Biker romance book bundl.., p.351
Biker Romance Book Bundle: 17 Full Length Novels, page 351
He swept his legs over the edge of the bed, paused, and then stood. I took a guilty pleasure in seeing him naked. Like I was taking something from him I wasn’t entitled to. As he ambled to the bathroom, I took in every inch of his lean, muscular frame.
His butt was cute.
I tossed my hair and stood. “I don’t have a—”
“There’s one in here for you,” he said.
“Toothbrush?”
“I bought you one. Couple of other things, too.”
Anxious to see what he felt I needed, I wiped the sleep from my eyes and crept to the bathroom.
Standing at the sink closest to the door, he gestured toward the far sink. “The drawer beside the sink. There’s some stuff in there for you.”
I was surprised to find toothbrush, toothpaste, makeup wipes, face wash and lotion. I picked up the toothbrush and draped toothpaste over the bristles. “Thank you.”
“There’s body wash, shampoo, and conditioner in the shower.”
“You bought all this stuff, or was it here?”
He rinsed his mouth and wiped his face on a hand towel. “I’m kind of weird about stuff. I threw out anything that was left here. Shit like that creeps me out. All it did was make me think about him. And her. That’s all stuff I bought, just in case you took me up on my offer.”
“Why would I have not taken you up on it?”
“You’re a hard person to read,” he said.
Since meeting him, there were a thousand things I wanted to say to Goose. I’d swallowed nearly all of them.
“Well,” I said. “I’m glad you offered. I enjoyed it.”
He came closer. “Which part?”
“In order of importance, or chronological?”
“Importance.”
“The kissing. Sleeping together. The sex.”
When I finished brushing my teeth, he was inches from me. I rinsed my mouth and faced him. “What?”
He kissed me. Not like he did at the bench. It was just enough to make me tingle. Want more.
“Let’s have some coffee and a little breakfast,” he said.
He turned and walked away. Partially hypnotized by his cute ass, and still a little schoolgirl-ish from the previous night’s perfect sex, I stood and stared. I could get used to what we had, but the odds of that were minimal, if at all.
Goose “threw together” a breakfast of omelets, toast, and fresh fruit. With the beach in full view, we sat across from each other at the kitchen island and ate. It seemed like a dream.
“I’ve got somewhere I’ve got to go for the club on Sunday.” He sipped his coffee. “Other than that, I’m going to be here for the rest of the week.”
I didn’t know what to say. It was Wednesday morning. By the sound of things, he had an uneventful few days planned.
“Okay,” I said, not knowing what else to say.
“If you want, you can sleep over.”
“Again tonight?” I asked, as if it were no big deal.
“Until Sunday,” he said without looking up from his food. “When I leave with the club.”
I did a mental fist pump. And then, another. “I’d like that.”
He lifted his head. His eyes smiled. “Me, too.”
140
Goose
“Are you going to tell me what’s going on, or are you going to make me guess?” Ally asked.
“I’m fine.” I wasn’t. I took a sip of coffee, hoping the cup would hide my pursed lips. “Everything’s fine.”
“You’ve been acting depressed since we ate lunch.” She sat down on the bar stool across from me. “Something’s bothering you. You can talk to me about anything, you know. Whatever you say will stay between us. You can trust me on that.”
Ally’s ability to read people was second to none. It seemed she knew what I was thinking long before I was willing to reveal my thoughts. Hiding my feelings was a thing of the past.
It was Friday. Sunday’s schedule had my stomach in knots.
I was never keen on cleaning up Cash’s messes, but it seemed I’d been doing so for years. Cash’s assets were limited to his physical strength and his lack of fear. Other than that, he was a thorn in the club’s side.
Revealing to Ally what was troubling me wasn’t going to happen. The risk associated with it was far too great. Telling her my frustrations wouldn’t hurt. As long as I kept things simple.
I pushed my cup of coffee to the side and peered over the island. “We’ve got a guy in the club that’s always doing stupid shit. We’re left with the task of cleaning up his messes. This Sunday, that’s what we’re doing. We’re going to clean up one of his messes.”
“If he’s in your club, he’s been a friend since you were kids, right?”
“He has.”
“You’re not the type to let anyone force you into anything.” She looped her finger through the cup’s handle. “If you’re friends with him, it’s because he possesses a few redeeming qualities. Enough to make up for his shortcomings, anyway. What are his strengths?”
“He’s strong.”
