Chapter 27
Holy shit. Sexiest woman ever. For a few minutes after she walked away, Finn stood there reliving the way she’d left the room, knowing he would never forget what she said or how she’d looked at him as she’d said it.
She scrambled his brain and made him so hard, he was lightheaded from the rapid flow of blood to his cock.
Had it been ten minutes yet? He had no idea how long he’d stood there being stunned by her.
Get yourself under control. Act like you’ve done this before.
He’d done this before. Lots of times. But it had never meant what it did with her.
Why that was, he couldn’t say. All he knew was that from the instant his skull had connected with hers, he’d been a goner.
Life as he knew it would never be the same, and that was just fine with him if it meant that life would now include her.
Finn took a series of deep breaths to calm himself that had Ranger looking at him as if he thought Finn was crazy.
Maybe he was. Squatting, he gave Ranger some attention and was rewarded with a tongue to the cheek.
Laughing, Finn used his shirt sleeve to wipe up the dog spit and stood, glancing down the hallway for some sort of clue as to what might be awaiting him.
But with the bedroom door closed, he couldn’t see anything but darkness.
He took another deep breath and went down the hallway to knock on the door.
“Come in.”
If he lived to be a hundred years old, Finn would never forget the sight that greeted him when he opened that door. Chloe, bathed by candlelight, wearing a sexy, silky thing that clung to her curves as she knelt in the middle of the bed.
For the longest time, he could only stare, feasting his eyes on the most magnificent sight he’d ever beheld.
“Finn? Are you okay?”
“I’m completely dazzled.”
Her smile lit up her face. “Do you want to come in?”
“I most definitely want to come in.” He stepped into the room and closed the door behind him, so Ranger wouldn’t interrupt them.
Chloe scooted to the edge of the bed and held out a hand to him.
Finn tried not to notice the swollen knuckles that followed a long day of working with her hands, but his attention was drawn to them anyway. He took her hand and pressed gentle kisses to the sore areas. “You have rendered me speechless, and that’s not easy to do.”
Her low, sexy laugh traveled through him like a live wire, sending a shiver of need down his spine.
Flattening her hands on his chest, she began unbuttoning his shirt and pushed the two sides apart to place hot, openmouthed kisses on his chest.
Finn sucked in a sharp deep breath and buried his fingers in her hair. “You make me so crazy, Chloe. I never knew it could be like this until I met you.”
She twirled her tongue around his nipple, and his brain went completely blank. The only thing he knew was need, pure and simple.
His head fell back in surrender as her lips and tongue spun a magical web of desire, entrapping him completely. “Chloe… Christ, you’re killing me.”
“I don’t want to do that.”
Smiling, he said, “In the best possible way.” He tipped her chin up so he could kiss her with the pent-up desire that had him ravenous for more of her.
Though she fully participated in the kiss, he sensed her discomfort with the position and eased her down onto her back to give her knees some relief.
Hovering over her, he studied every detail of her exquisite face before dropping a light kiss on the stud in her nose.
“I hope you know you could ask me for anything in this world, and I’d give it to you if I could.
I’d give you anything if it meant I got to continue feeling the way I do when I’m with you. ”
She reached up to caress his cheek. “All I want is you. Just you.”
“You have me. I’m all yours.”
“I don’t want you to feel like you have to be careful with me. Yes, I have aches, but I won’t break.”
“I’ll always be careful with you.”
She shook her head. “It’s okay to be like you would be with anyone else.”
Finn kissed her. “Nothing about this is like it’s ever been before. It’s all new. It’s you and me, and we’ll do it our way. I’ll always be very careful not to cause you any more pain. You’ve already had more than enough. If you hurt, you’ll tell me, and we’ll try something else. Okay?”
“Okay.”
“Excellent. Don’t worry about anything. Whatever comes up, we’ll deal with it.”
“You have such faith when you have no idea what might come up.”
“I have faith in what I feel when you’re in the room. And when you’re naked in a bed with me…” He shivered dramatically. “They haven’t yet invented the words to adequately describe what that feels like.”
She looked up at him with bottomless violet eyes. “You’re not going to turn out to be too good to be true, are you?”
“Nope. What you see is what you get. And you, my sweet, sexy, adorable Chloe, haven’t seen anything yet.” He kissed her again while pressing his hard cock against her core. “Now it’s time for less talk, more action.”
