Chapter 35
NOLAN
Isat on the plush leather chair in the living room of my cabin at Hale’s Peak, drinking whiskey and mulling over the events of the past week. Cressida would have said I was brooding, but brooding implied unhappiness, and for once, I was pretty fucking pleased with myself.
Cressida was staying at Summit’s Edge for the night so we could be alone.
I didn’t mind the late hour either. I never slept well or soundly, but after what happened in Calexico, sleep was even more scarce.
My shoulder still smarted but I’d abandoned the arm sling almost immediately.
I didn’t care what the doctor said, I wasn’t wearing that fucking thing.
The stitches would come out this week anyway.
I didn’t know what I’d been thinking in that shitty motel room.
I wasn’t the kind of guy to go barging into dangerous situations—I had people to do that for me.
But for Val, charging into gunfire was the least of what I’d do.
And while that scared the shit out of me, it also felt right.
When she’d called me and said she needed me, my heart had threatened to burst out of my chest. No one had ever needed me before—they’d only needed my money, my power, my connections. And I liked being needed by her.
The sound of the front door opening pulled me out of my reverie. Still in my button-down shirt and slacks, I wandered down the hall. Sure enough, Val entered, swathed in a parka.
“Hi.” Her breathy voice went straight to my cock. I stepped back and allowed her to pass, her scent of fresh honeysuckle swirling around me.
As I followed her into the living room, she shucked off her jacket, revealing a thin gray tee shirt and jeans, and sat on the couch.
I didn’t bother disguising the fact that I noticed she wasn’t wearing a bra, and her nipples hardened under my brazen stare.
Tagging her around the waist, I pulled her into my lap and slid my hands under her shirt to caress all that beautiful skin.
“Hi,” I said, my lips against hers, loving the little sound she made when I nipped at her bottom lip.
But before we got too carried away, I pulled back, settling my hands on her thighs.
“I’m going to say some things to you now, if that’s okay.
” It was our first moment of peace since we’d returned to Hale’s Peak, and I needed her to know exactly where I stood.
“Okay,” she breathed, her lips already plumping from our short makeout session. Jesus, stay focused.
“I was a different man when I first arrived at Hale’s Peak,” I said.
“A man on a mission who didn’t care about anything except for his own ends.
But then I met you, and it’s like every shred of my being knew that you were it for me.
At first, I resisted, because that’s what I’m good at.
I’m not used to a woman invading my mind and rendering me senseless in her presence.
But I know what I want, Valeria. And it’s you. ”
Her eyes watered almost immediately, her pulse throbbing at the base of her throat.
The words came easy for me now as I looked into the face of the woman who’d captured my heart.
“I love you, Valeria. Being CEO, running a company, those are all empty things. You showed me that I want my legacy to be about more than my own ambition. I want to be a good man who lives a good life and loves a good woman.”
Val sat in my lap for a moment, her chest heaving as if she’d run a marathon, her tawny eyes darkened to liquid chocolate. “I’m it for you?” she asked, bringing a hand to my face and tracing my jawline. As I closed my eyes and leaned into her touch, I swear I fucking purred.
If my woman wanted me to shower her with praise, I damn well would.
Squeezing her thighs and tugging her until she was flush against my chest, I said, “I love you and your unending ability to see the good in people—even me. Even when I don’t deserve it.
I want to explore every corner of your brilliant, creative mind until I know it better than my own.
I want the late-night conversations, talking about nothing and everything.
Everything you are, everything you will be and hope to be—I want it all.
I want you. I love you—mind, body, and fucking soul.
I’ll say it as many times as I have to until you believe me. ”
In an instant, she was kissing me with a wild fervor.
My hands explored all my favorite places that haunted my dreams. The nape of her neck.
The curve of her waist. The swell of her breasts.
The round firmness of her ass. Her strong thighs.
Her soft hair. As she ground her hips against me, my pants tightened around my growing cock.
I could kiss this woman for the rest of my life, and it would never be enough.
“I love you, Nolan. More than anything.”
The words swooped in my stomach like I’d just plunged off a rollercoaster.
Taking her face in both hands, I kissed her until we were breathless and gasping.
