AllFreeNovel
Share Us
By the time she’d said it they were in her room and Josh did put her down. He flipped her right onto her bed, and in one quick move he settled himself neatly on top of her. “Now. What were you saying?”
Looping her arms around his neck, she pulled him down for a kiss. “That you’re a Neanderthal.”
“Am I?” He grabbed her hem and pulled the dress over her head.
“A brute to be sure.” She was trying to sound angry and offended, just for effect, but it wasn’t working. Caroline was loving this.
“Uh-huh.” Her bra went next. “Well this brute has you right where he wants you.”
Caroline giggled because it was more the other way around. But the truth of it all was more sobering... she was in her bed, completely naked with a man who could own her if she let her guard down for even a second. “What is the brute going to do to me?”
“The possibilities are endless, baby.”
Caroline laughed out loud and wiggled her hips against him. Josh stripped down and donned the condom he had in his pocket. But instead of coming back to her he sat and pulled her up. “Come here. Straddle me.”
“What?” This was different. “Um... okay.”
“Do you trust me?”
There was a moment of complete silence as they stared at each other thinking about his question. It was at the heart of everything. It meanteverythingand could truly define what was happening between them. This whole affair, or whatever it was turning into, was about trust.
Caroline kissed his lips. “Of course I do.”
She moved tentatively, doing as he asked she placed her knees on either side of him. She felt oddly exposed as Josh’s hands gripped her hips, and she watched as he moved her over his penis. She felt the head rub against her and a little tremor rolled through her body before he slowly coaxed her down onto his erection. She felt the slow stretch as he entered her, the silky pressure as he pushed deep inside her. She moaned a little as he got as far as he could go, and she adjusted to him.
This was heaven. Holding Josh close, Caroline began to move in a gentle rhythm, listening to her body and his, and knowing that she was completely safe. “Like this?”
“Yeah,” he responded with barely a sound. “A-plus.”
* * *
There wasno other way to describe it. Watching her expression as he entered her was like a drug. Her face held such emotion and Josh never thought he’d ever want to see feelings playing a role in sex. Especially with this woman. A month ago they weren’t even on each other’s radar. They’d been running on parallel courses for years, but he’d never paid attention. Now he couldn’t avoid it. Four weeks, just four weeks, and he didn’t want to think about being with anyone else.
He didn’t know exactly what all this meant, but it shook him to the core, and while he held Caroline, kissed her beautiful face, touched her and let her set the pace, he saw what he’d been missing all this time.
She trusted him. Caroline had given him everything when she opened herself to him a few short weeks ago and let him in. He didn’t realize that the depth of what she gave him went so beyond the physical act. This was about trust, about faith.
No one in his life really trusted him, but she did. She’d trusted him with everything.
Josh matched Caroline’s movements, holding her tight, loving how her body molded to his. She was small and soft and she was his. Only his.
And while that thought filled his head, it also slapped at his heart. And that’s when he knew that as much as they’d gained, they had so much to lose.
* * *
For a little kitchen,there were a lot of cabinets, and Josh opened a few before he found a glass and filled it with water from the pitcher in the refrigerator. Caroline was asleep, exhausted from the last few hours, and Josh didn’t understand why he hadn’t been able to fall asleep himself. He was so revved up he felt like he could build a house.
His reaction to her was nothing like he’d ever experienced. He’d never felt such blind possessiveness, such responsibility for a woman. He wanted to blame the virgin thing, but he didn’t think that was it. Something else was going on. Something new.
He liked her. A lot.
More than the sex or her looks, he liked who she was. Which meant he definitely shouldn’t sleep with her again. “You are so full of shit,” he said to himself. “Who am I kidding?”
“That depends,” a throaty female voice said. “What are we talking about?”
Josh turned, and in the doorway was Caroline’s roommate. He’d gotten to know Tessa a little since he and Caroline started hanging out, but it was the stories Caroline told about her that helped him see that the two were as close as sisters. He smiled at the willowy redhead whose raised eyebrows told him he was about to be interrogated. She was Caroline’s best friend and he figured that gave her the right.
“You, Mr. Campbell, were the last thing I expected to see. I guess dinner went well.”
