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He backed her against the tree while splitting open the front of her dress. Now, her breasts rubbed his chest with all their silky, sensual fullness. He needed to taste them, and he dipped his head until her ruby-hard nipple was in his mouth. He sucked on that delicious peak while stroking her curves until she swung her legs around his waist. Feeling her heat grind against his cock, separated only by her knickers and his trousers, made his senses explode. He needed her now.
He pushed her knickers aside and plunged his fingers into her, groaning at her wet, hot depths. She cried out and began to breathe so raggedly that he tore away from her mouth to kiss her neck instead. Her pulse slammed against his lips as she ripped at his trousers, and cool air touched him as they fell. Then, there was only her hand, gripping him hard enough to bruise, and pumping his cock until he couldn’t stand the sensual torture.
“I can’t wait,” he ground out, and tore her knickers off. Then, he claimed her mouth while he thrust into her, nearly coming right then from the pleasure ripping through him.
His lips muffled her scream of “Yes!” She gripped him tighter as he moved deeper, harder, lost in the feel of her. Some part of him warned him to be gentler, but he couldn’t. Not when he was suddenly drowning after years of dying of thirst and burning after only feeling ice.
“Don’t stop, don’t stop!” she cried against his mouth.
He never wanted to. He needed every moment of this. Leaves showered them from the tree Cat was braced against from his hard thrusts, and Bones half expected them to burst into flames, too. The fire sizzling his nerve endingshadto be tangible. Nothing this intense could merely be feelings.
Cat’s loud cry heralded a climax that pulsed around him with such erotic spasms, the last of his control vanished. A groan tore free as rapture turned into cascading bliss that spread until even his toes felt numb. Cat sagged against him, only the pressure from his body holding her up against the tree.
“Something’s jabbing me…in the back,” she panted out long moments later.
Bones held her more firmly onto his hips and moved her away from the tree. A small, very smashed tree branch was behind her.
“Twig,” he said.
Her legs nudged him in a “let me down” sort of manner. He didn’t want to, but he did, mourning the loss of their joined bodies as he slid out of her. His arms stayed around her, though, and he kissed her neck as she steadied herself.
“That took the edge off of years of deprivation,” she said under her still-accelerated breaths.
His afterglow was so strong that it took him a moment to process the significance of that statement.
“Years?” he repeated in a suddenly hoarse voice.
She tucked her head beneath his chin until he couldn’t see her eyes. “Ah, yeah. Years. Noah was the first guy I dated since you, and we didn’t…well. We didn’t.”
Relief roared through him, followed instantly by shame. He couldn’t say the same to her after his terrible mistake, but he could say this, and it was the absolute truth.
“It wouldn’t have mattered if there’d been other men since me, Kitten. Oh, I’d have cared, make no mistake, but in the end, it wouldn’t have mattered.”
Nothing would have kept him from her. Not one former lover, and not a hundred. She was his regardless.
“But I confess to being very glad that there weren’t,” he murmured with raw honesty. Then, he tilted her head up and kissed her.
She melted into it, until their lack of clothing in crucial places was becoming very difficult to ignore. One shift of their bodies, and he’d be inside her, feeling her walls clench around him while her wild cries filled his ears again…
“We need to stop,” he said, forcing his mouth and other parts away from her. “Soon, someone will stumble across us.”
Cat let out a ragged laugh and glanced over at Ellis’s body. “Yeah, and if it’s a cop, we’ll be charged with a whole lot more than indecent exposure.”
A flash of his gaze would prevent that scenario, but with law enforcement having dash cameras and body cameras, that solution would also create its own problems. Bones was about to let her go when she touched his arm.
“Bones.” She swallowed hard. “I have no right to ask since I gave you written instructions to forget me, and I’ll say the same that it doesn’t matter, but…I’d rather know than wonder.”
Of course she would. This might be the last thing he wanted to talk about, but she deserved the truth.
“Once. Close enough to count, leastways. After Chicago, when I left you that watch but you didn’t come to me, I was very…out of sorts. Thought you’d forgotten me or at best didn’t care. At the same time, an old lover of mine came to my room.”
“And?” Cat said.Details, her gaze added.
He’d hoped vagueness would be enough, but he should have known better. He couldn’t even blame her. He’d want to know everything, too. In this case, brutal truth was kinder than leaving it to the imagination, which had no limits.
“She and I were in bed, I’d tasted her, and then I stopped because I couldn’t quit thinking about you. So, I apologized and left.”
She closed her eyes, pain tightening her features while her scent harshened with anger. He wanted to clutch her to him, to ask for forgiveness, to plead with her to forget it, but he didn’t. She was entitled to feel all her anger, all her pain, and whatever else churning inside her without him trying to minimize or erase it.
