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Authors: Delaney Diamond

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Terri twisted around, eyes questioning.

For the first time in his life, Gavin considered turning down a woman who agreed to have sex. He felt uncertainty despite the familiar scenario. Not because he didn’t want Terri, but rather because an unfamiliar emotion coiled through his gut that he couldn’t yet identify.

“Are you sure? We don’t have to do this,” he said.

“Are you turning me down, Mr. Johnson?” Her eyes smiled into his.

His gaze ran over her voluptuous figure, clearly outlined in the gray dress beneath the jacket thrown over her shoulders. He didn’t think there was a man alive who could turn her down. “Not at all. I just want you to be sure.”

“I’m positive. Don’t you want me?” Terri placed a hand on her hip, the pose showing off the lines of her body and lifting her hard-to-miss breasts to advantage.

“Sweetheart, I’ve been wanting you since the night I saw you at Trent’s.”

“Then tonight, I’m all yours, but tonight only. I just want to have a good time. Can you give me a good time?”

The teasing light disappeared from her eyes, and the vulnerability in her face cut through him. He wanted to delve deeper and examine the reasons why such a beautiful woman would place such restrictions on her relationships. But he didn’t.

“I can do that,” Gavin promised.

The overt sensuality he had come to expect from Terri reappeared. With her voice low, husky, and inviting, she said, “Let’s go to your place.”

“Too crowded. Let’s go to yours.” He wanted her all to himself, with no distractions.

“I have a teeny-tiny apartment,” she warned.

He stepped closer, rubbing his thumb over the skin of her hand and wondering if her entire body felt this silky. “You have a bed?”

“Of course.”

“That’s all we need.”

Chapter Nine

Terri mercilessly teased Gavin on the ride to her apartment, running her hand up and down his leg and massaging his inner thigh. She took delight in driving him crazy and edged her hand higher and higher until she eventually brushed his crotch and the bulge nestled there.

The car swerved to the left and Gavin grabbed her hand. “Behave yourself if you don’t want me to wreck this car.”

Pouting but quietly amused, Terri withdrew her hand and crossed her legs. Gavin turned an eye to the length of thigh revealed when the hem of the dress hoisted higher, but he didn’t say a word, and she behaved herself the rest of the ride. Once they reached her apartment, however, she stepped out of the vehicle and grabbed the waistband of his trousers. Pulling him closer, she pressed the entire length of her body against him.

He was hard as a rock. Her skin flushed with excitement, hot for him, craving him.

Gavin grabbed her ass and forced her against the cool metal. Dropping his lips to the curve of her neck, he licked a delightfully moist path from her collarbone up to her ear. “You’re gonna make me fuck you right here.”

His warm breath fanned her skin, and she shivered despite the cool weather. “It would add an element of excitement,” she whispered.

Terri tugged the skin of his jaw between her teeth and sucked. Tasty. She smoothed the bite with a flick of her tongue, trembling when his thumb skimmed the underside of her breasts. Her nipples pouted, hard and straining against her bra.

Long fingers climbed into her hair and his mouth seized hers. Moist and commanding. His tongue invaded her mouth, marking the interior with bold strokes that had her clinging to his strong neck. Goodness, he was a great kisser. With lips like his, it was impossible not to be. His mouth demanded her submission and she gave in, melting against him.

Hands on her hips, Gavin dragged her against his body until his erection nestled tight against her belly. An answering throb in her loins, Terri rubbed against him, the intense ache making her weak, turning her limbs to liquid, and her thoughts to mush.

Gavin pulled back and Terri lifted onto the tips of her shoes and kept his lips trapped against hers, a fierce wave of hunger chasing away restraint. His firm hands on her upper arms finally penetrated the fog her brain had become, and she reluctantly released his mouth with a moist pop.

Head spinning, she took an unsteady step back. It was only a kiss—a disorienting, breath-stealing kiss. One that left her out of her depth and, like the kiss atop the Space Needle, knocked her sideways and clouded her brain.

Sex should be nothing more than a biological release. At worst, a way to pass the time and eliminate boredom. But the way Gavin touched her, the strong feelings he evoked, Terri knew neither of those ideologies applied in this instance.

He grasped the back of her neck and used his thumb to rub the underside of her jaw. The gentle back and forth strokes provoked a quivering sensation in her skin, and the heat in his eyes all but forced her to melt into a pool at his feet.

“Let’s go,” he said, and he took her hand.

Terri followed on shaky knees, up the walk to the front of her building.

Maintain control.

The reminder barely registered in the cells of her brain. She tried to remember the dire consequences that resulted when she didn’t have control, when she allowed emotion to rule her actions. But coherent thought had long since evaporated and her only choice was to follow where he led.

Mumbling a greeting as they passed one of her neighbors on the climb up the stairs, Terri and Gavin made it to the third floor and seconds later were inside her tiny apartment. She walked into the bedroom with Gavin close behind her and tossed his jacket on the five-drawer bureau against the wall.

The lamp beside the bed cast a warm glow in the room, and he loomed above her in the near darkness. Under the white dress shirt, his chest moved up and down with each labored breath.

Gavin removed the gray dress, dragging it up and over her body and tossing it to the carpet. When he finished, Terri stood in the middle of the floor as he walked a circle around her and stopped behind her back. A kiss on the side of her neck followed, and she inhaled deeply, leaning into him, relishing the moist pressure of his mouth.

Another kiss followed to her right shoulder blade, where a red heart with the word
Love
and an arrow through it was tattooed onto her skin.

Terri curled her toes and leaned back for more.

“You are so damn sexy,” Gavin whispered. “I can’t even express to you just how sexy you really are.”