One brow raised. “Physically?”
I nodded. “Covered in muscles from head to toe.”
She gave me a blank look. “Oh-kay. He’s strong. What else?”
“He’s fearless.”
Her cup was half the distance to her mouth. She paused. “He’s courageous?”
“Very. Sometimes to his detriment.”
“What else?” She sipped her coffee. “Tell me what other qualities he has. Something on the inside.”
I shrugged. “That’s it.”
She lowered her cup and scowled. “So, when you were kids, you were friends with him because everyone was beating you up? You needed a courageous strong pal?”
I laughed. “Fuck you.”
Her lips and eyes went thin with frustration. “What other strengths does he have?”
“Nothing. That’s it.”
She rolled her eyes. “If you had to go somewhere, and you knew when you got there that it was going to be a shit storm with a rival club, who would be your first choice? To take with you?”
“Him,” I responded.
“Because you hope he possessed the courage to have your back? Maybe he’d have enough guts?” She cocked her head. “Maybe?”
“Shit. That crazy bastard? I know he’d have my back.”
She nodded lightly. “So, he’s loyal?”
I raised my index finger. “You’re right, he’s loyal.”
“Did his loyalty—or courage—get him into the predicament? The one that created the mess that you’re now forced to clean up?”
“It did.”
“Were his actions out of line? His act of loyalty?”
Cash saved Baker’s Ol’ Lady’s life. Out of line? Not at all. If Baker wouldn’t have had Cash with him, Andy probably would have died.
“He saved someone’s life,” I said.
“Is this someone friend or foe?”
“Friend.”
Her brows raised. “You’re angry that he saved a friend’s life?”
She’d done a good job of making her point. She did a better job of causing me to realize how shallow I’d been. I felt small. Miniscule was more like it. “I’m angry about the mess,” I murmured.
She chuckled. “Look around you, Goose. You don’t have loose ends. You’ve got to be in control of everything. Look at your flowers. Meticulously placed. Meticulously pruned. Everything within your control is in order. Neat. Tidy. In its place. Not everyone is like you. Some people leave their dirty clothes on the floor or have dirty dishes in the sink. They don’t pay their bills on time. Their lawns are overgrown, and their beds aren’t made. That doesn’t make them bad people. It just makes them different than you. Your friend has strengths so valuable that he saved someone’s life. He did what the club asked of him. He used his strength. Now, you do what the club asks of you. Use your strength. Clean up the fucking mess, Goose.”
She was good. Really good. I felt like shit. Not about Cash’s mess, but about how I’d reacted to my responsibility.
“Yeah, you’re right.” I let out a long sigh. “It’s just frustrating.”
“My guess is if he saved a life, he put his own at risk, huh? When he made this mess?”
I nodded. “He sure did.”
“I bet he said the same thing when that happened.”
“What do you mean?”
“It’s just frustrating,” she said, mockingly.
After reasoning with Ally, I felt like a turd for feeling the way I felt. She was right. The club relied on each of us to do what we did best. I needed to clean up the mess and be grateful while I did so that I had a brother as courageous and brave as Cash.
“You’re good for me,” I said.
“How so?”
“I’ve been the club’s voice of reason for years. I’ve never had anyone be mine, though,” I explained. “I guess that someone is you.”
“I’ll be your Huckleberry,” she said, quoting Val Kilmer’s Doc Holliday from the movie “Tombstone.”
I grinned. I was in over my head.
My only hope was that I didn’t drown.
141
Ally
Goose’s cleanup job was less that twelve hours away. He was anxious. I had my suspicions as to what he was going to be involved in. I couldn’t say I’d be excited about it, either. I hoped for nothing more than his safe return home.
Staying with Goose filled me with the same sense of belonging I had when I lived with my father during his last stages of being ill. I wanted the experience to continue, but it was coming to a close, instead. I realized when I left that my feeling of belonging would fade. Saddened by that knowledge, I wanted the night to end with a bang for the sake of both of us.
I poked a shrimp with the tines of my fork and swirled it around in the film of garlic butter that covered my plate. Without looking up, I made my declaration. “I wanna fuck.”
“Right now?” he asked, his tone laced with a hint of sarcasm.
“No,” I said flatly. “After we eat would be fine.”
He chuckled. “Where’d that come from?”
“It’s our last night staying here together.” I shrugged. “I want to end it on a memorable note.”
“It’s not our last night here,” he explained. “This is only the beginning.”
