Chapter 24 #2
Her eyes flicker with exhaustion and defiance as she challenges me. “Careful of what, exactly? Of your anger? Your guilt? I don’t need it. This isn’t your fault, but it doesn’t mean I won’t need time to process it. And the last thing I want is your fucking pity over a decision I made.”
My resolve snaps and I close the distance between us in a stride before I seal our lips together.
The way she instantly melts into me tells me she was waiting for me to make the move, despite the way her words contradict her.
I wrap one arm around her back as my other hand pulls the towel from her hair, wrapping it around my fist and pulling her head back for better access.
I groan into her mouth as she parts my own with her tongue and I savor her taste.
When one of her own hands brushes against my V, I can feel her smile at the way I tense. She better not be fucking teasing me.
But no sooner than the thought leaves my head does she pull away from me, breathless. “Like I said, I don’t need your pity.”
“You and I both know I didn’t do that because I pity you. You said you can still feel their touch? Let me erase it.”
She shrugs and turns away from me, walking toward the door, but not before her hand grazes my cock.
She’s baiting me and it’s working. She’s trying to see if I’ll cross the line that’s been drawn in the sand between us these past few weeks.
I snatch her wrist and flip her so her back is against the wall, my hand tightening on her hip as the other grips the nape of her neck.
“Don’t start something you don’t intend to finish,” I warn. “I’m only so patient.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
My grip on her neck tightens slightly and I don’t miss her rough swallow. “Thea, I’m telling you right now that if you don’t want this, I’m giving you ten seconds to get out the door. Otherwise, all bets when it comes to us are off. For good.”
She doesn’t say anything.
“One,” I say, letting her go. “Two.” I step away from the wall. “Three.” She still doesn’t move. “The clock is ticking, Thea. Four…Five...Six…”
She still hasn’t moved, and before I can finish counting, she throws herself at me, jumping and wrapping her thighs around my waist. I catch her with ease as she kisses me again and I fuck her mouth with my tongue.
I whip us around and lay her on the bed beneath me, grinding my cock into her, and her eyelids flutter.
“This means nothing,” she gasps out as I grind into her again.
“That’s where you’re wrong.” I nip at her throat.
“This means everything. I just told you that if this happens, all bets are off between us. If I take you now, Thea, I’m not letting you go.
You aren’t just a simple fuck to me, a one night stand.
And if that’s what I am to you, right now, then you really do need to leave. ”
Her breathing is ragged and her fingers curl against my chest as she tries to call my bluff. “Why do you have to make everything feel so…permanent?”
I brush my lips along the edge of her jaw, holding myself above her. “Because it is. Because what I want with you has always been set in stone. You’re it for me. You always have been.”
“I should walk away,” she whispers. But I know she doesn’t intend for it to hurt me, it’s because she’s afraid of being hurt again. If she only knew that I’d give her the world if she only asked for it.
“I’m not stopping you. But if you stay, Thea, you stay knowing that this isn’t just tonight. This is your last chance. Walk away now, or don’t walk away at all.” A soft curse slips past her lips as I run my hands along her side and press my forehead into hers.
Silence passes between us for a minute. Two.
And I know I have my answer when she lifts her mouth back to mine and what I taste isn’t hesitation—it’s surrender.
“How do you want it?” I rasp as my hand begins roaming her body.
“Do you want me here?” I squeeze her breast. “Or here?” I cup her pussy, earning a gasp from her mouth.
“I could take you in this very position with my hands, mouth, or cock, or…” I roll off of her, taking her shirt with us as I flip her onto her stomach.
“Like this?” My mouth peppers kisses down her spine as she shivers beneath me.
“But make no mistake, you’ll be rewarded with all of them regardless of how we start.
” I lift her onto her knees, slowly pulling her shorts and underwear down her legs and running my mouth along the swell of her ass.
When she still doesn’t give me an answer, I run my hand through her folds, circling her clit from behind as I hover over her back and bite her earlobe at the same time I sink a finger inside of her.
She arches against me as I work her, playing with her clit before inserting a second finger to stretch her.
“Should I take you fast or slow?” Her answer is a roll of her hips as she meets my hand in another thrust, and I work on adding a third finger, teasing her.
“Nathan,” she moans, and I feel her wetness run down my hand before I remove my fingers.
She starts to protest but it quickly turns into a squeal when I languidly stroke her pussy with my tongue, front to back and forth again.
She surges forward when my tongue connects with her clit and I secure my grip on her hips to keep her where I want her.
She tastes so fucking divine that I can’t help the groan that slips from my throat, vibrating against her.
I’m rock hard, but I’m determined to make her come at least once before I fuck her, so I change my position to lay on my back and pull her pussy down on top of my face before she can ask what I’m doing.
“Eyes on me, Thea.” I stop what I’m doing to get her attention, because I’ll be damned if she gives it to the ceiling when I’m the one with my mouth on her pussy.
She hesitates, her nerves getting the best of her, and I slap her ass with one of the hands holding her above me.
“Thea,” I growl, and she finally looks down at me.
“You’re going to watch me make you come, and then I’m going to fuck you so hard you can’t remember your own name.
That way, you’ll never forget who owns your body and you’ll never have to think about how someone else feels ever again.
Look away and you’ll be punished. Understand? ”
She swallows roughly, but nods. “Good girl.”