“It evolved.”
I laughed against her mouth and finally got the last of her clothes off. Mine followed. Not neatly. I didn’t care. By the time she was bare in my lap, the scarf still loose around her throat, I was so hard it hurt.
Her gaze dropped between us. She bit her lip.
I almost came from that alone.
I gripped her waist and lifted her over me. She was so small in my hands. So soft. So trusting. My cock nudged against her entrance, and every instinct I had roared to take.
I didn’t.
“Slow,” I said.
Mostly to myself.
I lowered her carefully.
The first tight press of her around me made the whole world narrow down to her face, her breath, her nails biting into my skin. I watched her for pain. For fear. For anything that meant stop.
She only tightened her legs around me.
I kept going.
Inch by inch, she took me, her body stretching around mine until she was seated fully in my lap. The buggy rocked beneath us, jolting softly in the air. She pressed her forehead to mine, both of us breathing hard.
“Okay?” I asked.
She answered by moving.
Stars save me.
The hover field did half the work. Every roll of her hips sent the buggy dipping and swaying, turning small movements into long, slow strokes that dragged a groan out of me before I could stop it.
She smiled like she’d won something.
Maybe she had.
I held her waist and helped her ride me, keeping my grip firm but careful. She rose and sank, her slick heat taking me again and again, and the sight of her on top of me almost broke whatever good sense I had left.
Her breasts moved with every stroke. The scarf slid lower, violet silk against flushed skin. Her mouth was parted. Her eyes were bright.
Mine.
The word surged up from the bond, hot and dangerous.
Mate.
I locked it behind my teeth.
Not now.
Not here, with the audit coming and her future balanced on some stranger’s report. She’d had enough men tell her what her life was supposed to be. I wasn’t going to add destiny to the list while my cock was buried inside her and her scent was wrapped around my lungs.
So I said the only safe thing I had.
“I’ve got you.”
Her breath hitched.
