It took two seconds for me to cross the room and wrap my arms around her. God, it had been too long without her—the longest week of my entire life. Every day lasted a century. Every minute without her was empty. Wasted. Lifeless.
I had no capacity to wait. I leaned down and smashed my lips into hers, finally tasting life.
"I—" I breathed her in, "I love you so much." My hands roamed up her back and onto her neck, my mind spinning. “After last night—" Jade’s fingers tangled in my hair and she pulled me in closer, “—I got so scared that I’d never see you again."
"Ah, fuck, you're risking so much—” But I interrupted her, needing to kiss, to touch, to squeeze. To remember that she wasmine.“By coming here!"
Our embrace turned frantic, and I wondered why the fuck I hadn’t snuck in earlier. I pushed my tongue inside her mouth, acutely aware of how her fingernails dug into my shoulders.
"I love you, too. What the fuck were you thinking last night?!"
I wasn’t. I couldn’t think when she wasn't around.
“This little fucking pencil skirt?” I lowered my voice and grabbed a fistful. I pulled the material up, watching the way it slid up her thigh. “Should be fucking illegal.”
“You’d know all about that, wouldn’t you?” She baited me with a smile on her face. “Take it off.”
I didn’t need to be told twice. I tugged on the zipper of her skirt just as she pushed into my chest, walking me back to her couch. Somewhere along the way, my towel dropped, my dick rock hard already.
Jade did that to me constantly. God, I couldn't think about her without getting hard—it was a fucking problem.
She dropped her gaze and reached for me, but I stopped her hand right before she could grab on. She looked up, her eyes filled with surprise and mild shock. “That’s no way to treat a guest.”
“You’re an intruder,” she snapped back instantly, and fuck, I missed her sharp tongue. “And I get to do whatever I want with those.”
Jade suddenly shoved me back, and I slumped onto the couch, my vision going black for a moment. Standing in front of me, teasing, she unbuttoned her shirt, revealing the white lacy braunderneath. I groaned and reached for her, wanting her on me now—right this fucking second.
But she swayed her hips just out of reach. “Tsk-tsk. Patience.”
I was starved. Parched. Desperate, and my dick was throbbing, but I waited until she dropped the shirt to the ground, appearing all angelic in front of me in such delicate, lacy lingerie.
And it was like time had stopped. The world fell away. It was suddenly dark outside, but Jade glowed. I sat up and she stepped closer, letting me wrap my arms around her and press my lips into her abdomen.
“I missed you,” I sighed into her, afraid to admit this was real. “So much. Don’t leave again.”
Her skin burned underneath my fingers, and Jade straddled me, resting her weight on me, just the way I wanted.
“I missed you, too.” She locked her gaze with mine, letting me see inside her soul. “Don’t do that again,” she requested quietly. “Don’t do scary things like that. I don’t want to lose you.”
I closed my eyes and nodded, pressing my cheek to her chest. We sighed into each other and just stayed there, our arms wrapped around one another, her heartbeat knocking into my lips.
“The bite healed, and I had nothing left from you, Malyshka. I can’t. I can’t live apart. When you’re not with me…” I paused, studying the worry in her eyes. “Everything’s wrong. Like I’m not alive. Like I can’t wake up.”
I breathed in her skin, desperately asking for proof that she was with me and I wasn’t dreaming. Proof that she was in my arms again.
“I’m right here. Look at me.” I did; I lifted my eyes to her jade-green ones, and, just like that first time I’d ever seen her, they were wet with tears.
She pulled in closer then, sinking her teeth into my bottom lip. “I can give you another bite, baby. I can bite harder. So you’re always marked.”
Tender and hesitant, she ground her hips on me—exactly how I remembered it. She kissed my neck—all of her as light as a butterfly.
It was always intoxicating with her. It was always right.
My hand traveled down her gorgeous body, right between her legs, and I moved her thong out of the way, grazing my fingers on her wet pussy. Jade gasped and lifted herself, sinking onto my cock in one swift slide.
We both groaned, letting the feeling overtake us. Her fingernails dug into my shoulders suddenly, mixing pain with that inimitable pleasure I’d only experienced with her.
“Brat,” I growled into her lips and pressed her to me, wantingallof her touching me.
