10. Chapter 10
Chapter ten
Brooks
Ihad wanted to hear those words for the last two days.
Now that I had, I wasn’t ready to let the rule go.
“We’re going to eat.” She opened her mouth, but I held up my hand.
“You’re going to need the energy, because when we finish, I’m going to touch you.
No sex. The next time we sleep together, I want you to be sure. Clear?”
She nodded once slowly.
I held out her chair, and she sat. I brought a bag of potato chips to the table, along with my plate, and sat. We ate our sandwiches, the silence between us charged with anticipation. When we finished, we cleaned up, and I turned to her.
My hands landed on her waist, and I lifted her onto the counter so we were almost eye level. Then I kissed her, my tongue invading her mouth, and she made a small, helpless sound. Aria’s hands fisted in my shirt and pulled me between her knees.
My mouth left hers, and her warm breath tickled my ear as I kissed along the edge of her jaw, then lower, along the side of her throat.
My hands moved up from her hips and under the T-shirt she wore, caressing her soft skin.
My fingertips teased up her sides, and she shivered, then I cupped her breasts and massaged.
A groan, heavy with need, rumbled from deep within her chest, and she pressed herself against me.
I bent my head and sucked her nipple into my mouth, pulling hard on it through her shirt and bra.
She arched into my mouth, her fingers spearing into my hair and holding me there.
I switched to the next nipple. Aria was panting, and when I finished with her breasts, I hooked my fingers into the waistband of her shorts and looked up.
She nodded, her eyes dark.
I pulled the shorts off, leaving her bare from the waist down on my kitchen counter. For a second, I just looked at the way her thighs were already trembling. Then I eased them wider, dragged a chair over, and sat.
“Brooks—”
“You want me to stop?”
“God, no.”
I smiled, then kissed the inside of one knee.
Then the other. I worked my way up slowly, letting the anticipation and pressure grow.
When I finally put my mouth on her, she sobbed out my name like a prayer.
The sound went straight through me. I licked her folds with long, slow strokes, flattening my tongue and putting pressure against her clit.
My hands massaged her ass and thighs while I ate her, her juices running down my chin.
She squirmed against me. With one last lick, I sucked her clit into my mouth, brushing it with my front teeth.
Her entire body tightened, like a sail full of wind, and she came with a sharp, shocked cry that she tried to muffle against her own wrist.
I stayed with her through it, easing her down, pressing one last open-mouthed kiss to the inside of her thigh before I stood. My own body was tight with want, but I kept my hands gentle as I brushed a curl off her face.
Aria reached for me, pulled me in, and kissed me slowly and deeply. When she pulled back, I wrapped my arms around her and held on, resting my chin on top of her head and trying to ignore how right she felt there.
Before I could think too hard about what that might mean, my phone buzzed on the counter behind her. One glance at the screen, and every bit of warmth in my chest turned to ice.