9. River
RIVER
I wake with the gentle glow of the early morning sun in my face and wait for the bone-deep exhaustion to hit me.
But for the second morning in a row, I feel refreshed.
I don’t understand it.
Until I discover the woman hovering over me, an expression that clearly says oh shit, I got caught on her face.
Her very beautiful face.
“Um, this is awkward,” Jade says, biting her lower lip.
She’s straddling my hips, and her center is alarmingly close to the tent pitched beneath my boxers. Morning hard-ons are par for the course, but my damn cock is practically pointed right at her.
“I was trying to sneak out before you woke up,” she admits, sitting back. Hard nipples poke through the thin cotton of her loose pajama tank.
Fuck me.
“Sneak out?” I’m trying to piece together how this woman ended up in my bed in the first place. Sure, I’d been dreaming about her. But—
“You were having a nightmare again,” she says, looking shier still.
A blush creeps up her neck, and dammit if my fingers don’t ache with the need to touch it. I want to know if her skin is hot there. I want to feel the rapid beating of her heart against my hand. I want those hard nipples scraping against my palms.
“I didn’t want you to be alone, but I think I may have overstepped—”
“You stayed with me?” I ask, putting the pieces together.
For the first time in weeks, maybe longer, I finally feel rested. I finally feel as though I slept through the night.
“Marty was pretty pushy about it,” she says, flashing me a meek, flirty smile. “I’m sorry. This is totally awkward. If you want to fire me—”
“Fire you?”
“This wasn’t exactly in the job description.”
“I haven’t slept that good in a long damn time,” I say, catching her by the elbows before she can successfully roll off.
She stills, her gaze dropping down to my erect cock. No doubt clocking how close it is to her pussy. If she looked alarmed, I’d get her off of me immediately. But the desire in her eyes says otherwise.
“If anything Jade, I should be thanking you.”
“How would you, um, thank me?” she asks, again biting down on her bottom lip.
“Oh, I can think of a few ways,” I say suggestively, testing the waters.
“I’m not some girl who sleeps her way to the top,” she insists, a hint of sternness in her voice. But the effect is dulled by the way she keeps looking at my boxers. “I just need you to know that.”
“Noted.”
“I’m not going to have sex with you.”
Disappointing, but not even close to a deal breaker to me. If all I get this morning is the pleasure of making her come, I’m fucking ecstatic.
“I’d never take things any further than you want me to, sweetheart.”
Her green eyes seem to turn a shade darker at that nickname. Noted.
“You really mean that, don’t you?” The way she asks the question makes me want to hunt down every man who’s ever made her feel unsafe.
“You tell me to stop, I stop. End of story.”
“Okay. In that case, what are my thank you options?”
“I could make you pancakes, or I could make you come so hard you forget what pancakes even are.”
“Well, I do love a good pancake,” she says, as though she’s pretending to mull this over. But within two seconds of this declaration, she pulls off her shirt, revealing the best set of tits I’ve ever seen in my whole damn life. “But I want to see if your bold claim lives up to its promise.”
In one quick motion, I sit up and flip us both until Jade’s on her back. Her hair fans out behind her on the pillow. Fuck, if this was the sight I woke up to every morning, I’d die the happiest man.
It’s my turn to straddle her hips as I admire those tits. I take my time teasing them with my fingertips, tracing circles around her pebbled nipples. She moans softly when I fill my palms with them.
“I could play with these all day,” I say, lowering my lips to hers.
Only the first kiss is soft. Each one to follow escalates until the passion dial is turned up to twelve. Our tongues slide together with such perfect rhythm, it’s as though they’ve always known the beat.
And maybe they have.
Maybe there’s a reason why a three-minute video made me so fucking fixated on a woman I’d never met that I ignored all logic and reason to bring her here to me.
I move down Jade’s curvy body, taking a nipple into my mouth as my hand slides down her stomach. My fingertips tease the hem of her silk panties, and I realize she’s not wearing bottoms.
“You were going to sneak out of here without pants?”
“I was going to steal a pair of yours,” she admits.
“Then I might just have to steal these.” I twist the side of her panties against my fingers to emphasize my point. I’m already planning to use them later to get myself off. The idea of her silk panties covered in my seed nearly makes me nut on the spot.
Down, asshole. This isn’t about you.
I slide my hand south, until my fingertips reach her wet, hot center.
“You been this wet for me all night?” I ask in a growl.
“Maybe.”
“Fuck, Jade.” I stroke a finger through her valley, relishing her wet heat. She moans, rocking her hips gently to my exploration. I take my time memorizing her pussy with one finger, then two. When the third joins the party, I dip my middle finger into her channel.
She gasps, lifting her hips to me.
“Fuck, you’re tight.”
“It’s…been a while.”
“Then I’m gonna make sure you come extra hard.”
I return my mouth to hers as I grind my palm against her clit. I can feel her walls clenching around my finger and slide a second one in to join. She moans louder, and I increase the pace. Her nails dig into my shoulders as she cries out.
“River!”
I groan as my own release happens inside my boxers. But I don’t dare stop what I’m doing. I grind my hand against her harder and faster, showing her no mercy as she comes apart. She kisses me so hard I swear my lips bruise.
When her body finally stills, I pull my hand free from her wet heat.
“Fuck, that was the sexiest thing I’ve ever witnessed,” I say, kissing her forehead.
“What about you?”
“Oh, don’t you worry about me.” I can’t help the grin that spreads across my lips. I may not have come inside her—this time. But I’m more than fucking satisfied right now. “How do you feel about pancakes?”
“What are pancakes?” she asks, and we both laugh.