Page 27 of Echoes in the Night

Need pulses through my whole body. I close my eyes. It’s like a lightning rod straight to my pussy. My knees go weak.

“Hands on my shoulders,” he demands.

Wrapping his other arm around my waist, he holds me up until he’s gotten his fill. Turning me slightly he switches our position so he can tease and taunt my other breast.

“Jax. Jax, I ache. I need you. I need you in me.”

He stands with me still held against him and tosses back the covers. One handed he pulls his shirt over his head and pushes his pants to the floor. Then flops backwards onto the bed with me splayed over him.

“Then take me, babe. I’m all yours.”

I skim my palm over his closely shorn hair. Dark, rich and soft, I love the feel. His beard is a little rougher but not coarse.

His lips are warm against mine yet demanding. As if he’s starving for me. Sucking and teasing, our tongues battle and retreat. Sliding lower, I study the tattoos on his massive chest and arm. Someday I’ll ask him to explain each one. Now I’m absorbed in the strength and power of this man who is so gentle with me.

I don’t doubt his warrior side. I’ve seen it in the anger he’s tried to hide at how my family has treated me. Heaven help the man who attempted to kill me if Jax catches him.

Jax will always be my protector, my anchor, my love. Kissing a path over his chest, I lick a nipple then suck the tight little bud. He inhales sharply. I like that I can get a reaction from him, too.

Working my way lower I trace his happy trail to my destination. He groans and his hips flex when I wrap my hand around his girth. He’s larger than my grasp. Hard and longerthan I realized. I lick the top, running my tongue around his hood before tentatively sucking him into my mouth.

“Babe, don’t try to take it all. Only what feels good to you.”

I pull back and look up to him. He has one arm over his head, his hand locked around a spindle of the headboard. His other is at his side, blanket fisted in his white knuckled grip. It makes me happy that he’s fighting for control. Since he so easily makes me lose all thought when he’s loving me.

“You mean kind of like a bomb pop, only warmer?” I smile at his raspy chuckle, suddenly confident that I can please him, too. Circling the head again, I take him again and again slowly building my comfort zone.

“God damn, babe, that’s good. But I need to be inside you.” Slipping his hands under my arms he slides me up his body and rolls us until he’s on top. He fumbles with the drawer of the bedside table.

“What are you doing?”

“Condom. Found the condoms.”

I still his hand. “Do you want children, Jax?”

He meets my gaze. “With you, yes. But I won’t rush you. When you’re ready.”

“Leave it. Tonight, I just want it to be us.”

Chapter Seventeen

Jax

“Keep your eyes on mine. I want to watch you as I make love to you. And babe, this is love.”

Teasing her clit before using one finger, then two, I make sure she’s nice and slick before I slowly slide my cock into her. She’s so tight at first but once she relaxes it’s like we were made for each other.

The deeper I pump the harder she squeezes me. “God babe, you own me.”

“I love you, Jaxon. I love you.”

“I love you, Maura. I love you with everything in me, you are my life. No matter what you need, no matter where you need to be. I’ll be there with you. This is forever, babe.”

Touching her nub with my thumb, I capture her scream of release with my lips before following her over the edge.

“This dinner is great, babe.”

“I can tell. That’s your third helping.” She smiles, glancing at the remaining two biscuits. “I’m going to have to start tripling the biscuit batches.”

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