I sucked at not having answers, but to have those answers, I needed to talk to Kaleb honestly.

That was the way we’d always been with each other before I’d lost the ability to compartmentalize my emotions when it came to him.

I took a deep breath. “Do you remember all those crazy things I said at The Mug And Jug after I had those sluggers?”

“I remember,” he answered in a lazy drawl.

Keep going, Anna. Keep going.

“Maybe I don’t remember everything, but I wasn’t so drunk that I didn’t know what I wanted. What I still want,” I blurted out. “If I don’t explore the way I feel about you, I know I’m going to regret it. I’ve never felt this way before about any other man, and I don’t want to leave without saying how I feel. Maybe you don’t feel the same way you did weeks ago. Maybe it would be better if we just let it go. I know I have to leave. God, I don’t know, but I feel like I need you to at least know how I’m feeling—”

I hit my back so fast that my head was spinning. Kaleb literally tackled me, controlled my fall, and brought his ripped body down over mine.

“Fuck!” he cursed as he threaded his hands into my hair. “I know we need to talk about this, but I can’t wait another second to do this.”

His mouth came down on mine with the same desperate urgency I felt every time I looked at him.

Heat flooded between my thighs as I wrapped my arms around his neck and returned the frenzied kiss.

Maybe we did need to talk, but I needed this more.

Kaleb devoured my mouth, and I opened for him, giving him access to anything he wanted.

I’d been burning for this man since the day we’d met, and that fire had been stoked to inferno strength for weeks now.

Weeks of that need for Kaleb all poured out of my body as I clawed at the back of his neck, needing to get closer to him than I’d ever been before.

When he finally raised his head, his eyes were full of wild hunger, and his chest was heaving like he’d just run a marathon.

I was panting as our gazes devoured each other, both of us stunned, but eager to finish what we’d just started.

“Don’t ever think that I don’t feel the same way you do,” Kaleb growled. “I’ve wanted you naked and in my bed since day one.”

God, I’d felt the same way, and the desire to have Kaleb deep inside me was elemental right now.

I wrapped my legs around his hips and surged up just to feel what I wanted so desperately.

His cock was hard and ready to give me exactly what I was craving. I needed Kaleb, and that need was eating me alive.

“I want…” I moaned, my voice trailing off because I couldn’t express my longing in words.

Turns out, I didn’t need to say the words.

I wanted, and Kaleb responded.

“I know what you want,” he rasped against my ear, his breath leaving a trail of warmth on the side of my neck as he nipped at my earlobe. “You want me to make you come. And I want that, too.”

He kissed me again, and my body writhed beneath him as he slid his hand beneath my T-shirt and expertly unclasped the front of my bra.

My core clenched so hard it was almost painful as his fingers stroked over one of my breasts until he found my nipple.

I gasped as he pinched it just hard enough to make me moan against his lips.

“Yes!” I hissed as he released my mouth.

My body was on fire for this man, and I needed him inside me.

“Fuck me, Kaleb,” I pleaded as his fingers continued to torment my nipples. “I need you.”