Six
JADE
I can’t help but laugh at his response and he groans.
“Fuck. You’re so goddamned tight.”
He pulses his hips against me, and I suck in a breath at the overwhelming sensation of fullness as my body continues to stretch to accommodate him.
“It’s been…a while for me.”
He grunts and rests his hands against my hips.
“You set the pace, sweetheart.”
Aftershocks of pleasure still tremble through me.
How the hell am I supposed to move right now?
He swallows and reaches his hands for mine to weave our fingers together.
He squeezes them and I have no idea what black magic it is, but suddenly I have to move.
Starting slowly, I shift my hips back and forth against his.
He shifts, and the withdrawal and smooth glide forward end with his pelvis rubbing against my clit.
I cry out and he moves faster, taking control of our pace. A second orgasm is building in my toes, and my hands grip his harder.
“Jade.”
He thrusts against me and I meet him in the middle. The angle is deeper than before, the pleasure building in an inevitable, powerful wave.
“Please,” I beg.
I’m not sure what I’m begging for. More? Faster? Harder? I can’t think. All I can do is feel. White-hot pleasure arcs through my blood, and the overwhelming sensation is an intensity I’ve never experienced before—with him or anyone else.
He sits up, capturing one of my nipples in his mouth as he keeps our hands locked together and continues to piston his hips. Heat gathers in the pit of my stomach, and every muscle starts to lock in the wake of the orgasm that’s cresting.
“Shep.”
His teeth sink into my breast in a sharp bite, and the lights exploding around me shatter and take me with them.
I’m a million pieces of pleasure as the orgasm drags on.
His release, the vibration of his growl against my breast, and the grip in his fingers sets off a third that shoots me into a universe where he and the pleasure he’s created in my body are the only things that exist.
His heartbeat thuds steadily in my ear, and his warm hands are splayed along my back when I can finally move again—if I want to. But since I don’t, I only grip his waist with my knees even harder. His chuckle shifts his chest against me, and I moan as it shifts something else inside me.
“Fuck, baby. You feel so good.” His fingers flex against my back.
“Mmm. So do you,” I murmur. “I don’t want to move.”
“Who says we have to?”
“Nobody. But I should get cleaned up.”
His arms tighten around me.
“You don’t need to go anywhere.”
“Shep.”
“I’m not done with you yet,” he growls, and my body responds by pulsing around him. “I meant holding you, but give me a minute and we’ll go for round two.”
The rough drag of his fingers over my back is as much soothing as it is a turn-on.
“I can’t believe you’re here.” My arms squeeze his chest.
“Me neither.”
Lifting my head, I rest my chin on my hand to meet his gaze.
“We’re really doing this. You’re sure?”
“I’ve never been more sure of anything in my life, sweetheart.”
“Why now?” I ask the question that’s been niggling in the back of my mind.
“Truthfully?”
I don’t like that word, but I need the answer. The honest one.
“Yes.”
“I wanted to talk to you the moment I got back to town. I always saw the two of us together in the end.”
“But you didn’t talk to me for months. Until the reunion…”
One side of his mouth quirks up.
“I’m not going to lie. Seeing you with Brian? That slapped me in the face. If I didn’t get off my ass, I was going to lose you. Permanently.”
“Is that why you kissed me back that night?”
“I wanted to do more. But I’m not that guy, Jade. I wasn’t going to take what wasn’t mine.”
I nod.
“I did need to break up with him. I knew before that night that there wasn’t a future with him.”
“Your future is with me.”
The certainty in his eyes soothes some of the doubts that swirl in my stomach. But I must not have them masked as well as I thought I did. He lifts his hand to my cheek.
“I’m going to prove it to you, Jade. I’m not going anywhere again. You’re it for me. I’ll be here so much, you’ll wish I was somewhere else.”
“Not likely,” I tell him and lean down to brush his lips with mine.
In one quick move, he rolls us so that he’s cradled between my thighs. He pulses his hips, and I cry out until his lips capture mine and his tongue licks into my mouth. Withdrawing until only his tip remains, he holds my hips from reconnecting us while his lips trace my jaw to my ear.
“Ready for round two?” he breathes in my ear.
I dig my nails into his biceps and try to lift my hips again, but it’s no use. He’s in control.
“Please,” I say.
He moves forward an inch and stops again.
“Tell me.”
“Yes.”
I expect him to drive back into me but he still doesn’t move.
“Yes what?”
“I’m ready for round two,” I tell him and mewl when he slides all the way back in.
“For forever,” he corrects.
The words are a promise.
“Forever,” I repeat.
Forever. It’s just the start for us.
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