Page 34 of Everything I Desire

My hands find his waistband and I hear the breath he sucks in just as my fingers undo the button on his jeans.

“That’s not accidental. What are you going to do about it?” I whisper, my breath hot on his skin.

I know I’m pushing my limits with him, but fuck, maybe it’s what he needs.

A devious look passes his eyes and our mouths meld together. He’s just as delicious as he was back then and my body suddenly remembers every touch we have ever shared.

“Goddamn it, baby!” He curses as he pulls away.

I want to scream at the absence of his lips.

“Do you not want me Porter? Is that it? I’m too naive for you? Poor little Adelaide who never left town, never got to experience life.” I pout.

“Fuck no, baby. Don’t you get it? You’re too good for me. You’re all the light in this world and I’m the dark. I can’t taint you anymore.” He rubs his jaw in frustration.

“Then let me bring you to the light Porter. You think you’re all darkness but I know you. I know the real Porter Jackson.” I dare to step towards him, stalking him as he did me.

He takes too many steps back and hits the hood of the car he was working on before I came in.

This time I settle myself between his thighs, wrapping my fingers in his hair, I pull his forehead to mine. “I’ve loved you since I was seventeen years old, maybe even longer. I know you aren’t the darkness you claim to be. You love with every beat of that big heart you have. You put everyone you love on a pedestal, including me. You got caught in the wrong place, wrong time your entire childhood and got the reputation for it because of your parents. But you, Porter Jackson, are the best kind of man.”

“I don’t deserve you, baby, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to starve myself of you one more day,” he says before hesitating half a second.

He slams his mouth to mine, wrapping his hand around the back of my neck to push us closer together.

Next thing I know, he is guiding me to lay on the hood of the Corvette, holding myself up with both palms splayed on the car. He pulls my dress up to my hips, and drops to his knees.

“I’ve needed you for so long, baby.” He runs his hands up the inside of my thighs. Hooking his finger in the waistband of my panties, he pulls them down to my ankles.

I step out of them and he fists them in his hand before shoving them in his pocket.

His hand gently nudges my legs open for him.

He trails kisses up each side of my thigh before he swipes his tongue up my slit.

“No one has ever been as sweet as you, baby. No one.” He buries his face into me, giving me the pleasure I’ve been desperate for.

“Oh, god. Porter” I moan .

He adds his rough fingers inside of me, rubbing the spot that only he has ever known. His fingers move, and his mouth nips at my clit. Over and over until he pushes me right over the edge.

I pulse around him and he stills until I’ve finished.

Standing, he pulls me up off the hood and into his arms. “I love you, Adelaide Harper. I’ve always loved you and I’m so tired of fighting it.”

“I love you too. Always have, always will.” I stand on my tiptoes to kiss him. “Now, take me home.”

He throws me over his shoulder and I squeal with happiness that he’s finally listening to me. I was prepared for more of a fight, but I’m happy he seems to finally believe that we belong together.

He rushes us out to his truck, opens the door and places me in the passenger seat before rushing off to his side and driving us back to my house. The short ride home is spent in silence, anticipation seeping out of me, but I can tell he is having second thoughts.

Once he parks the truck, he sits staring out the windshield at nothing.

I place my hand on his arm. “Porter, are you alright?”

He continues to stare out the window, but answers, “I need you to tell me this is what you want, baby. I need to know I’m what you want. Because I can’t walk away again.”

I move over the console and straddle his lap. I take his face in my hands, forcing him to look me in the eye.

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