“Don’t tell me eating with a naked man made you lose your appetite.”

“No.” Her sparkling eyes find mine. “Only…there’s something I’m dying to do before I eat.”

“What?”

Inanswer, she drops to her knees. My chest tightens as she takes me in her mouth.

My body shatters into two, the sandwich slipping from my limp grasp and onto the floor. I barely notice, not with Charlie working on me, making me feel things I never have before. My hands find the top of her head, guiding her into a steady, rhythmic movement. Not that she needs it. Something about looking down at her as she struggles to take all of me in her mouth makes me want to explode.

I stave off the moment of climax by closing my eyes, focusing on the fact that this is a dream come true. But in the next second, I’m opening my eyes again, wanting to hold her in my gaze. Charlie seems almost as desperate to give me pleasure as I am for her. Her eyes are trained on me, her tongue flicking past my tip as she laps me up greedily.

This girl is going to be the end of me.

“I’m about to come,” I growl.

Charlie replies with a harsh grunt of pleasure.

“I’m about to come,” I repeat. “And I want to do it in your pussy.”

My dick still stuffed in her mouth, she shakes her head in disagreement. She wants me to do it in her mouth, clearly.

“Fine.” My fingers tense on her head. “I’ve got one question to ask you, though.”

Her eyes flicker up to mine. Slowly, I pull away from her heat, forcing myself to focus on how much I’ve been waiting for this. She lets out a sound of annoyance. Damnit, she’s quite literally panting to have me inside her again. Makes me almost want to forget asking her.

Only…I’ve waited way too long to find out.

“Why did you stop talking to me all those yearsago, Chapman?”

She stills. Even her eyes don’t move. The air, which was crackling with sexual energy only a second ago, fizzles into severe tension.

She rises to her feet, her eyes clouded in suspicion. She starts to turn away, but before she takes a step, I pull her to me, crushing her against my front and lifting her ass up. Her legs wrap around me effortlessly. My dick finds her slippery entrance, sinking in. Earth-shattering pleasure bursts in my head as Charlie moans, both of us taken by surprise. Still, Charlie makes no move to draw away. In one second, she’s transformed back to a woman in desperate need of me, grinding herself against my dick and urging me to fuck her.

Reaching forward, I grab one of her taut nipples and hold it between my thumb and my index finger. Charlie winces as I squeeze.

“No more,” I whisper in her ear, grinding my hips against hers. She moans loudly, wiggling against me. I can tell it’s one of the fiercest inner battles she’s ever fought, deciding whether to pull back or to stay. “Tell me, Chapman. I deserve to know.”

She’s trembling in my arms. “I can’t…”

I move in her again, and her sentence ends in a high-pitched moan. “You can and you will. I want to know why you froze me out. Did losing a career in ballet make you decide you hated me?”

At the mention of ballet,Charlie finally breaks through. She unwraps her legs from my waist, drops down and pushes herself from me, retrieving her robe and slipping it on. When she turns to me, I’m surprised to see her face is wet with tears.

“What the hell is happening, Charles?”

“Maybe I couldn’t stand to be around you becauseyouended my career in ballet.”

I blink. “What?”

“The dumbbells,” she shrieks, totally losing control. Something in her must have unraveled after all of my goading. “Yourdumbbells, Edwards. The ones I tripped over the night I broke my ankle.”

I grab my briefs and pants and pull them on. She’s staring at me with eyes so filled with hate, it’s impossible to believe she wanted me with an equal ferocity only five seconds ago.

“What are you saying?” I finally growl.

“I really need to spell it out?” she hisses. “Let’s put all the facts together, shall we?” She smacks her palms together. “You tell me you love me. I tell you I can’t do it. And then, five minutes later, I trip overyourequipment. The day beforeI was supposed to begin a career that would catapult me into outer space.Yousabotaged my life because I rejected you.”

She’s panting hard, her chest heaving.