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She washes her hands, then turns to face me. “Hud, can I use your shower? I feel gross.”
“One question first, sunshine.” She lifts her stubborn chin higher and waits. “Why did you come home with me tonight?”
When Maddie doesn’t answer, I clarify, “Was it really just to avoid your brother?”
The room is silent for one long beat.
Then another before Maddie moves in front of me.
Slowly... so fucking slowly, she reaches up and runs her thumb along my jaw.
I’m a strong man, but the strength I have in the cage doesn’t compare to the strength I need right now to control my need to touch this woman. But this show is hers. She’s in control, and I’ll move when she’s ready.
But I don’t think that’s now.
Not yet.
She drops her hand to the front of my hoodie and hooks her fingers inside my pocket, keeping her eyes locked on mine. “No, Hudson.” Maddie’s top teeth dig into her pouty lower lip. “It wasn’t.”
I slowly run my hands up her arms, waiting to see if she flinches or backs away before I gather her face in my hands. “Tell me to stop, Madison.”
“Don’t stop,” she pleads, and I don’t have to be told twice.
I take it slow, going against every instinct I have but unsure of what Maddie needs, and lower my lips to hers as her eyes drift shut. Softly at first. Testing. Teasing. Making sure she’s okay.
I don’t want to scare this beautiful woman in my arms.
She tugs at my sweatshirt, pulling me closer, the electricity between us sparking to life as Maddie lifts up on her toes, and the tension that’s been building finally detonates. I may have only waited three years for this woman... forthis kiss, but I kiss her with the need of a hundred years.
I slide my hand to the side of her neck and tangle my fingers in her soft hair, while my thumb presses against her wildly thrumming pulse.
She sighs one of her sexy sighs, and the sound washes over me as my brain starts working through all the ways I want to make this woman sigh. Want to make her fucking scream.
I part her lips with mine and slide my tongue inside her hot mouth, deepening the kiss.
Tasting her.
Wanting more.
Her hands move under my shirt and flatten against the skin of my hips.
And I battle the impulse to lift her in my arms and carry her to my bed.
To bury my tongue in her pussy and make her scream until she soaks my face, then flip her over so I can fuck her from behind with that perfect fucking ass in front of me.
I may want this woman more than I’ve ever wanted anything in my life, but she needs to stay in control.
We need to take this slow, even if the thought makes me break out in fucking hives.
“Sunshine...” I pull back, and Maddie opens her bright blue eyes as her chest rises and falls in a heavy rhythm. Her lips are bruised and swollen, and her fingers tremble when she lifts them to her mouth, like she can’t believe what just happened. “Go shower, Maddie. That was only the first question. You owe me more than one.”
Those big blue eyes of hers are heavy-lidded and full of need.
But after a minute, she lowers her hands and fixes my shirt, then finally smiles. “Better make it a good one, King.”
I watch her walk out of the room. My eyes stay locked on her until she’s out of my sight, then I take ten minutes to ice my knee before I set the alarm and follow her up the stairs.
By the time I make my way to my bedroom, the water has turned off in the bathroom, and steam billows through the open crack in the door. Heating my room and my blood. I step into the closet, stripping out of my shirt and throwing it and my sweats into the laundry basket in the corner of the room. Then I grab a pair of knit pajama bottoms and slide them on.
