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I’d been so invested in studying his space, attempting to divine if there was anything truly different about him now, that I hadn’t realized he’d approached me until his breath tickled my ear. He laid his palm over my chest, right above my pec. I was surprised he hadn’t lowered it to get a good squeeze of my nipple, seeing as he had an obsession with them.
“Do you like it?” he asked.
This seemed more like Judah. He’d always loved grays and browns, and it felt like he’d made this spot his own.
I smiled at him gently. “It’s you.”
He stared at me for a long moment that seemed to stretch on forever before a softness I’d missed—despite loving the roughness—crossed over his handsome face. “Can I kiss you?”
I swallowed around the raw emotion that lodged itself in my throat, and I resisted the urge to say something completely sappy, though I was sure he wouldn’t care. Instead, I played with the shell bracelet on my wrist, and he glanced down at it.
“You can do anything you want to me,” I answered honestly. “Because fuck, I missed you, Jude.”
A grin flicked up the corner of his mouth and he cradled my face between his big hands. “Does that mean I can keep you?”
“If you’re willing to fight your mother.” Because we both knew she’d be the biggest issue. Like Judah, she was stubborn, and I didn’t see her letting this go without doing everything she possibly could to stop it.
“I’d fight the world for you.” He slanted his mouth over mine gently, and I let him, eyes slipping shut.
11
JUDAH
Tav’s lips were a trap.
A wonderful, delicious trap.
I needed them more than I wanted to breathe. I lingered, enjoying his heat and the feel of his muscled chest under my hands as I slid them around to his front. Fuck, he was stacked. Excitement punched through me. Earlier at my office, I’d been in a rush, but right now all I wanted to do was savor this moment and the connection we were rediscovering. All my anger and tension drained away as I sucked on the tip of Tav’s tongue, which had him moaning and leaning against me. He massaged my shoulders and the toes of his shoes covered mine. I dragged him closer with my hands on his solid hips. He was muscular and hard in all the right places.
A real man.
“Uh. Fuck, you’ve scrambled my brain cells, the few I had, anyway,” he said with a chuckle as he drew back and rested his forehead against mine. He stared into my eyes.
I shivered, not wanting to move away or do anything else. Tension stretched thin inside me, and I could sense that moment approaching when I would snap and throw him down somewhere to fuck him. God, I was so happy that he was all mine and?—
“We should make sure we have dinner figured out or Ellis will be whining.” A smile twisted his mouth up in one corner.
An out-of-control sensation exploded like dynamite in my chest. I squeezed his waist. “Lisa, my cook, she’ll take care of it. We should let her know we’ll have a teenager in the house because they eat a lot. . . .”
My attention settled on Tav’s hands where they kneaded my lower back, and I nudged my front against his. Bliss pooled hotly in my stomach as it washed through me in a teasing wave from the tip of my cock. I pressed harder against him, grinding from side to side. There was no missing his hard-on, and I sighed happily. I hadn’t connected with anyone else like this. My body was in high gear around him, and I loved it.
Everything felt right with Tav.
Leaning in, I kissed him again and slid my tongue between his lips. He gave me room to work, and I twirled the tip around his. His fingers convulsed on my back and he dragged me closer, clutching my shirt.
“Judah,” he sighed out between us.
“Love that. I love the way you say my name.” I moaned and devoured his mouth, plunging my tongue in. He slid his hands into my hair as I nibbled his bottom lip, then nipped along his jaw down to the spot right above his collar. I sealed my lips on his pulse point and sucked. He gasped, and I felt like I did when my team had won their first ice race with our tires. No, better. Nothing anywhere compared to this.
“Making sure to mark me up?” he rasped out on a chuckle. “Even with me in your bedroom, you’re jealous?” He scratched his fingernails along my scalp, and I shivered.
Humming, I nodded. “Maybe.”
“You’ve no reason to be worried.” His hands dipped down my back to my ass, where he wasn’t shy about grabbing me. The sensation of him squeezing and urging me closer, just like he might if I was fucking into him and he didn’t want me to stop, made my head light. My trapped wood bumped over his, and I rocked us together harder, chasing a high already starting to build between us.
Spinning him, I backed him against the dresser with more power than I’d intended, and the furniture tapped the wall, rattling everything on top. He stared into my eyes, and I studied him right back, lost in the push and pull of heat between us. My guts were in a knot. An intense minute skidded past.
“Tav?” I lifted his wrist and plucked at his bracelet.
