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“I need you.” Her voice is an unsteady whisper. “I need you so bad, Davis.”
I don’t answer, because if I do, it’s all over. I’ve reached a boiling point in my head and my heart. My cock aches to plow through the front of my pants like a bulldozer.
“What if…” Dakota slips off the counter and lets the towel drop. I try to ignore how damn beautiful she looks. Soap suds trail down her breasts, and water glistens on her collarbones. She’s dewy and damp, a shy flush tinging her cheeks.
Her eyes glitter as she reaches for the dog tag with one pale hand. She licks her lips—those full, plump lips, that delicate freckle—and says, “What if I pressed it again?”
She does.
My phone vibrates in my back pocket. The shrill alarm that normally would have annihilated me on the spot now has my erection thickening.
“You’re abusing your privilege,” I grit out, shooting her a warning look.
“What if I want to?”
“It’s getting hard to do the right thing here,” I growl.
“So don’t.” Her long lashes flutter, her eyes dark with heat. “You never break the rules, butwedid. A long time ago, we did. And it was good, right?”
“It was great.” On a groan, I shake my head. My heart pumps out a rhythm of self-destruction. “But—”
“But I’m different. I know that.” Vulnerability stains her words. She takes a shuddery breath, fisting one hand in the hem of my T-shirt. “I’m not the girl you knew. I know I’m pregnant. I know I’m weak, but I—”
The words have barely left her mouth before I cup her face in my hands and force her gaze to mine. “That’s bullshit. You’re never weak. You hear me?”
A tear slips down her cheek. “We can’t go back. You forgot about me. I get it, but I don’t want to be lonely, Davis. I don’t want this feeling in me anymore.” Her head falls back, a sobtearing at my heart. “Help me make it through the night. Just one night.”
Her words—andmygoddamn dog tag dangling between her full breasts—piss me off. A part of me she’s carried with her these last six years is touching her skin and I’m not.
She thinks I don’t want her and I do.
Fuck it.
My mouth lands on hers, hard, demanding. The entire world disappears. Nothing’s changed. That spark between us is a wildfire.
Her and me. That’s it.
Dakota moans, her tongue slipping over mine as her hand slides up my chest. Her nails dig into the hard meat of my shoulder, and she clings to me.
“You think I haven’t imagined us together every single day since you left?” I rasp when I pull away from her. My heart pulses in time with my throbbing cock. “You think I haven’t been worried sick when you went silent? That’s why I fucking dream at night now. Because I lost you. Because I couldn’t find you, and it terrified me, Dakota.”
Those dark eyes widen, and she takes in a sharp breath. Too sharp.
I’ve said more than I should have. Before she can respond, I grab the back of her neck and crush my lips to hers. She tastes like cream and sugar. I drink her in. Eat her up.
A better man would stop this.
But who the fuck am I kidding?
I haven’t been a better man since I left the Marines. Since I set foot on the ranch and Dakota charmed her way into my life.
She wrenches at my shirt, her hips bucking against me. “Yes, yes, yes.”
Her urgency, her whimpered breaths, her eager hands, slay me. Six years of missing her, of rock-hard want, explodes in mychest. Unable to stop myself, I back her against the counter and yank the strap of her soaked thong, tearing it off roughly.
A delighted gasp escapes her lips.
Fuck if it’s wrong. Fuck the promises I made to Stede. I feel like a racehorse who’s been holding himself back, and now that I have permission, I’m out of the gate and running. Tonight, I need Dakota. And this woman—she needs me. I’ll give her every broken piece of me if it means protecting her.
