Page 94 of Fall at Once

“Say it,” he ground out. “Say anything, and I’ll do it. I’m yours, Madi. You own me. You steal the breath straight out of my body every time I’m lucky enough to get my hands on you.”

“I want you to take me right here.” Our eyes locked. “Right here, right now, Cole. I need you.”

My heels hit the floor, and he spun me around to kiss my nape. He kissed a meandering trail down my body, unhooking my bra on the way. The garment fell to the side and landed on the floor as he knelt at my feet.

“When I first saw you waving at me with your gorgeous hair blowing in the breeze, I knew.” His words, murmured hotly against my skin, left goose bumps on my spine. “I knew youwould destroy me, consume me, be the end of the life I had known. It scared me, but I held on. Because somehow, I knew if I got lucky, you would put me back together again.”

“Oh god, don’t stop talking.”

“Tell me what you want to hear.”

I didn’t answer. I couldn’t find the words, and why would I try when everything he came up with on his own was about to melt me into a puddle right here at his feet?

He chuckled against my right hip; then he bit me. My knees went weak, and I shivered as his big hands dug into my hips to hold me up. “Don’t give out on me now. I just got started.”

I twisted, reaching down to run a hand into his hair. “Get up here, Cole.” He stood, burying his face in my neck while his fingertips slid into the waistband of my panties.

“I need you naked right now,” he said as his insistent hands cupped my ass to shove them over my hips. I kicked them aside with a groan.

“God, yes.”

“I want to make you feel as good as I do.” He reached low, bringing my leg up to wrap around his waist before slipping a finger inside me. “You’re so wet. You want me. You really want me.” His voice broke with vulnerability. “This is real, isn’t it?”

“It’s real.” I cupped his cheeks in my palms. “I’ll always want you, Cole.”

“I love you.” He drew back, slipping his finger into his mouth with a dirty smirk.

“You—” An involuntary moan shot escaped before I couldgather my thoughts enough to speak. “God, the cats are watching us. Let’s go to my room.”

He took my hand and pulled me after him.

I shut the door behind us with a decisive slam.

“Okay. Time to get naked,” I demanded.

“Condom?”

“I’m safe—I’m on the pill. Get inside me, Cole. I need to feel you again.”

“Anything you want…” He stood and quickly stripped off the rest of his clothes before slipping his hands beneath my ass to lift me against the door.

He entered me with one hard thrust, and I sighed against his neck as he pressed his chest against mine.

“It feels like coming home whenever I’m inside of you,” he growled into my ear, ruffling my hair with his breath. “I’ve never felt like this.”

I wound my arms around his shoulders as he drove into me. “I feel it too.” I was powerless in his arms as he made love to me, unable to move save for the rippling pulse of my impending orgasm. “I need more. I want to touch you too. Let’s go to bed.”

“Hold on to me.” I held him tight as he walked us across the room, put me down near the window, and spun me to face it.

“I’ve been fantasizing about seeing you like this. With me.” His big arm banded around my waist, hand digging into the flesh of my hip.

I twisted back to look at him. “Yes, anything.” I breathed.

He held my chin and took my mouth in a hard kiss. “Thiswindow is perfect. Look at us.”

I turned and saw us in the glass. A riot of lights from the street below dotted our reflection, and I gasped as his hand snaked around to cup my breast.

“Now you can see for yourself how much I want you. How fucking beautiful you are. And how I’ll never let you go again.”

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