I stifled my excitement. “It is?”
“It is.” He laced his fingers together. “As far as I’m concerned, anyway.”
I poked the shrimp in my mouth. “I’ll probably go with whatever you recommend.”
He cocked a playful eyebrow. “Probably?”
I speared another shrimp and then met his gaze. “Yeah. Probably.”
His fingers were still intertwined. His lips had thinned. Not a tremendous amount, but enough that they weren’t as full and luscious as normal.
“Is something bothering you?” I asked.
He jutted out his bottom lip and shook his head. “Nope.”
He was in deep thought about something, and it was troubling him. I shifted my eyes to my food and finished eating. When I looked up, his fork dangled loosely from his fingertips. He was staring blankly at the space behind me.
“Talk to me, Goose,” I said. “This will never work if we don’t keep an active line of communication between us.”
His eyes came into focus. He blinked and then met my gaze. “It’s been nice having you stay here. It’s just. I want this to work out. That’s all. I like having you here.”
I warm feeling filled me. “I like being here. Is that all that’s bothering you?”
He nodded. “I think so.”
“Well,” I said. “You’ve got nothing to worry about.”
He didn’t. He and I had real potential. We each had areas we needed to improve upon. If we were honest with each other—and with ourselves—about everything in our lives, we could go the distance.
That I was sure of.
He reached for his plate and stood.
I did the same. “The shrimp were great. So was the steak.”
Behind me, dishes clattered. Then. A pause. “Thank you.”
I turned around. Dressed in his typical attire of jeans, boots, and a tee shirt, it would stand to reason that he looked the way he always did. He didn’t. At least I saw him differently. He was taller. More attractive. His features were sharper. His lean, muscular structure was more defined.
Something was wrong with me. He’d already explained that we were only beginning. That there was more on the horizon. Yet, I didn’t want him to leave. I couldn’t spend a night without him. I could. I didn’t want to.
He glanced over his shoulder. His eyes gestured to the plate I held. “Will you hand me that? Please?”
Completely lost, I did as he asked.
While I gawked, he rinsed the dishes and loaded the dishwasher. He turned around. I was still staring. At nothing in particular, really. Just him. All of him.
He gave me a kiss. A good one. My legs went wobbly.
“Let’s go the bedroom,” I said. “I don’t want to fuck in the kitchen.”
He wrapped his arms around me and kissed me again. This time, it was like the kiss on the roof. Our first kiss.
The hem of my dress raised. His hands cupped the bottom of my butt. Gripping my cheeks firmly, he spread them apart as the kiss continued. I felt myself open, like a flower.
I moaned into his mouth
There was a long list of things I’d told myself I wanted to do the next time we embraced in a passionate kiss. Places I wanted to touch him. How I wanted to hold him in my arms.
I did none of them. My mind raced with ideas, but I was so lost in what he was doing to me that I couldn’t send a signal from my brain to a single one of my extremities.
His kiss—and his hands—had rendered me useless.
A finger entered me. Then, another. Using both hands, he opened me wide. I pulled my mouth away from his.
He opened his eyes. I peered into them. His desires were clear. He wanted me as bad as I wanted him.
“I want to fuck,” I murmured. “Right now.”
He gave me a puzzled look. “In the kitchen?”
The previous locations of my various sexual adventures were limited to seedy motels, cars, and the occasional pickup truck. Fucking in Goose’s bed became a guilty pleasure. Sex on a soft mattress while wrapped in 1,800 thread count sheets separated my former life from my new one. I liked that.
Now, I was so sexually frustrated I didn’t need clean sheets or a bedroom. I needed sex. Any way I could get it.
I glanced around. Goose’s kitchen was as spotless as the rest of his home. It would rival a hospital operating room in cleanliness. The island’s white countertop glistened. It was the perfect place.
“On the island,” I breathed. “Is it clean enough for you?”
He slipped his arm behind my knees and lifted me from my feet. “It is.” One side of his mouth smiled. “I like it that you care.”
“I don’t,” I admitted. “Right now, I’d let you fuck me just about anywhere.”
Chuckling, he carried me to the island. He laid me on it. “Don’t move.”
I had no intention of moving. In fact, had he not carried me, I would have been reduced to crawling. The kiss—and everything that came with it—left me with shaking legs.
“Okay,” I said.
I watched while he got undressed. He tossed his boots aside. His shirt followed. I felt that I should do the same but opted to grant his request and not move.
