Page 66 of Fractured Trust

Noah gritted his teeth. “Do you have any idea how good you feel?”

Summer propped herself up on her elbows, so she could look down at where they were joined, causing her to flex around him. His cock pulsed, and he knew he wasn’t going to last long.

Noah withdrew, a long excruciatingly slow movement that had flames licking across his skin. Summer let her head fall back, her hips rolling up against him. “More, Noah. I need more,” she panted.

Noah huffed out a pained laugh. “You don’t know what you’re asking. It’ll be over before it’s begun.”

In response, she squeezed around him so tightly he hissed. “Fuck, you’re going to be the death of me.” But he did what she asked, pulling out and then slamming back into her. Summer dropped back down flat on the mattress, raising her other leg, and hooking it around his hips. Her heel pressed into him and he lost all restraint. His strokes took on a fast, driving rhythm. Summer cried out, her voice growing louder as he held her on the edge of release until she was almost sobbing.

Tension built low and deep inside Noah, heat spreading fast through his body. His fingers dug into her hip. “I need you to come for me, Summer.”

Noah bent down and swirled his tongue around her nipple before drawing it deep. He pumped into her until her body went as taut as a bow beneath him, then he raked his teeth over the hard peak, and she shattered. Her internal muscles spasmed around him, and he drove into her even faster, until with a curse, he jerked his hips forward, slamming into her as he erupted, molten pleasure scorching through his veins in what felt like a never-ending wave.

He crushed his mouth to hers, his tongue thrusting deep as she trembled around him. When his pulse finally slowed from its frantic pounding, he pulled back to look at her. His lips curved up at the sight of her shining, heavy-lidded eyes. Still half-hard, he gave a couple of leisurely pumps, groaning long and deep as she reflexively tightened around him. Then he leaned down and whispered against her lips. “We’re only getting started.”

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“I have to get dressed, Noah. I have to leave soon to catch my flight,” Summer sighed.

Noah grumbled and cinched his arm tighter around her. “Can’t you stay with me? There’s only two weeks of the tour left; you can come with us. Connor and Lexie have the bedroom at the back of the bus, but the bunk isn’t too bad. We can make it work.”

Summer ran her fingers through his hair. “Believe me, I’d love to spend the next two weeks with you, but I need to get back to work. Eden and I only flew in for this one night, just so I could talk to you in person, and she wanted to see Tex again, too.”

He propped himself up on one elbow and looked down at her, his eyes roaming over her face, suppressing the urge to grin smugly at her sated expression. “Not that I’m complaining, but why did you change your mind? My whole plan was to just make sure you knew I was still with you until I could get back to L.A. and pursue you relentlessly.” He smiled, brushing his thumb over her lower lip, swollen from his kisses. Then he grew more serious. “And are you sure you’re going to be okay with everything? Because what I said before stands. If you need me to leave this behind, I will. I’ll walk away and I won’t regret it because I’ll have you.” He dropped his hand, so he could trace patterns over the soft skin of her breasts, his finger circling closer and closer to her tightening nipple as he waited to hear her reply.

She turned her eyes toward him and reached up to touch his face. “I will never take this away from you, Noah. I couldn’t live with myself.” She paused. “And I’ve been seeing a therapist. About my… issues. My insecurities aren’t gone; I’m not sure they’ll ever be completely gone. But I’m working on it, every day, to make sure I don’t make the same mistakes again. I hurt you, and I hurt myself, and we lost eleven years, because of me.”

She took a deep, shuddery breath. “Now I need to learn to trust myself again, too. But I’m going to. And I’m going to fight every day to hold on to you. I don’t want to get to the end of my life regretting the chances I didn’t take. I have too many regrets as it is. I want to know that I gave my heart without reservation. I want to know that I loved with everything I had—without fear. And the only man I want to do that with is you.”

He pressed his lips to hers, his tongue sweeping into her mouth, stroking against hers. Then he pulled back, one corner of his mouth hooking up. “So does that mean you’re officially my girlfriend again?”

She fluttered her lashes at him. “Are you asking me to go steady with you, Noah Taylor?”

His grin grew wider. “I’m asking you to be mine. For as long as you can put up with me.”

“I’ve always been yours,” she said, a soft vulnerability in her eyes.

Noah brushed his thumb along her jaw, then drifted it over her lower lip. “That’s good to hear, Sunshine. Because you own me. You have since the first time we met.” Her eyes went glossy, and he cupped the back of her head and brought her to him for a long, searing kiss. Then gathering her close, he buried his nose in the crook of her neck and breathed her in. Fuck, he didn’t want her to go. He hated the thought that he was going to have to wait another two weeks to see her again.

Sooner than he hoped, she was sighing and pulling away. She climbed out of the bunk and gathered her clothes, then dressed quickly. He climbed out after her and pulled on his jeans. Just in time too because there was a loud thumping on the side of the bus and a few seconds later, the door opened and Connor, Zac, Tex, Lexie, and Eden piled in. Connor winked at him. “Thought we should give you some warning,”

“We appreciate it.” Noah grinned as he finished pulling his shirt over his head.

His sister wandered over to him and wrapped her arms around him. He hugged her back. “Thanks for bringing her, short stuff.”

She looked up at him, blue eyes sparkling. “My pleasure. I’m just glad it all worked out for the best. You two are meant for each other.”

He looked over at where Summer was chatting to Connor and Lexie and couldn’t stop the frisson of nerves that shuddered through him. “I just hope she’s really going to be okay with this. I’m terrified that between now and me getting back from the tour, she’ll change her mind. I did offer to quit, but she didn’t want me to.”

Eden’s brows shot skyward. “You offered to give up drumming?”

Noah rubbed the back of his neck. “Yeah, that’s what caused her to break it off before I left. I still would, in a heartbeat, if that’s what she needs.”

Eden shook her head. “Wow,” she breathed. “I get where she’s coming from. Not the bit where she broke your heart. But not wanting you to quit; I’m with her one hundred percent. Summer knows as well as I do that drumming is who you are. If you gave it up, she’d have to live with the knowledge that being with her meant you had to lose part of what makes you who you are. Do you actually think that would ever make a person like Summer happy?”

“I just want her to know she’s safe with me. I thought if I’m not going out on the road, she’d feel better about us.”

“Noah, you can’t give up what you love to assuage her fears. The only thing you can do is be there for her. To show her that no matter what else is happening in your life, she’s your priority. And yes, you guys have it even harder than Connor and Lexie and me and Tex because you’re touring with FracturedandCrossfire. But look at her.” She pointed across the length of the living area to where Summer was saying goodbye to the others. “She’s here, she knows who you are and what that means for her, and she’s here anyway, fighting for what she wants; even if the only person she has to fight is herself.”

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