Page 56 of Raging Fires

“I take everything back. This is my favorite bra ever.” There was a grin in his voice but it didn’t make its way to his face. His jaw was tight, his eyes dark with desire. His look was all hunger.

“Please, Jake. I want to feel your skin on mine.” Kelli’s hand went to the waistband of his sweatpants. The light grey fabric was molded to his hardness and she wanted more than anything to release him. “I want to feel you inside me.”

“Not yet. I have too many things I’ve been dreaming about for the last few weeks. I’d like to get at least a few of them in before I lose whatever control I’m clinging to.” He smiled.

“Fine.” Kelli’s face tightened with frustration, but she’d always loved every minute in bed with Jake. Why cheat herself out of any of them?

One of his hands went to her other breast, rolling and teasing her nipple as he kissed his way down her stomach. Heat and tension built in her as he made his way closer and closer to where she was dying to feel him. His tongue traced a lazy circle around her bellybutton as he unzipped her jeans. She lifted her hips, partly to help him remove her jeans, partly in reflex. Her body was searching for him. Searching for what she craved.

As he hooked his fingers in her panties and pulled them down, she grew wetter with anticipation. But she couldn’t have anticipated how good his tongue would feel against her, alternating between a slow and fast pace. Building and building her desire.

“I need more.” She panted out and Jake added his hands to the mix until she was at the brink. Just as she was poised to fall over the edge, he pulled back.

Kelli cried out in equal parts pleasure and frustration, and she pulled on his shoulder. Jake obliged, slowly kissing his way back up her body. They had done this so many times that Jake didn’t need words to know what she wanted. Once they were face to face she shoved on his shoulder again and he allowed her to roll them over so she was on top.

Now that Kelli was in control, she made sure he lost all of his. Her nails trailed lightly down his chest, dancing over his tight abs and gripping him through his pants. He let out a low moan. “You still know just what I like.”

“Like I could forget,” Kelli said as she trailed kisses down him and began to tease him like he had her. Only Jake stopped her again.

“I don’t want to come like that. I want to be inside you.”

Her insides quivered at his words. That was what she wanted too.

“Do you have a condom? Or should I go grab one?” Jake asked, his voice hoarse.

“I’m still on birth control. And I haven’t been with anyone else since the last time I was tested.” Kelli was used to the feeling of his skin against hers from the whole time they were married. She hated to give it up now when she wanted him so badly. “You?”

“I was tested not long ago and I haven’t done anything since then. I can show you proof. I still have it in my email.”

“I trust you.” Kelli smiled.

“You do?” Jake looked somewhat surprised.

“Of course. Even when we don’t get along, I know you’d never let anything hurt me.”

He wrapped a big hand around her jaw, his fingers tangling in her hair. “Never.”

His blue eyes looked so deep into hers that it sent a different kind of shiver through Kelli. Jake had this stare that made her think he could see all the way to her soul. And he still wanted her even so. Maybe more so. It was disconcerting, and sexy and incredibly sweet all at the same time. He kissed her again. Still hungry, but there was something else, too. Something more.

She moved aside and grasped the waistband of his pants, then slid them down his body with excruciating slowness, teasing both of them. Tossing the pants away, she straddled him again, and he wrapped his hands around her hips, guiding her. She slowly lowered herself. He filled her to the brink. She’d forgotten how much. But after a second the shock of it turned to pure pleasure. Slowly, she built her rhythm but Jake held her back from going too fast.

“You’re so gorgeous.” He rasped out. “And I want this to last.”

Kelli luxuriated in the feel of him inside her. The feel of his skin against the sensitive palms of her hands as she rocked back and forth. He rubbed her with his thumb right where her tension was building again. She started moving faster. Jake’s groans grew louder and more frequent. Luckily, no one lived nearby because Kelli was sure you could easily hear them both through the thin walls.

With an animalistic growl Jake flipped them both over again, driving into her with a furious passion. Kelli’s mind lost all normal coherence and all she knew was Jake’s smell, Jake’s mouth, Jake’s skin. She was spiraling up and up.

“I’m close.” Kelli wasn’t sure for a second if she’d thought the words or said them.

“I am too.” Jake’s face was taut with passion. Kelli cried out, her orgasm hitting her like a tsunami as the lines on his face melted away in his own release. He held her as close as they could get. Their bodies trembled with the force of what they had just experienced. Kelli knew only one truth. There was no one who would ever make her feel like Jake did. And the thought filled her with joy and sadness. Because however perfect they were for each other, it would never work out. But she’d think about that in the morning. Right now she just wanted to rest her head on Jake’s strong chest, pretend everything would work out, and drift off to sleep.

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Jake woke up and for a second he wasn’t sure where he was or why he felt so good. Then he remembered, and he smiled. Stretching like a cat, he folded his arms behind his head and thought about last night. At first he’d paced around in the house, tension growing by the minute, while Kelli was out with Tyler.

Rationally, he’d known there wasn’t anything to worry about; Kelli was just trying to make him suffer for acting like he didn’t care if she went out with someone. And Man-Bun was not going to sweep Kelli off to bed. Or hurt her. And she wouldn’t let the guy get her involved in something dangerous. Kelli had a trouble meter that was calibrated to the merest fraction. If she wanted out, she’d call Jake. Wouldn’t she?

Of course she would. Just like she’d called him when her car broke down. She knew he’d always come for her, no matter what.