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Fifteen
Laney
God, this was heaven.
My boots were off. My sports bra too. I was completely naked and so was my husband. I hadn’t needed thirty seconds to strip since I’d been mostly naked before I entered the tent. We tumbled onto the sleeping bags, and Archer had my knees hooked over his shoulders as he drove into me. I pressed my hands against his hard chest as he stroked in and out.
The way he filled me, how well he knew my body and what got me off instantly versus what would let him play awhile, centered me. The misery of all those nights alone seemed justified.
We fit together.
I couldn’t believe he hadn’t been with anyone else. He said he hadn’t dabbled in the dating pool, but a part of me had been too afraid to believe it. Archer was too sexy, too much of a catch to go without. In the motel, he’d been able to get me off with no relief for himself. But the way he lost control tonight settled my nerves. He wasn’t a man who was quick in the sack.
Tonight, he was unhinged. He swung his hips, pounding into me. I’d be across the tent if his hard grip on my hips didn’t keep me anchored in place.
His pace increased—the force was punishing in all the best ways—until he kicked his head back. I wished I could see the way his face tightened, his teeth clenched, as he kept from shouting my name all over the campground.
Heat flooded my insides as his erection pulsed and released. For the first time in a long time, I didn’t feel so lost. So alone.
For tonight, I was enough.
He sagged over me, his head hanging. I eased my legs down until I cradled him. He was still inside me, but he wrapped his arms around me and buried his head in my neck.
“I love you, Delaney.”
I tensed, my mouth open to reply, but unsure of what to say.
He lifted his head. “There’s no pressure. I need you to know that no matter what, I love you.”
No matter what.But a lot mattered. There were aspects of our life that had more say over our marriage than love. Geography and NT Land Agency were the two biggest.
I pushed my hand through his thick hair and said it anyway. It was the truth. “I love you too.”
He turned his head into my touch.
He braced himself on his elbows and gazed down at me. “I can’t tell you how happy I am to hear that.”
I couldn’t tell him how scared I was to admit it. I’d never quit loving him. I’d tried. So damn hard. All those tears on my pillow when another day went by and he hadn’t called. The tossing and turning because the wall of heat next to me was missing. I had tried to despise him, but I’d failed.
Then he’d showed up. Asking for an annulment. The final nail in the coffin.
But he’d stayed. And he’d integrated himself into a life I had been sure he wouldn’t understand. He fit so damn well it hurt.
He started moving again. His erection hadn’t flagged like it normally would’ve.
He captured my mouth again, thrusting slowly in and out, like we had all the time in the world. In this tent, in the middle of nowhere, we were exempt from all the constraints of time.
“Delaney?”
I arched my back. What he was doing had reignited all the nerve endings that had been incinerated on the chair outside of the tent. “Yeah?”
“I should’ve asked you earlier, but are you still on birth control?” He pumped into me, and I planted my heels to meet his increasing force.
“Yeah. I never had the IUD removed.” A baby would complicate an already complicated relationship.
“Good.” He spoke like he had no idea how wild he was driving me, but this was Archer. He knew. It probably chafed him that I hadn’t come a second time when he’d exploded through his first climax. “So damn good. I’m going to fuck you all night long and come over and over again in your tight little body.”
I groaned, unwittingly clenching around him. “For such a gentleman, you talk dirty.”
