Page 201 of Snap Shot

“Don't mind her, love. You'll find it when the time's right. Your mother and I did.”

And what if I already found him?

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I duck out of the office early, desperate for a break from the inevitable decisions tormenting my thoughts. Landon's is the first and only stop. He's nowhere to be found inside the penthouse, though. A whirring noise from outside has me squinting at the rooftop patio.

Shivering with each step toward the hot tub, I pull my blazer tighter around my chest and fold my arms to keep it closed. Landon hears my heels clicking against the cement and lifts his head from a pink, blue, and purple book.

“Hi, baby.” A sole finger bounces on his lips. “Need my kiss first.”

I oblige with a short peck that he elongates by standing and wrapping a damp hand around my nape.

“What are you doing out here?”

He points to the open pages and smirks. “Research.”

“It's freezing.”

“Not in the water.” His eyes drop to my forced half-smile. “Tough day?”

My breath ices upon release in a heavy cloud. “Work stuff.”

A trace of concern passes across his gaze, but only for a second. He grins wide, throwing an upward glance from where he bobs inside the jetting water. “Take off your clothes and get in here. I'll make you forget all about it.”

“You're naked in there? Is that allowed?” The chill in my bones disappears at the thought. “Won't the goods, y'know, get boiled—”

“Just get in.” His tongue glides over the pink seam of his lips as the round muscles of his shoulders stretch over the opposite edge of the hot tub, the delicious valley of his square chest coming into view. “Be a good girl and undress slowly for me.”

I'll never recover from how empowering Landon makes me feel. The patience is awe-inspiring as I step out of my heels and drop my suit slacks and panties, his dilated eyes fixating on my fingers as they undo every blouse button and bra clasp until all that's left is me, exposed entirely. My already cold nipples shrink further, goosebumps pebbling my skin.

He sighs, then steps to the middle to make space for me on the bench. One of his hands reaches for me underwater and lands on my hip, thumb dragging over the arch, back and forth, back and forth as I lower in the water. My chin rests at the surface. Blue-green water jettisons over my submerged body for the next few minutes.

“Still cold?”

“Not at all.”

“Good. Scoot this fine ass onto this corner.” He guides me there, splaying a hand across my stomach to lift me out of the whirling tub and positions me, legs spread for balance. The bite of the cold air combined with the searing water coating my skin heightens the sensation of his drifting touch down my leg. “Time to make good on my promises.”

From a wooden box on the landing, Landon retrieves a blue ring with a strange ball setting, too big to wear on a finger but too small to be a comfortable bracelet…oh.He sucks his first and middle fingers, wetting them enough to roll the ring down to the knuckles.

“Wow,um. That is a…” My throat goes dry.

“I'll put it on my cock in a second, but” —he skims the ring from the inside of my knee and up my thigh, the gentle vibrations tensing each muscle— “I wanna see it at work up close.”

Hands clinging to his shoulders, I falter from the next kiss when both fingers slip into me, soft pulsing intensifying as the ring nears my clit.

“You been thinking about me, Indi? Is that why you're so wet, so ready for this?”

I want to sayalways, but barely catch my stolen breath before his mouth veers to my neck and breasts. It settles on my clit and those wicked fingers pump and curl and stretch me.

“Take it all.Fuck, your pussy grips me so well.”

I moan and clench tighter at the praise, face docking to the gray sky overhead.

He edges me, driving me to the peak of pleasure and away from it with every suck on my clit and thrust of his fingers. The vibrating bulb hits the hood of my clit when Landon goes deep, his knuckles rubbing against my entrance.

“Oh, myGod.” My arms and legs gather around him, exploding onto his hand with a muted scream into his shoulder.

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