He wasn’t swollen from head to toe in bulging muscles, nor did he have an abdomen chiseled of stone. He had the body of a long-distance runner. Lean, athletic, and free of any artificial enhancements.
His jeans came off last. Dragging his thumbs along his hips, he took his boxers with them in one shove. His erection pointed skyward.
I wanted him so badly, I ached. I started to disrobe.
His jaw tightened. “Don’t. Move.”
My pussy tingled. Apparently, I liked being told what to do. When it came to sex, anyway. He climbed onto the end of the island.
He tossed my panties onto the floor. Then my dress. My bra. Eager with anticipation, I hooked my heels on the edges of the countertop.
He wedged his hips between my thighs. With his hands on either side of me, his chest hovered over mine.
“I want to feel you against me,” he said. “On my skin. Nothing between us”
I swallowed the ball of anticipation that was quickly rising in my throat. “Me, too.”
With our eyes locked, he entered me with care. He lowered his chest to mine.
It could have been the excitement of fucking in the kitchen. Me becoming accustomed to his size. My eager mental and physical states. Heck, all those things could have contributed.
It was different.
Velvety smooth.
His entire length slid in and out without sending splinters of pain shooting through me. Each careful stroke brought a rush of euphoria with it. One after the other, they continued, like the waves that washed ashore along the beach.
Our eyes met. He pressed his mouth to mine.
He kissed me passionately. I sank my fingertips into the taut muscles in his back. The waves that rushed through me grew larger. Rhythmically pounding ashore against the surface of my soul, each took me closer to the edge of the cliff of ecstasy where I’d been teetering.
For an immeasurable length of time, we kissed, our bodies grinding against one another the entire while.
His pace remained predictable. One. Two. Three.
One. Two Three.
My body tensed. It was coming, and there was nothing I could do to prevent it.
He pulled his mouth from mine, but only for an instant. “Ready?”
He must have sensed it. Further proof that we were connected by much more than our naked flesh.
I nodded. “Uh huh.”
One. Two. Three.
One. Two. Three.
One. Two.
A tsunami came crashing ashore, stripping me of my ability to resist. I relaxed and allowed it to wash through me.
He pressed his mouth to mine.
While we were locked in another passionate kiss, my muscles tensed and released repeatedly. He sank his teeth into my lower lip. His girth swelled, causing me to shudder and shake.
His butt was cute.
I tossed my hair and stood. “I don’t have a—”
“There’s one in here for you,” he said.
“Toothbrush?”
“I bought you one. Couple of other things, too.”
Anxious to see what he felt I needed, I wiped the sleep from my eyes and crept to the bathroom.
Standing at the sink closest to the door, he gestured toward the far sink. “The drawer beside the sink. There’s some stuff in there for you.”
I was surprised to find toothbrush, toothpaste, makeup wipes, face wash and lotion. I picked up the toothbrush and draped toothpaste over the bristles. “Thank you.”
“There’s body wash, shampoo, and conditioner in the shower.”
“You bought all this stuff, or was it here?”
He rinsed his mouth and wiped his face on a hand towel. “I’m kind of weird about stuff. I threw out anything that was left here. Shit like that creeps me out. All it did was make me think about him. And her. That’s all stuff I bought, just in case you took me up on my offer.”
“Why would I have not taken you up on it?”
“You’re a hard person to read,” he said.
Since meeting him, there were a thousand things I wanted to say to Goose. I’d swallowed nearly all of them.
“Well,” I said. “I’m glad you offered. I enjoyed it.”
He came closer. “Which part?”
“In order of importance, or chronological?”
“Importance.”
“The kissing. Sleeping together. The sex.”
When I finished brushing my teeth, he was inches from me. I rinsed my mouth and faced him. “What?”
He kissed me. Not like he did at the bench. It was just enough to make me tingle. Want more.
“Let’s have some coffee and a little breakfast,” he said.
He turned and walked away. Partially hypnotized by his cute ass, and still a little schoolgirl-ish from the previous night’s perfect sex, I stood and stared. I could get used to what we had, but the odds of that were minimal, if at all.
Goose “threw together” a breakfast of omelets, toast, and fresh fruit. With the beach in full view, we sat across from each other at the kitchen island and ate. It seemed like a dream.
“I’ve got somewhere I’ve got to go for the club on Sunday.” He sipped his coffee. “Other than that, I’m going to be here for the rest of the week.”
