39. Laurel
Laurel
WHAT IF I want them all?
What did that mean? A month, a year, possibly more? I wasn’t sure, but I wasn’t about to stop to ask. Noah was smoothing his hands around my ass to the back of my skirt, and then he reached my lacy white thong.
“I have to say, I am a fan of your clothing choices. These prim little sundresses, your work skirts and heels, those tailored pants and blouses—you always look so professional and yet one hundred percent woman. It makes it difficult to concentrate. Especially when I know something like this—”
He massaged down the strip of lace bisecting my cheeks and growled.
“—is waiting for me underneath. Flawless. You’re absolutely flawless.”
He let me go and reached for the lace edge of my chemise, then drew it slowly up my body and tossed it over the reading chair by my window.
With a flick of his fingers, he unclipped my bra and then drew the straps down my arms. The cool air against my breasts made my nipples tighten to hard nubs.
As Noah dropped the bra to his feet, his eyes locked on me with carnal intent.
He drew a line with his fingertip down the center of my body to my panties, and then slipped them inside.
“Ah…” I gripped his forearm as his hand wandered lower. When his fingertips grazed my throbbing clit, my eyes slammed shut.
“Mmm, you’re so wet.”
And I was getting wetter by the second. I rocked my hips forward, causing his fingers to slip between my folds. He dragged them back out and rubbed them over my clit, and I shuddered.
“Bed…” I said against his lips. “Take me to bed, Noah.”
He kissed me hard and then removed his hand, before sweeping me up in his arms and heading for my bed. After he laid me down in the center of the mattress, he tossed aside several pillows and then moved over me.
I spread my legs wide, wanting him as close as possible.
When he moved in between them, I bowed up to rub against his hard-on.
Noah brushed my hair from the side of my face and rested on his forearms by my head, and the feeling of having him so close, so connected with me, was almost more than I could bear.
“You feel so good under me. Fit me so well.”
I wound my legs around his and rubbed my wet panties against his naked cock. “You do too. Now get these off me so I can feel you inside me.”
“Bossy.” Noah nipped at my lip and then moved to kneel on the mattress, then he brought my legs together, propped my heels on his shoulder, and drew the scrap of lace down my legs.
Once that was gone, he shifted again until he was lying over me. The second our skin met, the breath left me, the feeling so sensual, the emotions so powerful—being this open and vulnerable with him made me more alive than ever before.
He was right, his body fit perfectly with mine. His erection nudged up against my aching core, and I sank into the delicious sensations coursing through me.
“You’re so beautiful. I swear, I could look at you all day.” He brushed his lips over mine. “All day, all night, every day of my life.”
His words filled my heart, his expression filled my soul, and the kiss he so gently gave me made my stomach flutter.
Then he moved a little to the side and smoothed his hand down my neck to my breast, where he circled my nipple with his thumb, winked at me, and then moved right along.
He continued on down my torso, along the curving line to my waist, then slid his palm over my abdomen and rested it on my stomach.
He paused and looked down between us where his hand rested and then back up to me, and the emotion filling his eyes nearly made my heart stop.
“Thank you,” he said. “Thank you for having my child, for raising him to be an incredible man, and for giving me the opportunity to now be part of his life. You’ll never understand how much that means to me.”
Noah brought his fingers to his mouth, kissed them, and placed them back on my stomach.
“You’re an incredible woman, Laurel. God knows I’ll never be able to repay you for what you’ve given me. But I’m damn well gonna try.”
Tears fell down my face. When he looked up at me, I took his cheeks between my hands and drew him up so I could kiss him. As the exquisite weight of his body pressed me down into the covers, I enjoyed the feel of being cocooned by him and the soft duvet.
I felt safe.
I felt loved.
And when he began to move over the top of me, I felt alive.
I slid my fingers into the back of his hair and arched up into his body. Noah ran his fingers down the outside of my thigh to my knee and hooked his fingers around under it. He then lifted it until I wrapped my leg around him, and he rolled his hips over me in a sensual massage.
I pressed my head back into the pillow and reveled in the slow build rising in me. My nerve endings were tingling, my thighs clenching, and that erotic throb between my thighs ached for him.
“Noah,” I said, and he moved so we were again face to face.
“Right here, Bonnie.”
The nickname made me smile, and he traced my lips with the tip of his finger. “I need you.”
He groaned and dropped his forehead to mine.
“Please.”
Noah raised his head and swept his thumb across my cheek. Then he shifted so the head of his erection was pushing at my wet center.
“Yesss…”
He began to ease inside me. He was slow, sensual, and moved without hesitation, and when he finally bottomed out and stilled, I let the blissful feeling of fulfillment envelop me.
I touched my thumb to his lip and whispered, “Take me.”
Noah nipped at my thumb and nodded, then he began to move in a way that left me breathless. Slow, passionate, and hypnotic, he erased everything bad and replaced it with the sublime.
I writhed under him, searching out that elusive high I knew only he could give, and when goosebumps broke out over my skin, I knew I was there. My arms and legs began to tremble, and I held on tight as my world began to spin out of control and that final explosion hit.
Noah stiffened in my arms, straining as he too plunged over the edge of sanity and into that joyous state of euphoria. We clung to each other as we plummeted back to earth, and this time when we fell, we did it in each other’s arms.
He moved to my side and pulled me in close, and a sense of peace that I’d never felt before settled around me. My body relaxed, all my troubles eased, and as I slowly began to drift off into dreamland, I heard Noah say, “This…this is where I belong.”