“Shit.” I pulled back from the kiss and kissed the tip of her nose. “We need to stop and get to my bed.”
“Sounds like exactly where I want to spend the rest of my day.”
Reason number two hundred and fifty-six why this woman was perfect for me.
“This feels a little different,” Ava said, walking into my house.
“Better than the mad dash to disappear the last time you left?”
She turned to me, frowning, and chewed her bottom lip. “In retrospect, it feels a little overdramatic, but I also kind of needed it.”
I didn’t blame her for that. I’d had time to think about it too. She’d gone from living with Kip to me being in her face and then having my tongue down her throat with barely any time to process the end of one relationship and what I was trying to start that night at Tom’s Saloon.
“I didn’t mean to be flippant,” I told her. “You’d gone through a lot in a short time.”
“Yeah.” She brushed her fingers through her hair and glanced around. “Bonus, though, this time I get to finally see your bedroom.”
In typical Ava fashion, she was wearing a short-sleeve shirt, but she’d cut it so it was cropped, showing off that slim strip of soft flesh of her abdomen. As she kicked off her sandals, her hands went to the button of her cutoff denim shorts, and she unbuttoned them.
As delightful as that image of getting her alone in my bed was, there was something else we needed to do.
I kicked off my shoes and tore off my own shirt.
“We’ll get there later,” I told her. I bent low, wrapped my arms around her waist, and lifted her high in the air until she fell over my shoulder with a shriek and her beautiful ass was in my face.
“Cameron!”
“Walked into my home a couple months ago and found you asleep on my couch. You know what I did before I woke you up?”
“No.” Her hands clung to my hips. She was laughing too hard to say much else.
“Went upstairs and took a shower. Jerked off to the image of you on my couch and all the things I wanted to do to you in that moment.”
I reached the couch and carefully dropped her back down to it.
Her face was flushed, her hair now a beautiful, sexy mess, and she blew out a puff of breath. “Oh…”
“Yeah, oh.” I bent down and grabbed the frayed hem of her shorts. With one quick tug, I had them down to her ankles and tossed the fabric out of the way. “Get out of those clothes and spread your legs for me, Sunshine.”
Chapter 28
Ava
Who needed a bed when Cameron was standing above me, his eyes blown with desire while he shoved down his dress pants? His bulge was obvious behind his tight boxer briefs, and my mouth watered at the reminder of how good he’d feel inside of me.
Other parts of me pulsed with anticipation.
“Here?” I asked and removed my shirt. I unclasped my bra where it met in the center of my breasts and sighed with relief when they were freed. My nipples were already hard, my thong wet.
Truthfully, I didn’t need an almost fully naked Cameron gazing down at me with the intensity of a wild animal stalking its prey. I’d been turned on from the moment he ran onto the field and proved that he was the best at everything he put his mind to.
As soon as I was naked, completely bared to Cameron, he dropped to his knees in front of me. He wrapped his hand around my ankle and draped my leg over the back of the couch. The other he set on his thigh.
“I’ve been dying for a taste of you,” he said, sliding his warm, strong, and calloused palms up my legs to my inner thighs. “Every night, I think of this.”
As he spoke, he brushed his finger through my slit, and brought his finger to his mouth. “So damn wet and sweet. You missing me too?”
“Yes.” Couldn’t he tell? I was already panting, my hips arching to get closer as he toyed with my clit and teased my opening. “Please, Cam. Don’t tease.”