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“You feel so good,” I whisper back. It’s the truth. I could exist like this forever, riding him and the pleasure that fills my body until the end of the world.
That pushes Em over the edge, and his groans fill the silence. His body tenses in that familiar way, gripping my ass so tight that I wince. He stares into my eyes the entire time, and I feel like I understand why he wanted me to look at him. There’s something vulnerable in that moment, something that makes me wonder if maybe there is a fragileness to him that no one knows about.
Not even me.
And he gives me a smile now that the hunger has been sated. Slowly, he sets me onto the concrete balcony and looks down at the world. Two different couples are staring at us from the parking lot, and Em chuckles as he ushers me into the hotel room.
“That was more than a little stupid,” he says. His eyes can’t stop staring at the belt hanging from my neck.
“It was hot.” It’s the only way I can begin to explain the way I felt. There was so much more depth to tonight than I had expected when Em showed up. It was hot, but it was more than that. I feel more connected to him, like I understand us better.
“I’m sorry if I was too rough,” he says as his fingers unbuckle the belt. The leather against my throat feels strange now that I’m not caught in the fog of lust.
I grin, trying to keep things light-hearted, and I let my fingers brush against his cock. “That’s like saying sorry for screaming orgasms. Are we really that boring now?”
He takes a deep breath, but he’s grinning. I run my hand under his shirt and touch his abs. “I’m really surprised you came all the way to Pittsburgh just to fuck me. I’m not complaining, but it’s a little surprising.”
Em’s eyes seem to get just a little harder. Just a little more serious. “I didn’t come all this way just for sex. I came because I’ve missed you. I spent half the day desperate to see you. This isn’t an easy thing for me.”
“It’s not easy for me, either. Especially when you break your phone and don’t even bother to email me.”
Em frowns. “Shit. I could have emailed you. I am officially an idiot.”
“You are,” I say with a nod.
The frown turns into a grin as he says, “Then let me make it up to you. Let me curl up in bed with you for a few hours before I have to fly back to New York.”
“You’re going back tonight?” That’s surprising. I figured that he’d stay the night and go back in the morning. Isn’t that one of the perks of being the boss?
“I have a meeting with Bronze Goddess tomorrow, and I can’t let someone else handle it since I’m the only one in management that has any idea how to sell the idea of expanding Madison Carter’s crazy ChitChat ads.”
I grin at him, and he takes off his shirt and tosses it onto the ground next to my clothes. “Let me curl up with you, Madison. I’ll put you to sleep, and when you wake up, it’ll feel like a perfect dream.”
Crawling into the queen-sized bed, I pat the section he can sleep on. “Come on. I have stuff to do in the morning, and I can’t stay up late just because my sexy boss came by with needs only I can satisfy.”
His laugh makes me smile, and he lays down beside me. “Okay, let me set an alarm and then we can go to sleep for a few hours.”
As he wraps his arm around me, I’m reminded of all the times he’s held me like this. So possessive. So protective. How can a man so powerful be so soft?
His fingertips trace my spine and then move along my shoulder, tracing the lines of my back so slowly that it’s hypnotizing. “I love you.” The words die before they leave my lips as Em’s hand runs through my hair. Leaving trails of goosebumps in its wake, he ends my thoughts of anything beyond the sensations. Just as powerful, but even more intimate, the way he touches after he fucks me is something that I didn’t imagine possible.
I can’t help but close my eyes, but even as I’m falling into the nothingness of sleep, the way he looked as he was coming plagues my thoughts. There was a vulnerability there, something that he won’t show me normally.
I love Em, but I can’t help him if he won’t let me in. If he won’t let me know what pain is trapped under the surface.
Chapter 48
Madison
Before my eyes are even open, I’m already looking for Em. My arm searches for him, but he’s not there. Then I feel a pinprick that wakes me up, and I notice the bouquet of roses laying where Em was last night.
A terrible sense of loneliness overwhelms me. I don’t want fucking roses. I want Em.
Like he said it would, his visit feels less like reality and more like a dream. But what a wonderful dream it was.
I take a deep breath and try to push away the pain of being alone. I only have today left before I can go home to him, back home to the life that we’re building together.
First, I need coffee. Then I have to get ready for work. Throwing on a robe, I go to the terrible little coffee pot and start it brewing. God, my whole body hurts. That’s one way to be sure that last night really happened. I try to stretch a little, but it’s not just sore muscles.
