Total pages in book: 163
Estimated words: 150878 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 754(@200wpm)___ 604(@250wpm)___ 503(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 150878 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 754(@200wpm)___ 604(@250wpm)___ 503(@300wpm)
I let out a tortured groan and she started moving. “I love it when you win,” I said. “Please win some more.” Her laughter ended in a small, pleasured gasp, her hips rotating faster.
I hooked my leg under hers and rolled us over and she laughed again as her back hit the mattress. But when I pulled out of her, she made a sound somewhere between loss and outrage and I couldn’t help the chuckle even though I was desperate to get back inside her. I removed her underwear as quickly as possible and tossed them aside. “These were in the way.” Then I moved over her and surged back inside, our moans of pleasure mingling. I pulled out slowly and then pushed back in, pressing gently until she gasped and purred my name.
I watched her face as I thrust slowly. Lips parted, gaze heavy, golden waves splayed over the pillow and candlelight flickering over her flushed skin. I felt drunk with pleasure but also entranced by her beauty, once more shocked and overwhelmed by the fact that this was Emily beneath me, legs hooked around my hips, hands moving over my biceps as I held myself above her. “You were my first kiss. Did you know that?”
She caught my gaze, warmth glowing in her eyes. “And you were mine,” she said, the whispered words dissolving into a sigh as she bit her lip and tipped her head back when I pressed my weight lightly in the spot that had elicited the same reaction before. “Oh, Tuck, God, don’t stop.”
I didn’t ever want to stop. I wanted this to go on and on and on. But my body had other ideas, blood pumping furiously, muscles tightening. Emily’s sweet little gasps of pleasure were only driving me higher, her head moving back and forth on the pillow. “I…oh—” The pads of her fingers ran up my ass and then she bucked once, letting out a small scream as she came. Her display of pleasure sent me over the edge, and I groaned out my orgasm, gasping her name, the bliss sparkling through me and leaving me feeling loose-limbed and woozy.
The surroundings materialized slowly, the unfamiliar room wavering in the candlelight. Outside the wind blew and somewhere far away an owl hooted. The past was gone, the future was burning, but we had this, the here and the now, nestled in a desert hideaway.
“I can’t feel my feet,” I muttered after a moment into the side of her neck.
She laughed, and it caused me to slip out of her on a small flood of moisture. “That’s okay. As long as other parts of you are in working order. We can do without your feet for now.”
I chuckled and rolled to the side so I wasn’t crushing her. She pushed me slightly and I turned onto my back, and then she snuggled into my side, propping her chin on my chest.
She was quiet for a few minutes as she nuzzled my skin. “I’ve been thinking about my IUD. Who will remove it for me when the time comes?”
“Hmm. I don’t know that whole process, but there will be doctors who’ll start seeing patients as soon as possible. I’m sure some already are.” Their treatment options would be limited, and surgery would be out of the question once all remaining fuel sources had dried up. But I had no doubt that medical professionals who were at all able would help those who needed it.
She’d watched me as those fleeting thoughts moved through my mind, and she reached up and used her thumb to smooth what must be a crease between my brows. “It will work out. Let’s leave all that behind for now,” she said. “I know it will have to be dealt with…that and a lot more. But for now, Tuck, I just want this.” She tipped her face toward my skin and kissed the spot below my shoulder, feathering her lips there for a moment. “You and me.”
I wanted the same thing. I wanted that so much. Just her and me, escaping from the chaos of the world. For as long as we could. “Me too,” I said, kissing the side of her forehead and remembering what I’d found before I’d come upstairs. “I have something I’d like to show you. Or…well, give me a few minutes and then meet me downstairs?”
She gave me a confused smile and rolled to the side so I could get up. I pulled on my jeans and shirt and headed to the living room.
It only took me a minute to light the room’s array of candles that had been arranged on every surface. From the brief walk-through of the house that I’d done, I’d seen that the family who lived here—the Garcias—had set a candle or two in every room. But this was obviously the one they’d spent the most time in before leaving. This was where the majority of the candles were, and also where I’d found the item I wanted Emily to see. Or…experience.