Months of pent-up passion and emotions I didn’t even know I’d been holding back flooded out of me with each of her breathy sighs.
But this time, every touch, every caress was charged and heavy with meaning.
I loved this woman and I wanted to show her in every possible way.
My hands ghosted across her curves as my mouth explored hers.
I grazed her nipples through her shirt, enjoying the little sounds of pleasure she made against my lips.
Lifting her, I shifted us until she was on her back and I caged her in with my arms. I trailed kisses down her neck and she dug her nails into my back, arching into me.
At some point, she’d undone the buttons on my shirt because her hands swept over my torso, exploring my body with a newfound confidence.
Our touches weren’t desperate or rushed; rather, they were slow and deliberate.
I threw my shirt on the floor and pulled up the hem of her tee slowly, stopping just below her breasts.
I teased kisses across the smooth skin of her stomach, trailing my fingers around her breasts but not touching them outright.
Underneath me, Val wriggled in protest and I chuckled against her skin.
“Patience is not one of your strong suits, is it?”
Her only response was an adorable snarl as she shimmied her body in an attempt to get my mouth where she wanted it. When I licked the skin under her breast, she shuddered. “Greedy little thing,” I said as I rubbed my hand across the seam of her jeans.
“You’re a tease,” she said, eyes bright and dark.
“Says the woman who once got herself off in front of me and wouldn’t allow me to participate,” I scoffed and she smirked at me. I wanted to kiss that look off her face. “I haven’t even begun to tease you yet, Val.”
I pulled off her shirt and tossed it over my shoulder, then traced around her tits with both hands, ghosting across them.
She pressed into me, the hard peaks of her nipples grazing my skin.
I loved the feeling of her under me. The way she moved, the sounds she made when I touched her just right or when she wanted what I wouldn’t give her.
It took all of my self-control to draw out our little game, but I wasn’t a quitter.
I wouldn’t stop until I had her begging for my cock.
Finally, I gave her nipples the attention they craved. Taking one into my mouth, I bit, sucked, and licked, while pinching at the other one. Val leaned into my rough touches, panting in my ear. I unbuttoned her jeans and slid a hand below her waistband—
“Christ, woman,” I growled against her lips. “You went on a fucking date with fucking Anton and you weren’t wearing underwear? Are you trying to kill me?”
Val’s lips curved into a devilish smile, and I loved her more for it. “I thought I might get lucky. Um, with you,” she clarified.
“I fucking hope so. Jesus, that is so hot,” I said as I felt her wetness soaking through the denim.
“You love teasing me, don’t you baby? You love going out on dates, knowing I’m waiting here for you, ready to fuck this needy pussy and give you what no one else can?
” I dipped a fingertip inside of her and she shivered, moving her hips against me.
“Yes,” she hissed against my mouth. “God yes.”
When I added two fingers and went knuckle-deep, she gasped, but moved with my methodical rhythm, grinding against my hand and demanding more.
But with each gasp, I abandoned my original plan of making her wait and drove her toward the edge.
It had been too long since I’d touched her like this, and I wanted her to come until she couldn’t anymore.
I increased my pace, plunging my fingers deep and sweeping across her clit as I rolled my hips against hers.
She moaned in my ear, her gasps hitting me straight in the cock.
“So responsive,” I murmured. I loved the sounds I could pull from her with only two fingers.
Her pert nipple begged for my attention and I took it in my mouth, finger fucking her until her pussy clenched around me and she cried out.
By this point, my cock was so hard, I didn’t know how much longer I could wait.
I made quick work of taking off my clothes and helping her slide off her jeans. Sitting back for a moment, I took in the sight of her splayed on the couch, legs spread, eyes half-lidded with lust. So fucking perfect. “You look like you need my cock.”
Her lips curled and she crooked her finger at me, beckoning me forward.
Wasting no time, I grabbed her legs and pulled her to the armrest so her hips were angled in the air, her pussy at the perfect height for tongue fucking her into oblivion.
I knelt and looked up at her as I swept a finger across her slick entrance.
She quivered under my touch, her eyes rolling back in her head.
