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Chapter Twenty-Two

FORD

Piece Of Her Past

The only thing that filled my senses was the feel and touch of Piper. I worked her with my tongue and then my fingers, she moaned my name and shuddered around me, her hand gripping my shoulders like she couldn’t get enough.

I held on to her as she found her release and when she finally opened her eyes, she dragged me to my feet, spun me around and pushed me toward her bedroom.

The back of my legs crashed against the bed. Before I could say a word, her hands were tugging down my board shorts. Once they were off, she gave me a wicked grin and pushed me back onto the mattress. I scooted toward the headboard and she crawled toward me. She started to seat herself and I grabbed her waist.

‘Wait. Condom?’ I said.

She dragged a hand through her hair and it was the sexiest thing I’d ever seen. ‘In the bedside table.’

I reached over and opened the drawer, tearing off a foil packet. When I rolled back over a question lingered in her eyes.

‘Should we talk about it?’

‘If you mean how quickly I can get my hands on you again, then yes.’

‘No.’ Her pretty red mouth went firm. ‘Do you want to know my history? If I’ve been checked?’

I set the condom package down and pressed my fingers into her luscious hipbones. ‘You can tell me whatever you want.’

‘My life’s been complicated.’

I held on to her, never letting my gaze veer from her eyes. She was confessing to a past I wasn’t worried about, but instinct said this was something she needed to do.

‘I haven’t been with anyone in over two years. And I’ve been tested.’

‘Me too,’ I said, moving my hands to her cheeks. ‘Anything else you want to say?’

Relief loosened her shoulders and she inched forward, teasing the edge of herself against me.

‘Confession,’ she said with such a sexy whisper I let loose a groan. ‘I very much want your hands on me too.’

She laid a hot kiss against my lips and plucked the foil package from the bed. Once she had me sheathed, she pushed me back against the headboard and climbed on. Her movements were teasing at first, settling herself down and then quickly shifting away. My hands rested on her waist as she moved over me, the ache inside me growing with such a fury that I finally locked my hands down and held her until I was deep inside. We moved as one, her eyes closed, my name a plea on her lips.

‘Piper, open your eyes.’

She fluttered her lashes until I saw her warm brown gaze.

‘I want you to watch what you do to my body. Witness how my breath changes when you touch me. Everything about you, your gorgeous skin, the way you laugh, makes my pulse race.’

With a tight grip on my shoulders she did as I asked. There was a certainty in her eyes, an acknowledgment that she wanted this as much as I did.

Everything about her was unexpected. The way she challenged me. How she never wanted anything more than my presence.

I’d stumbled into this town a confused and disillusioned mess but she’d brought everything into focus. We’d promised this was only for a few months, but the way my heart raced every time she was in my orbit said this was much more than some casual deal.

Her hair swung behind her as I found a rhythm for us. She held on to me, the rings on her fingers scratching against my skin. I shifted and she let out another moan as I found the spot that made her shudder. While I held on to her hips with one hand, the other pulled her down for a deep kiss. Her breaths quickened, her mouth pressing against my skin like a whispered oath.

She shifted, taking me deeper. ‘I’m close.’

‘Wait for me, Bird.’

I drove into her, clutching her back, holding her tightly against me.