Bending his head, he drew her left nipple into his mouth, sucking and licking until it was tight and hard. Then he moved to the other side, while she squirmed under him, making him crazy as he moved down to worship her toned belly and hip bones.
“Finn,” she gasped, “please. Hurry.”
The urgency he heard in her voice more than matched his own, so he decided to speed up his agenda to get to the main event. “Need a condom.”
She tightened her arms around him to keep him from getting away. “I’m safe if you are.”
“I’m so safe. I’ve never…” He swallowed hard. “Not without a condom.”
“First time for everything?”
He dropped his head to her chest, summoning control. The thought of being inside her with nothing between them made his head spin.
“Are you okay?” she asked, caressing his hair.
“I just need a minute to prepare myself for this.”
That sexy laugh was going to be the death of him.
Raising his head, he gave her his best indignant look. “Are you laughing at me?”
“I’m laughing with you. Big difference.”
“Except I’m not laughing.”
She dissolved into helpless laughter that made him smile at the joyful noise.
He loved that sound and was determined to do whatever it took to make her laugh like that every day.
She was still laughing when he pushed into her tight, wet heat, his eyes rolling back in his head from the searing pleasure.
Finn wouldn’t have thought it would be all that different without a condom.
He would’ve been very, very wrong. After pushing the rest of the way into her, he had to take a moment to breathe, holding her as close as he could get her. “Is this okay?”
“So, so okay.” Moving carefully, she raised her legs and wrapped them around his hips.
Finn groaned, his fingers digging into her shoulder and hip. “You’re a fucking goddess.”
“No, I’m not.”
“Yes, you definitely are. My goddess.” He began to move while keeping a close eye on her to make sure nothing he did hurt her.
But she was right there with him, moving with him like they’d been doing this forever.
Maybe they had been. Maybe they’d been together in another life and finding each other in this one had always been fated.
What other explanation could there be for something like this?
“Chloe…” He tried to hold off, waiting for her, but the need overtook him.
When she reached between them to touch herself, she triggered her own release and his. It seemed to come from his soul, the very heart of him, and went on for what felt like forever, leaving him shaken and depleted from the sheer power of it.
He realized he was lying on top of her, possibly crushing her, and started to move.
“Not yet.” She held him tighter. “Not yet.”
Finn sagged into her, breathing her in and riding the aftershocks that had him hardening again, as if he hadn’t just come so hard, he saw stars.
Chloe chuckled. “You’re going to break me.”
“Never.” He was determined to do everything he could to keep her in his life, his arms, his bed—forever.
It took a few days to juggle schedules and find a time when Finn, Chloe and Kevin were available to chat. Kevin had invited them to come to his house for dinner on a night when Chelsea was working.
Chloe would be lying if she said she wasn’t nervous about spending time with Finn’s dad in a professional capacity, even if they weren’t meeting at his office or becoming official patients of his practice.
Of course, she knew Kevin from cutting his hair, but this would be different.
Now she was the woman sleeping with his youngest son, and that changed everything.
Finn insisted that his father was thrilled for them both, but would he still be thrilled when he heard about her condition?
Her nerves had stretched to the breaking point by the time Finn picked her up. Naturally, he realized that right away.
“Don’t be nervous. He’s a pussycat. I swear.”
“I’m not nervous.”
“Sure you aren’t,” he said with a laugh as he curled his hand around hers in a light grip. “How’re the hands tonight?”
“Aching.”
“And the rest of you?”
“Aching in a good way.” The last few days and nights with him had been the best time of her life.
They were in total sync—inside the bedroom and everywhere else, too.
In ten days, he’d become the most important person in her life, and she wanted this to work so badly.
In fact, she could honestly say that she’d never wanted anything as much as she wanted him in her life to stay.
That’s why the stakes felt so high as they headed for his dad’s house.
“What if he freaks out about the RA?”
“He won’t.”
“You don’t know that.”
“I know him. He won’t freak.” After stopping the truck at a four-way intersection, Finn glanced over at her.
“He won’t freak. I promise. The only thing he’s ever wanted for me and Riley is to be happy and healthy and productive.
He’s seen me with you. He knows how happy you’ve made me. That’s all that will matter to him.”