“Beats drugs, huh?” She rolled her eyes expressively.
His grin kicked in again, his chocolate brown eyes watching her closely, warmly.
She was so lost, she thought. She had lost her damned heart to this man so long ago and now she faced losing him.
“I love you, you know.” He said the words so simply, so matter-of-factly that for a moment, she was certain she hadn’t heard him correctly.
“Boy, you really like to play dirty pool,” she snapped then, anger, helplessness washing over her. “You couldn’t at least wait until this was settled? Until Vince was caught and I could make sense of any of this?”
She jumped from the bed, casting him a furious glare as she jerked the shirt she was using for a gown from the small chair beside the bed and pulled it on. He was lying back on the pillows, watching her somberly, his eyes piercing her, filling her with guilt.
“I like things clear,” he amended calmly. “Don’t play dumb, baby. You knew this was more than an affair when you went into it.”
There he was, just lying back in the bed, his erection tenting the sheet, staring back at her in that calm, solemn way of his. What the hell was she supposed to say? To do?
“I can’t even think about this.” She pushed her fingers through her hair in irritation. “I won’t think about this. Not until Vince…”
“This excuse is getting old.” His voice never changed inflection but it still hardened, grew deeper. “It’s like you pull it around you whenever you can’t face what’s growing between us. It’s a crutch.”
“That isn’t true,” she snapped back defensively. “He’s dangerous…”
“Because you refused to stop him when his violence escalated.” She flinched at the calm accusation, staring back at him furiously.
“It doesn’t matter why it happened.” She breathed in deeply, fighting to make sense of the clash of emotions rising inside her now. “I can’t make decisions about the future now.”
“I’m not asking you to make decisions, Marey.” His smile was a wolf’s snarl, predatory, confident.
Rising from the bed, completely unashamed of his nudity and the erection jutting from between his thighs, he stalked toward her.
“It doesn’t take a decision.” Gripping the neckline of the T-shirt with both hands, he tugged forcefully, ripping it down the front as she stared back at him in shock, gasping in arousal. “It doesn’t take anything from you, baby. I’m not asking for anything. I don’t have to ask. I know what’s mine and I know how to claim it.”
He pulled her to him, a strong, forceful movement as he gripped her hips. His head lowered, his lips covering hers, possessively, dominantly.
She couldn’t hold back her moan. There was nothing like Sax’s kiss or the way he held her to him. He seemed to surround her, his heat and his strength protecting her even as his kiss ravished her senses.
She couldn’t fight him. There was no fight in her. She could only grab his shoulders, hold on tight and absorb him into the very depths of her soul. There was nothing so hot, so tempting, so completely overwhelming as Sax’s embrace.
As his lips moved on hers, gentle and sure one moment, hard and possessive the next, Marey moaned in rapturous pleasure, her hands clenching on his shoulders, rubbing her body against him, loving the way his hands stroked her back, drew the remnants of the T-shirt from her body, and sipped at her lips with hungry demand.
This was what she had run from for three years. As insane as it sounded, and inconceivable as it was, she could feel him sweeping not just through her heart, but through her soul.
“I know how to love my woman,” he whispered as his lips slid from her lips to her ear. “I know how to protect her, and I know how to hold her. And I will hold you, Marey.”
He pulled her back to the bed, lifting her against him as he lay back, staring up at her with heavy-lidded sensuality as he cupped her bu**ocks in his hands, moving her until she straddled his hips, lifting her until the head of his c**k seared the sensitive opening of her pu**y.
“Ride me,” he growled, arousal thickening his voice as his hand raised to her heaving br**sts, his head lifting to allow his tongue to lick at her hard, distended ni**les.
Marey whimpered at the sensuality of having the control, staring down at him, his body reclining beneath hers, his c**k hot and erect, waiting to pierce the willing depths of her pu**y.
She lifted up, her breath hitching as she moved against him, whimpering as his c**k began to penetrate the slick, heated entrance to her hungry pu**y. Her head fell back as she took him slowly, working the hard flesh inside her by increments, driving herself crazy with the incredible sensations streaking through her body. She loved it. Loved feeling his c**k stretch her, burn her.
His hands were on her br**sts, fingers tweaking her ni**les as she rode him with long, slow strokes, fighting the need to rush, to drive herself to madness on the thick stalk of flesh filling her.
“There you go, baby,” he whispered as he tensed, obviously holding himself back as he allowed her to take her pleasure as she needed.
Her juices were flowing between them, the sounds of wet, suckling flesh echoing around her, driving her arousal higher. His hands, warm and slightly calloused, rasped her ni**les as his voice crooned in that rough, deep baritone and sent her mind spiraling with her pleasure.
Her pace increased, their moans mingling as the intensity and the heat grew. She could feel her womb tightening, fingers of fire racing through her pu**y. She was going to come…
“Sax. Harder. Oh God, f**k me…” She couldn’t gain the force she needed, the rhythm he used to power into her and throw her over the edge.
She shook, shuddered, fought her own weakness and pleasure in her drive for ecstasy.
His hands moved from her br**sts to her hips. They held her still, his fingers clenching there as he began to move. He drove his c**k inside her with enough power and force to cause her to arch in his arms, a strangled scream leaving her throat as her orgasm began to race through her body.
She convulsed above him, her thighs tightening, her hands clenching into the muscles of his chest as she felt herself come apart around him. His strangled groan met her scream as he drove in one last time, tensed further and then found his own release. Hard, rapid jets of se**n burning her, the feel of the silky fluid flooding her, throwing her higher.