Chapter 21 #3
“Hell yes. Staking my claim and all that.”
Tess threw her head back, laughing. I lowered her until her back was on my thighs, leaning over her. I kissed her chest right before I tickled her right armpit. She shrieked, pressing her thighs hard against me. I burst out laughing as she tried to push my hand away.
“You’re not playing fair,” she said between gasps.
“I know. But I just wanted to see your reaction.” I moved my hand, grinning as I helped her up. She gave me a cute pout. Her blonde hair was wild around her shoulders, and her eyes were a little watery, as if she teared up from all the laughter. Her cheeks were deep red.
Tess was bringing out a playful side in me that I didn’t know I had.
“I take back all those things I said I’d do with you tonight.”
“No you don’t.”
She tilted her head, leveling me with a challenging stare.
I kissed her right cheek, then her left one.
“Are you trying to get back in my good graces with kisses?”
“Is it working?”
I felt her smile against my cheek. “I’m conflicted.”
I pulled back, facing her, tracing her lower lip with my thumb. “That smile says different.”
She swatted my hand away but was still smiling.
“Fine, it’s totally working,” she whispered, grinning now. “I can’t stay mad at someone who wants to woo me. But before you come up with any more tickling ideas, let’s get out of here and start our night in.”
“Let’s go to my place,” I said. We spent a few nights at her apartment because it was closer to the store, but tomorrow was Saturday, and I wanted to have her at my apartment, share all that huge space with her.
“Oooh…you’re wooing me on your own territory now, huh?”
“Hell yes.”
Half an hour later, we arrived home. Thank fuck the ride didn’t take any longer, because I had a hard time keeping my hands to myself. I was done being on my best behavior. I just wanted to lose myself in Tess.
My woman had other thoughts. The second we stepped inside, she giggled, looking around in excitement.
“I demand a tour before I start my own wooing plan,” she declared.
I laughed, taking her hand and kissing it before leading her inside the apartment. It had three bedrooms and a huge open-space living room with a marble kitchen island on one side. The black couch and home theater system were on the opposite side.
The two guest rooms only had a double bed and a dresser inside, both white. The untouched bedsheets were deep blue.
“Very minimalistic and sleek,” Tess said after we left the second guest bedroom.
“Not your style.”
Her own place was full of trinkets, paintings, and colors. Mine looked empty by contrast since I didn’t hang anything on the white walls. I liked my surroundings as empty as possible; it helped me focus, and ever since I moved here, it had been little more than an extension of the brownstone.
“No, but it fits you. The first time I was in your office, I was actually stressed out that you didn’t have any personal items.”
“And now?”
“Now I just think that you’re the most amazing man I’ve met. Sexy as hell too.”
She pinched my ass. I growled at her. She looked so damn sexy in her jeans and red sweater.
“What was that for?”
“I was emphasizing the sexy part,” she said nonchalantly. “Which distracted me. Where was I? Oh, I remember. So you’re not just sexy but also a little mysterious and broody, but that just adds to your charm.”
She leaned into me, adding, “In case you can’t tell, that wooing thing totally won me over. But I was pretty sure I liked you the second you told me you let your grandma beat you at chess.”
I laughed, stopping right in front of her. Before she realized what was going on, I lifted her in my arms, hands under her ass. She clenched her thighs around me, grinning.
“I just have one more room to show you.”
“Oh?” she asked, tapping her chin in mock concentration. I walked us straight to the master bedroom, turning on the lights and holding Tess so she had a direct view of the bed.
“Now that’s what I call a sexy bed.”
It was king-sized with a leather headboard. I lowered Tess on the edge of it. Then I tugged at the hem of her sweater at the same time I leaned in, drawing my mouth down her neck. She swatted my hand half-heartedly.
“I remember saying I want to cook for you.”
“Later,” I said. It came out as a growl.
“But I had a plan?—”
“That can wait too. I need you, Tess.”
I moved my mouth up her neck, capturing hers.
She surrendered to me immediately, and that just about brought me to my knees.
I took my time savoring her, first her lips, then her tongue.
