clouds, bathing Kade’s glorious body in an ethereal light and giving her a glimpse of…wow.

Gently, he lowered himself on top of her, nudging her hips wider and nestling between her thighs. He fastened his mouth on her breast, sucking her nipple into his mouth, then gently catching it with his teeth and tongue in a hot, teasing tug.

Laia hooked her legs over the backs of his thighs, undulating her hips and urging him to get inside her before she screamed.

Speaking of screaming… They were in an isolated, fairly concealed area, but this beach was still public. The muscles in her lower belly quivered. There was something so deliciously dangerous at the prospect that they could be seen by anyone who happened to be walking by.

As Kade afforded her other nipple the same attention, he rocked his body against hers, nudging his stiff erection against her wetness.

“Baby, I need to get inside you. I don’t have a condom. You still on that birth control?”

“Yes.” If for some reason her birth control failed her again, she didn’t care. This child would be made with…love? Don’t think about that now. Just enjoy.

And then he was there, kneeling between her outstretched thighs as he rubbed the throbbing tip of him against her slick folds, teasing and torturing and making her squirm to get closer.

“Kade.” His name left her mouth on a breathy sigh. “Now. For God’s sake, now!”

With every ripped muscle in his torso glistening with sweat in the moonlight, he pushed inside her tight channel.

“Ahh,” she gasped, gripping his forearms, though they were so thick she could barely close her fingers around them. She hadn’t had sex in so long the intrusion of his body was both welcome and frightening.

In stark contrast to her racing pulse, she forced herself to breathe slowly, rhythmically, the way she’d been taught to do when giving birth.

He must have sensed her discomfort because he slowed his penetration, stopping before burying himself completely inside her. “You okay?”

His deep, rumbling voice, so full of concern, did what no amount of carefully orchestrated natal birth breathing technique could possibly accomplish. Her inner muscles relaxed.

“That’s it. Just feel, Laia.” He rubbed the palm of his hand on her lower belly in slow circles above her pubic bone. His thumb dipped lower, pushing between the top of her folds and teasing the hard little nub while he pushed deeper inside her.

The stimulation from his touch was so intense, her body vibrated with need, and she bucked against his hand.

“Laia,” he whispered against her parted lips. “What do you want?”

“You,” she whispered back, her mind as clear as crystal, with no other thoughts except the two of them and what they were about to do. Make love. Finally, after all this time. “Just you. All of you.”

He froze. In the near darkness, she could just make out the glittery amber of his eyes as he held himself above her. “You have me.” He kissed her again, his lips hot, his tongue wet as he surged the rest of the way inside her core.

His body was hard and warm, his hips pistoning as he thrust faster. There was something so wonderfully possessive about how his magnificent body covered hers from head to toe. Like I belong to him. Did she want that?

Yes. Totally. Utterly. Completely.

She grabbed his buttocks and pulled him deeper inside her. With every powerful thrust, every surge of his hips, her breath came faster, in tiny gasps. As her body started to fly apart, she curled her fingers around his biceps. A scream rose in her throat, then Kade covered her lips with his. A second later, his body tensed. Together, they groaned their release, chest to chest, breathing as one.

Laia floated back down to earth, shattered, sated, and feeling more alive than she’d ever been in her life. A smile formed on her lips.