Chapter 40
CHAPTER 40
EMERSON
When Ford thrusts his tongue past my lips, my entire body vibrates into awareness. Each raindrop on my skin adds to the sensations his kiss stokes to life within me, and I wrap my arms around him, holding him against me with an almost desperate need.
He tears his lips from mine, his eyes piercing as he looks down at me. There’s a ferocity in his gaze that I feel in my stomach as butterflies swirl and take flight within.
“Make love to me. Now.” I press a chaste kiss to his mouth as I palm his cheeks and whisper breathily. “ Always .”
His eyes darken before he hoists me over his shoulder, and as I squeal, he strides toward the cabin, a chuckle rumbling deep inside his chest.
We barely make it inside the door before he drops me to my feet and knocks the breath from my lungs as he takes my mouth in a savage kiss. His hands fist the soaked material of my button-up blue dress, and I gasp against his lips when he rips the fabric apart.
“I’ll buy you a hundred more,” he murmurs into another kiss before his tongue laps at mine again, driving me into a frenzy. I move back to step out of my ruined dress, but Ford drops to his knees, gently sliding the wet material down my legs and then slipping my sandals off my feet.
Then he presses sweet kisses to my abdomen as his finger teases the edge of my panties, dipping inside tauntingly. I thread my fingers through his rain-slicked locks, rolling my hips with each pass of his touch until I’m desperate for more.
“ Please .”
He looks up at me with a shit-eating grin, water trailing from his hair, down along his handsome face. “Please what, baby?”
I tug my bottom lip between my teeth as my cheeks heat, and he chuckles, pressing a hard kiss to my panty-covered clit that makes me gasp. “Oh, please, eat my pussy.”
My breathing comes in short rasps as his eyes fill with raw desire when he licks his lips. “You wanna come on my tongue, Tink?”
At my jerky nod, one side of his mouth lifts and he fists the material of my saturated panties, tearing them from my body before standing to his full height. His saturated shirt is molded to his body when his hands encircle my biceps as he walks me backwards until I’m pinned between his chest and the cabin wall.
Our eyes are locked the entire time until I reach between us to lay the flat of my palm atop the tattoo of my name, now entirely visible through his see-through shirt.
“ Mine ,” I whisper.
His oceanic eyes are heated when he dusts his lips over mine with a low growl. “Yours, Tink.”
Then he falls to his knees, his eyes never once diverting from mine as he hooks my leg over his shoulder and closes his lips around my throbbing clit. I thrust my head back, crying out when he flicks his tongue around and around as his large hands palm my damp ass cheeks, pulling me closer into the heat of his mouth.
Without warning, he lifts my other leg so that I’m straddling his face, and I grip his broad shoulders as he begins to eat me with abandon. His tongue is relentless against my clit, driving me higher and higher, and I moan his name desperately as I buck my hips, so close to climax that I can almost taste it.
He groans against me, a low rumble of satisfaction as he devours me with long, slow licks, followed by wild lapping, as though he’ll never get enough.
When his thumb brushes over my puckered asshole, pressing against the untouched bundle of nerves there, the sensations drive me over the edge, and my orgasm crashes through me like a tsunami.
At my peak, my entire being shatters into a million fragments as stars scatter across my vision, leaving me gasping for breath.
FORD
Emmy’s knees tremble on either side of my head as her cries of pleasure resonate through the small cabin. Once I’ve wrung every drop of arousal from her body, I gently lower her feet to the floor and lift her bridal style to carry her through to the single bedroom.
Once I’ve laid her down on the bed, noting the post-orgasm flush on her face and chest, she stretches back, watching me with anticipation in her bright gaze. Her soaked blonde hair is strewn haphazardly across the pillows at her back as a myriad of raindrops combined with perspiration beads her gloriously naked body.
I make short work of my drenched clothes and toss them to one side before I climb over her, pressing kisses on each part of her as I pass.
The damp inside of her knee. The softness of her thigh. Then her slick, quivering clit, followed by the curve of her stomach. The underside of a perfect breast, then I tug the pointed pink nipple of the other into my mouth, smirking against her when she fists my hair and arches beneath me.
I continue along her dewy collarbone, gently nipping at the slope of her slender neck before laving a kiss on her earlobe and making her squirm.
“You’re the best thing I’ve ever tasted, Tink. Could eat that sweet pussy for every meal and I’d never have enough.”
A shiver ripples through her sweat-slick body as I draw back enough to look deep into her eyes. “Now, baby. Open those legs for me.”
When she does as I’ve said, I wedge myself between them and take her mouth with mine as I rub my rock-hard cock against her slippery core. We groan in unison at the delicious friction the act causes, and I circle my hips, swallowing her gasps of delight with a hard kiss that only serves to drive us both higher.
Her small hands are wrapped around my back, leaving nail marks along the skin as she holds me firmly against her, and I relish the knowledge that she’s marking me as hers.
I’m panting when I break the kiss, and my eyes stay trained on Emmy’s as I notch my dick at her entrance and push forward sharply.
