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“Dammit Ava,” he traipsed through the muddy grass and spun her to face him. “I’m sorry okay? I shouldn’t have said that. It was a reflex that had nothing to do with you.”
She sighed and looked past him, refusing to take in those green eyes that made her knees turn to goo. “I accept your apology Kade.” She had forgiven him days ago. She should thank him for reminding her that this was fake and temporary.
He wanted to kiss that impertinent look right off her face. So he did.
Ava let the kiss progress for a few minutes, taking these moments for herself, allowing herself to have this time with him. Then she stepped back. “Meet me at the pool tonight after dinner and wear your swim trunks,” she ordered and walked away.
After the kiss that still had her body humming with desire, Ava spent the rest of the afternoon and early evening inside her studio. She had selected about a dozen photos to send to the printer and made her way back to Kade’s mansion. She changed into shorts and a t-shirt over her white bikini and grabbed her underwater camera so she could make her way to the pool. When she got there, Kade was already there.
“I was beginning to think you stood me up.”
The sight of Kade all slick with water and smiling casually from the lit pool made the moisture pool between her legs. She shook her head to answer him and to shake the lust from her brain. “I just needed to change,” she held up her camera bags and set them on the table and pulled the t-shirt over her head. “I thought we’d get a few shots of you in the water, maybe under water.” She kicked off her shorts and looked at him, his mouth open and his eyes burning with desire. “What?”
“You take my breath away, Ava.”
She wanted to run to him, to wrap her legs around him and steal another one of those amazing kisses. Instead she pulled out her camera and captured him, looking like the biggest sexiest predator on the block. Water clung to his eyelashes and his green eyes burned with sensual hunger. She knew these shots would be magic and they would be hers when their fake engagement inevitably ended. “Wow,” she breathed out as she looked at the screen on her camera. “You are stunning on camera.” She looked at him and all that fiery masculine hunger was focused on her.
“Come here, Ava.”
His voice was deep and strong and crisp. The words were spoken with command, as though he just expected she would obey. She stood still, transfixed by the look of him, the sound of his voice but then her feet betrayed her, pushing her closer and closer until her toes curled over the edge of the pool. Her eyes closed when his hand closed around her ankle and gently caressed her leg. “Kade,” she pleaded with him, to stop or continue she didn’t know.
“Ava.”
She couldn’t resist him any longer, the photo shoot she had planned long forgotten as his hand continued its gentle persuasion on her leg. Before she knew what was happening Ava felt her body sinking slowly into the warm water, Kade’s hands skimming every inch of her body on the way down. A desperate moan escaped when his lips touched her neck and she knew this was happening. She was going to give her body and her heart to Kade. “Yes, Kade.”
Those words were sweeter than any he’d ever heard. Her surrender to the passion flaring between them touched his heart and stirred his longing for her. Kade couldn’t believe after more than two months of resisting her, resisting this thing between them he was finally free to touch her, to taste her, and take her body and join it with his until they could no longer breathe for wanting each other. He wasted no time when his mouth was upon her, placing slow—excruciatingly slow—open mouth kisses along her neck until her legs tightened around his middle. “You taste so good,” he told her as his mouth trailed down between her breasts and over to focus his mouth on that tight bud calling out to him.
She hissed when his tongue curled around that peak, taking her passion to heights until now unknown to her. She panted and writhed when he kissed a trail to her other breast, her hips grinding against him and legs tightening to pull him closer. “Kade oh yes!” Before she could say more she felt her bikini top hit the water and float away, his warm strong hands replacing the white fabric. “Kade, you are…yes,” she moaned beneath him.
Kade couldn’t get enough of her sweet responsive body. It took all the restraint he had to go slow, to savor the moment between them. He was close to bursting from the tight black swim shorts she requested he wear as her warmth cradled him. His hands snaked down her body of their own accord, a finger slipped inside the bottoms and then inside her body and he growled his appreciation. She was wet and hot, tight and so eager. “Ava, I want you.”
