Once the condom is on, I kiss her and gently lead her with my body back up the mattress. I don’t remove my lips from her the entire time. Not until she’s lying across the mattress and I’m hovering over her. And only so I can take her in as I slide inside her for the first time.
I watch the way her eyes widen the slightest amount. The way her mouth opens, and she sucks in a breath. The way her entire body relaxes as though she can finally exhale. Gently, I rock into her, an inch or two at a time, until I’m fully seated inside her.
“God, Ashley…” I hold myself and bask in the sensation of her warm heat surrounding me. I trail my tongue from her collarbone, up her neck and to her ear. “It’s official. I won’t ever get enough of you.”
She turns her head and licks the seam of my mouth. Our tongues tangle as I move inside her. My hips pound out a steady beat as the heels of Ashley’s feet push against my ass. I take my cues from her, and when she digs her heels in, I increase my pace.
Sex has never felt like this for me—amazing physically but also so wrapped up in emotion.
I know for sure that I’m never letting this woman go.
Chapter Nineteen
ASHLEY
My heart riots as Carter moves on top of me. Everything about this joining feels so right. So meant to be.
It’s silly to think like the fantasies of a teenage girl, but I can’t help it. I’ve never felt so much like this is where I’m supposed to be.
“You feel so good,” I say, truth slipping from my lips. I feel as if I’m both in and out of my body.
“Fuck, Ash, I don’t ever want to stop.”
My body contracts around him when he calls me Ash.
“You like that do you? Ash?” It happens again, and he lets out a low chuckle. “I want to see you.”
Without warning, Carter wraps his arms around me and sits up so that he’s sitting back on his heels and I’m straddling him. My hair drapes over one shoulder, and Carter gently moves it so that it lays along my back, exposing my bare chest to him.
I move over him. A moan works its way up my throat from the feel of my clit rubbing against him. I’m not going to last long in this position.
Quicker than I would like, the sensation of my impending climax builds. Carter’s fingers weave in my hair as he looks up at me in what I can only think of as awe. His gaze echoes what I’mfeeling—though I’ve been like this with a man before, it’s never been likethis.
It’s like knowing that this moment is going to change the trajectory of our lives.
His hand moves to my ass, and he grinds me against him. A cry of pleasure releases, then suddenly my orgasm barrels down on me. I clench around him, pleasure twisting through my entire body.
Carter pummels up from underneath me and groans out his own release. He swells inside me and pulses until we’re both covered in sweat and gasping for breath.
“I never knew it could be like that,” he says, his breathing labored against the skin of my breast.
“Me neither.”
Once we’ve caught our breath, he gently sets me on my back before slowly pulling out of me. It feels like a profound loss. He seems to feel the same based on his frown.
“I’ll be right back.” He climbs off the bed and disappears into the bathroom.
He returns moments later, lying down on his side, propping himself up on his elbow, and trailing his fingers over my stomach.
I stare at his handsome face, just visible in the darkness. “Your chin is healing well.” Today is the first day without the Band-Aid on.
“Yup. Should be good by the wedding. Enough not to be obvious at least.”
The mention of the wedding brings something to mind. It feels early to have this conversation, but the days before the wedding are ticking away.
“Speaking of the wedding… how do you want to handle it? I mean… do you want to hide what we’ve been doing from mysister and family, or…” Thank God we’re in the dark because my body is heating and not from the orgasm.
Carter tucks a strand of hair behind my ear and kisses the corner of my mouth. “I want whatever you’re comfortable with. Given my friendship with your sister, I wouldn’t have done any of this unless I thought this could really go somewhere. But I don’t want you to feel pressured.”
