Page 64 of Save a Wish

Our mouths fused again, tongues tangling, tasting, tantalizing until my legs were like, Bro, we need to get horizontal. Like now.

Sounded like a fabulous idea to me.

I broke the kiss, loving how Sadie let out a small whimper as if she hadn’t gotten her fill of the smooch yet.

“Don’t worry,” I whispered. “More is on the way.”

I scooped her up and her arms immediately looped around my neck. Luckily, Hank’s cabin was small and the trip to the bedroom was short.

But something snagged my attention. More specifically, something snagged my nose.

I paused and inhaled deeply, still holding Sadie in my arms. “Do I smell . . .” I met her gaze. “Did you make gingerbread cookies?”

Sadie nodded. “Your mom said they were your favorite dessert.”

“You asked my mom about my favorite dessert?”

“Yes. I didn’t want to make something you wouldn’t like,” she said. “I have to admit, I’m not a skilled baker, but I think they came out okay. Your mother was kind enough to text me the recipe she uses.”

“You made my mother’s gingerbread cookies? For me?” I shook my head. “No one I’ve ever dated has baked for me. They certainly didn’t go through the trouble of researching what I’d like.” I squeezed Sadie closer to my chest and dropped a kiss to her nose. “Thank you.”

She shrugged one shoulder. “It was nothing. Not really. Certainly not in comparison to all you’ve done for me.”

“It’s huge, Sadie.” I kissed her cheek this time. A loud, smacking, sloppy kiss. “It’s huge to me and I’m going to devour several of those gingerbread cookies.” I shook her a little in my hold. “Right after I devour you.”

She let out a squeak as I ran for the bedroom. I plopped her onto the bed and basically dove onto her, pretending to bite her neck, her shoulder, her arm. Her laughter echoed in the room and I was happy to see that her aura had brightened again. Maybe that dimness back at the door had been about her not being confident in her ability to play the role of temptress, but as far as I could see, she was crushing it. Lingerie and cookies? Was there any better way to snare me? Not even cutting edge electronics would interest me as much.

I slowed my love bites to dragging my lips along Sadie’s smooth flesh, pressing kisses along the way, until I reached that deep-V neckline of the lingerie. Nudging the silk aside, I teased her nipple with my tongue until it peaked to a hard bud and Sadie wiggled beneath me.

Her fingers raked into my hair as she arched toward me and I gave her other nipple the same attention. I then slipped the straps of the lingerie down her shoulders and slid the fabric off her completely. Her exposed stomach begged to be kissed so I obliged as I hooked my fingers onto the waistband of her underwear. I scraped those away so Sadie was completely naked on the bed and spread out like a delectable buffet.

I planned to sample absolutely everything.

But Sadie had plans too. She pushed my fleece off my shoulders and yanked at the cuffs of the sleeves until I was totally free of it. Wasting no time, she pulled my long-sleeved thermal T-shirt off along with my undershirt, her hands then coasting over my bare chest up to my shoulders where she hooked them and met my gaze.

“I never get tired of this view.” Her pupils were huge as she surveyed me. “You’re beautiful, inside and out, Beckett Hartley.”

“Likewise.”

Smiling, Sadie went to work on unbuttoning and unzipping my jeans. I slid off the bed, standing to remove the pants, catching my boxer briefs and socks in the process.

We were both naked now, and with the scent of gingerbread cookies in the air, I slid into Sadie after donning a condom. The moment I was fully seated inside her, she released a shuddery breath and wrapped her arms around me.

“Being like this with you is my favorite thing in the world, Beckett,” she whispered.

I propped up on my elbows so I could look her in the eyes. “Same. There is nowhere I’d rather be than right here with you.”

She rewarded me with a big smile that made her green eyes sparkle in the dim light of the lamp on the bedside table. Her hands came to my cheeks and she lifted her head slightly to brush several soft, slow kisses to my lips.

I moved my hips and the kiss turned into something deep and lingering as we found our rhythm. I surged and retreated, surged and retreated, as Sadie undulated in time beneath me. I tangled my hands in her hair as our mouths ravaged one another and her fingers went from smooth strokes along my back to clawing at my skin as if something feral had been unleashed inside her.

As we fell deeper into each other, I lost all sense of time and space. We were eternal and free-floating and when Sadie’s inner muscles tightened around my erection, I had this overwhelming sense of contentment. As if I was exactly where I was supposed to be in this particular moment. As if stars had aligned so perfectly to allow Sadie and me to come together like this tonight.

As if everything I’d ever wished for in a partner had been poured into Sadie Rodgers.

As if I never wanted to let her go.

Sadie pulsed around me and soon we were moving together in a frenzied fashion, each chasing our release. Neither of us attempted to fill the silence with anything other than blissful moans, whispered pleas, and desperate rasps of our names. Words were impossible, unnecessary, meaningless.