Page 54 of Caught Stealing

The cool water lapping against my skin does nothing to negate the fire I’ve been consumed in, especially now with our bodies perfectly aligned. It only gets worse when he shifts until my back collides with the wall of the pool, because now, I can feel the hard ridge of his erection against my own with every press and roll of his hips.

It’s possessive, the way he takes control of me. Barbaric and brutal when his teeth scrape over my lips hard enough to draw blood. As if the thread holding together his sense of control has snapped, and he’s suddenly taking all the pent-up lust, anger, and frustration out on me. Channeling it into a kiss I could drown in.

It’s downright erotic, the way I feel it and him in every single nerve ending.

And I never want it to end.

But even in my oxygen-starved state, I know it has to. Soon, or I’ll never break free from this hold he has on me. I’ll let myself be consumed to the point where we complicate things further.

I groan into his mouth before jerking away, needing to distance myself from him. Before this goes further, before we make more mistakes than we’ve already racked up.

Before we do more damage we can’t come back from.

I shake my head, my breathing coming out in heaving pants against his lips.

“Hold—”

“Don’t you dare,” he whispers harshly while tightening his hold on my hip. “You’re not ending this now. I’m not fucking done with you.”

Then he crashes his mouth back to mine, and I drown all over again.

Seventeen

Holden

Every molecule in my being has been lit on fire by Phoenix, and the only thing I want right now is to keep fanning the flames. Keep kissing and touching him until I’m nothing but a pile of ash and debris on the ground at his feet.

From the way he’s kissing me back, full of anger and passion, there’s no doubt in my mind he’s thinking the same thing. It’s also not enough. Nothing will be until he’s as wrecked and shattered as I am; as needy and feral.

And I have no intention of stopping this until that happens.

I break our kiss, only to carry him safely up the steps of the pool before capturing his mouth all over again. My every intention is to get him naked and under me, if only to show him everything he’s been missing by denying this uncontrollable desire coursing between us.

Except the second I step toward the door leading inside, his hand tightens around my forearms and he shakes his head.

“We can’t go inside. Someone will hear us,” he mutters in harsh pants against my lips.

“Well, we can’t stay out here.”

Confusion mars his features as he tries to slip out of my hold, but my fingers tighten on the underside of his thighs to keep his legs locked around my waist. Fuck if he thinks he’s getting out of my grasp right now. He’ll be lucky if I ever let him out of reach ever again, especially when it took this long to get him here in the first place.

“Why not?”

“Because,” I growl as his back collides with one of the columns supporting the carport, “a pool lounger won’t be stable enough for all the things I plan to do to you.”

I catch his arched brow in the dim glow of the pool deck lights. “What makes you think you’re the one who’s gonna be doing anything tome?”

The smirk forming on my lips can’t be helped. Always so damn abrasive, this one.

“If I didn’t know any better, I’d take that as a challenge.”

My hips press into his for emphasis, and the ridge of his erection grinding against my own is something between Heaven and Nirvana. But the fabric from our trunks preventing us from being skin on skin is pure torture.

I need to touch him again—every bare, hard inch of him.

It feels like I might die if I don’t.

An idea takes hold of me, and before he can change his mind and bolt, I walk us the twenty yards toward the outdoor shower, where the edge of the property meets the beach. He either must realize my intention or not care what my plan is, since his lips and teeth start carving a path from my jaw to my collarbone. And thank God it’s not any farther, because, by the time I step into the three-sided bamboo enclosure, my cock is hard enough to cut diamonds.

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