I looked up at the ceiling, then at her. “I gotta thank you and God.”

She raised a brow, but rather than ask what I meant, she removed her clothes in the same order she had mine. Once naked, she pulled the covers over us and pressed her nude body against mine.

I couldn’t say whether it was her bare skin touching mine or my relief that my cock chose this particular moment to work again, but I immediately sobered up.I reached around her to the drawer of the bedside table and pulled out a condom.

“Let me,” she said, taking the packet from my hand.

Every muscle in my body tensed, and I squeezed my eyes closed when I felt her fingers touch me. “Juni, I?—”

She leaned forward and swirled her tongue around my nipple as she rolled the latex down my shaft. I grabbed her wrists and shifted both of us so she was on her back. I let go, spread her legs, and eased my body down hers until my mouth was close enough for me to take my first taste. Before I did, I looked up at her.

“I love you, Juni.”

She smiled and ran her fingers through my hair. “I love you, Cord.”

I scooted farther down, then kissed from the inside of her knee up her thigh, then repeated it on her other leg. Using the fingers of both hands, I spread her open, then licked from her opening to her clit. When I swirled it with my tongue, then clamped my mouth to her and sucked, she came off the bed. I wrapped my arms around her legs to hold her still, then continued to ravish her pussy, fucking her with my tongue in the same way I soon would with my cock, settling her legs over my shoulders so I could reachup and cup her breasts. I caught each nipple between my thumb and forefinger, pulling until she cried out and her essence flooded my tongue.

Unable to wait a moment longer, I raised my body, positioned my hardness where my tongue had been and thrust into her as deep as I could go. Her hands gripped my arms, and her fingernails dug into my flesh.

When she writhed, I stilled her, then raised my head and looked into her eyes.

“The very first time you blushed and lowered your gaze, I thought about this. I wanted to fuck you then, Juni. It was all I could do not to sweep you off your feet, take you back to the inn, and strip you bare. Every minute I spent with you only made me want you more. But as difficult as it was to wait, I’m so glad we did.”

Her eyes were wide. “You are?”

I nodded. “Do you want to know why?”

She nodded too.

I began to move, slowly at first. “Because, the way this feels, knowing you love me as much as I love you, transcends everything else I’ve ever known.” I increased my tempo, and Juni clung to me. “I long for the day there is nothing between us. When I can fill you and truly make you mine.”

She wrapped her legs around me and pressed deeper, harder, and faster.

“Come, Juniper. Let me feel you.”

She cried out my name as her pussy clenched me, and her wetness drenched us both. Her skin glowed with the sheen of our combined sweat, and her eyes, at first glassy and unfocused, bored into mine.

“Let me feel you now, Cord.”

When I started to move again, she put her hands on the cheeks of my butt, stilling me.

“Really feel you.”

I studied her.

“Make me yours tonight. I don’t want to wait. Unless…”

I pulled out of her body, reached between us, removed the condom, then rubbed the head of my penis back and forth, coating myself.

“You’re sure this is what you want?”

“If you do.”

I couldn’t wait a moment more. When I eased myself into her, knowing for the first time in my life how it felt to be flesh to flesh, with nothing between us, I knew I wouldn’t last. “Wrap yourlegs around me,” I demanded as much as said. When she did, I thrust hard again and again. “Come with me, Juniper.Now.”

I felt her squeeze me, drenching me like she had before, at the same time I buried my face between her shoulder and jaw, nearly weeping as the most powerful climax I’d ever experienced had me shuddering.

Juni held me tight with both her arms and legs. Her fingers stroked my skin, and she leaned up to brush the side of my face with her lips. I turned my head, brought my mouth to hers, and we kissed.