Page 143 of The Truth of Us

I turn towards her, my words bubbling out, “Harper, just talk to me, tell me what I did…”

But she is unbuckling her seatbelt and climbing over the console before my brain realizes what is happening. And she steals my breath when her lips crash into mine; I am surrounded by her scent, the feel of her pressed into me, straddling my lap. Her hair falling around our faces as she pours everything into a kiss that has me groaning into her mouth. I kiss her back with equal intensity because I may not have any clue about what the fuck is going on right now, but Harper is in my lap, initiating a kiss that could make me cum in my pants.

We kiss for what could be an eternity, because I lose track of time.

After we pull away, our eyes locked, she smiles softly at me, and I can’t help blurting out, "I definitely misread this situation."

Harper laughs, and it feels like sunshine and fucking rainbows, like someone threw a glitter bomb around us that we don’t have to clean up. She presses another kiss to my lips, this one softer, whispering, “You see me.”

I swallow hard because when she pulls back, the intensity in her eyes has me feral.

She drags a nail across the scruff on my jaw, saying between kisses, "Not Harper Montgomery." Kiss. "Not a headline." Kiss. "Not a scandal." Kiss “Or an heir.” Kiss "Just..." She pulls back, her eyes glittering, as she whispers, "Me."

I wrap my hand in her hair behind her neck and pull her to me, saying everything I am feeling in that moment with a kiss. Harper starts to move in my lap, grinding on me, and I try my hardest to slow this down.

Not because I don't want to get back to this part of our relationship, but because I am worried that we are rushing and I don’t want to push anything.

I pull her close, trying to slow her frantic movements, and of course she notices, "Why do you keep stopping me?"

Harper bites my lower lip, and I groan, "Because I'm trying to do this right."

She pulls back from me, studying my face for a moment before she shifts back enough to expose my belt and zipper, saying, “Your restraint is incredibly attractive, Mr Vale. I appreciate it; I appreciate you.” Her eyes move from her hands that are now slowly undoing my belt buckle to mine as she continues, “But right now what I would really appreciate is the Elliot who understands the logistics of fucking me in the front seat of this SUV.”

Then Harper smiles a mischievous smile that I don’t think I have seen from her before, and all my restraint snaps. In one motion, I slide the seat all the way back and recline, which has Harper tumbling forward with me, a giggle bursting out of her. With one hand, I reach up and brush the hair back from her face and the other cuffs her throat, just enough to say that it's there, and lower my voice when I say, "I've dreamed about this every night."

Harper whimpers, the sound going right to my cock, which I can feel pulsing, putting pressure under my zipper. As Harper lifts her hips to get more room to free me, I slide my hand from her hair down her body, watching the goosebumps follow my touch as she struggles with my belt.

I pull my hand back and then slip it under her dress, finding the panties soaked already for me.

Her body shivers, her hips stuttering, as my fingers trail to the edge of where I can feel her soft, bare, pussy lips. We both groan at the same time, and I squeeze the hand that is still wrapped around her throat, saying, “What’s taking so long?”

Harper laughs as she finally gets the belt free and aggressively pulls the button and zipper. Her eyes lock on mine as her hand slips into my boxer briefs and wraps around me, at the same time as I push a finger inside ‌her.

Harper snaps forward with a cry, and I hold her to me while we kiss. It isn't pretty or particularly loving; its teeth and tongues and pants mixed with sounds I hope we are the only people to hear. Harper moves her hips, fucking my hand as I slip another finger in, and she whimpers my name into my mouth.

Her hand is tight and shaking around me, and I am desperate to be inside her after all this time. She must feel it too because she does her best to free me from my confines, and I slip my fingers out of her ripping the gusset of her panties as I go for better access, licking my fingers and she grinds her dripping pussy up and down my cock chanting my name, I almost lose it there, the feel of her on me. I tilt my hips the best I can in this crowded space but then remember, fuck… “Harper,” I groan, but I really want to cry, “I don’t have any condoms.”

I see the cloud of lust clear from her eyes, just enough that I know she is thinking clearly. She nibbles on her bottom lip, and my dick twitches, which causes her hips to react, and I can feel myself notched and ready to go. My hands shake as I hold us still.

Harper kisses me, saying softly, “I am clean, and you are the last person I have been with. I am on the pill...”

It takes a minute for my brain to catch up to what she is saying, and I blurt out, “Me too”, which causes Harper to laugh and my fucking dick to inch in just a little more.

I can feel her tightening around me, a pulse either trying to push me out or pull me in. We are both panting, as I clarify, “I am clean, and you are the last person I was with.”

Something passes over Harper's expression as she leans into my hold on her throat, whispering, “I trust you.”

Those words make me blink back tears, but Harper sees it, and she watches me closely as she pulls back slightly, tilts her hips and slowly, ever so fucking slowly, lowers herself on me.

The feel of us bare together is almost too much. My body is shaking while I try desperately not to cum before she even has all of me in.

Her eyes are glassy and so full of love as she finally settles on my lap, and I am fully seated inside ‌her. Our eyes stay locked as our bodies say everything words could never get right. And I know without a doubt I have found home.

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HARPER

People always talked about peace within a relationship, as if it were something extraordinary. A feeling so overwhelming that it changed the way you saw the world.