Chapter 19 #3
“Right here.” His patience was officially gone, and the need for her in that moment was unlike anything he’d ever felt before. “Right now.” He began pulling at clothes—his and hers.
“Alex—”
“Now,” he said against her lips. “Right now.” He was acting like a lunatic.
He knew that, but knowing it didn’t stop him from taking what he needed more than the next breath.
Her soft skin and sexy curves made his mouth water with lust as he came down on top of her on the sofa. “Jenny… I can’t wait. I need you.”
Her arms encircled his neck and her knees hugged his hips, providing all the encouragement he needed to sink into her wet heat.
With their bodies connected, Alex felt like he could finally breathe again.
Even with desire beating through him relentlessly, a sense of calm came over him at knowing she wanted him every bit as much as he wanted her.
He looked down to find her watching him closely, probably trying to decide when he’d turned into a sex-crazed madman. “Are you okay?”
Nodding, she smoothed her hands from his shoulders, down his back to cup his ass and keep him lodged deep inside her. “More than okay.”
“You make me crazy.”
“I like you that way.”
He huffed out a harsh laugh at her unexpected comment. “I like you every way, but this way is becoming a particular favorite of mine.”
“It’s been a favorite of mine for a while now.”
After that, there were no words. There was no need for words. Their bodies did the talking for them. What started out urgent became slow and sensual, their hands linked, their eyes locked on each other, their movements perfectly choreographed, as if they’d been lovers for years rather than days.
“Jenny,” he said on a gasp when the pleasure became almost too much to bear. “I can’t…” He couldn’t breathe, he couldn’t talk, he couldn’t think of anything other than the need for completion.
And then she blew his mind when she pulled her right hand free of his grasp and reached down to help herself along. Christ alive, he’d never seen or felt anything hotter in his life.
“Now,” she whispered, her body arching into his deep stroke.
Alex didn’t need to be told twice. He gave himself over to the powerful release, losing himself in her, in her sweetness, her sexiness, her incredible kindness.
As if they, too, could no longer be contained, the words poured forth.
“I love you,” he uttered gruffly against her ear.
“It’s too soon, and it’s too much, but it’s true. ”
Jenny turned her face into his deep, searching kiss.
He wanted to show her everything he felt for her.
He wanted to show her how essential she’d become to him.
He wanted to offer her everything, which was when he remembered how little he actually had to give anyone at a time when his family needed him so greatly.
The thought was like a pinprick to his euphoria, a deflating reminder of his reality.
“What’s wrong?” she asked. “Why did you just go rigid?”
“I shouldn’t have said what I did.”
“Why? Is it not true?”
“It’s true, but it also puts a ton of pressure on you when this is so new.”
She looked up at him with incredibly expressive eyes. “Why does it put pressure on me?”
“Because… It’s just… I still have nothing much to offer you beyond that.”
“That is a lot in and of itself, and you have plenty to offer.”
“I don’t want you to feel pressured or weighted down by me.”
She pressed her hips against his, reminding him he was still lodged deep inside her—as if he needed the reminder. “I like feeling weighted down by you—in case you hadn’t noticed.”
He gave her a small smile, because he knew she was trying to make him feel better.
“I love you, too.”
As if he hadn’t heard her correctly, he stared down at her. “You don’t have to say that—”
Her fingers on his lips quieted him. “I’m not saying it because you did. I’m saying it because I feel it. I know what it feels like to be in love. It feels just like this.”
“Jenny,” he said with a sigh, his forehead dropping to her chest.
She combed her fingers through his hair. “You told me you were jealous because I was having a beer with Paul after work.”
“That was stupid. I know that.”
“Hush up and listen to me. Yesterday, I spent most of the afternoon with him and Adam, both of them exceptionally good-looking guys who also happen to be very nice, too.”
“I’ll have to take your word on the good-looking part.”
“You can trust me and all of womankind on that. Anyway, as I was saying, I was with them all afternoon and never once in all that time did I look at either of them and think, ‘Whoa, I want him.’”
“That’s very comforting,” he said sarcastically. “Thanks for sharing.”
“Will you shut up and let me finish?”
He laughed at her sauciness, delighted and amused by her. “If I must.”
“When you came in after work, the second you walked in the door, everything female in me woke up to take notice of you.”
Touched by what she’d said, he raised his head to kiss her softly. “Everything in me noticed you, too. It noticed you were alone with my brother and Adam, and I wanted to drag you out of there and claim you in the barn.”
“Oh for God’s sake,” she said with a laugh. “What am I going to do with you? You’re nothing more than a caveman in disguise.”
“Guilty as charged.”
“I feel bad about what happened with Linc before.”
“Why should you?”
“It’s not my way to go around hurting people on the way to getting what I want.”
“He’s not hurt, Jenny. His pride is wounded because a woman he’s interested in isn’t interested in him. There’s a difference between actual hurt and a damaged ego.”
“I suppose that’s true.”
“I didn’t like the way he looked at you, as if he had some sort of claim on you. The whole time we were standing there, I wanted to chant mine, mine, mine.”
“You are a caveman.”
“And judging by the heat I’m feeling down below, you like me that way.” His comment made her blush furiously, which had him laughing.
“Stop it.”
Rather than stop anything, he began to move again, wrapping his arms around her legs to open her to his fierce possession. “Mine,” he whispered. “Mine, mine, mine.”
“Yes.” She pulled so hard on his hair that it hurt, but the bite of pain only made him want her more than he already did—if that was possible. “I’m yours.”