I didn’t know what to say. It was Wednesday morning. By the sound of things, he had an uneventful few days planned.
“Okay,” I said, not knowing what else to say.
“If you want, you can sleep over.”
“Again tonight?” I asked, as if it were no big deal.
“Until Sunday,” he said without looking up from his food. “When I leave with the club.”
I did a mental fist pump. And then, another. “I’d like that.”
He lifted his head. His eyes smiled. “Me, too.”
140
Goose
“Are you going to tell me what’s going on, or are you going to make me guess?” Ally asked.
“I’m fine.” I wasn’t. I took a sip of coffee, hoping the cup would hide my pursed lips. “Everything’s fine.”
“You’ve been acting depressed since we ate lunch.” She sat down on the bar stool across from me. “Something’s bothering you. You can talk to me about anything, you know. Whatever you say will stay between us. You can trust me on that.”
Ally’s ability to read people was second to none. It seemed she knew what I was thinking long before I was willing to reveal my thoughts. Hiding my feelings was a thing of the past.
It was Friday. Sunday’s schedule had my stomach in knots.
I was never keen on cleaning up Cash’s messes, but it seemed I’d been doing so for years. Cash’s assets were limited to his physical strength and his lack of fear. Other than that, he was a thorn in the club’s side.
Revealing to Ally what was troubling me wasn’t going to happen. The risk associated with it was far too great. Telling her my frustrations wouldn’t hurt. As long as I kept things simple.
I pushed my cup of coffee to the side and peered over the island. “We’ve got a guy in the club that’s always doing stupid shit. We’re left with the task of cleaning up his messes. This Sunday, that’s what we’re doing. We’re going to clean up one of his messes.”
“If he’s in your club, he’s been a friend since you were kids, right?”
“He has.”
“You’re not the type to let anyone force you into anything.” She looped her finger through the cup’s handle. “If you’re friends with him, it’s because he possesses a few redeeming qualities. Enough to make up for his shortcomings, anyway. What are his strengths?”
“He’s strong.”
One brow raised. “Physically?”
I nodded. “Covered in muscles from head to toe.”
She gave me a blank look. “Oh-kay. He’s strong. What else?”
“He’s fearless.”
Her cup was half the distance to her mouth. She paused. “He’s courageous?”
“Very. Sometimes to his detriment.”
“What else?” She sipped her coffee. “Tell me what other qualities he has. Something on the inside.”
I shrugged. “That’s it.”
She lowered her cup and scowled. “So, when you were kids, you were friends with him because everyone was beating you up? You needed a courageous strong pal?”
I laughed. “Fuck you.”
Her lips and eyes went thin with frustration. “What other strengths does he have?”
“Nothing. That’s it.”
She rolled her eyes. “If you had to go somewhere, and you knew when you got there that it was going to be a shit storm with a rival club, who would be your first choice? To take with you?”
“Him,” I responded.
“Because you hope he possessed the courage to have your back? Maybe he’d have enough guts?” She cocked her head. “Maybe?”
“Shit. That crazy bastard? I know he’d have my back.”
She nodded lightly. “So, he’s loyal?”
I raised my index finger. “You’re right, he’s loyal.”
“Did his loyalty—or courage—get him into the predicament? The one that created the mess that you’re now forced to clean up?”
“It did.”
“Were his actions out of line? His act of loyalty?”
Cash saved Baker’s Ol’ Lady’s life. Out of line? Not at all. If Baker wouldn’t have had Cash with him, Andy probably would have died.
“He saved someone’s life,” I said.
“Is this someone friend or foe?”
“Friend.”
Her brows raised. “You’re angry that he saved a friend’s life?”
She’d done a good job of making her point. She did a better job of causing me to realize how shallow I’d been. I felt small. Miniscule was more like it. “I’m angry about the mess,” I murmured.
She chuckled. “Look around you, Goose. You don’t have loose ends. You’ve got to be in control of everything. Look at your flowers. Meticulously placed. Meticulously pruned. Everything within your control is in order. Neat. Tidy. In its place. Not everyone is like you. Some people leave their dirty clothes on the floor or have dirty dishes in the sink. They don’t pay their bills on time. Their lawns are overgrown, and their beds aren’t made. That doesn’t make them bad people. It just makes them different than you. Your friend has strengths so valuable that he saved someone’s life. He did what the club asked of him. He used his strength. Now, you do what the club asks of you. Use your strength. Clean up the fucking mess, Goose.”