“ Oh !” Her breathy exclamation makes my balls tingle, and I thrust forward until I’m fully seated within her heat, moaning as her pussy tightens around my cock.
My movements are slow as I rock against her, pulling back so that my elbows are on either side of her beautiful face, our gazes locked and unyielding.
Our panting breaths mingle as I increase the pace, and my chest fills almost to bursting with raw, pure emotion for the woman in my arms. As I show her the physical force of my love for her.
Thighs gripping my hips, she holds me closer as ecstasy dances across her face when I hit deep inside her. Suddenly, I stop moving to bring up my hands to palm her flushed cheeks.
Leaning closer while still buried within her warmth, I brush my thumbs over her cheekbones as our eyes never once waver, and I will her to feel the sincerity in my next words.
“Never, in my whole life, have I seen anything as beautiful as the way you’re looking at me right this second, Tink.” My eyes flick between hers as they turn glassy with emotion, and I dust my lips over hers. “My heart beats for yours…and it always will.”
Then I take her mouth in a languid, soul-searing kiss that builds in crescendo until she rocks up against me, and my self-control splinters. I quickly rise onto my knees, placing her feet on either side of my head to piston my hips.
Emmy cries out as she throws her head back from the powerful thrusts. Reaching between us, I press down on her swollen clit, rubbing harsh circles in the same rhythm as my hips move into hers. Looking down, I can see my arousal-slick cock sliding in and out of her as she clenches around me, and when I look up to find her palming her bare tits, a surge of precum coats her insides.
“Gonna come, Tink,” I grit out, doubling down on my effort to make her come with me, while entirely unsure if I can hold back any longer as Emmy’s face contorts.
“ Deeper , yes, like that.” She gasps as her eyes fly open and fixate on mine. “Come inside me. Now !”
Her cries of pleasure fill my ears as my movements become uneven.
“I’m coming, Ford, yes !” Emmy’s eyes on mine, her fingers tweak her nipples as she grinds herself against me and her pussy clamps down on my cock.
Without warning, my vision turns spotty, and my cock throbs as I come obscenely hard, filling her core with a stream of release. I’m panting as our gazes hold, lowering her legs to either side of my hips and leaning down to take her mouth in a leisurely kiss.
Then I roll to the side and slide off the bed. My feet take me to the only bathroom in the cabin, where I grab a towel and wet it beneath the faucet. When I get back to the bedroom, I gently clean between Emmy’s legs as she watches with pink cheeks that make me grin.
That damn blush .
Emmy leans forward to take the towel from my hands. “I’ll be back in a second.” I hear her moving toward the toilet, and despite having another far more elaborate plan in place that involves a trip to Paris, at this moment, I realize I’m done waiting.
The time or place will never be perfect, but I know in my heart that I found the perfect person a long time ago. Why wait any longer?
I quickly grab the navy box I’d stashed under the mattress, but before I have time to don a pair of Calvins, I hear Emmy making her way back to the bedroom.
“ Screw it !” I mutter quietly under my breath as I drop to one knee and pop open the ring box in my hand – naked as the day I was born and no fucks to give about it.
Emmy stops short when she re-enters the bedroom, her hand flying up to her astonished mouth as her eyes widen in surprise.
And before my courage can flee, I say the first thing that comes to my head. Words directly from my heart.
The one she’s owned for far longer than I’d admit.
“Givin’ my heart to you was the best decision I ever made. And while I can’t promise our life together will always be easy, I can promise that I will always love you, because fallin’ in love with you came to me as instinctively as breathin’. And I’m gonna spend the rest of our lives lovin’ you the way you deserve to be loved.”
Tears fill her bright blue eyes as her breaths come in short gasps, and suddenly it’s hard to speak past the ball of emotion that’s lodged in my windpipe.
“Say you’ll marry me, Tink. Say you’ll be my wife. Say you’ll allow me to love you forever.”
Emmy’s eyes shift from mine to the emerald-cut diamond ring nestled within the navy box before she returns them to mine, and I watch as they widen incredulously.
“But…I’m naked.”
My mouth parts in a wide grin as I chuckle. “And I’m askin’ you to marry me.”
She blinks once, twice. “But …you’re naked!”
“And I’m still askin’, baby.” I shake my head before shrugging. “The time or place doesn’t matter. Same goes for my state of undress. The question remains the same. Will you marry me?”
Her mouth spreads in a smile as she shakes her head, making her half-dried bedraggled blonde hair even messier.
“This will not be the story we tell when anyone asks how you proposed, you get me?”
At my nod, she giggles as she extends her left hand, wriggling her ring finger excitedly.
“In that case, I thought you’d never ask.”
I slip the ring out of the box and hold it up into the light, allowing her to see the inscription on the inside of the platinum band.
My first. My last. My always.
Her voice breaks as she reads it out loud, and I barely manage to slide it onto her finger before our lips meet. And as our bodies profess the love we both have for one another, I feel a bone-deep sense of happiness overtake me, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is precisely what the universe had always intended for us.
We’re exactly where we’re supposed to be.