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She hadn’t recovered when I moved from beneath her, her senses slow, but when she found herself, she was already in my lap, the tip of me at the edge of her. Her palms on my chest, she sank onto me, her lids fluttering and mouth a soft O.
I buried my face in her neck—she lifted hers to the ceiling with a sigh, her arms draped over my shoulders. With a slow roll of her hips, she let me go only to devour me again with another sigh, a hum through sealed lips. Her heels grazed my thighs as she rolled her body, rising with the help of my hands on her ass, descending until I was fitted as deeply in her as I could get.
But I wanted more.
A growl and a twist, and she was pinned by my body, recumbent and lithe, her eyes still closed, her lips still parted. I slammed into her with a groan, and her neck snapped off the bed with a gasp and a cry. Again, a thrust that sent a moan of pleasure-pain from her lips, jostling her breasts. Her knees drew higher, her heels against my waist. And then her eyes opened slowly, finding mine. Her hand on my face, on my neck, pulling me into her until our lips could meet in a kiss that stopped all else. A long, hot kiss of promise and desire, of finding a thing you’d lost. Of relief and of that sweet desperation I knew I’d never escape, not when it came to her.
When I moved, it was slow and circling, deliberate and devouring, more than a meeting of bodies, more than a meeting of hearts. I felt release rise in her, and mine rose with it. She tightened, and I swelled. Her breath shallowed, color rising up her chest, climbing the column of her neck that extended, tightening with every long flex and release of my hips.
When she came, she pulled me deeper with every pulse of her body, so tight around me I was left breathless. The leash on my desire snapped. The world dimmed, electricity sparking, bursting behind my eyes, across my skin as I poured all that I had in me into her, body and soul.
She was mine.
I sagged over her, bracketing her face with my arms, my chest heaving, too full to contain all I felt, all I wished for, all I wanted.
And through half-shut eyes, we found each other in the dark.
25
Say It
GRANT
I’d been awake for a long while, since the shadows were still blue and purple and long, but I’d barely moved, content right here in the quiet room, wrapped up in Jo.
She slept soundly, her head in the curve of my shoulder and her legs twisted around one of mine. The slow rise and fall of her chest against my ribs matched mine, as did our heartbeats—I could feel hers steady, strong. And the thought that rose over and again was that I couldn’t think of a single place I’d rather be, not in the whole world.
In the city, there was always noise, the gentle hum of people and life and living a constant companion. Here the only sound was a bird that lived in the pecan tree out back who liked to warble to greet the sun. It was usually annoying. But today, I wanted to run out there and throw that bird some seeds and thank it for being here to remind me of all the reasons I wanted to stay.
Jo was right—I wasn’t the same man who drove into this town.
I didn’t want to be him anymore.
I barely even knew who that man was. An empty shell, a purposeless husk. And now that I knew how it felt to be this man, there was no undoing it.
So my newfound goals were topped by the objective to get my father out of town, though I wasn’t sure how. If they would sign, he would leave. I could get my bonus, get my father off my back, and keep my job intact. Today, I would talk to her for the first time in a while, the first real time. Maybe now that I was staying, she’d believe I had her best interest at heart. The money would do too much for her family and this town for me to let her to walk away from it.
I sighed heavy, stirring Jo. She stretched, exhaling long, her arm tightening across my chest.
I kissed her hair.
She kissed my pectoral.
“How’d you sleep?”
“Like I was dead,” she said through a yawn.
“Wanna go for a run?”
“I do.”
“Wanna fuck first?”
She laughed, shifting so she could see me. “Do you even have to ask?”
“Just being gentlemanly.”
“It’s a new look for you. I like it.” She beamed at me like a ray of sunshine. “Are you really going to stay?”