I pushed both my hands under her sweater until I reached the hem of her bra.
She hummed against my mouth. The reverberations went straight to my cock.
I had a raging hard-on. Whenever I was with her, every part of my mind and my body craved her.
And when we were apart, I ached to be with her.
The clasp of her bra was between the cups.
I opened it, groaning at the feeling of her soft flesh in my palm, the puckered nipple.
I kissed her more urgently, moving my mouth faster.
She hummed against my lips again, and then her hands were on the button of my jeans.
She lowered the zipper, and just feeling the back of her hand against my cock made me lose my mind.
I wanted this woman with an intensity I’d never felt before.
She wrapped her palm around my erection, moving it up and down.
I only resisted for two strokes before interrupting the kiss and pulling the sweater over her head.
Her bra was only hanging by the straps, and I pushed those down her arms and onto the bed.
With a playful glint in her eyes, Tess rose to her feet.
“I want to undress you,” she declared.
I held my hands up, wiggling my eyebrows. “I’m all yours. But I have one request. You get naked first, and then you can undress me.”
“Demanding, are we?”
“I want to look at your beautiful naked body for as long as possible.”
She blushed but immediately pulled her jeans down.
That smooth skin was my kryptonite. I kissed her right thigh while she pulled on the bows at either side of her thighs.
Her panties dropped to the floor the next second, and she was completely bare for me.
Parting her thighs, I dragged my tongue from her clit down to her opening. She buckled, gripping my shoulders.
“Liam,” she gasped. I couldn’t think about anything except bringing her pleasure.
I wanted to satisfy her in every way possible.
Drawing the tip of my tongue around her clit, I kept her hips firmly in my hands.
I had her right where I wanted her. I sucked at her clit until the muscles in her pelvis contracted and her legs shook a little.
“Liam, fuck,” she gasped. “But I wanted…”
I jerked my head back, looking up at her.
“I know what you wanted, Tess. And I promise I’ll dress up for round two just so you can undress me.
But right now, I want to taste you until I give you an earth-shattering, sheets-pulling, legs-trembling orgasm.
And then I’ll do it all over again with my cock. ”
I pressed two fingers against her clit, watching her beautiful face change from the sheer force of the pleasure.
Her eyes fluttered shut. She pressed her lips together in a thin line and clenched her fists on my shoulder.
She was bracing herself for the shock of her climax.
I moved the two fingers down her entrance, sliding them inside and curling them at the same time I brought my tongue to her sensitive spot.
She exploded beautifully, crying out my name. Her legs were shaking in earnest now.
I held her hips firmly and guided her down the bed. She lay on her back, arms spread at her sides, taking in a deep breath. I discarded my clothes fast, not wanting anything between us before climbing over her. She gave me a big satisfied smile and put a finger on my chest.
“Don’t think I forgot about my plan.”
“As I said, later. I’m not nearly done with you.”
I pinned her hands next to her head on the mattress while I ran the tip of my nose down her breasts, then below to her navel. I went slowly, enjoying the way she reacted to me. She rolled her hips back and forth, gasping and moaning every time I touched a part of her I neglected before.
I was so hard that I could barely think. Condom.
I took one out of the nightstand, rolling it on before I forgot my head altogether.
Tess was watching me, lust dancing in her eyes.
She moved to the center of the bed, parting her legs, teasing me.
I traced my fingers up her ankles to her knees.
Her eyes flashed with desire. She scooted back down, closer to me.
I raised one of her legs, hooking my elbow under her knee and positioning myself between her thighs. I entered her slowly, watching her face change the more I pushed in.
“Liam…” she whispered, arching her back when I was inside her to the hilt.
She tightened her inner muscles around me, and I groaned.
Pleasure shot through me, zipping along my nerve endings and pulling at my navel.
My muscles clenched down. I thrust inside her again and again, faster every time, nearly losing my mind when Tess brought one hand to her clit.
She looked at me like I was everything she needed. I wanted to see that every day and be worthy of that look.
A shot of pleasure gripped me so powerfully that I bucked over her, groaning.