She was good. Really good. I felt like shit. Not about Cash’s mess, but about how I’d reacted to my responsibility.
“Yeah, you’re right.” I let out a long sigh. “It’s just frustrating.”
“My guess is if he saved a life, he put his own at risk, huh? When he made this mess?”
I nodded. “He sure did.”
“I bet he said the same thing when that happened.”
“What do you mean?”
“It’s just frustrating,” she said, mockingly.
After reasoning with Ally, I felt like a turd for feeling the way I felt. She was right. The club relied on each of us to do what we did best. I needed to clean up the mess and be grateful while I did so that I had a brother as courageous and brave as Cash.
“You’re good for me,” I said.
“How so?”
“I’ve been the club’s voice of reason for years. I’ve never had anyone be mine, though,” I explained. “I guess that someone is you.”
“I’ll be your Huckleberry,” she said, quoting Val Kilmer’s Doc Holliday from the movie “Tombstone.”
I grinned. I was in over my head.
My only hope was that I didn’t drown.
141
Ally
Goose’s cleanup job was less that twelve hours away. He was anxious. I had my suspicions as to what he was going to be involved in. I couldn’t say I’d be excited about it, either. I hoped for nothing more than his safe return home.
Staying with Goose filled me with the same sense of belonging I had when I lived with my father during his last stages of being ill. I wanted the experience to continue, but it was coming to a close, instead. I realized when I left that my feeling of belonging would fade. Saddened by that knowledge, I wanted the night to end with a bang for the sake of both of us.
I poked a shrimp with the tines of my fork and swirled it around in the film of garlic butter that covered my plate. Without looking up, I made my declaration. “I wanna fuck.”
“Right now?” he asked, his tone laced with a hint of sarcasm.
“No,” I said flatly. “After we eat would be fine.”
He chuckled. “Where’d that come from?”
“It’s our last night staying here together.” I shrugged. “I want to end it on a memorable note.”
“It’s not our last night here,” he explained. “This is only the beginning.”
I stifled my excitement. “It is?”
“It is.” He laced his fingers together. “As far as I’m concerned, anyway.”
I poked the shrimp in my mouth. “I’ll probably go with whatever you recommend.”
He cocked a playful eyebrow. “Probably?”
I speared another shrimp and then met his gaze. “Yeah. Probably.”
His fingers were still intertwined. His lips had thinned. Not a tremendous amount, but enough that they weren’t as full and luscious as normal.
“Is something bothering you?” I asked.
He jutted out his bottom lip and shook his head. “Nope.”
He was in deep thought about something, and it was troubling him. I shifted my eyes to my food and finished eating. When I looked up, his fork dangled loosely from his fingertips. He was staring blankly at the space behind me.
“Talk to me, Goose,” I said. “This will never work if we don’t keep an active line of communication between us.”
His eyes came into focus. He blinked and then met my gaze. “It’s been nice having you stay here. It’s just. I want this to work out. That’s all. I like having you here.”
I warm feeling filled me. “I like being here. Is that all that’s bothering you?”
He nodded. “I think so.”
“Well,” I said. “You’ve got nothing to worry about.”
He didn’t. He and I had real potential. We each had areas we needed to improve upon. If we were honest with each other—and with ourselves—about everything in our lives, we could go the distance.
That I was sure of.
He reached for his plate and stood.
I did the same. “The shrimp were great. So was the steak.”
Behind me, dishes clattered. Then. A pause. “Thank you.”
I turned around. Dressed in his typical attire of jeans, boots, and a tee shirt, it would stand to reason that he looked the way he always did. He didn’t. At least I saw him differently. He was taller. More attractive. His features were sharper. His lean, muscular structure was more defined.
Something was wrong with me. He’d already explained that we were only beginning. That there was more on the horizon. Yet, I didn’t want him to leave. I couldn’t spend a night without him. I could. I didn’t want to.
He glanced over his shoulder. His eyes gestured to the plate I held. “Will you hand me that? Please?”
Completely lost, I did as he asked.
While I gawked, he rinsed the dishes and loaded the dishwasher. He turned around. I was still staring. At nothing in particular, really. Just him. All of him.
He gave me a kiss. A good one. My legs went wobbly.
“Let’s go the bedroom,” I said. “I don’t want to fuck in the kitchen.”
