Mistakes had been made.
Staring at the ceiling, Cade frowned hard at thespot he had been staring at off and on for the past two hours. Everything inhis soul wanted to turn his head and check to see if it was still there butCade clenched his jaw tighter and narrowed his gaze at the spot on the ceiling.He would not break. He would not turn his head and look. He already looked fivetimes before. Nothing would have changed; it would still be the same picturethat was burned into his retinas currently.
He would not look. Goddammit, he would not!
With his wrist resting on top of his forehead,Cade tried to focus on the weight of it against him. Or the in-and-out pull ofeach breath he took in the dark. Cool silvery moonlight filtered in through thegauzy curtains at the foot of the bed and Cade's eyes adjusted to the low huesuntil the room almost felt light.
Light enough for him to see everything heshouldn't, a voice whispered in the back of his mind.
Fucking hell.
Turning his head, Cade sucked in a breath at thesight of her. Having moved and twisted around her person at some point in hersleep, the thin pink tank-top Ritz wore was serving absolutely no purpose.Tangled and askew, the thin straps of the tank-top were pulled far off theirdesignated path, revealing one of her breasts fully. Cade could hear his ownbreathing in the dark increase as he stared at the forbidden dark bud. For toomany years he had dreamed of them. The thoughts always taboo, and forcing himto push them away before his mind could appropriately linger. She had alwaysbeen the friend and the quasi familial neighbor, someone who should be reservedat higher levels of respect in his mind than debased with the sordid thoughtsof a teenage boy. And when he came back into her life, he had brought Bethanysecuring himself yet again into the boundaries of propriety where thoughts ofher breasts were staunchly off-limits.
But for the first time, the limits were gone now.She was his, sleeping right here next to him, tits out and he was sitting herelike a jackass doing what?!
A decision snapped in his mind like a cord beingwound too tight.
With deft movements, he pushed himself up ontohis elbow and looked down at her. Sleeping on her side with her face partiallysmushed into the pillow, Maritzia breathed slowly and deeply. Fuck, she wasbeautiful. Tilting his head, Cade studied the details of her face in themoonlit shadows and smiled. Even in her sleep, her face was set in herever-present stern resting face. He loved that about her. Tough and quiet, Ritzwalked around life with a look of a bored ex-con who could easily murder again.It was only if you were really watching could you catch a glimpse behind thecurtain, the wide-eyed innocence she kept buried inside occasionally peeking upto the surface.
Leaning down he placed a feathery light kiss onher lips. Seeing no reaction, he placed another on her cheek. Again nothing.Cade grinned. Laying down a trail of soft kisses, he followed the curving linesof her neck and down her shoulder enjoying the taste of her warm soft skinbeneath his lips. Cupping her shoulder, he gently pushed until her bodycomplied under the pressure and she turned onto her back. Naked breasts gentlywobbled into the night air on full display and Cade felt his mouth go dry.
Dark, decadent skin crested with plum darkberries at the end. Sweet God, it was over for him. Cade could feel all hiscontrol and hard-fought reasons to abstain from touching her go out the fuckingwindow. Bracing himself on either side of her, he lowered himself down untilhis face hovered mere inches over naked breast. Without any governance, hiseyes drank in the sight of her areolas, categorizing each little bump aroundthe circumference. Following along the gentle rise of her softened nipple, helet memories of their time in Jamaica filter back to him. How she would risefrom the water, her body glistening with falling droplets, and how her nipplespuckered beneath her swimsuit at the breeze. Closing his eyes, Cade breathedthrough his nose before opening his eyes again.
Dropping a knee carefully in between her legs,Cade straddled her sleeping form. Balancing himself on one hand he reached forher twisted tank top with the other. If he was a rational man, he wouldstraighten it for her, thus ending his torment and allowing himself to sleep.
He was not a rational man.
Pushing the top upward until it bunched at thetop of her chest, Cade denied himself no longer. Opening his mouth, hetentatively placed one soft bud into his mouth and felt the rest of his sanityleave his body.