When I rubbed my thumb around her clit, she bucked her hips, demanding more.
“Needy,” I said with a smirk. But fuck, I didn’t want to wait either.
So I dipped my head and swept the tip of my tongue across her slit, then gripped her hips and dove in with fervor.
I darted my tongue deep inside her, loving the taste of her.
As I flicked my tongue across her clit, she sank her fingers in my hair, writhing against me.
“That’s it,” I said against her pussy. “Take what you need from me.”
As Val ground her hips against my face, I added my fingers, curling them inside her and licking her clit until her pussy pulsed around me again and she shouted her release. I grinned as I looked at her, panting and spent on the couch.
“Tired already?” I asked as I stood before her, fisting my rock-hard dick.
“I’m no quitter,” she said. The determined glint in her eyes turned me on even more. She watched with a hungry gaze as I dragged my cock through her wetness. “I want you to take me bare.”
I almost had a heart attack.
“I got tested, and I have an IUD.”
“I’m clean too.” My voice sounded rough and ragged.
“Then let’s do this,” Val said, hooking her legs around my hips.
I rolled my body into hers, pressing against her wet heat. “Is this what you want, Val? You want me to fuck this tight little pussy until I pound you into a filthy, shaking mess?”
“Yes,” she moaned in my ear. “Fuck me hard, Nolan.” That husky tone of hers undid me. With one brutal stroke, I thrust into her, not giving her time to adjust before I rammed into her again and again. I knew my girl could take it. Her moans of ecstasy pushed my pace faster and faster.
“You like the feeling of me balls-deep inside you?” I slammed into her, each stroke sending a bolt of white-hot sensation through me.
When she looked down and her eyes lit up, I almost lost it.
“You like watching my cock slide in and out, fucking you rough like the whore that you are?” Her eyes rolled as I hit a sensitive spot and my hand latched around her throat with light pressure. “Answer me.”
“Fuck, yes, Nolan. I love watching you fuck me.”
Val’s words unleashed the beast inside of me and my pace took on a crazed edge.
I fucked like a man possessed, the scent of her arousal and her perfume acting as an aphrodisiac as I buried myself deep.
When her pussy fluttered as she shattered around my cock, it pushed me over the edge and I followed her into oblivion, pulling out at the last second and covering her perfect tits with my cum.
“Fuck,” she whispered as she observed my handiwork.
“We’re not done yet. Clean up your mess.” Her arousal still coated the base of my shaft and my balls. I stood in front of her, my erection growing again at the proximity to those soft lips.
Her eyes locked to mine as she took my cock in her hand, my cum dripping down her chest. It only took one pump for me to be ready to go again, and my head fell back as I savored the feel of her hands on me.
She stroked my cock as she licked my balls, lapping up every inch.
When she finished, she massaged them with her hands and flicked her tongue across the head, then licked my shaft clean too.
I knotted my fingers in her hair as I thrust into that hot, wet mouth.
“I love it when you’re sloppy, baby.” The slick sounds of her sucking me off had me charging toward release again.
“You’re so good at taking my cock. Such a good girl.
” I thrust into her with every sentence, her lips tight around me as she fondled my balls.
My breaths became ragged as my arousal built like a wave inside me.
It crashed over me as I pumped her mouth on my cock until I exploded down her throat.
My girl took every drop.
Collapsing on the couch, I tucked her into my arm. Val moved to grab her shirt to clean herself up, but I stopped her. “I like seeing my mark on you. We’ll shower in a minute.” Kissing her temple, I stroked her curls and reveled in the feeling of her beside me, content.
After a while, I asked, “Want to have a movie date night tomorrow?”
Her lips quirked as she looked up at me with bright eyes. “So we’re dating.”
“Yes, we’re dating.” I traced my nose up the side of her neck and triumphed in her little shudder. I planted a kiss in the hollow below her ear, then nipped her lobe. “Unless you’d rather date Anton.”
“Definitely not.”
I kissed her plump lips, enjoying their soft warmth, then she parted them to allow entry into her sweet mouth. God, I could stay tangled up like this with her forever.
As long as Val would have me, that’s as long as I intended to stay.