Chapter 9
*KNOX*
There’s always a period after completing a mission when your heart beats faster as the adrenaline makes its way through your system, but this was so much more than that.
I drove, my fingers white-knuckled on the steering wheel and my gaze straight ahead. If I turned to look at Emerson, I’d pull over and take her on the side of the road. My cock ached as I adjusted myself in the seat.
“We’re going a little fast. Aren’t we?” Emerson asked, leaning over to check the speedometer.
It brought her close enough that a wave of her lavender shampoo hit me straight in the gut.
I growled.
She jerked back. “Okay, never mind. I just thought you wouldn’t want to get a speeding ticket at two o’clock in the morning. Especially since we probably smell like motor oil, and a boat just blew up in international waters.”
“You smell wonderful,” I grunted. She could roll around in a pile of shit, and I’d still want to fall asleep next to her at night.
“Well, thank you.” Emerson checked her seatbelt. “Do you want to talk about what happened?”
I slowed as we got closer to the cabin’s turnoff.
She kept talking. “We lived, Knox. I thought we’d be celebrating.”
I gave her another grunt.
“Don’t you want to go… dancing or something?”
Something told me we had different ideas of dancing right now.
I pulled into the cabin’s little driveway and finally glanced at Emerson.
She looked fucking amazing. Her eyes were bright with excitement.
Pieces of her hair had blown free of her ponytail.
The short hairs surrounded her head like a halo of light.
“You like me. Right?” I asked. I’d seen the way she looked at me when she thought I wouldn’t notice. “You think I’m hot. Right?”
Her mouth fell open, and she tilted her head, closing her lips and then opening them again. Finaly with a quick shrug, she said, “Yeah.”
I knew it.
From the first fucking moment I saw her, I felt our connection. It ran deep.
“You’re going to hold up to our agreement and come to Alaska with me?”
Her eyes widened. If she said no, I’d stop everything right this second, but if she agreed then…
Emerson gave me a slight nod. “Yeah.”
I stopped the car in front of the cabin, giving the surrounding area a quick check but not as deeply as I should have. “Then you’re okay if I take you into that cabin and fuck you until dawn?”
Our gazes remained locked together. She swallowed. “Yeah.”
“Let’s go,” I said as I turned off the car.
I was already at her side of the vehicle before she had the door open. Emerson unlatched her seatbelt, and I swept her up in my arms. She squealed as I carried her up the stairs.
“Knox, let me down.”
I opened the door. “Are you changing your mind?” I asked as I slid her down my body and put her feet on the floor in the cabin’s safety.
She shook her head. “No.”
“This,” I said, moving my index finger from me to her. “Isn’t just the job.”
Emerson bit her bottom lip, but it didn’t stop her smile from growing. “No. It isn’t.”
We stared at one another for a moment, the hope of the situation filling me. Emerson was the rest of my life. I didn’t care what it took; we were forever.
The moment stretched between us.
Then it snapped.
I moved first. One second we had an inch of space between us, the next none. My arms wrapped around Emerson, and I brought her close.
My lips found hers in the dark of the cabin, and I backed her up against the bed. We’d waited long enough. Our life together started right then.
“No more adventures,” I whispered when I pulled away for a breath.
She nodded as the backs of her legs hit the end of the bed. My thumb brushed over her skin at the base of her neck. The moon lit up the room around her, and I pushed the cat off the bed before laying her on it.
There was no pressure, but I hoped she could read in my eyes that after we did this, there would be no going back to the way things were.
We kissed again, careful at first, but Emerson’s presence filled the room until I couldn’t wait anymore.
This was it—my everything.
The bed dipped beneath us as I adjusted. Our sheets were already rumpled, and only moonlight lit up the cabin. My pulse refused to slow. We were already too far along, and my body knew what I wanted.
My hand rested on her waist before moving to her pants and undoing the buttons of her jeans. Emerson’s body molded to my touch; she moved as I needed, as if we were already a team.
Our tongues dueled in her mouth, and I loved how she’s battle for her place right beside me. It went right to my cock, making me rock hard.
“This first time, might be quick, but don’t worry, I wasn’t lying about the dawn part,” I said, rubbing my groin between her legs before inching away to remove her pants the rest of the way.
Emerson moaned as her hand fisted the sheets, pulling them from the edge of the bed.
“You okay?” I mumbled against her lips before biting gently.
She nodded, her hips giving a thrust up to find me. “Yeah. I just need more. All of you, Knox. Right now.”
Her words drew a chuckle from me. “Coming right up, babe.”
My stomach tightened with excitement as I took off my pants and tossed them on the floor beside hers. She watched with wide eyes. Her skin pebbled as I ran my fingertips over the skin of her hips before grabbing her underwear and lowering them, exposing her to me.
“Take off your shirt,” I grumbled. “I can’t look away from this.”
Emerson squirmed as she hurried to listen. “Now you.”
She didn’t need to ask twice. I ripped my shirt over my shoulders and threw it behind me. My thumb traced slow circles around her belly button before lowering to run the row above her pubic bone.
Emerson trembled as she propped herself up on an elbow, searching my face as if she wanted to memorize me in case I wasn’t here in the morning. She didn’t realize that I’d be here forever.
Her bright pink nipples called out for my attention, so as I pushed my fingers deep inside her, I lowered my head and sucked one into my mouth. She dropped onto the bed with a deep moan as I ran my tongue over the tight bud.
“You can stop me at any point,” I said as I moved my attention to her lips again.
Emerson nodded. “I know. I trust you, Knox.”
Her fingers slid along my shoulder, sending zaps of attraction straight to my cock. I tore off my underwear and settled myself between her legs.
Our foreheads rested against one another as I pushed through her opening. Emerson groaned, and her fingers dug into my skin as I slid myself deeper inside her.
“You’re so wet. Later I’m going to taste you for an hour,” I promised with a lick of my lips.
Her mouth turned into a smile. “I’m going to hold you to that.”
“You better,” I said as I pushed the rest of the way in her and finalized our connection.
It was me and Emerson from here on out. We moved together, the heat of our bodies connecting, turning the cabin into a sauna.
Her heart beat strong and steady. Real. With me the entire way.
“We’re not rushing tonight,” I said as she pushed her hips against mine, silently begging me to go fast.
Emerson shook her head against the pillow. “Fast now. Slow next time.”
“But you’re so fucking tight.” Her body was like a hot stove. She grabbed me from within and refused to let go. It had my legs shaking, trying to keep control.
The hot, heavy air clung to our bodies, and I reached down to lick it from her.
“Oh god! Yes, like that,” she screamed.
I did the same move again and Emerson’s body latched on to me, from her arms wrapped around my neck to her pussy clenching against me. She screamed, her back rising an inch off the bed.
“Shit.” I lost control, my cum shooting deep inside her as she milked every drop from me. “This isn’t over.”
The rest of the world would wait.
Tonight belonged to us.