Page 155 of Renewal After Dark

“First, you.” He pulled the formfitting tank top that’d been driving him wild all evening over her head and released the clasp to her bra. “I thought about you and this all day long,” he said as he cupped her breasts. “It’s a wonder I didn’t ink a picture of you on my client’s back instead of the dragon he asked for.”

Her low chuckle made him smile. “That would’ve been quite a surprise for your client.”

“Sure would, but that’d never happen because I don’t want anyone else to see you the way I do.”

He ran his hands over her back and down to tuck them inside the leggings that he pushed down, leaving her only in the tiniest pair of panties he’d ever seen. Christ have mercy, but she was the sexiest thing on two legs.

Duke eased her down to the bed and leaned over her to tease her nipples with his lips and tongue.

Her fingers tugging at his hair was like gas on an already out-of-control wildfire. He wanted to wallow in her sweetness, her soft skin, her scent, her very essence. If this was love, and he was pretty damned sure it was, he was glad he’d waited for her to come along. He knew now that no one else could’ve made him feel the way she did.

He removed her panties, dropped to his knees next to the bed and set out to drive her as wild as she’d driven him the night before. With tongue, fingers and lips, he teased her to a series of orgasms that had her crying out with abandon that had him reaching for a condom and rolling it on.

He leaned over her, kissing her until her eyes opened.

The way she looked at him…

“You’re a unicorn in every possible way.”

“Is that right?”

“Uh-huh.” He pressed against her. “How about we see if we can add one more way to the list?”

She wrapped her arms around him. “I’m here for it.”

Never before had sex felt like a homecoming, an arrival to the place he was always supposed to be, with the person who was meant to be his. The feeling of absolute rightness that came over him marked the first time he’d ever felt he was exactly where he belonged.

“God, MK. This is…”

“Amazing.”

“Yeah. Totally.” He held her close and loved her with all his heart and soul, giving her everything he had until they were clinging to each other and riding wave after wave of the most intense pleasure he’d ever experienced.

“Damn,” he whispered after a long silence punctuated by deep breaths and contented sighs.

“Damn is right.”

He rolled to his side, bringing her with him. “Are you okay?”

She rested her head on his chest. “I’m much better than okay. And the piercing…whoa.”

“Told you you’d like it.”

“I did.”

“Remember how I chose Gansett over my ex?”

“Yeah.”

“I’m so, so glad I made that decision. I can see now it was all leading me to you and this.”

“It’s funny how you can look back at something that was so awful at the time, but necessary to get where you were meant to be.”

“Yes, exactly.”

“I thought I’d never recover from what Eric did to me. The lies, the gaslighting, the deception, the abandonment. But now it just seems like a bad dream that happened to someone else, and I’m oddly thankful for what he did. It was leading me to you.”

“I’m very glad your house fell down.”

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