Page 10 of Sacrifice Bunt

Until a few months ago, when he asked her to be his agent, it was like he didn't even know she existed. He says he did, but that just didn't make any sense to her, and she couldn't seem to wrap her brain around it.

It didn't matter that she wanted to kiss him again. It didn't matter that her pussy was wet with need. None of that could matter. Noah was off-limits for many reasons. One was that he would never know what that night meant to her. How it had affected her.

She pushed him away, pressing her key card up against the keypad on the door handle. “Go to your room, Noah.” She slammed the door in his face once she was inside her room, leaning back against it and sliding to the floor.

She closed her eyes, wondering what in the hell had happened in the last five minutes. It probably wasn’t even five minutes. More like three. The kiss, the argument, another argument, his lips against hers, his breath against her face, his eyes boring into her, telling her that he absolutely wanted her, and ending with her slamming the door in his face. Why had she turned him away? Why had she said no?

She rubbed her temples with her hands, wondering if it was too late to change her mind. Couldn’t she sleep with Noah once just to get him out of her system? Even if she didn't like him? He was cocky, annoying, and drove her absolutely mad.

And yet, he was also none of those things. He was good at baseball, he didn't cause problems, and he was never in the news. Hannah spoke highly of him, Heath did the same. Everyone else seemed to like Noah. She was the only one who despised him.

Which wasn’t even true.

Why was that?

Hello, because she didn't despise him at all.

She couldn't go there. She was not going to admit that she liked Noah.

That was a death sentence.

Both to her career and her sex life.

While she might like other guys she dated and slept with, she’d never let her feelings get this deep. This out of control. She liked to keep things simple. Sex and friendship, that was it. There was never any more.

She wasn’t about to change that now, not even if, deep down, she wanted to.

So instead of opening the door to see if maybe, possibly, he was still out there, she pushed herself up off the floor and strode across the room. She moved as far away from the door as she could get. With more will than she even knew she had inside her, she got ready for bed, pushing any and all thoughts of Noah from her mind.

That is, until she laid down in bed, in the darkness, with nothing to do or think of but Noah.

She remembered how his lips felt against hers, how they tasted. The feel of those lips on her neck, the way he gently used his teeth to tease her there.

She wanted him to use those teeth on other parts of her body. Parts that were currently tingling at just the mere thought of him.

She ran her hands up her stomach until she was pressing one against each breast to ease some of the pain. That only seemed to make it worse. Feeling her nipples hard and pebbled under her palm was too much. She had to relieve the pressure.

Flinging her thin tank top off, she cupped her breasts again before giving each nipple a hard squeeze.

She moaned out loud.

It felt so good.

Closing her eyes, she let herself imagine that Noah was in the room with her, in the bed with his fingers on her tits. Just the vision of him touching her had her on edge. Not able to stand it a second longer, she dipped her hand into her underwear and stroked once over her clit, gasping at her touch.

Jesus, she was a powder keg about to burst.

With the practiced precision of a woman who knew her body well, she lost herself in the feelings and sensations. After only a few strokes, she was already on the verge of orgasm. Instead of prolonging it or drawing it out longer, she let go. She let the pleasure take over, moaning and writhing on the bed as she came.

When her breathing settled and she opened her eyes, she thought she’d feel the relief she usually felt after a solo session.

It was the opposite.

She felt empty.

And it pissed her off.

She did not need anyone to make her feel whole, especially a man. Why was she feeling this all of a sudden, and why Noah?

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