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Buck tore his hands away from her long enough to push his pants down to his thighs, the cool rush of wind sliding across his ass as he took his cock in his hand and pressed its tip against her pussy.

When the head slipped in, suddenly surrounding it in her heat, he nearly came from that one moment of contact.

“Fuck,” he groaned, “I don’t think I’ll be able to last long.” As much as it pained him to admit it, he felt like a teenage boy during his first wet dream. It felt like his skin was electric to the touch.

Mari pushed back against him, drawing him deeper inside of her. “I think I’m halfway there myself.”

He looked down into the side mirror and saw Mari’s face as if she was looking right at him. Her lips were plump and rosy, her eyes glassy with hunger.

“Heath?”

Shit! Even the way she said his name had him primed and ready to lose his damn mind.

“Show me,” she swallowed and he saw her lips part just a little more. “Show me how much you need me,” her voice was as rough as he felt, “how much you can’t wait to get inside me.”

He let go of his cock, grabbed her hips with his hands to hold her still and buried himself inside her.

MARI

The hard wall of the SUV was the only thing that kept her from falling over right into the abyss.

She’d always seen herself as a woman with more intellectual needs than physical. She’d never seen or felt the need to lose control.

Heath had challenged her beliefs and pushed her closer and closer to the edge of reason when they were together.

Now, here she was, the dark of night, pressed up against the side of his SUV.

If someone walked up close enough, there would be no hiding what they were doing.

She was on the verge of madness.

If he wasn’t careful, she just might make enough noise to get a complaint.

But something told her that Heath Derringer might not care about that.

This was his place, she reasoned. It was up to him to decide just how dangerous he wanted to be, at this point, after everything they’d been through that day, she was beyond caring.

The first thrust pushed her up against his SUV and took her breath away, but after that first one all she could do was feel.

Feel hot.

Feel tight.

Feel grateful to be alive and in love with this man.

Everything felt like too much and not enough, but when she felt him release inside of her all she could do was ride the wave of her own release.

Somehow, they made it inside and fell into each other’s arms before she lost all consciousness wrapped in his arms.

PALLAS

His phone rang in the dead of night and hoping that Kawehi wouldn’t wake up, he picked it up off of the bedside table with a speed that was more reflex than a conscious thought.

“Hello?”

“Pallas, it’s Buck.”

Buck.