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“He’s passed out, and I missed you.” I glanced at the frying pan she held loosely in her hand and gave her a half-grin. “Planning on knocking me out, baby?”

She rolled her eyes and shoved me before pulling me into her apartment by my shirt. “I didn’t know it was you. It could’ve been a murderer.”

“Understandable.” I kept my expression somber as I nodded. “Gotta make sure you’re prepared for all those polite murderers who knock first.”

“It’s late, and I’m discombobulated.” She blew wisps of hair out of her face. “Are you going to stand there and make fun of me, or are you going to kiss me already?”

I took the frying pan out of her hand and set it to the side before wrapping her up in my arms. This was what I needed right now. “Option B. Always.”

I crushed my mouth against hers, and her entire body lit up. I loved how she was so responsive. No one had ever turned me on like this. I couldn’t get enough of my lips on hers, the different sounds she made when I got her off on my fingers or my tongue before sliding my cock deep inside her. Those little whimpers she’d make right before she was ready to come drove me to the point of insanity. Nothing else could touch what Audrey brought out in me.

She tore off my shirt, wild with the need to feel her skin against mine. I gripped the hem of her sleepshirt and growled in appreciation. My T-shirt was the one she’d chosen to wear to bed. I pulled it over her head and tossed it to the side. Something fell to the ground with a crash, but neither of us stopped to see what broke. She unbuttoned my pants with quick fingers and pushed them down, taking my dick in her soft hand, moaning as she pumped it a few times. As if she could get off on just the feel of me. Without pausing, she led me over to the couch. Looked like we wouldn’t be making it to the bed this time. No complaints from me.

She pushed me down on the cushions and climbed on top of me. I ran my fingers through her slit, feeling her arousal and adding to my own. Both of us struggled to hold our powers back, not wanting our magic to take a moment of this from us. Rain clouds formed over her head, but the room stayed dry as I dipped my fingers inside of her and made her moan loud enough to rattle the windows.

Taking me in her hand, she notched me at her entrance. I gripped her hips. “Hold on. Let me grab a condom from my wallet.”

“I’m on birth control and don’t have anything. You?”

“I’m good.”

“Good.” She slowly sunk down on me, letting herself feel every inch.

I clenched my jaw and held her still, giving myself a moment to get it together. Goddamn, she felt incredible. She squirmed against me, needing friction. Digging my fingers into her hips, I lifted her up. She took over from there, gripping my shoulders with her nails as she began to ride me, hard and fast, the way she liked it best. I couldn’t stop myself from looking down. I loved watching my bare cock disappear into her pussy.

Close to coming, I rubbed my thumb in circles around her clit, knowing it would push her over the edge. “Ride me harder, baby. I know you can take it.”

Her orgasm came on quick, her inner walls squeezing me in a tight fist. I didn’t have any hope of holding on after that. My hips jerked as I emptied myself inside her. My name stayed on her lips through every last thrust, until I finally came back down, spent and satisfied. This was how I needed to start and end every day for the rest of my life.

I picked her up and carried her to bed. In just a handful of days, I’d already become incapable of sleeping without her tucked against me. She rested her chin on my chest, drawing those little circles she was so fond of with her fingertip.

I squeezed her hip, another reminder to myself that she was really here, and I wouldn’t wake up in the middle of the night without her. I wondered, not for the first time, how long I’d need those reassurances before I accepted that she was with me.

While I was confident I could handle the curse if it made another play for my mind, the doubt it had woven through me continued to linger. I fought the uncertainty, knowing the source, but it still crept in sometimes. There wasn’t anything I feared more than losing Audrey.

“Was it bad with Finn tonight?” she asked.

I kissed her forehead. “Yeah.”

He’d held it together during the meeting, for the sake of his business, but holding it together had been about all he could do. He had opinions on the number of concession stands for the festival, but didn’t dare voice them. Not after finding out who all the approvals had been going through. He just kept his head down and his hands tightly gripped together between his knees, until I got him back to my place and he destroyed the bottle of Blanton’s that Donovan had gotten me for Christmas last year.

Oddly enough, Thora hadn’t been in great shape either. Considering that she was the one who’d ripped Finn’s world apart, I would’ve thought she’d be cool as could be, but she spent the meeting staring at her feet, looking like she was doing her best not to cry. She’d always been a cool one. Whatever she’d been doing since she’d been gone must’ve broken her somehow.

It would only be a matter of time before Finn tried to reach out to her. I was not looking forward to cleaning up the mess from that fallout.

Though the two of them would have to connect again anyway. Soon. Fate had a grand set of plans and didn’t give a flying fuck about our personal issues. At this point, Audrey and I could barely deal with the curse on our own, and that was when it was only weak vapors of smoke playing head games with us. It hadn’t even taken a corporeal form. Yet.

As if reading my mind, Audrey lifted her head. “What if I’m not strong enough to fight off the curse again? What if it gets in my head and makes me doubt you?”

Her small voice was a gut punch. Out of everyone on the island, Audrey had the most confidence in magic and in her ability to do great things with it. This wasn’t an easy fear for her to admit. “You’re the strongest woman I know.” When she gave me a skeptical look, I brushed my fingers over her temple. “Here, where it counts. We’ve got everything out in the open now. The curse can’t erase that.”

She settled against me, her muscles relaxing. “I want to go to the cave tomorrow. It’s not Ella’s day to work, but I can call her and my grandma in.”

“Why do you want to go up there?” I thought back to what happened last time and shuddered. The curse was bad enough on the edges of town, but it would be a lot more difficult to deal with at the heart of the island, where it was hiding out while it built up its power. “We didn’t find out much last time we went.”

“I know, but I’ve got this nagging feeling that we’ve got something wrong. It won’t go away. The last time I got a feeling like this, the earthquake happened.”

I used to be dismissive of Audrey’s feelings and intuitions. A lifetime ago. When I thought magic and curses were just legends. I learned real quick not to doubt when she had those feelings now, though. “What are you thinking? Any theories?”

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