Page 41 of This Is Why

LEXI

After a solid roundof goodbyes with Gabe and the Carmichael clan, we slide back into my car and hit the road. It’s been a long day with so much happening in such a short amount of time, I should be exhausted, but I’m not. I’m wired on adrenaline and excitement. It’s like the trip to Key West all over again. An abrupt change in routine, a bit of adventure, all of it seemingly random and yet it feels like I’m following some course laid out before me by something bigger than us. I should be terrified but I’m not. I look over at Ty to marvel at what’s happening and find him already staring at me, a strange look on hisface.

“What?” I ask, worry twisting in my stomach, wringing out the happiness like water from a wet towel.

Ty puts his hand on mine. “Do you realize that I find you so attractive, so compelling, so achingly all-consuming, that you’re the only thing I can ever concentrateon?”

The worry vanishes. “Nope.” I give my attention back to the road. “I think you need to explain. In detail.”

Ty settles back in his seat. “For example, just now, the setting sun caught my attention. It was so beautiful and I wanted to make sure you saw it, too. But when I turned to you, I got lost in the curve of your cheek, the way one side of your mouth curls up before you actually smile, the way your hair cascades down your back and catches the light, reflecting all the colors of the sunset in a halo around your head.” He smiles at me, his eyes soft and filled with emotion. “And I was awestruck. Who cares about the sunset when I haveyou?”

He puts his hand high up on my thigh while I’m still reeling from his comment. The combination of his calloused skin and his gentle words light a fire in my core. I spread my legs, a slight movement, but an intentionalone.

“Do you have any idea what you’ve done to me in this dress?” Ty slips his hand under the fabric. “It should be against the law for you to look this good when I can’t touchyou.”

I widen my legs a fraction of an inch. “You can touch me anytime you want.” My gaze darts to his and then back to theroad.

“But not the way I want. If I touched you the way I’ve been imagining all day, well, I think it’s safe to say people would be scandalized.”

“How do you want to touchme?”

He slides his hand up my thigh, slips a finger under my panties, and slips it right inside me. “Like this,” he says as I gasp. “Like I own you. I want to be inside you all the time, Lex.” He pulls his finger out, leaving a wet streak along my inner thigh, only to plunge it right back inside me again.

I focus on driving, my lips parted, my chest heaving, my pussy throbbing. Home is too far away for me to want him this much, and if he doesn’t stop doing whatever it is he’s doing, then there’s a chance we’ll never make it home at all. I can’t concentrate. And I want to touch him, to look at him. I risk a glance and find his cock straining against the confines of his pants. That’s it. That’s all I can take. I am only human after all. I pull off to the side of the road, put the car in park, and kill the ignition.

“What are you doing?” he asks as I undo my seatbelt and twist in myseat.

“I can’t wait. I can’t concentrate. Not with you looking like that and making me feel that good.” I reach across the narrow console and grab his dick. He moans and widens his legs, thrusting his hips up into my hand. “I want you,” Isay.

“Then get over here and take me.” Ty gives me a taunting look, like he doesn’t think I’ll doit.

And here I thought he was really starting to understandme.

I shift and pull off my panties, let them dangle from one finger before I toss them in the back seat. “Lay the seat back,” I say and he does, then opens his pants and slides them down off hiships.

I climb over the console and straddle him, take his dick in my hand, and slowly lower myself down onto him. “Oh, fuck. You feel so good.” I lower my face to his and kiss him to give myself time to acclimate to having him so deep insideme.

He returns the kiss ferociously, one hand fisted in my hair as I begin rolling my hips, the other clutching my bare ass under my skirt. He pulls back and presses his forehead to mine. “That’s right, Lexi. Ride me. Ride thatcock.”

Ever the good girl, I do exactly what he says until my climax overtakes me. I scream his name, my muscles clenching so tightly that I can’t move. Ty grips my hips and thrusts into me, sending me spiraling further and further out of control until he comes, his eyes sliding closed as his head drops back on the seat. I collapse down on him and rest my head on his shoulder.

“Well that was unexpected,” I say after a few seconds of stillness, my lips brushing the sweaty skin on hisneck.

“You say unexpected, I say awesome.” Ty pushes my hair out of my face and kisses my temple.

I shift and sit up, shuddering with an aftershock of pleasure as his dick slides out of me, and then make my way back into the driver’s seat before retrieving my panties and shimmying them up my legs and over my hips. Ty buttons up his pants and adjusts his seat, just in time for movement to catch my attention through the rearview.

“Oh, shit.” I look at Ty, eyes wide. “It’s acop.”

Laughter dances across his face. “We aren’t doing anything wrong.”

Fear lances through me. “But we were. Indecent exposure is a thing, right? I’m pretty sure we were very much indecent justnow.”

“But nothing was exposed and there was no one here to see us. Relax, Lexi. Everything isfine.”

The officer strolls up to the driver’s side window, which I have preemptively rolled down for him. “Everything okay in here?” he asks, his eyes friendly and his voice light.

“Everything is fine,” I reply, searching for some reason to explain why we’re pulled off to the side of theroad.

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