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“How bad is your vision?”
She squinted up at me.“Gee, you’re getting kinda fuzzy.You should get closer,” she said.
I obliged, turning her on her side so I could give her long, slow kisses without crushing her under my weight.It also gave me the opportunity to touch her from her pretty shoulders down to strong calves.I’d dreamed of her curves so many times, but actually touching her was magnificent.She was so soft, so hot, so responsive to my touch.Though I wanted to savor her forever, the drumbeat of my desire was impossible to ignore.
Especially when she shoved me on my back and straddled my hips.Her hair was wild, her cheeks bright.She reached back and unhooked her bra, and I happily cradled her breasts once the garment was gone.“Take off your pants,” she said breathlessly as she leaned down to run her mouth over my pecs.
I obliged, kicking my way out of my khakis.They’d wrinkle, but I didn’t care at the moment.It was the middle of the workday and I was in bed with my mate.Obligation tugged at me, but for once I ignored it.For once, I was doing what I wanted to do, and I wasn’t stopping now.
Edie and I both groaned when she took my cock in her hand and stroked, stroked.She brushed the tip against her hot pussy, and the thrill of that alone was enough to have my hips raising off the bed.“Wait,” I said, bracing her hips up with one hand and slipping the other between her legs.“I want to watch you come while I can still pay attention.”
She moaned in reply as I slid my fingers inside her.She was so wet, so tight, as she settled herself against the palm of my hand.As she ground down, my cock bounced against her belly.Seeing her like this was both thrillingly new and tantalizingly familiar.In dreams, it might feel real in the moment, but I knew I’d wake up alone.Now, I was learning her smell, her taste, the exact temperature of her skin.This was really happening.My mate was in my arms, and I was touching her the way no one else would ever touch her again.
When she came, I prayed I’d dream of that moment for the rest of my life.
Her thighs were trembling when I slipped my fingers out of her, so I flipped us on the bed.The soft comforter was on the ground, but I made sure Edie’s head was on a pillow when I laid her back down.Then I froze.“Fuck.Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.I don’t have a condom.”
Her eyes drifted open and focused on mine, then tracked down to my hard cock poised between her legs.She licked her lips.“I have an IUD.And I’m clean.”
I nodded.“I’ve never had sex without a condom.”
She raised her eyebrows.“Never?”
I hadn’t wanted to risk any permanent entanglements while I waited for my mate.“I still get tested though.Hell, you could probably look up my results.”
A grin whispered over her lips, and I could see her trying to think.“I trust you,” she said finally.“I can’t explain it, but I have this sense with you—since the very beginning—that I could trust you.”
The fact that it confused her made my heart thump in my chest.I leaned down and kissed her, hot and slow.“You can trust me,” I said, settling myself against her.“I want you, just you.”
It wasn’t the practiced speech I’d intended to give her, but I couldn’t find the words to express what was happening inside me.Everywhere her fingers pressed, lightning bolts shot through my skin.Wanting her—all of her, for all of our lives—was the deepest truth I could muster.
When I pressed my cock inside her, she arched up with a cry, sheathing me deep.Every cell in my body exploded in a shower of golden light.Edie locked her arms around my back and pressed her torso against mine, turning the shower into a fountain.Her mouth was on my throat, and the heat of her lips against my skin was the only thing that made me believe we hadn’t fused into a single glowing body.
Then I stroked out, and in again.
When my mouth found hers, I held nothing back.I couldn’t have if I tried, and the realization made me understand just how hard I’d been trying.What I couldn’t tell her with words, I could tell her with my body.As I pistoned my hips against hers, I poured all my need and hunger and passion into the kiss.The release of those clamped-down emotions was so heady it made me dizzy.As I let my feelings flow, I realized what all the stress and desire and frustration had been hiding.
I was terrified of losing her.
I’d always known that I was the underdog in this competition: she had a great job in a major city, she had family and friends, she had the life she’d built for herself.All I could offer was my small town, my small business, my not-so-small family.My not-so-small secret, which would redirect the course of her life if she consented to stay with me.I’d told myself I had a plan, but I’d really been postponing the inevitable.She would leave.Hadn’t she just said so?
She sank her teeth into my lower lip, reminding me she was right here.
I had to see her face.I pressed myself up on my elbows so I could watch her eyes as they rolled.A thrill of possession went through me.She belonged to me.I belonged in Twisted Pines, so logic dictated that she belonged here too.I had to prove it to her.I had to prove I was worthy of my mate.
There was a howl on the air.I couldn’t tell if it was the wind or the wolf inside me.
The walls were shaking.I couldn’t tell if it was the wind or the force of our passion.
There was a woman beneath me.And I knew without question that I’d do anything—anything—to keep her by my side.
