“Yes, yes, yes,” I chanted.

Mason moved harder and faster, and soon we were a frenzy of tangled limbs and groans and grunts.

The orgasm rolled through me, making me gasp for air. It was like nothing I’d ever experienced before. Pleasure like molten lava flooded through me, and my body shuddered.

Mason grunted before he slid out, and I straddled his hips. I sank down on his cock, and we both cried out. It took me a moment to adjust to his size, his angle. When I adjusted to him, I rocked back and forth.

Mason gripped my hips, holding onto me, and he gritted his teeth as I slid up and down his cock. I started slow, moaning, feeling every inch of him, and moved faster and faster.

He held onto me and pulled me forward, and pushed me back, helping me fuck him. I rode him hard and fast, and he moved with me. We were both desperate, chasing our releases. Another orgasm built inside me as my clit rubbed against his pubic bone, and the angle of his cock hit exactly the right spots.

“I’m going to come again,” I said, gasping.

“I’m right there with you, babe,” Mason growled through gritted teeth.

We moved together, the rhythm of our bodies perfectly synchronized, and an orgasm hit me, making me cry out. My pussy walls contracted, and Mason growled, thrusting into me as his orgasm rolled over him, too. My pussy milked him until we were both spent and sweaty, exhausted and completely satisfied.

I climbed off him and fell onto the bed beside him. Mason wrapped his arm around my shoulders and pulled me against him, and we lay like that, our breathing slowly returning to normal.

After a while, he rolled to the side, and I turned toward him, pressing myself against him.

“That was amazing,” I said.

“You are amazing,” Mason said, brushing a strand of hair from my face.

“I could do this for the rest of my life,” I said, smiling at him.

He nodded. “So could I.” He pressed his lips against me, and I was lost to him forever.

24

MASON

The air was crisp when we stepped out of Cami’s cottage again.

“Oh, wow,” she said, rubbing her hands together, blowing a cloud of hot breath into her gloved hands. “Is it just me or did the temperature drop while we were in there?”

“I think we just gotreallyhot,” I said with a grin.

She looked up at me with mischievous eyes. “Yeah, it did get pretty hot.”

I pulled her closer and planted a kiss on her lips.

“It’s one way to get through winter, you know,” I added.

“We’ll just have to test that theory another time. You know… make sure you know what you’re talking about.”

I growled at the back of my throat, already ready for round two with her. But we were going to join the parade first, enjoy the festivities and really lean into this whole Christmas thing.

Never thought I’d say it, but I wasn’t against the idea. But with Cami, nothing was the way it used to be. Everything looked brighter, better, more tantalizing. I didn’t just want to get through every day, survive. I wanted tolive.

We stepped back onto Main Street. The snow from earlier had left a thin, powdery layer on the ground, making the whole town look like a postcard for a white Christmas. Twinkling lights strung above the streets flickered in and out, and the distant sound of carolers singing by the giant Christmas tree filled the air making it feel like the scene from a movie. Everything was peaceful now that the hell was over.

It was a far cry from the tension and danger that had gripped us just hours ago.

Cami slipped her hand into mine, and I squeezed it, drinking her warmth. I never thought I’d be someone who cared about Christmas—hell, I never thought I’d care about much of anything anymore. But being here, with her, seeing the joy on people’s faces as they celebrated, made me realize something I hadn’t in a while: there was still goodness in the world. It hadn’t all been snuffed out. I’d just been focused on the wrong stuff for so long, looking at the bad when there was still a shit ton of good around.

Cami was someone who only looked at the good, and it was a good thing to take a page out of her playbook.