Page 33 of Condor’s Vow

“Hattie, I thought you were the shit from the second I met you and you stopped me going through that ER door after Sammy. You’re so beautiful I can hardly tear my eyes from you, but more than that, you have so much heart. You look after everyone and never ask for anything in return. You stand up for others, you care, and you’re so open and honest.”

Her body relaxed as he spoke, and he stroked her back, feeling her shiver in his arms. “I can honestly say being around my sister had no bearing on the way I feel about you.”

“How do you feel about me?”

“Crazy. So fucking crazy head over heels that’s it isn’t even funny. I’d walk on fire for you.”

“Crazy enough to get naked and show me how soft this bed is?”

Her words made his dick jump in his pants and press painfully against his zipper.

“Gorgeous, there’s nothing I want more, but tonight I just want to hold you and feel you against me. I don’t want us ever to look back and remember the night we first made love as the same night a killer targeted you. When we make love, it will be after a wonderful evening together with wine and fun.”

“I love that, but what you don’t seem to realize is that I won’t look back on tonight as the day some psycho targeted me. I’ll look back on it as the night you made me yours, and I made you mine.” She dropped her gaze before taking a breath and looking up again, and the expression in her eyes almost made him lose control. “I want you, Clay, more than I’ve ever wanted anything.”

His head lowered and he took her lips in a hungry kiss that left him fighting for control as she let go, trusting him completely.

“Go get ready for bed, and I’ll use the other bathroom.”

Hattie nodded and disappeared into his en-suite while he sat there for a moment, wondering how he’d gotten so lucky as to find a woman like her. When he figured he had no clue, he just thanked God instead and stood to get ready for bed.

When he entered the bedroom ten minutes later, she was sitting in the middle of the bed with the sheet covering her legs. Her pajamas were silky and showed enough skin to have him wanting to turn around and go back to the bathroom and jerk off to stop himself embarrassing himself when he got inside her.

“I wasn’t sure what side you slept on.”

She looked unsure as he moved to put a knee in the bed and pull the covers down. “Nearest the door. If any fucker gets past Mr. Chester, they have to get past me too before they touch a hair on your head.”

She scooted over, and as soon as he lay down, she rolled into him, tucking her head on his shoulder, and fitting her body to his, her hands instantly moving over his chest.

Clay held her close and knew that nothing would harm her if he had anything to say about it.

“Clay?”

“Yeah, gorgeous?”

“Thank you.”

“For what?”

He felt her shrug underneath his arms.

“Everything. Helping with my dad, having my back with my family, supporting me. Rescuing me tonight and making me feel safe.”

Clay rolled and went up on his elbow so he could look at her in the moonlight through his curtains. Her blonde hair practically glowed blue, her skin almost looked translucent. He swept a lock of hair from her face and ran his knuckles down her cheek and then over her throat and collarbone, watching the goosebumps appear, loving the way she responded to his touch.

“You never have to thank me for being here for you, or for rescuing you. I’ll always be here for you, Hattie. You mean everything to me.”

He kissed her then, showing her with his mouth how he felt about her. She clung to him, her hands grasping his shoulders, fingernails digging into his skin. He kissed his way down her neck, nudging the strap of her top off her shoulder with his nose. His thumb rubbed over the sensitive skin of her nipple, and he watched it harden into a tight peak as Hattie squirmed beneath him.

“Tell me what you need, gorgeous?”

“Your mouth, I want your mouth on me.”

The sound of her so desperate for his touch almost undid him, but he reined it in and gave her what she needed. His lips closed over the dusky pink nipple, and he sucked hard. Her back arched, and he felt her fingers thread through his hair, holding him where she wanted him. He nipped, kissed, and sucked first one and then the other nipple, her reaction causing pre-come to leak from his aching cock.

Lifting up, he looked down at her lips swollen from his kiss, eyes dilated with desire, her hair spread all over his pillow, and he knew there would never be another for him. “You’re so fucking beautiful.”

He didn’t give her a chance to reply but kissed her hard, his hand slipping under her panties and through the soaking wet folds of her pussy. Hattie gasped into his mouth as he stroked the silky wet skin and then pushed a finger inside her tight channel, his thumb grazing her clit and making her butt rise off the bed and bump his hard cock.