Page 400 of The Doctors Will See You Now

“Good Christ, Charlotte.”

“Please touch me,” she begged. “Touch me and don’t stop.”

Fuuuck.

I didn’t have the patience to make it to the bedroom. No, it was fucking gone, officially impossible to make it there. It might have been thirty steps away, but it may as well have been across the goddamn Sahara.

Carefully, I sank to my knees with Charlotte in my arms and lowered her back to the plush rug of my living room.

She skimmed her hands over my bare chest, having finally wrested the last button free and scratched at the surface with her fingernails as she stopped on my pecs.

Her supple breasts were doing their best to escape her top now that she was lying down, and I did my best not to let them go unnoticed. Her skin tasted almost exactly how she smelled, like sweet lavender and soothing night air. I’d never tasted anything like it, like her.

She reached up and pulled the neck of her shirt down and under each swell to give me better access.

“Nick?” she called, her word a keening cry as I sucked a nipple into my mouth and pulled.

“Yeah?” I asked after releasing her. I nipped at the skin all around the now wet flesh while I waited for her response.

“I’m a virgin.”

Time stopped as I tried to make sense of those three words and find a way to make my heart start beating again all at once. I didn’t know if I had the power to subconsciously defibrillate, but I sure as hell hoped so.

Her eyes were wide and pleading as I searched them for something to say, some way to move forward, and then she started to shake as she dissolved into laughter.

“Oh my God, I’m kidding. Your face, though.” She pointed at it. “It’s something I’ll remember forever.”

“Christ, woman. Why would you do that to me?”

She smiled then, sweetly. Heartfelt. Soft. “Because I’m not a virgin. I’m all for foreplay, but I’m fucking primed and ready, and you seem hesitant to stick your dick in me.”

For the first time in three years, I didn’t hesitate. I didn’t question. I didn’t second-guess.

I unbuttoned my pants, pulled down the zipper, yanked an emergency condom out of my wallet—because getting inside of Charlotte was an emergency if I’d ever heard of one—rolled it on, and sank slowly inside her.

Every inch deeper was an inch more of right, and an inch closer to fixing something inside me I didn’t even know I had broken.

We both moaned as the base of my cock settled against her skin, the entirety of me surrounded by the entirety of her.

God, she felt so good, fucking heavenly, wrapped around me.

I don’t think I ever want to leave.

Strong arms tightened around me as I slowly fluttered my lashes open. The warmth of Nick’s cheek pressed against my back was a welcomed sensation as my brain sluggishly slid out of dreamland and into reality.

Once I could focus my gaze, I glanced at the clock on his nightstand, and my eyes widened in surprise when I saw it was already a little after nine.

Holy hell, I must have slept like a rock.

I honestly couldn’t remember the last time I’d slept in past seven. It had to have been years at this point. Like, college or high school. At least a fucking decade. Ever since I’d started working for CMI, my days generally started at six a.m. sharp.

Still savoring his embrace, I pushed my legs straight out, flexing my ankle and pointing my toes, and stretched the creaks out of my muscles.

Maybe it was because of the orgasms or maybe it was all related to the man lying beside me, but holy hell, I’d slept well last night, like a little baby swaddled up in a warm blanket.

Or, in my case, like an adult, and very naked, Charlotte wrapped up in an equally adult and naked Nick.

Yeah, I definitely like the idea of that.