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I’d known, deep down, for far longer than I cared to admit, that I wanted her.
I’d also known that nothing about Charlotte and me was convenient or easy to navigate, considering the way we were tangled together in this house.
But this—it was a bit of both. If I decided to believe her that we could come out of this unscathed.
As I studied her face, the way she fearlessly set this offer in front of me so that we could both take our pleasure, I knew that I’d say yes.
She was the only woman who could tempt me into something like this.
And as I silently racked up an impressive list of where I wanted to start first, I found myself staring at her perfectly pink lips.
You’ll never recover,a voice whispered from somewhere deep behind my ribs. Where that voice came from, I didn’t want to consider. I thought it would’ve been in my head, but it was much lower. Somewhere dark and secret. It crawled up my spine, the truth of it slipping into my brain.
If I kissed her, I’d never recover.
I sat back in my chair and studied her. I spread my legs out and nudged my chair closer.
“A counteroffer,” I said. It was hard to speak through my screaming need for a bed-breaking release. The guttural drumming under my skintold me how badly I wanted to slide my hands over her, fill my fingers with her flesh, satisfy the raw, aching desire to set my teeth and tongue underneath every inch of that flimsy green dress I was about to tear off her body. But I wouldn’t—couldn’t—even think about accepting what she’d laid out until I knew we were both completely sure. “Tonight, I give you one thing, and if either of us has even a single shred of doubt, we don’t go any further.”
Her breathing was rapid and shallow, her cheeks flushing pink as she listened to me.
“What one thing?”
Gently, I tapped my thigh. “Come here.”
Charlotte stood, smoothing her hands down the front of her dress. Through the thin cotton, I could see the hardened tips of her breasts, and my mouth watered.
When she gripped the top of the chair behind me, stepping her legs outside mine, I settled my thighs so that she had a solid seat. Her eyes held mine unwaveringly as she stood over me.
I jerked my chin. “Show me, Charlotte.”
I’d demanded the same thing earlier in the night, long before I had any inkling that we’d end up here.
With the edge of her dress clutched in her other hand, she slowly tugged it up the length of her toned thighs. When it was almost to her waist and I got the first mouthwatering glimpse of her ass covered in blue lace, I slid my hand up her leg, settling my palm over her hip and guiding her down to my lap. Her dress rucked up over her legs, and she started to lean in toward my mouth.
But I curled my hand around the side of her throat and tilted her chin up with my thumb. I leaned in and sucked at the delicate line of her collarbone.
“Oh,” she whispered, her hips rocking back and forth when my hand moved from her neck into the mass of her hair.
It was as soft as I’d imagined. Thick and lush. I’d be able to wrap it around my fist easily.
And I planned to.
I licked along the line of her throat and sucked her earlobe into my mouth, tugging at it with my teeth.
It had been so long for me that my body shook from how badly I wanted to bury myself inside her. Something coded deep in my DNA wanted it to be quick and fierce and as hot as we could make it.
No foreplay, just the sating of that screaming voice that wanted to take and take and take from this glorious creature perched on top of me.
Make her scream too.
But the rest of me fought that instinct.
I pulled at the strap on her dress. No bra.
With my palm centered on her chest, I gently nudged her so that she braced her hands on my thighs.
I licked a slow circle around her breast, pushing it up into my mouth, sucking hard when she started moving again on my lap.
