Total pages in book: 99
Estimated words: 94883 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 474(@200wpm)___ 380(@250wpm)___ 316(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 94883 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 474(@200wpm)___ 380(@250wpm)___ 316(@300wpm)
I blink. “Wait, what? Why?”
“Because you live rent-free in my head,” she says, the longing in her eyes taking the sting out of the words. “Seven and a half months, Parker. Seven and a half months, and I still can’t stop thinking about your stupid lips and your stupid face and the way you looked at me like I’ve always wanted someone to—”
I cut her off with a kiss.
Hey, it worked the first time, and I can’t fucking help it. She’s wet and she wants me, and is so damned sexy, I can hardly stand it.
When my mouth finds hers, she makes a sound—half shocked gasp, half groan of relief—that shoots straight through me.
Because I feel the same fucking way.
There’s never been a connection like this for me.
No woman has ever made me rock hard with a single touch, made me dream about her for months, made me ache for her like I ache for simpler times and easier roads and a point in my life when my family resembled a sitcom more than a late-night drama.
And no, looking back, I never had a truly happy home. My parents’ love was always a lie. But this isn’t. This is real, the first completely real thing I’ve ever felt with a woman.
I want her so bad it’s almost scary.
We stumble backward, her hands fisting in my soaked dress shirt, clawing for my skin. My back hits the stone wall of the hotel hard enough to knock the breath out of me, but we don’t stop kissing.
I stroke my tongue harder, deeper, as she matches me, challenges me, dances with me.
Fuck, we’re good at dancing.
We’re going to be good at fucking, too. There’s no doubt in my mind.
My hand finds her thigh through the slit in her dress, her bare skin hot despite the rain. I grip her there, jerking her leg up around my hip, and we groan.
She rocks against my thigh, both of us shuddering as her pussy grinds into my erection, and I wish for the superpower to make fabric evaporate with everything in me.
“I hate this,” she says, but her lips are already on mine again, desperate, hungry.
“No, you don’t.” I slide my hand higher on her thigh, fingers creeping beneath the elastic of her panties. “You need this. You need it as much as I do.”
She bites my bottom lip hard enough to sting, then soothes it with her tongue. I tangle my other hand in her soaked curls, and fuck, they’re still so soft. As soft as her lips and her tits against my chest.
She’s going to be so soft and slick and hot around me.
Just thinking about it has me so hard it hurts.
“We should stop,” she gasps, even as she opens the buttons of my shirt like she can’t get to my skin fast enough.
“Probably,” I agree, kissing down her throat.
Neither of us stops or slows for a second, though. If anything, things only get more frantic. I palm her breast through the wet fabric of her dress, then jerk it down, baring her nipple to me, the night, the rain.
She makes a genuinely startled sound, and suddenly we both seem to realize that we’re on the verge of something we can’t take back.
She freezes.
Our eyes lock.
We suck air like we’ve run a marathon.
Her lipstick is gone, her mouth is swollen from my kisses, and my shirt hangs open from where she’s torn at it. The rain keeps falling, but time stops.
In her eyes, I see everything I’m feeling. I see it, and I know that she knows there’s no escaping this. We’re meant to be. At least for now. At least for tonight.
Fuck, God, if you’re up there, let her take me home tonight.
She holds my gaze for one more heart-stopping second, but just when I think she’s going to tell me to go get my truck and the biggest box of condoms in the hotel shop on the way to the valet stand, she turns and runs.
She fucking runs!
Away!
From me!
Again!
She runs away through the fucking rain like this is a stupid, sad movie instead of a hot rom-com where we’re totally going to fuck like bunnies, be sad for ten seconds over some dumb misunderstanding, then keep fucking happily ever after for the rest of our lives.
“Makena, don’t you dare!” I shout, but she’s already disappearing around the corner. “Makena!”
Everything in me wants to chase after her, but I know better. If she wanted to be here, she would be.
But she doesn’t.
Why?
I don’t fucking know, but it seems like something a hell of a lot more intense than the fact that we have a tiny, insignificant age gap and she used to cut the crusts off my grilled cheese fifteen years ago.
Maybe she’ll tell me about whatever that “more” is someday.
Maybe she won’t.