Page 70 of We Burn Beautiful


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I glanced over my shoulder, raising an eyebrow. “What?” His eyes were glued to my glutes, and my thumbs were still wedged under my waistband. The second realization struck, I jerked the underwear up and spun around, heat flushing through my cheeks. The action did nothing to ease Gray’s embarrassment because now, instead of staring at my ass, he was given a front-row seat to the Kent Fox bulge factory. In a moment of madness, I shielded my crotch from him with my hands.

My actions were ridiculous. I knew that. We’d been dating for weeks. I had no reason to feel this shy around him. It all stemmed from that damn black eye. Gray had told me we could move at whatever pace felt right for me, and I hadn’t wanted our first time together to be marred by the memory of my bruised and swollen face. He’d waited for this moment for twenty years. I wanted it to be perfect for him.Iwanted to be perfect for him.

When I lifted my eyes to meet his gaze, Gray was staring at the ceiling, trying to give me privacy.

“Sorry,” he said. “I thought you’d be dressed by now. I can give you a minute if—”

“Is everyone gone?” I said, taking a cautious step toward him.

He nodded, his eyes still focused on a particularly interesting patch of the ceiling. “Yeah. They headed out about twenty minutes back. Your mom said she’d be home later this afternoon.”

My love life had never been anything to write home about. There was the occasional hookup and vast amounts of sexting, but the act itself hadn’t ever been a focal point of my life. Now, standing in front of the man I loved, wearing little more than a sheer strip of cloth, I didn’t know if I’d ever needed it more.

“Gray,” I said, bridging the last of the distance between us. When I reached him, I cupped his cheek with my hand. “Baby, you can look at me. I’m not going to bite.”

His bottom lip was wedged between his teeth, and he was chewing it like a stick of gum. “I can go. I don’t mind, honest.”

“I don’t want you to go. I want you to stay.” I tried putting him at ease with a smile, but he still hadn’t taken his eyes off the ceiling. When I slid my hand behind his head, tapping his unnecessarily sexy bald spot, the last bit of his resistance broke down, and he finally met my gaze. “There you are.”

There was an undeniable heat in his eyes. It was a look I didn’t see often. Once, in his childhood bedroom. Again, when he tried to kiss me in the breakroom. Now, with me standing in front of him, wearing next to nothing. I lowered my hand from his cheek, slowly dragging my finger down the side of his face. Then his neck. Next, his shoulder. Finally, his hand. He tried to take it, but I was too quick for him. Hooking my thumbs into my underwear, I slowly took a step back. Gray darted his eyes back to the ceiling, but that wasn’t what I wanted. I wanted him to see me. All of me.

“Eyes on me, Two-liter.”

He blinked a few times before finally looking down at me. Once I had his attention, I slid my underwear down and let them fall to my ankles. His bottom lip trembled, eyes locked on my dick.

“Oh my gosh,” he whispered.

I was half-hard already, and the desire in his eyes did nothing to slow the momentum. As it rose like a drawbridge, offering him passage into the promised land, he licked his lips. I wrapped a hand around it and took a step forward. I wrapped my fingers around his wrist and guided him back, pressing his palm against my ass.

“Hey, Gray,” I whispered.

“Hey, Kent.” The smile that spread across his face was electric. Like tiny bolts of lightning that swam beneath my skin. Still, I could tell something was off. He seemed worried.

“What’s wrong?”

“I thought you might not want this from me. I thought maybe you’d changed your mind.”

“Why would I do that? I’ve been waiting for this for twenty years.”

“I just figured you thought I might not be any good, so you were saving me the embarrassment.”

Nuzzling my face into the crook of his neck, I breathed him, devouring the enticing mix of musky cologne and Fruit Stripe gum. “Of course, I want you.”

“I don’t know what I’m doing. I’ve never—except for that time with you, I haven’t …” He pulled away, looking at me with those big brown eyes. “You fought so hard to get us here, and I’m scared I’ll let you down. I don’t want to be a disappointment.”

“Baby, I’d be fine if you just laid on the bed and let me rut against your thigh. Anything you give me will be perfect, I promise.”

My words didn’t seem to make much of an impact. He looked like a death row inmate walking to his execution. Did he think I needed to be dicked down like a porn star? I didn’t need anything but him. Hell, even ifhedidn’t want this from me, I’d be okay with it. Granted, there would be vast amounts of masturbation in my future, but I’d cherish however little or much he could give. I wanted him to know that. I needed him to know it.

I rubbed his hand before pulling away. I hooked my arms over his shoulders, and as I ran my fingers through his hair, he scraped his fingernails against my ass.

“Grayson?”

“Yeah?”

“I’m going to kiss you. Anything you want to do right now is okay. If you want to touch me, then touch me. If you want to suck my tongue, feel free.” I kissed the tip of his nose and winked at him. “If you want to play with my dick a little, I’m not going to complain.” His cheeks were the darkest shade of red I’d ever seen. I wasn’t sure what he was swallowing, but the sight of his Adam’s apple bobbing up and down was all the encouragement I needed.

“Gosh,” he whispered. “Okay. Yeah. Sure, Kent. Yeah, I can do that.”

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