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I yanked her suit down, one plump nipple popping out of the fabric and then the other. I had my mouth on them, slipping a hand between her legs when my hips fell away from her.

“You’re so fucking hot, Jill. How the fuck was I supposed to resist you?” My hand cupped her pussy, heat radiating against my palm before I teased two fingers past the seam and between her folds.

“Oh god,” she cried out, her head tipping back as her eyes slammed shut.

Every sound she made struck me like a tuning fork, vibrating through me until I was shaking with the need to make her come. I hadn’t needed to see a woman come undone under my hand this bad in… ever. Jill was tapping into some part of me I’d never hit before. A hunger and yearning swelling in my chest and in my groin until I was blind to anything but her.

“Come for me,” I demanded, sucking her tit into my mouth and tapping my teeth around the sensitive bud. She bucked against me as I rubbed her clit in long, hard strokes and her nails dug deeper into my shoulders.

“I’m so close,” she choked out, her breasts heaving, my mouth clamping on as I sucked and licked and nipped.

“Let me feel it.” I glided two fingers into her, the slick hot skin tight around them as I pressed my thumb to her clit. I worked her as my own hips pulsed beneath the water.

“Oh fuck. Oh god.Grady.” Jill’s hands clamped around my neck, her face buried hard against my throat as the orgasm rocked through her. Every pulse, every tremor hit me and drove me until I nearly came right there with her.

Jill’s body sagged against me, her weight landing heavy on my shoulders for a split second before she jolted in my arms. “I’m sorry,” she said, propping herself back on the edge of the pool.

Wrapping an arm around her waist I yanked her away from the wall, so she had to put all her weight on me. “Don’t you dare,” I panted, my body still high on the satisfaction of making her fall apart.

“But,” Jill slipped a hand between us, closing her fingers carefully around the steel rod in my shorts. “We’re not done.”

I laughed, leaning back to catch the beet red of her cheeks and the playful desire in her eyes. “I’m game if you—” I stopped short as headlights flashed across the top of the wall behind her. “Fuck.”

Jill’s eyes whipped up to the cascade of yellow lights as they moved around the room, coming to a stop facing the building.Someone was there.

“I swear to god if he . . .” Jill’s words faded out, but we both knew who she was talking about. Joey was known to patrol town facilities after dark. If he spotted our cars . . .

Jill swam to the stairs, faster than me, as I struggled to fight the water that felt thicker and meaner without her in my arms. She stopped at the bottom step, turning back and holding out a hand to me.

“Go,” I hissed, hating that I was slowing her down.

“No.” She shook her head, taking a step closer and taking my hand as soon as I was within reach. It was a small thing, but her not leaving me there hit me. Getting caught by Joey would be epically bad, but a flood of emotion washed over me knowing Jill wasn’t willing to leave me alone in the water. I squeezed her hand so tight she looked back at me with worry on her face.

“I’m okay,” I reassured her, pulling myself up the steps as she did. We heard the door to the gym close and I scrambled toward the bench, throwing her towel at her. “Go,” I hissed and this time she listened, disappearing into the womens’ locker room seconds before the door to the pool swung open.

“Hey man,” Reggie said as he walked in, his chest puffed up and his smile disgustingly wide. “I wanted to check in, make sure you had everything you needed.”

Nothing was better at shutting down a boner than imminent demise, but I cursed under my breath and pulled at the fabric sucking against my groin anyway. I turned, reaching for my own towel. “Yeah, I’m good.”

It was times like these that I hated fans. I’d never admit it, even under the threat of torture, cause without them we’d be nowhere. But fucking hell. I could still feel Jill’s fingers around my cock. And it felt fucking amazing. I’d give anything to have had ten more minutes of that sweet, perfect, completely forbidden moment.

Cause there was no way I was ever going to have another like it.

CHAPTER 16

JILL

Iwaited until I heard the voices die down, pressing myself against the wall as if whoever it was might come check the locker room for someone else. I knew the timbre of my brother’s voice, and it wasn’t him, thank god. But when it finally went silent I changed out of my wet suit and slipped out the back door. I’d parked between the dumpsters just in case Joey had come by on his stupid patrol. The town didn’t contract with him to do it, he just liked to. The man loved his job a little too much.

It felt awkward not saying goodbye to Grady. But it also felt like it would have been just as awkwardtosay goodbye to Grady. My cheeks grew hot just thinking about what had happened in that pool.

I knew Adam wasn’t a great lover. And I’d only had a few other experiences before him. But nothing compared to what had happened with Grady. It had to be the forbidden nature of it all. That was my only explanation. Well, either that or the decade or more I’d pined for the man. But Grady Holloway had done exactly what I’d always feared; ruined me for other men.

And he hadn’t even fucked me.

Which was why two days later I was forced to wear a blazer at our next event; I needed to cover the sweaty pits that were going to be a given now any time I was around the man. Stupid nervous system.

“We’re so grateful you chose our hospital for one of your readings, Mr. Holloway. The kids in this ward are all undergoing extensive treatments, so they don’t get out much and it can be a bit boring for them.”

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