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“Yes, Boss,” they stated simply.
Jensen chugged the last of his beer before tossing it into the garbage. "I'll go with you, but I'm going to get some rest first. You sleep tight, Mare," he told me, fingers nudging my chin up so he could kiss me.
"You too," I murmured against his lips. As Jensen stepped back to head down the hall, Ian shifted me to face him.
“As much as I would love to have you stay with me tonight, I have some work I have to finish. Besides, Arch hasn’t gotten much time with our girl, so you’ll stay with him tonight,” Ian told me, his brow raising expectantly when all I did was nod.
“Yes, Sir.”
“Good girl.” The words made my toes curl, a shiver working its way down my spine as his mouth lifted. After pressing his lips to mine in a hard kiss, Ian followed Jensen’s lead and headed down the hall.
“Come on, Mare, let’s go get some rest.”
Archer’s hand grasped mine, the heat of his calloused palm seeping into mine and down my arm. The roughness only added to the desire that had slowly started to build. We walked in silence to his room, and while I was tired, exhaustion pressing down on me, I knew I wouldn’t be able to sleep.
When we crossed the threshold, I couldn’t stop the smile that came to my face, the space screamed my laidback boyfriend. The bed was messy, the scent of citrus and menthol filling the room. It was tidy up to a point, but there was still a shirt and a pair of boxers strewn around the surfaces.
The door closing behind us pulled me out of my perusal, my body slowly coming alive when I truly realized it was just Archer and me. The softest brush of fingertips caressed the back of my bare thighs, goosebumps flaring over my skin at the light touch.
“Go ahead and make yourself at home, Mare,” Archer murmured, his breath shifting my hair as he talked. I couldn’t move; my body was too tightly strung, wanting, craving Archer’s touch. When I didn’t move, my feet held in place by some invisible force, he chuckled. “What’s wrong, sweetheart? It’s not like you haven’t been in my bed before.”
At the reminder of our times together, my core surged, my breath hitching as the rough pads of his fingertips continued their path, slipping beneath the edge of my sleep shorts to trace the curve of my ass. The scruff covering his jaw was scratchy over the crook of my neck, and the heat of his lips hovering just over my skin made my heart race.
“Uh…” I trailed off, struggling to form any logical sense as his hands continued to caress my ass. Before I could say anything else, Archer moved. Curling around me, he gripped my hips and trapped me between his sculpted torso and the hard wood of his door. The cool door was a stark contrast to the warmth of his body as it pressed into my chest.
“I’ve missed you, Mare,” he whispered, his hands trailing up my hips and waist. “Your smile, your smell, the feeling of you against me. Every single thing about you that I’ve craved over the years.”
I couldn’t breathe, everything was electrified, taut, and ready. I had had my moments—true, deep connecting moments—with Jensen and Ian, but Archer … they had always been physical and fleeting. Until now, when his lips captured mine. I had expected his movements to be leisurely, for Archer to take his time, but he trailed fevered kisses over my jaw and down my neck. Hurried, as if he couldn’t get enough of me. A gasp escaped me as he pinched my nipples, tweaking them until they were pebbled peaks even after he had fallen to his knees. Neither of us seemed to want to wait, the need to have more between us driving us faster.
Curling his fingers around the waistband of my shorts, he shot me a panty melting grin only moments before he yanked both those and my panties down my legs. I didn’t have a chance to adjust to being bared to his heated gaze before he forced my thighs apart. Hiking one thigh over his broad shoulder, Archer fused his lips around my sensitive clit.
My hips bucked against his sudden ministrations, his skilled tongue swirling over my slick entrance. Lightning shot through me, each bolt tightening my core. My eyes rolled back, and I tangled the soft tresses in a tight grip, his blond hair silky against my fingers.
I was thankful he had a strong grip on me, holding me securely against the rough wood of the door; otherwise, I felt as if I would have collapsed right there. While Ian and Jensen were demanding in their attentions, Archer held my focus in an entirely different way. His icy blue eyes were focused on mine as I looked back down, fingers digging into my skin as he held me against his mouth.
Smashing my lips together so the others wouldn’t hear, not even muffling myself could keep me silent as a pained whimper escaped. My orgasm came barreling down, and my leg gave out, but before I could ride out the waves of my release or collapse to the ground, Archer moved. Scooping me up, I found myself being carried over to his bed.
“Goddamn, sweetheart. I have missed the taste of you on my tongue.” His whisper was thick, mixing with the lusty fog that had descended over me. I lay on the bed, my body relaxing as the trembling eased. The feeling of Archer’s arms circled my waist only lulling me further into a state of calm. “Get some sleep, Mare. It’s been a long day, and you have a long day tomorrow.” As he whispered to me, I figured he would take it further, wanting more based on his intense, fevered movements only moments before.
“That’s it?” I couldn’t stop the question from tumbling out, but I couldn’t deny that even as much as I wanted him deep within me, the events of the day had taken their toll.
“We’ll have more time tomorrow, sweetheart, but you need sleep, and after everything, I want to just hold you for a little while.” His expression gave nothing away. The icy depths of his eyes watched me slowly give in to the exhaustion, but there was a hint of severity in his words. He had as much of a rough time with what happened earlier as I did, and his tender embrace showed me that all he wanted was to remind himself that I was okay.
“Okay, Archer,” I whispered. “Tomorrow, though, promise?”
His lips lifted at my request. Nodding, he agreed silently, tucking me against his chest. It wasn’t until I was almost asleep did I hear him murmur a response. “I’ll promise forever, Mare.”
