His hands move to my shoulders, gently pushing to guide me to lie flat. I look up at him as he takes off my boots and socks, then slowly he unbuttons my jeans before sliding them and my underwear off my legs, agonisingly slow.
I’m now fully bare to him, and the look in his eyes tells me he wants to devour me. He lifts my right leg by the ankle, places a soft kiss on the inside, rests it on his shoulder, and with his other hand pushes my left leg open. He cocks his head to one side as he lazily drags a finger up and down my entrance.
“Look at you, so fucking wet and allmine. Look how you glisten, look how fucking beautiful you are, spread out like this.” He growls the words out slowly, and then I watch as he takes his finger and places it in his mouth, humming with approval.
I’ve never been more turned on in my life.
I whimper. “Nate, please, I-I need you.” My voice is barely above a whisper.
He doesn’t hesitate, grabbing hold of his cock he leans forward and drags it up and down against my core, coating himself before notching it at my entrance and slowly pushing in.
I stop breathing, watching his face as he pushes in deeper, then stills.
His other hand moves over my mound, and he slowly circles his thumb against my clit, all the while not moving inside of me. The pleasure builds, and I need more. I need him to move, but no matter how much I squirm, his other hand is on my hip, stopping me.
He smirks at me. “I want to watch you come on my cock first, Shortcake.” He increases the speed of his thumb on my clit as pleasure builds and shoots through me. That familiar feeling of being wound up, snakes around inside of me, and I know any minute now I’m going to come.
“That’s it, Hayleigh, come all over me.” Nate pinches my clit, the pressure releases as my orgasm hits me full force, and as I’m still coming, Nate pulls out of me and slams his cock deep inside of me as far as he can go.
He sets up a punishing pace, prolonging my orgasm and chasing his own as both hands grip my hips, holding me in place as he fucks me with everything he has as I scream out his name. Then, in one swift motion, his hands grab mine, and he hauls me up and into his arms as I sink further onto his cock. He walks us to the wall, where he pushes me up against it and fucks me as hard as he can while I hold onto him.
It’s rough and dirty, and the sounds we’re making aren’t pretty, but it’s utterly perfect. He’s perfect, especially when he stills and empties himself into me, telling me how much he loves me.
After we clean up, we lie down on the couch, facing each other. Nate has me wrapped in his arms as he draws lazy circles on my back. A spare blanket covers our bottom half. He looks at me and smiles, and I smile back, feeling utterly giddy and uncertain at the same time.
I whisper. “Is this real?”
He kisses my forehead. “It’s real.”
“So what do we do now?” Butterflies circle around inside of me as I wait for his answer.
He smiles. “We do what we always have, take each day as it comes. We can make plans for what we want to do, or we can wing it, so long as we do it together, it doesn’t matter. I want you to be happy.”
“I still have one thing left on my list, you know, I still haven’t done a safari.”
He kisses both of my cheeks. “My dad knows a place that does a safari right here in England; we could do that, or we could save up and go to a real safari.”
“Thank you for pushing me to do the list, Nate, and for completing it. I don’t think I realised how much I actually needed it till I started ticking things off. I don’t know how I can ever repay you.”
“I love you, Hayleigh, with no strings attached. I love you. Even if you decided this wasn’t for you, I’d still love you. You don’t owe me or anyone anything.”
The last thing I remember is him holding me close, his fingers tracing circles on my back while I fell into a deep, restful sleep.
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A banging on Nate’s workshop door has us both jolting awake. I look over at it and breathe a sigh of relief because he remembered to bolt it from the inside. We scramble up to get dressed as Nate hollers out that we’ll just be a minute.
By the time he opens the door to an extremely impatient Archie, my face is flushed, and we definitely look like we’ve been caught with our pants down.
Archie looks between us before raising his hands. “I don’t wanna know, we’re going to be late for book club if you don’t hurry up. I’ll be waiting in your car, Hayls.” He stomps off towards my car, unlocking it and climbing in.
My mouth drops open as Nate laughs. “For some reason, he has spare car keys for everyone's car. Don’t ask.” He places a kiss on my cheek and grabs my bag. “Are you sure you have to go?”
I raise my brow. “To book club? Hell yes, I have to go. That’s like our sacred place, but I’ll see you after it.” As I’m walking out the door and just because I can, I turn and blow him a kiss before saying. “I love you.”
He catches my kiss and places it on his cheek before replying. “I love you more.”
By the time I’m sitting in my car, I’m practically floating and giddy, but Archie is grumpy and quiet. I ruffle his hair.
