Page 46 of After Tonight

She sucked in a quick breath, her pupils dilated, and she licked her lips again.

Derek wasn’t sure he’d ever been as turned on in his life. This was crazy. He was used to foreplay, or at least a few hours of flirting at the bar, before getting naked with someone. He and Riley had done none of that.

Or had they had years of foreplay? It had never felt that way before, but now that the whole how-long-have-I-had-feelings-for-Riley question had occurred to him, he couldn’t shake the idea that maybe they’d been headed in this direction for a long time.

“If we do this, things will be…complicated.”

He thought about that. “I don’t know, Ry. This feels really fucking easy.”

“I’m sure girls are always easy for you when you’re brandishing that.” She gestured in the general vicinity of his cock.

And he laughed. “Thanks. But that’s not what I meant.” He took a breath, and sobered slightly. “Being with you is easy. Telling you that I’ve been thinking about your nipples for three days straight is easy. And telling you that I really like you, and that you make me laugh, and that I think you being a computer hacker for the cops is kick-ass, and admitting that I really want you to like my pizza or it’s going to make me doubt everything, is easy. And none of that is easy with anyone else.”

She was staring at him, and Derek absorbed the moment he’d struck Riley Ames speechless.

But a second later she said, “Well, holy shit, Derek.”

He nodded. That summed this all up pretty perfectly. “Yeah.”

She took a breath. “You know what else I think is going to be easy?”

“What?”

“Having multiple orgasms with you.”

He gave a short laugh, again surprised.

“So show me this Sex God stuff, already.”

That’s all he needed to hear. He lowered his head and kissed her.

* * *

Derek Wright was kissing her.

And he was naked.

And he wanted to have sex with her.

Riley’s head was spinning as Derek took her mouth. And he took her mouth. He didn’t go in soft and gentle. With his hands on her face, he pulled her up onto her tiptoes, covered her mouth, and stroked his tongue boldly along her lower lip, demanding entrance.

She gripped his biceps and gladly gave him that entrance. Her whole body was instantly hot and tingly, and she met his strokes with her tongue, suddenly hungry. She arched closer and remembered, happily, that he was already naked. Completely. Gloriously. She had been standing there, talking to him, half teasing and half feeling more vulnerable than she could remember feeling with a guy since maybe high school, and he’d been naked the whole time.

And the guy looked good naked.

But even with six-pack abs and what had to be a good nine inches of Sex God equipment hadn’t kept them from their usual joking. Which felt nice. Right. Comfortable.

And like she had never wanted anyone the way she wanted Derek.

It was as if once she let the thoughts into her head, she couldn’t stop the heat and need from taking over. As soon as she got over how weird it was to kiss him, she was going to enjoy the hell out of this.

And she got over it in about five seconds.

The guy was, at the very least, a Kissing God.

Riley ran her hands up Derek’s arms to his shoulders, then down over his chest. Oh yeah, all the hauling stuff all over town for everyone was a very good thing. For them, of course, but definitely for her right now.

Derek’s hands dropped from her face to her ass, pulling her more firmly up against him. She ran her hands down his rib cage and gripped his waist, also helping get her body closer to his. But there wasn’t quite enough leverage. Or he was too tall. Or something.

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