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I received an exaggerated eye-roll. “Fine. Who’d you play hide the salami with? Stuff the chicken? Plow the field? Slob the sausage?
I felt my cheeks heating as I slapped my hands over my face. “Oh, God! If I tell you, will you stop?”
“Yep.”
“Fine. Please, just… Stop. Talking.” She mimicked locking her lips together and throwing away the key. Taking a big breath, I spit my words out quickly. “It was Rowan.”
The atmosphere in the room shifted and when I uncovered my eyes, Harlow’s face was flooded with concern. “Oh, babe.” She sighed. “Are you sure this is a good idea?”
My body went stiff just as I finished tying the belt on my robe. “What do you mean? I thought you were all for this?”
“I was. Iam. I’m just… worried. I know something has been going on between you two and I know I’ve been teasing you, I just didn’t think you’d give in.”
I tried not to be insulted, I really did, but I couldn’t help it. “So, you think I’m being stupid?” I asked, offended.
“No! No, I don’t think you’re being stupid. It’s just… you lead with your heart. I want to make sure you’ve thought about this. That you can handle whatever happens between you two. I don’t want you to get hurt.” The frown that marred her beautiful face melted some of the ice that had formed in my bones. But what she said next thawed it completely. “You’re important to me. You hurt, I hurt. I just want you safe.”
I wrapped Harlow in a tight hug, squeezing with all my strength. “I know, babe. And you’re just as important to me, too. But I walked into this thing with Rowan with my eyes wide open, I swear. I know his reputation, but I also knowhim. This may work out, it may not, but I’m prepared for whatever the outcome may be.”
I was proud of how confident I sounded, because the truth was, I had no idea what I was doing. And that scared me. But I didn’t want Harlow to know that. She’d known me when I was the shy introvert who hid away from everything in order to guard myself from more pain. I could see it in her eyes; she feared I’d revert back to that. I did, too, but I couldn’t let myself think that far ahead.
One day at a time, that’s what Rowan had said. That was what I had agreed to. I just hoped I wasn’t crushed in the process.
The lid of my laptop slammed down, nearly taking off a couple of my fingertips in the process. “What the hell?” I snapped, lifting my gaze to find Rowan hovering over me, one hand on my computer, the other resting on the back of the couch by my head, caging me in. “I was working on that!”
“It’s 5:30,” he said between clenched teeth.
“So?”
“So… it’s quitting time.”
“Rowan,” I sighed. “I’m not done yet. Just give me another fifteen—”
“No,” he cut me off, pulling the computer from my lap and setting it on the coffee table. “I’m not giving you anotherfiveminutes. You said we couldn’t do anything while you’re on the clock, and I’ve held up my side of the bargain.” His hand wrapped around one of my ankles, using it to pull me down the length of the couch so I was lying on my back, his weight coming down on top of me so I had no other choice but to open my legs to him. “Now it’s time for you to live up to yours.” I giggled as his lips came down, trailing whisper-light kisses against my neck. “Jesus, I need to be inside you, Navie,” he groaned as I wrapped my legs around his lean hips, reveling in the feel of him against me, already hard and ready.
I nipped at his lower lip, earning myself a growl. “I’m starting to think you have a problem.”
“I agree. You aren’t naked. That’s a huge fucking problem.”
Heat flooded me as he ground his hips against mine, drenching my panties as his hard-on rubbed against the perfect spot. “Rowan,” I moaned, my head falling back against the cushion. It had been five days of pure, unadulterated sexual bliss. It was as if we couldn’t get enough of each other. The moment the workday finished, we were on one another like animals, ripping clothes, ravishing each other. It was insanity. But the strangest part of all of it was that the sex hadn’t changed the nature of our relationship. I’d expected things to be different between us once intimacy entered the picture, but we still joked, we still teased, we still laughed and argued. The only difference in our relationship was that we now had a detailed knowledge of what set the other person aflame.
“You have no idea what you do to me,” he spoke softly as he pulled my earlobe into his mouth and bit down, drawing a sharp gasp from my lungs. “Drive me fucking crazy,” he continued. “Can’t think about anything else.” His fingers dug into my hips impatiently, his demeanor turning somewhat manic in his desperation for me. It drove me wild. “Want you all the fucking time.”
“I want you, too,” I breathed, lifting my head, eager to feel his lips against mine as I circled my hips against his over and over.
“Can’t get enough. Never get enough of you.”
Something inside me snapped. I needed to feel him like I needed air. Sliding my hands between our bodies, I went for the button and zipper of his fly with quick efficiency. The moment my fingers wrapped around his cock, his forehead dropped to my shoulder. The power that coursed through me was a heady thing. I pumped my fist, circling the head of his erection with my thumb, spreading the beads of precum that had formed. I did that,me. I held Rowan in the palm of my hand, figuratively and literally, and I got off on the fact that I could make him react in such an animalistic way. My name came through his gritted teeth as he thrust into my fist.
“Fuck me, Rowan,” I whispered against his lips.
With another growl, his weight was gone. Our clothes went flying and I barely had time to blink before he flipped me over, propping my belly over the arm of the couch. I braced myself, waiting, praying for him to pound into me. But he was in the mood to tease. I whimpered as he slid through my folds, drenching himself in my wetness. “Rowan,” I cried.
“What, baby?”
“Please.”
He kept his rhythm between my thighs, the head of his dick hitting my clit with every upward stroke. “Want me to fuck you?”
