Page 93 of Cast to be Mine

She went willingly, her mouth still on mine, her breath warm against my lips when she exhaled. The backs of her knees hit the mattress and she sat down, looking up at me with those eyes that had been wrecking me for weeks.

I reached up and pulled her mass of hair from that tie she’d twisted it up in. I ran my fingers through the silky strands.

“I’ve been dying to do that,” I said. “Watching you through the monitor is great, but I like it like this. Me and you. No screens.”

Her eyes moved across my chest, unhurried. The way she looked at me did something to me I wasn’t prepared for. I’d been looked at before. This was different. This felt like being seen.

She reached for the hem of her own shirt and I stopped her.

“Let me.”

She dropped her hands into her lap and let me do it. I crouched in front of her, gathered the fabric, and drew it up slowly over her stomach, her ribs, the soft curve of her waist. She lifted her arms and I pulled it the rest of the way off and tossed it aside. She was wearing a plain nude-colored bra, nothing fancy, and somehow that made it worse.

I reached around and unclasped it.

She let it fall.

I stayed where I was for a moment, just looking. She didn’t cover herself or look away. She held my gaze. I brought both hands up to her face, tilting her chin up, and kissed her again. Deeper this time. She made a small sound against my mouth. Her hands found my shoulders and pulled.

I laid her back onto the bed.

“Do you always answer the door in your underwear?” she asked.

I chuckled. “I just got out of the shower. I figured if room service didn’t mind, I sure as hell didn’t.”

“Maybe you shouldn’t flaunt the goods,” she said. “You have to know you’re a tease.”

I settled my weight on my forearms so I wasn’t crushing her. Her bare skin was warm against mine. I kissed her throat, sucking the flesh between my teeth. I nipped and licked and moved over to the soft skin just below her ear. My tongue ran over her pulse.

Her fingers slid into my hair. “Micah.”

Just my name. Nothing else. But the way she said it nearly turned me inside out. I worked my way down, pressing my mouth to her sternum and then to the swell of her breast. I drew her nipple between my lips. Her back arched off the mattress, a sharp breath escaping her. I stayed there, learning what made her gasp and what made her fingers tighten in my hair. She was responsive in a way that was making it very difficult to take my time, but I wanted to. I wanted to know all of it.

I worked my way lower.

Her shorts came off, then my briefs. I hooked my fingers into the waistband of her panties and drew them down her legs slowly, watching her face the whole time. She was watching me back. The steady eye contact made the whole thing feel almost unbearably intimate.

I pressed a kiss to the inside of her knee.

Her breath hitched.

I kissed higher. The inside of her thigh. Higher still. When I finally put my mouth on her she groaned and lifted her hips off the bed. I held her steady, one hand flat across her hip, and felt her whole body shudder as I worked. Her fingers found my hair again, not guiding, just holding on. I could hear her breathing change, feel the tension building in her thighs on either side of my face.

“Micah,” she moaned. “Come here. I need you. Please. Now.”

I kissed my way back up her stomach, her ribs, and then between her breasts. She was flushed and breathing hard. She grabbed my face in both hands and kissed me with the kind of urgency I came to expect from her.

“Nightstand,” I managed.

She reached over while I was still kissing her neck and pulled the drawer open, pressing the condom into my hand without looking. I pulled back long enough to roll it on. When I looked back at her, she literally took my breath away. Her hair spread across the pillow. Her lips swollen from kissing.

I didn’t know what to do with how she looked right then.

I settled between her thighs. She drew her knees up, and when I pushed inside her we both went completely still.

“Damn,” I hissed. “You feel so good.”

Her eyes were on mine. Her hands were on my back, a gentle caress. I felt her body adjust around me. I settled in impossibly deeper.