“Fuuuck.”
I stopped midthrust, trying to regain my composure. What little I managed completely disappeared when I felt her hand move between us. She needed her release, and I was going to oblige her.
I took my arm away from under her knee so we were both more free to move.
Tess had more leverage now with both feet on the mattress, and she used it.
We were both chasing our climax, but I wanted to prolong this as much as possible.
I didn’t want to give in yet. She came around me the next second, clenching so hard that I nearly gave in.
She thrashed around, pulling at the sheets and crying out my name.
I was fighting to stave off my orgasm, and it took every ounce of self-control I possessed.
My muscles were burning, and so were my insides, but it was all worth it, watching her come apart under me.
I kept thrusting even through her orgasm, intensifying her pleasure.
The skin on her cheeks was red. Perspiration dotted her chest. When her breath regained a normal rhythm, I stopped moving.
Tess jutted her lip out in protest. I grinned at her and pulled out before rolling us on the bed. Now I was lying flat on the mattress, and Tess was on top of me.
“I like your sexy plans,” she whispered, lowering herself on my cock. She was still impossibly tight.
Groaning, I closed my eyes, gripping her hips.
I felt her breasts press against my chest as she leaned over me, kissing my Adam’s apple.
I intended to let her take the reins, but instinct overpowered me.
I wrapped my arms around her, pushing inside her from below.
Tess gasped before burying her face in my neck.
I felt her soft lips on my skin, then her tongue as I thrusted.
“Liam…I’m going to come again. I can’t… Oh, fuck.”
I loved that she wasn’t coherent, that the pleasure made her delirious.
“Yes, you can. You’re going to come again.”
She moaned against my neck, her breath quickening once more.
I felt her come right before I gave in to my own climax.
It slammed into me, filling every inch of my body.
The feeling was so intense it was almost brutal.
A guttural groan tore from my throat, and I was done for.
I couldn’t even feel my body anymore. Breathing was a challenge.
Moving was impossible. I was completely spent.
Eyes closed, body lax, the only thing I was aware of was Tess’s warm skin.
“Are you okay?” I whispered.
I felt her nod against my chest. “Just need a minute…or twenty.”
I chuckled, tightening my arms around her even more. “You’re amazing, you know that?”
“Hmmm…”
We were silent for a long time, and I only moved enough to get rid of the condom. Then I resumed our position, because I really liked feeling Tess on top of me.
Just as I was about to fall asleep, she pushed herself up. She was sitting on me, tracing her fingers up and down my abs. Her mouth was set in a half smile.
“What are you thinking about?” I asked.
“The best way to make you pay for hijacking my plan.”
“The three orgasms I just gave you don’t make up for that?”
“Not at all. One thing has nothing to do with the other,” she said seriously.
“Duly noted.”
Narrowing her eyes, she leaned forward, tracing her fingers up my chest.
“Hmmm…I could tickle you.”
“You don’t want to do that.”
Tess leveled me with a challenging stare and charged right for my armpits.
Fucking hell, this woman was something else. I roared with laughter, but I was too strong for her. I clenched my arms tightly at my side, and there was nothing else she could do.
With a pout, she lay next to me. I thought she might try to tickle me again, but she just kissed my shoulder before propping her head on one palm.
“What was the kiss for?” I asked.
She smiled coyly. “Not telling you.”
“Is it because you’re happy with me after all?”
“Maybe.”
“I’d say you’re very happy.”
“You really need to hear it, huh?”
“I don’t need to, but I’d like to.”
She winked. “In that case, I’ll make you wait some more.”
“Still punishing me.”
“Uh-uh. I know how to hold a grudge,” she teased.
“Come here,” I whispered, turning around and wrapping an arm around her, bringing her close. She smiled before burying her face in my neck. Sharing this bed with Tess brought me an inner balance I’d never known. I liked having her here, teasing and riding me.
“Just a heads-up, you’ve got about five minutes,” she whispered.
“Until what?”
“Until I put my plan in motion, of course.”
I grinned, rolling on my back. “I’m ready now, Ms. Winchester. All yours.”