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I bit down on my lip and held on for dear life. The pressure crested and receded, again and again. My eyes burned with tears as the restraint and intensity tested everything I had.
“Please,” I heard myself beg.
His hand tightened on my cock through the mesh, and his thrusts slowed to deep, grinding strokes that pressed hard against that spot until I couldn’t see a damn thing to save my life.
“You’re going to come for me right now. Soak these briefs all the way through,” he ordered roughly. “Let go, little wolf.”
The permission broke me. I came with my back arching off the bed, and my mouth opened in a silent scream as the orgasm tore through me. I felt it everywhere all at once—head to toe—and my body clenched around his cock, milking him and pulling him deeper. My release soaked through the mesh into his hand and spilled over his fingers.
“Fuck…” His voice broke on the word. “Theo…”
He drove into me one more time as his body shuddered over me, muscles locking up. His cock pulsed inside me as the heat of his cum flooded my insides. I clenched around him, drawing a deep groan out of him.
His forehead dropped to my collarbone, his breath hot and ragged against my skin. His body trembled with the aftershock as he remained inside me for a long moment. He turned, his mouth finding the side of my neck in a soft kiss. I felt its tenderness everywhere. He kissed up the column of my neck, the hinge of my jaw, the corner of my mouth—I felt him smile as he did—before he found my mouth.
The kiss was gentle and was almost enough to undo more than anything else he’d done to me all night. My lips parted as I let out a content sigh, and his tongue slid across mine briefly. When he pulled back just far enough to breathe, his dark gaze searched my face, and I knew he was carefully assessing my condition the way he always did afterward.
He shifted his weight, and I felt him move inside me. The slow roll of his hips dragged a soft gasp out of both of us as his hand went to the belt. The buckle clicked, and the pressure around my wrists fell away. The blood rushed back to my hands in a prickle of pins and needles. I flexed my fingers as I slowly lowered my arms, and my hands found his shoulders. His warm skin was grounding as I dragged my palms down his chest, feeling the sweat cooling there.
“You good?” Rhodes asked.
“Yeah,” I said quietly.
“Do you need anything?” He kissed me once, keeping it short to give me the space to answer. I stared up at him, smiling and a little delirious.
“I’m good… I’m so fucking good,” I told him. He chuckled, and his forehead dropped to mine. My breathing fell in sync with his as we lay there in the dark with the sound of our breathing filling the room around us. My chest constricted with an overwhelming amount of emotion, and I whispered, “I love you.”
He kissed me again. It lingered in every nerve of my body until I felt him everywhere all over again.
“I know,” Rhodes said. “I love you too.”
CHAPTER 64
Theo
Despite having gotten very little sleep, I was in a great mood. The sky was cloudless overhead, and the sun was already bright enough to make me grateful for sunglasses as Rhodes drove us down the highway. One hand rested lazily at the top of the steering wheel while the other was tangled comfortably with mine.
The yacht had docked earlier than originally planned because Rhodes apparently had plans for us. He was working hard to cram so much into a single weekend and was annoyingly vague about what we were doing. I’d spent the last twenty minutes alternating between guessing and wondering how badly Sariah intended to punish him for rearranging her schedule.
“How much trouble will you be in for asking Sariah to dock early?” I asked as Rhodes turned off the highway.
“Not as much trouble as I’ll be in for missing the start of brunch,” he said. “But you—”
“Have an appointment, I know,” I interrupted. I lowered my sunglasses slightly as I stared at him. He pointedly didn’t look my direction, but I caught the little smirk on his lips. “Are you going to tell me where we’re going?”
“Where you’re going,” Rhodes corrected. He glanced toward me as he turned onto another road, amusement tugging at the corner of his mouth. “And where you’re going is to meet your agent and then spend the day at the Barracudas training facility.”
For a moment, I genuinely thought I’d misheard him. I got caught on the word Barracudas and then training facility. I was fairly certain my mind short-circuited on the spot as I stared at him. He just kept driving like he hadn’t just casually altered the trajectory of my entire day.
Again.
After the whole Vic thing, I probably should’ve expected something like this, except there was no way I’d expect something like this.
“I’m sorry… what?” I exclaimed, my voice rising a whole notch. Rhodes laughed—the asshole.
“I meant it when I told you that I’d get you in to see the Barracudas facility. Walter was more than happy to arrange it for you,” he said. “And look, I know it’s early in your career to be making this visit, but being proactive is a good thing. It doesn’t hurt for them to get to meet you and talk to you in person.”
I opened my mouth. Then closed it. I had no clue what to say. I stared out the windshield as if the palm trees and passing strip mall outside would somehow help me process the fact that I was spending the day inside an NFL training facility.
