Like an awakening.
I should have known something so powerful could only mean death.
Cody groaned, and his hands slid down my sides, taking greedy handfuls as he went. “Love these fuckin’ curves. Got me fucked, Hailey.”
He spread them out over my bottom and pulled me hard against his rigid length.
Need left me on a pant, and I clung to him tighter.
“You feel that?” The possessive sound was close to a growl. “What you do to me? Do you get how fucking hard I am for you? How badly I want you? I don’t think there’s been a time in my life when I’ve wanted anything as badly as this. You’re the kind of temptation that makes a man do stupid things. Kind of temptation that drives him right up to the edge.”
A whimper crawled up my throat as a flicker of pleasure sparked where we connected because he had me there, too.
On the edge.
Doing stupid, stupid things.
Cody grabbed me by the backs of the thighs, and he hiked me up like I weighed nothing.
My arms shot out to curl around his neck and my legs wrapped around his narrow waist.
There wasn’t anything I could do to stop myself from rubbing up and down the perfect shape of his chest and abdomen.
“Look at the way you fit in my arms, Hailey. Like you were meant to be there. Making me lose sight.”
I couldn’t find it in myself to care that I was making these embarrassing sounds, my need for him verging on manic. “It’s you who’s made me lose reason. You who’s making me need things I don’t understand.”
I kept kissing him without sense, and he stroked his tongue against mine as he carried me across my bedroom.
A gluttonous sound got free when he tossed me to my bed, and I bounced on the mattress, pressing my thighs together since I no longer had the stony planes of his abdomen to grind myself against.
From where he stood at the side of my bed, he smirked down at me. No doubt, he was reveling in the fact he had me spun up so fast that I was close to begging.
“Don’t worry, Shortcake. I understand exactly what you need.”
“Cocky Cowboy.” I wheezed it as my hips arched from the bed.
A rough chuckle skated the heated air, and those big hands came to take me by both knees.
Heat flash-fired, and Cody let that grin that was close to pain right then tweak higher as he slowly pried them apart, the expression on his face ravenous.
Eyes molten, burning me up.
“Have you been thinking about me, Hailey? The way I’ve been thinking about you?”
“Yes.” I saw no point in denying it any longer, even though I was sure it was going to crush me in the end.
“And what exactly have you been thinking?” His voice was a tease edged in possession.
God, I’d never met a man like him. One so easily arrogant who still oozed this power that made me weak in the knees.
One who made me both want to run because I was terrified of what he might come to mean all while knowing I would sell half my soul to stay in his space.
“I haven’t stopped thinking of you having me like this since you touched me last weekend.”
What I wouldn’t admit is I’d thought it for years.
Since that summer.