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Her chest rose and fell in quick bursts and her heart raced unforgivably against my palm, but her eyes narrowed at the challenge. “Who the hell are you to say I don’t want him or that he doesn’t do anything for me? And why the fuck do you even care?”
“Because I’ve had to listen to you moan his name,” I nearly shouted. “I’ve had to listen to you pretend what he’s doing works for you.”
“It does!”
“Do you moan louder to piss me off?” I asked, the taunt slipping free unbidden as I angled closer to her. “Does he know that show you’ve been putting on is more for me than him? I swear to Christ, if I have to hear you say his name one more time, I’m going to lose my fucking mind.”
Maci tipped her head up, meeting my stare and baring every ounce of her pain when she whispered, “I have to listen to all your whores screaming your name, so again: Why the fuck do you care, Connor Green?”
“Because the name you’re moaning should be mine.”
Her chest shuddered against my hand at the claim. Disbelief slowly crept across her features and bled into longing when I continued.
“If it were me inside you...I guarantee the noises you made wouldn’t be faked or forced. Fuck, Maci, you wouldn’t be able to stop them from happening even if you tried.”
I closed the distance between us and captured her mouth, swallowing her gasp of surprise and need and relishing the way she instantly responded—curling her arms around my neck as I cradled her face in my hands. Meeting the kiss greedily, hungrily, and parting for me when I traced the seam of her lips with my tongue.
And fuck if it didn’t feel like I was kissing Maci for the first time. Because this was different. She was sober. She wouldn’t forget this in the morning. But I knew I could easily get drunk off the way her mouth was moving against mine.
“Don’t marry him, Maci,” I begged against her lips.
“I’m not.”
Pulling back to study her, I watched as her eyes fluttered open and focused on me. “You’re not?” I asked slowly, clarifying.
Her eyebrows drew together as if I should’ve already known the answer. “Of course not.”
As soon as her response registered, I claimed her mouth again. Pouring the relief I got from those words into our next kiss.
Dizzying, intense, unimaginable relief.
And then we were moving. Quickly working off my button-down shirt and tie and mindlessly dropping them as I grabbed the back of my undershirt. Pulling it over my head, I let it fall just as she ran the tips of her nails over the muscles in my abdomen.
“Maci, tell me to stop,” I pleaded as I grabbed the waistband of her pajama pants and started pushing them down.
How we’d gone from yelling at each other to this, I had no idea. But with how much of a struggle it’d been to keep myself from her lately, I wouldn’t be the one to stop us.
She had to be the one to remind us this was a bad fucking idea. That this was something we couldn’t come back from.
But she responded by curling her hands over mine and pushing her pants the rest of the way down before stepping out of them. And as she reached for her thin shirt, I shifted back to watch her remove it and take in her body, bared to me for the first time.
Jesus Christ, she was beautiful.
When I said as much, the words little more than a prayer, she crashed into me with a need I felt in my bones.
All begging lips and exploring hands as we tried pulling each other closer.
Gripping her thighs, I lifted her and pressed her against the wall. Letting the way her legs automatically, effortlessly curled around me, and the way her raspy laugh had the corners of my mouth twitching in response, fuel something inside me I hadn’t known I was missing.
Tearing my mouth from hers, I playfully nipped at her bottom lip and jaw before making a languid trail down her slender neck. Her hands wove through my hair, keeping me close as I continued down her harshly pitching chest to pull one of her nipples into my mouth.
And the whimper that left her when I did?
God damn.
I wanted to hear it again and again because it was real.
But no matter how much I wanted to sink into her and take her up against the wall, a quick fuck wasn’t what I wanted for my first time with her. More than that, Maci needed someone who took care of her...for once.