Two fingers traced the edge of the lacy black cheeky that left half her bottom exposed. Terri arched her back and moaned, despising the way he teased her with such a lightweight touch. The mere brush of his hand made her skin come alive. No one had ever made her feel this way before.
No one
.

Gavin unhooked her bra and let it slide down her arms to the floor. Then he peeled the panty down her hips. But instead of letting it fall, he followed it down, easing it past her thighs, then her knees to her ankles.

Terri looked over her shoulder to find him crouched behind her. She couldn’t even move to step out of the underwear. She was so frozen in place, watching as he dipped his tongue in the dimple at the bottom of her spine and traced the line of red and yellow roses on a vine etched into her skin.

He rose to his full height and Terri turned to face him. “Your turn,” she whispered.

He removed his shirt while she undid his belt and dragged down the zipper of his pants. In no time at all, he was naked, and it was Terri’s turn to stare. He stood in place and let her smooth her palms over his dark skin, impressed at the power of the rigid pecs and the coiled strength of his abs. His body was amazing. Tight legs dusted with curly hairs down to his calves. Firm muscular thighs held inches apart with his hard shaft standing straight up and nestled in a thatch of thick black hair.

“Like what you see?” Gavin asked.

“Yes.” Terri breathed the answer and stepped closer, folding her arms around his neck and dragging his head down to hers.

Gavin lowered onto his butt to the bed and pulled her down to straddle his thighs. The kiss started slow but soon transformed into a tangle of tongues. Intertwining, they greedily lapped at each other’s mouth. All the while, he caressed her hips, dragged his hands along her thighs, and trailed his fingers up her back. As if he couldn’t stop touching her.

His mouth dropped to her neck and Terri’s head fell back, giving him the access he needed to offer her more pleasure. Breathlessly, she clung to him as his mouth traveled lower until he licked her erect nipples. He showered her breasts with attention. Kissing. Nipping the hard peaks with his teeth and forcing her breaths to stumble as they left her throat.

She moaned and held onto him tighter, forcing his face deeper into her breasts.

“Gavin,” she whispered in his ear. His mouth felt so good, and he was just getting started.

His hand slid south between them and found the swollen evidence of her desire.

“How do you want it tonight, Terri? You want to make love or you want to be fucked?”

He looked into her eyes and she could barely hold eye contact because he continued to stroke between her legs. His fingers dipped into the slick wetness and his nostrils flared. Terri’s hips bucked against his hand, anxious for him to fully possess her.

“Fuck me, Gavin. Please.”

His jaw hardened with resolve and he lifted off the bed with her in his arms.

He flipped her onto her stomach and as she watched, sheathed himself in a condom.

“Your wish is my command,” he said in a rough voice, forcing her legs wide.

She didn’t have time to settle before he was inside of her. Terri gasped at the initial thrust—the power in it, the way he filled her up and slid deep. With firm hands on her thighs, Gavin kept her spread out before him and started to pump his hips.

“Harder. Fuck me harder,” Terri begged, her voice shaking, her fingers clawing the bedding.

She buried her face in the rumpled sheets and arched her back, reveling in the bounce of his hips, each punishing thrust against her ass shaking the bed and making it squeak. Every time he withdrew, her body begged for his, forcing contact with the upward tilt of her hips.

Gavin’s tongue explored the damp skin of her back as he drilled into her. And she edged toward an orgasm, beads of sweat pearling on her forehead as the climax came within reach.

Then he pulled out.

The shock of it was so jarring—like someone yanking the chair out from under her when she went to sit down—that she cried out in dismay.

Angry, Terri turned on him. “What the—”

“Not yet,” Gavin said, cocky in his sexual prowess. “I want to watch you come. I want to see those beautiful eyes roll back.”

He pushed her onto her back and fell between her legs again, sliding in with ease. Terri bit her bottom lip and whimpered as he filled her up, stretching her sex with the width of his length.

His hips started moving again and Terri cupped her breasts, big and overflowing in her own hands. She squeezed them together and pinched the nipples. As Gavin watched, his movements became irregular and accelerated. His eyes darkened to almost copper. Clenching his teeth, he thrust even harder.

He propped one of her legs onto his shoulder and she lifted the ankle of the other foot to rest on his firm behind. Clenching his teeth, Gavin pumped harder and faster, strain around his neck and shoulders.

Squeezing her butt cheeks, Terri rocked her hips in a display of wild need and placed her hands on his sturdy shoulders to let him have his way. Gavin crushed his face into her bouncing breasts, his tongue and teeth fastening onto one and sucking with delicious consistency. He tormented her sensitive flesh, plucking at the pebbled peaks.

“Look at me,” he rasped.

At first, she didn’t. She simply couldn’t. It was too intimate.

“Look at me!” he demanded, dragging her hips high with one hand and forcing her gaze to his. They locked eyes as their bodies moved together. In sync, as one.

Something inside her shifted as she stared into his eyes. Her throat tightened from a block of emotion that seized her. Weak and helpless, she writhed beneath him as she chased an orgasm.

Before she could think about what was happening to her, a shattering climax claimed all thought, seized her muscles, and sent her spiraling into ecstasy.

****

Terri stretched and lifted her head to see Gavin sprawled beside her on the bed on his stomach. Her gaze traveled over the slope of his back to his ridiculously tight behind, which came as no surprise since the rest of his body was just as muscular. She wanted to reach out and touch him again, perhaps rouse him for another round. But after two rounds, she figured he was probably done for the night. Any more than that was asking for a lot, even from a man in such peak physical condition.

She slipped from the bed.

“Where are you going?” Gavin asked. He’d lifted his head to watch her. His gaze roamed over her body in such a way that she almost felt it as a caress.

Terri reached for the door to the bathroom. “To take a shower. I guess you’ll be leaving soon?”

“Why do you say that?” He seemed genuinely confused.

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