He wrapped his arms around me and kissed me again. This time, it was like the kiss on the roof. Our first kiss.
The hem of my dress raised. His hands cupped the bottom of my butt. Gripping my cheeks firmly, he spread them apart as the kiss continued. I felt myself open, like a flower.
I moaned into his mouth
There was a long list of things I’d told myself I wanted to do the next time we embraced in a passionate kiss. Places I wanted to touch him. How I wanted to hold him in my arms.
I did none of them. My mind raced with ideas, but I was so lost in what he was doing to me that I couldn’t send a signal from my brain to a single one of my extremities.
His kiss—and his hands—had rendered me useless.
A finger entered me. Then, another. Using both hands, he opened me wide. I pulled my mouth away from his.
He opened his eyes. I peered into them. His desires were clear. He wanted me as bad as I wanted him.
“I want to fuck,” I murmured. “Right now.”
He gave me a puzzled look. “In the kitchen?”
The previous locations of my various sexual adventures were limited to seedy motels, cars, and the occasional pickup truck. Fucking in Goose’s bed became a guilty pleasure. Sex on a soft mattress while wrapped in 1,800 thread count sheets separated my former life from my new one. I liked that.
Now, I was so sexually frustrated I didn’t need clean sheets or a bedroom. I needed sex. Any way I could get it.
I glanced around. Goose’s kitchen was as spotless as the rest of his home. It would rival a hospital operating room in cleanliness. The island’s white countertop glistened. It was the perfect place.
“On the island,” I breathed. “Is it clean enough for you?”
He slipped his arm behind my knees and lifted me from my feet. “It is.” One side of his mouth smiled. “I like it that you care.”
“I don’t,” I admitted. “Right now, I’d let you fuck me just about anywhere.”
Chuckling, he carried me to the island. He laid me on it. “Don’t move.”
I had no intention of moving. In fact, had he not carried me, I would have been reduced to crawling. The kiss—and everything that came with it—left me with shaking legs.
“Okay,” I said.
I watched while he got undressed. He tossed his boots aside. His shirt followed. I felt that I should do the same but opted to grant his request and not move.
He wasn’t swollen from head to toe in bulging muscles, nor did he have an abdomen chiseled of stone. He had the body of a long-distance runner. Lean, athletic, and free of any artificial enhancements.
His jeans came off last. Dragging his thumbs along his hips, he took his boxers with them in one shove. His erection pointed skyward.
I wanted him so badly, I ached. I started to disrobe.
His jaw tightened. “Don’t. Move.”
My pussy tingled. Apparently, I liked being told what to do. When it came to sex, anyway. He climbed onto the end of the island.
He tossed my panties onto the floor. Then my dress. My bra. Eager with anticipation, I hooked my heels on the edges of the countertop.
He wedged his hips between my thighs. With his hands on either side of me, his chest hovered over mine.
“I want to feel you against me,” he said. “On my skin. Nothing between us”
I swallowed the ball of anticipation that was quickly rising in my throat. “Me, too.”
With our eyes locked, he entered me with care. He lowered his chest to mine.
It could have been the excitement of fucking in the kitchen. Me becoming accustomed to his size. My eager mental and physical states. Heck, all those things could have contributed.
It was different.
Velvety smooth.
His entire length slid in and out without sending splinters of pain shooting through me. Each careful stroke brought a rush of euphoria with it. One after the other, they continued, like the waves that washed ashore along the beach.
Our eyes met. He pressed his mouth to mine.
He kissed me passionately. I sank my fingertips into the taut muscles in his back. The waves that rushed through me grew larger. Rhythmically pounding ashore against the surface of my soul, each took me closer to the edge of the cliff of ecstasy where I’d been teetering.
For an immeasurable length of time, we kissed, our bodies grinding against one another the entire while.
His pace remained predictable. One. Two. Three.
One. Two Three.
My body tensed. It was coming, and there was nothing I could do to prevent it.
He pulled his mouth from mine, but only for an instant. “Ready?”
He must have sensed it. Further proof that we were connected by much more than our naked flesh.
I nodded. “Uh huh.”
One. Two. Three.
One. Two. Three.
One. Two.
A tsunami came crashing ashore, stripping me of my ability to resist. I relaxed and allowed it to wash through me.
He pressed his mouth to mine.
While we were locked in another passionate kiss, my muscles tensed and released repeatedly. He sank his teeth into my lower lip. His girth swelled, causing me to shudder and shake.