Rolling her hips against that finger her fire was quickly raging out of control and she knew she was moments away from her climax. “Kade,” she squeezed his shoulders and her tongue swiped his neck. “Yes Kade, yes. I. Want. You.” She did. Goodness she wanted him, his body in this moment more than she wanted more between them. Since this is all there could be, she would jump in with both feet and enjoy every blissful moment.
Her breathy words washed over his body in gentlest sexiest caress and his control snapped. With one tug of a few strings her bikini bottoms went the way of her top and Kade lined himself up with her and pushed in gently. “So, tight,” he groaned and allowed her a moment to adjust to his size.
“Don’t stop.” Her words were frantic, hands gripping and scratching at his back, her teeth sank into the tendons where neck and shoulder met. “I want you Kade. Want this.” She screamed when he pulled out and thrust in again. Over and over he did this, picking up speed and slowing down, torturing her with his erratic pace. She loved it, her body craved it, craved him. He gripped her hips hard and pounded into her body again and again until she was screaming as wave after wave overtook her body in violent shudders. “Kade, yes. Oh, yes. Yes!” His thrusts continued, her orgasm still going. Each time she felt herself coming down, he would lift her back up until she was floating on that precipice waiting for him to take her over.
Then, he did.
Grunting and groaning, Kade finally stilled with a firm grip on her hips as he spilled into her. Never had he felt so much during sex, or for a woman in general. Ava was one of a kind and not just because she’d given him the most powerful orgasm he’d ever experienced. She gave everything of herself to him and he was humbled by it. By her. He didn’t know when it had happened but sometime in the past couple of months, Kade had fallen for the sweet little photographer a decade his junior. “That was amazing, sweetheart.”
Ava couldn’t speak. She couldn’t move. She could only think and feel. Think about the way her body was still buzzing for him, think about how in one interlude Kade Steele had claimed her body and stolen her heart. She could feel him still throbbing inside her, felt her heart pounding rapidly as it worked to figure out this unfamiliar feeling. Love her body whispered and she knew it was true but none of that mattered. This was sex, plain and simple. She realized he was staring at her, waiting for a response. “I-I-I’ve never felt anything like that before.” She’d had sex before but she had never given herself so freely to a man, had never made love before.
Wrapping her hair around his hand, Kade tugged until she was at the perfect angle to fuse their mouths together in a kiss that had him growing hard inside her again. He growled when she squeezed him, “Neither have I, sweetheart.” And he knew he was in real trouble. Over the next few weeks Ava found herself living a lie. Each day she got up and went to her studio or to the outskirts of Rainbow Springs in search of something amazing. She’d nearly finished the Businessmen Bachelors calendar and she’d already started selling the prints that would supplement her income. She went through every day smiling when the old ladies in town told her how glad they were she’d finally settled down Kade and how much they were looking forward to the wedding. She gushed lovingly when Helena Henderson called for recipe tips and advice on marital bliss.
Then at night she would open her body and her heart to Kade without thought to the pain that was sure to come. Soon. Tonight was their third dinner with the Hendersons and she knew, based on hints Helena dropped, that Bruce had made a decision. Kade would very likely soon own Cakes A-shakin’ which meant their fake relationship was almost over. She hadn’t fooled herself that their arrangement was anything more than temporary but her stupid heart hadn’t gotten the memo.
Times like this, when she felt herself bursting with love for Kade she would repeat, temporary, temporary, temporary until she beat her heart into submission. She checked herself out in the mirror, the purple shirt dress was cinched at the waist by a silver belt and she wore matching flats. It was pretty and comfortable, and tonight that was enough.
Her pistachio and lavender macaroons were fresh from the oven and she was ready. Kade might not love her back but she would do everything she could to make sure he got what he wanted tonight.
When the doorbell rang she greeted the Hendersons with hugs and kisses, while Kade offered a stern handshake. Helena followed her into the kitchen with a bowl of red wine mousse she’d brought. “Oh Helena this looks fantastic! Do you mind if I steal a taste?”
“Please do. Make sure it’s edible before we serve it,” she laughed nervously.
Eyes closed, Ava let loose an erotic moan at the taste of it. “Maybe you should have kept this for you and Bruce,” she winked with mischief shining in her eyes.
“Really?”
