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“We’re not in any rush,” he murmured, the thick weight of bass in his voice revealing his desire. “This should be special.”
“You just flew across the world for me.”
“You don’t owe me anything.”
“I don’t,” she said, opening up his shirt and rising to take her own top off. “But you just proved to me you get it.” Taking his wrists, she guided his hands to her breasts, letting them explore what lit his gaze. “All my life I’ve wanted a relationship with honesty, with faith, and above all else, loyalty and love. I can be open with you, Alex. I can tell you anything.” He nodded. “I want a man who’ll keep my heart safe. A man I can give my love to and know he’ll cherish it and not take it for granted.”
“Baby, I’ll cherish it, but you’ve gotta know…”
She almost didn’t want him to shatter the peace, but she couldn’t ask for honesty then hide from it. “Know what?”
“You’ll never be able to love me more than I love you. There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for you. Nothing I wouldn’t do to make you happy. I told you I’d never say no. I will always give you anything you ask.”
“I don’t have to ask,” she said, sliding her hands over his to squeeze her breasts beneath. “You came all the way back here for me because I said I wanted to be in your arms.”
“I came all the way back here because you said you knew you wanted to be with me. You referenced us being together. You’re reaching all these conclusions while I’m on the other side of the planet.” He shook his head once in the pillow. “No. That’s not how I want this to work.”
“How do you want it to work?” she asked, descending to kiss him again. “How do you want…” Another kiss. “Us…” A quick kiss. “To work?” Pushing downward, her hips moved lower to meet the solid evidence of what worked right there and then. “I want to be with you, Xander.” Her hips moved in slow circles. “I want to be yours.” She pushed harder. “For you to be mine.”
Throwing his arms around her, he flipped her onto her back. “I am yours, Rainie.” His hand slithered down her body and under the elastic of her shorts. “No one else’s.” His fingers slid between her folds as his legs parted hers. “Never again.”
“Mm,” she purred, undulating with his fingers, stimulating her clit. “And I want this.” She squeezed his shoulder beneath his shirt. “I want to know what you feel like inside me, how it feels to have you—” His finger plunged into her. Her body arched, breathing into the invasion. “Like that. More like that.”
“Open your eyes.”
She did. “Alex…”
“Fuck, you’re beautiful.”
“Take your pants off,” she said, still moving with his hand as he pleasured her. “Please.”
“Are you sure?”
“I don’t want to wait,” she said, shoving the shirt from his shoulders. As he freed himself from it, she unbuckled his belt. “I want this. Now. I want you.”
More than just the physical, she wanted the release, but also wanted the clarity. Holding back, hesitating, it might seem smart, but some things had to be taken on faith. He had to be taken on faith. This man was it or he wasn’t, but she’d never been so sure of the former. What he gave her was more than she’d wished for, more than she’d dreamed of. It was time to stop punishing him, and herself, for the missteps of their beginnings.
Xander lived wherever the business demanded. She’d never envied his corporation until that moment. The pull it had, his love for it, would she ever match up to Venture?
“Alex,” she whined his name, but only just.
The slide of his fingers, the pulse of his want. She was losing herself, slipping into a black hole of forever that she never wanted to escape.
He kissed her. His lips gliding to her jaw and her neck, he played with her, learned her, while he stayed just out of reach.
“With me, baby,” he growled. “Open your eyes.”
“Oh, I’m with you,” she said, her pelvis rising as his stimulation ebbed. “Where are you going?”
“Nowhere,” he said. “Nowhere, baby.” The urgent pressure of his cock was slow, but necessary, in its need. Exactly what she craved. “I’m right here.”
And she welcomed him with a drone of pleasure that rumbled from the back of her throat.
“Right there,” she said, breathing out her pleasure. “Yes, right there. Alex… Alex, God, that’s it. Oh, that’s it.”
He moved faster than her heart could beat. Blood rushed through her veins, hot, pulsing, stretching her boundaries, tearing her limits to shreds.
There was no more. No ceiling. No summit of his value.
