Heat flared in her veins when he squeezed her ass and held her closer against his erection that was pressing into her belly.

“Drive us both nuts with anticipation and wanting.”

She ran her hands down over his chest, and stopped when they were resting on his belt buckle. “You’d better be intending to come and see me real soon.”

He nodded. “Just as soon as I can. At this rate, it might turn out that I wasn’t joking about following you home.”

She sucked in a deep breath and blew it out slowly. “What do you think? Do you want a drink and we can just hang out and …”

He closed his arms around her waist and walked backward, taking her with him until he hit the bed and fell back on it. Shelanded on top of him and closed her eyes when he rocked his hips, sending waves of desire coursing through her.

“I thought we weren’t …”

“We’re not.” He rolled them so that she was on her back, looking up into his gorgeous eyes. “But unless you tell me no, I think we should work on the kissing, and getting to know each other better and …”

He positioned himself between her legs and she moaned into his mouth when he kissed her deeply. When his hand moved up her side and his thumb grazed her breast, she wrapped her legs around him.

He lifted his head and gave her a pained smile. “Fuck, Shay!”

She laughed. “You said we can’t, but I’m pretty sure that we can go big on the driving each other nuts with anticipation and wanting.”

He slid a hand under her ass and lifted her so that she could better feel his hard length pressing into the heat between her legs.

“Ty!” she breathed.

He nuzzled his lips against her neck. “Say it again.”

“Say what?”

“My name.”

She closed her hand around the back of his head and kissed his temple. “Ty.”

His whole body shuddered.

“You like that?”

He nodded. “Fucking love it. I probably shouldn’t tell you this, but you own me when you say my name like that.”

She ran her fingers through his beard and made him look up at her. “No.”

“No what?”

“I don’t own you. I never will own you. No matter what happens between us, no matter how long it lasts, I will never own you.”

He frowned. “Okay. I … but you know what I mean?”

“I do, but find a different word, Ty. I don’t like that. I’ll never own you and you’ll never own me.” She smiled, wanting to lighten things back up. “I choose you. And I have a feeling that I’ll keep choosing you over and over. I hope that you’ll choose me, too.”

He dropped a kiss on her lips. “I do and I’ll keep choosing you over and over.” He smirked as he rocked his hips in time with his words, “Over, and over, and over.”

“Ty!”

“Yeah, baby?”

She sucked in a deep breath. “I’m going to need you to stop doing that.”

He thrust harder, still smirking. “You don’t like it?”