Page 45 of Meet Me In The Dark

The ground sped closer to him, he gripped her tighter, time went into overdrive, and god, god, god, please god, let him time this right, let time be on his side…

As they passed over the trees, he spotted a small clearing…

And released her, prying her hands from his neck.

She held tighter, unsure of what he was doing.

“Trust me,” he said, and thank god, she must have heard him, because she loosened her arms…

And fell to the ground.

She seemed mostly unharmed from where he could seeher, which was good, because moments later he smacked directly into a tree and his parachute got trapped in the branches and almost choked the life out of him.

But they’d made it, and he had to believe they were safe.

“Micah? Micah!”

She was standing underneath him, staring up at him in shock.

“Hi, baby,” he called as he began to untangle the straps trying to kill him.

“Hold on, I’m coming to help you,” she called, and then she was shimmying up the tree, much more confident than she must have been that day with Luke. He’d taught her well.

She reached him, sitting on a branch, and reached an arm forward. Together, they untangled him, he unsnapped the backpack that held the trapped parachute, and jumped down to the forest floor.

She jumped down after him and he caught her before she touched ground. Of course, she knocked the wind out of him and they tumbled over onto the ground, so she was straddling him.

And laughing, a little wildly.

“I don’t, I can’t,” she was saying, breathless. “How…”

He grabbed her, pulling off her helmet and goggles and then his own. Then he pulled her down to him, ignoring how his head ached. “I don’t know. I don’t care. All I know is I could’ve lost you, and here you are, in my arms. I’m not about to fucking question how fate worked out, I’m just going to be goddamned grateful it did.”

“Baby,” was all she said, stroking his hair back from his face.

Fuck.They were alive.Shewas alive.

He’d almost lost her. He could accept any reality, but notthat one. He’d drag the god he didn’t have faith in into the hell he’d been raised not to believe in for that crime. Except instead, he’d prayed to god, and while he still didn’t believe in anything, here she was, alive, straddling him, as his cock hardened beneath her.

Because if he had faith in anything, it was her.

“I love you, baby,” he told her.

“You caught me,” she said, her voice still shaking with wonder and shock.

“I did. And I’m never, ever, letting you go.”

He was going to show her exactly how serious he was. He rolled them over, unclipping her from her harness, getting rid of his own. He dragged his clothes off his body as she stared at him, a little woozy, a little out of it, a little enraptured.

It was okay. He’d snap her back to reality. Starting with getting to work on having his favorite meal in the world.

He pulled off her pants and panties, not even bothering to warm her up when he dove in to get a taste. And even though she always tasted perfect to him, raw and sweet and salty and just so fucking real and his, right now, she tasted better than she ever had. She tasted alive. She cried out, thrashing and writhing below his hungry mouth, so he grabbed her hips in a firm hold.

“You stay still, baby,” he said. “You stay still and let me eat until you come all over my fucking face. That’s your only job right now, alright?” Not waiting for her to respond, not bothering to tease her or work her up slowly, not even caring about her pleasure so much for her sake as for his own, he engulfed her pussy with his mouth and devoured her, thrusting his tongue inside her again and again, and then licking and nipping her clit until she’d drenched his face. Her thighs squeezed his head in a vise,making him go a little lightheaded, and his cock got even harder.

She froze, then shook beneath him as she screamed into the trees, and the birds among them screamed back, flying away.

Lifting his mouth from her pussy, he crawled up her body, dragging her legs apart, and slowly thrust inside her, determined to feel every perfect, wet, hot inch.

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