I couldn’t give in.

She was Samuel’s daughter and we were friends. I was so much older than her, so much more damaged. Currently, she didn’t seem to care about that at all, and I was at a crossroads.

I could ignore her and let her get it out of her system, then make tea for her to help soothe her to sleep and we’d forget all about this in the morning. Or I could give in to the yearning pulling at my gut and take her up on her offer. It would be crossing a line that I couldn’t come back from, giving in to something I wouldn’t ever be able to change, and how she looked at me—how I looked at her—would change forever.

Don’t do it.

Don’t.

I’ve considered myself a strong man in the past, with a will of steel, but at this moment, I was weak. I couldn’t argue hard enough to talk myself out of it because each time I considered that it was a bad idea, I quickly settled on not caring.

I set my fork down, picked up her bra, and followed the sound of running water to the bathroom.

Kitty stood on the mat, completely naked except for her panties which matched her discarded bra. She was facing the door, waiting for me, and the moment we locked eyes, her face lit up. Her beautiful, toned body flushed rosy with the heat of the shower air, and her bare nipples perked up against the chill in the air.

Did she know I was going to give in? Did our few minutes of sharing about ourselves really give her that much insight into me? Or was she just hoping she was irresistible?

There was still a loud part of me telling me to hand her the bra and walk away.

That part fell silent the moment Kitty grasped the hem of her panties and slowly slid them down her hips. Mid-thigh, they fell from her grasp and pooled around her ankles. She stepped out of them and placed one hand on her hip.

“Well?”

I was speechless. From her gorgeous full breasts down to the neat patch of blonde hair nestled just between her legs, Iwas transfixed by every detail. She had freckles dusting all over her body, and the muscle definition took me by surprise. For someone so small, I hadn’t expected such toned muscles. Her time in the gym was always private, and she spoke about cardio very casually.

“The water’s getting cold,” Kitty said as I continued to stare at her. Then she turned and showed me her gorgeous, voluptuous backside as she stepped into the shower.

I was a weak man.

The water hit her skin, and she let out this sweet, soft, satisfied moan that shot straight to my dick. My grip tightened on her bra, and I was utterly transfixed by the water droplets rolling down her body. They touched where I ached to touch, caressed where I wanted to kiss, and followed the sweeping curves of her body in a way that made my palms ache.

I couldn’t hold back any longer. All my rules evaporated.

I discarded my clothes in record time and set my gun and holster down on the bathroom counter. Then I leaped into the shower, and Kitty exploded into excited giggles when my hands landed on her bare waist.

“I knew it,” she said breathlessly. Her gorgeous eyes widened, and her lower lip caught slightly on her teeth. “I knew you couldn’t say no to me.”

It should have alarmed me that she had this amount of power over me, but in those moments, I just did not care. Keeping one hand on her waist, I cupped her face with the other and pulled her into a kiss. Her lips were just as soft as I had imagined. Kitty placed her warm hands on my biceps and leaned into me, pushing her breasts against my chest and aligning her body with mine.

I was a drowning man and she was my air. All thoughts fled my mind other than a single, loud desire to fuck her and make her realize that she wasn’t the one in control here.

I kissed her deeply, but just as I gripped her waist to push her against the wall, her teeth sank sharply into my lower lip. I gasped and jerked away, only for Kitty to slide her hands into my hair and yank me back against her. The faint sweetness of her lip gloss exploded over my tongue as I thrust it into her mouth, then I pushed her up against the cold, slick tiles.

Water poured down around us, scalding my skin slightly from how hot she had the shower, but it was nothing compared to how hot her body was against me. Each kiss sent sparks of desire to my cock. Each whimper from her throat made my gut tighten and my heart beat so quickly, it nearly burst out of my chest.

I cupped the back of her head to protect her from the wall as I pushed her up against the wall, then a deep moan punched out of me as Kitty’s hand circled my cock and squeezed briefly.

“Wow,” she breathed against my lips. “I suspected your stoic attitude was because you had a small dick. I’m so happy to be wrong.”

“Kitty,” I grunted, but my eyes rolled back in my head as her hand worked quickly over my cock from base to tip. It had been years since I was last with another person, and if she was going to keep acting like this, I wasn’t going to last very long.

“Rook,” she murmurs, writing my name against my lips with her own, “come on,” she whispered, and she spun around in my arms to face the wall. “Fuck me.”

“But I want to see you,” I gasped, watching the water droplets follow the sexy line of her spine down to the curve of her ass.

“Then watch me,” Kitty said, tipping her head back and sending her hair sweeping down after those droplets. From this angle, the heart shape of her lips was infinitely more prominent. “Just fuck me at the same time.”

I didn’t need to be told twice. I slid one hand from her waist to her thigh, then pressed between her legs to find her pussyalready soaking wet. Kitty’s eyes fluttered at the contact, and she braced both her palms flat against the tiles.