Soft, warm, wet strokes his tongue laved the softflesh as he felt the magic of her body responding to him, stiffening againsthis tongue. Cade groaned as he wrapped his tongue around the stem of hernipple. Switching from one to the other, he eyed her face as he suckled her.Her frown deepened and her body shifted beneath him. Massaging the abandonedbreast in his other hand he flicked his thumb across the tight peak as histeeth nipped at its pair. Maritzia's mouth parted in a sigh and Cade's dicktwitched. He needed more.
Trailing kisses down between her breasts hetraveled down her firm stomach until he reached the band of her pajama shorts.For a second, he hesitated and managed to question his actions through the hazeof his lust. Swiftly and silently, he crawled back up to her until they werealigned perfectly and laid a kiss on her lips.
"Tell me you want me," he whispered inher ear.
As if responding directly to his words Maritziashivered and turned into his face with a sigh.
Pressing his lips against hers, he gently partedher lips. With cautious little strokes, he tasted her, groaning when her mouthbegan to move into his. With only the barest glances he knew she was still in astate of sleep and dreams, though despite that her body moved for him. Hertongue glided against his as her legs shifted dangerously against his thighbringing her warm center closer. Cade bit back a curse as he felt the radiatingheat from between her legs. Having gotten his answer, Cade pulled away from herlips and slowly crawled backward down the bed. Sitting back onto his haunches,Cade hooked his fingers into the elastic of her shorts and felt gently arounduntil he felt the second band of elastic hiding underneath. With both sets inhand, he dragged them quickly down her legs losing them somewhere in the sheetsbelow. With only the bunched-up tank top under her chin, Maritzia lay nakedbefore him.
Lust like none he had ever felt in his lifewashed over him like a tidal wave, making his cock buck up against his pants.Trim dark curls were shaped like a heart at the apex of her thighs that madeCade want to laugh and cry at the same time. He wanted to take a picture of thecuteness of it all and save it as his wallpaper to stare at every day. Hewanted to run his hands through the coarse feeling of it, but more importantly,the urge to sink his face into that soft hot center was overwhelming.Readjusting himself on the bed, Cade grimaced at the pulsing ache from his cockpushed flat against the mattress but he ignored it. Gently, he parted her legsand inhaled the heady scent of her. If he didn't blow his load now it would bea miracle.
Settled between her legs, he stared longingly atthe soft lines and folds of her entrance. Softly he pressed his lips againsther.
Like a bolt of lightning going through her,Maritzia jerked underneath him and he looked up the length of her body.Frowning deeper, he could see the war in her body as she struggled to wake.Again, he placed his lips against the hot folds of her sex and watched her faceas he rooted his tongue deeper into her depths. Her eyes squinted as her bodytrembled and he caught sight of her hands fisting the sheets around her.Smiling against her, Cade never took his eyes off her as his tongue searchedand searched and then stopped. Finding what he wanted, his own body shudderedas he slid his hand under her thigh and brought it up and around until her thighlay in the hold of his arm. Parting her folds, he looked from her to his prize.Like a tiny berry, her clit glistened at him, hooded and shy. Reaching out hekissed it directly.
Maritzia let out a sharp moan, and Cade felt thepre-cum of his dick moisten the front of his pants in response.
Again, he kissed the tiny, delicious berry andagain Maritzia convulsed in a moan.
"Cade?" her deep sleepy voicequestioned with alarm.
Looking up he could see her looking back down athim, their eyes meeting. Cade said nothing and took her clit between his lipsand sucked.
"Ah!" Maritzia's cry felt likesalvation to his soul.
Suckling harder, Cade lapped up the tangy-sweetflavor of her, ignoring her desperate cries and focusing on her long fingersspearing through his hair. Lapping and sucking, he ate her noisily, driving herto madness beneath him. Maritzia arched up from the mattress, her criesbecoming desperate as her hands shook in his hair. Holding her steady, Caderode her with his mouth relentlessly following each movement, never letting hismouth break from her soaking sex. He tortured and nipped at her swollen clit asa finger delved deep into her entrance.
"Cade!" she cried desperately. Therewas a begging note to it, asking—no demanding—something from him.
