I didn’t know what I was doing but it wasn’t hard to figure out how to press Shep’s thick length against my core and then sink down on it. I winced when he stretched my achy body but the pleasure was worth the slight pain. Once I was sitting on his thighs again with his cock buried inside me, I wrapped my arms around his neck and let out a shaky breath as I smiled.

“Is this okay?”

He laughed but it was strained.

“Yeah, baby, it’s okay. It’s more than okay. You feel so fucking good around me. You can sit here like this all night as long as you’re not hurting.”

I studied his face and stroked my fingers over the parts I was just getting to notice. The freckles across his nose, the few streaks of silver in his beard that I could only see up that close, the way his green eyes were so much deeper than mine. Tracing his ears, I did something I’d wanted to do for too long. I leaned forward and ran my tongue along the shell of his ear before gently biting the lower lobe. He had the best ears that stuck out just enough to be called cute.

He shuddered under me and gripped my butt tighter.

“What are you doing to me, Maxie?”

I kissed along his jaw and finally reached his lips. Running my tongue over the seam of them, I moaned when he opened for me and flexed his hips. I explored his mouth, running my tongueover his teeth and twirling it against his tongue. I took my time doing things I’d only ever imagined as a desperate teenager dreaming of the same man impaling me with his cock.

His bearded chin and jaw tickled my mouth as I kissed down to the tattoo of the ship on his strong upper arm. Tracing the outline of it with my tongue, I looked up at him and watched as I moved over and scraped my teeth over his chest. His nostrils flared and his hands moved to my waist, gripping me tight.

“You’re close to getting yourself fucked hard, sweetheart.” His voice was full of gravel as he stared me down. “A man can only take so much.”

Moving my hands to his lower stomach, I braced myself as I rolled my hips. Rolling them back let a few inches of his long cock slide free and then I took them all back inside when I rolled forward again. The movement rubbed my clit against his stomach and made my eyes roll with pleasure. I couldn’t help sinking my teeth into my bottom lip as I watched him through heavily lidded eyes.

“You’re going to kill me, Maxie. Jesus, you shouldn’t have this much power as a newly deflowered virgin.” Grasping my breasts, Shep rolled my nipples between his thumbs and pointer fingers. “Make yourself come using my body, baby. Get off on me.”

Moaning, I did just that. I rode him in short, jerky strokes until I came with his name on my lips. Before I caught my breath, Shep had me suspended over his hips by my waist and he was power thrusting into me from below. The force shook my body and all I could do was hang on as he took me the way he needed. Water sloshed over the edge of the bathtub but the splashing was covered up by the breathy whine he fucked from me. I reached a desperate hand down and stroked my tender clit until I was coming again. Shep followed me over and then we both sank into the cooling bath water, breathing hard and stillmoaning as our bodies continued to rub together from the force of the sloshing water.

He lifted his foot and kicked the hot water on.

“Fuck, Maxie.”

I let out a breathy laugh.

“I had no idea I could orgasm so many times.”

He groaned.

“Don’t tempt me to show you just how many more you can have.”

I rested my head on his chest and slowly stuck my tongue out to lick water droplets from his skin.

“This is fun. I think I’m going to enjoy letting myself live a little.”

“If this is you living just a little, we might be in trouble if you ever decide to really let your hair down.” He reached over and grabbed a bottle of shampoo. “Now I’m going to do what I came in here to do. I meant to take care of you and make sure you’re not too sore. Instead, I fucked you again.”

I groaned when he tipped my head back, gripping the back of my neck with one hand to support me and pouring water over my hair with the other. He brought me back up and then slowly massaged the shampoo into my hair.

After he washed and conditioned my hair, he used a washcloth and took his time washing my body. It seemed to go on forever and I was in heaven. Not even riding Bob had ever managed to get me to that state of relaxed.

“I don’t know what made you change your mind last night, Maxie, but I’m fucking glad you did.” Brushing his mouth over my throat, Shep slowly pulled out of my sore body and helped me to my feet. “You’re meant to be here with us, sweetheart.”

I frowned as he dried me off and pulled a massive t-shirt over my head that smelled like him. Changed my mind?

“What do you mean?”

CHAPTER 33

Arlo

I exchanged a concerned look with Rhett as we charged upstairs towards the sound of arguing. We’d left Shep in bed with Maxie. How the hell he’d managed to end up in a shouting match, I had no clue. I pushed the door open just as Maxie shouted at Shep.