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But right then, I couldn’t consider it because she was twitching and shaking as I held her in the palms of my hands, slowing my movements as the aftershocks ticked through her body.
One second later, she was throwing herself at me, her arms around my neck and her mouth pressing against mine.
I groaned, surprised for the shortest beat, before I was splaying a hand across the back of her head so I could control the kiss, my tongue licking deep into the scorching welcome of her sweet, sweet mouth.
Charleigh whimpered, and her nails were raking down the front of my chest as she murmured against the kiss, “Now I get to feel you come against my tongue.”
THIRTY-FIVE
CHARLEIGH
River reachedout and brushed his thumb along my cheek. The tenderness was at complete odds with the ferocity that twitched through his muscles.
“You don’t owe me a thing, Charleigh. We take this thing as fast or as slow as you want.”
“I want it. I want to taste you. Please you.”
A deep growl rolled in his chest, a riddle of possession.
His thumb slipped to my lips, and he tapped them right in the middle.
“You going to let me fuck this hot little mouth?”
“I want to make you feel as good as you made me feel.” The confession gushed out of me like a plea.
Black eyes raved. A storm in the night. “Ah, tryin’ to do me in, huh, Little Runner?”
I placed my palms flat on his pecs and pushed him back as I slipped off the couch. “I’m pretty sure it’s me who’s done in. Pretty sure it was you who had me splintering apart. What you just did to me…”
I wasn’t sure I could form the words to express the way he’d made me feel.
As if I’d been elevated.
Removed.
Soaring.
Or maybe what I’d really experienced was being grounded for the first time.
Rooted.
And right there, with him, was the only place I wanted to be.
My fingers shook as I struggled to get to the fly of his jeans, my face upturned toward him because I couldn’t look away from his glorious, brutal face.
He swiped the pad of his thumb over my tingling lips. “What I just did to you I plan on doing again and again. I’m going to wring so much pleasure out of you you’re going to be begging me to stop all while you can’t help but beg me for more. I’m going to make youforget.”
I wanted it. I wanted to forget.
But also…I wanted to remember. I wanted to start anew. I wanted to cling to this hope that had burst inside of me.
I inhaled a trembling breath when I finally got the button of his jeans undone, and it skated the air in a shock of electricity.
River exhaled, and I drew him in.
Leather and ink and wickedness. Only it was more. It was the woods and the earth and possibility. It was the sun and light and the life I’d been missing. River slowly pushed all the way to standing. He towered over me where I trembled on my knees.
Completely naked except for my bra that was twisted, the cups still pulled down beneath my breasts.
