Page 59 of Better Late Than Never

I nodded. “Okay. We’re going to go back out there,” I whispered, gesturing vaguely toward the rest of the club. “And we’re going to dance. With other people. If anyone from the base is here…” I shook my head. “They won’t think anything of it.”

Alex licked his lips. “And after we leave?”

“I’m staying at the Casa Chueca. Room 53.” I slipped a card key into his back pocket as I whispered, “Please come fuck me.”

The moan that escaped his lips was full of more wanton hunger than I’d ever heard before. “Did you bring condoms?”

“And lube.”

Alex squirmed. “Goddammit, I want to go now.”

“Me too.”

Our eyes locked.

“Do we really have to go out and pretend we want to be with other people?” he asked. “I mean, what do you think the odds are of someone from the base being here?”

I chewed my lip. “Probably pretty fucking slim.”

“Uh-huh. Exactly.” He slid his hand down over the front of my pants, making me groan with need. “How about you get your ass back to your hotel, get naked, and I’ll be there in half an hour?”

“You think I can wait half an hour to get fucked?”

He grinned, though his own desperation gleamed in his eyes. “I can wait if you can.”

I was pretty sure that half hour was going to make me go up in flames.

But Alex would definitely be worth the wait.

CHAPTER18

ALEX

Telling him I’d be there in thirty minutes had been a mistake. If I’d said fifteen minutes, I’d be balls deep in him by now. One of us might have even come already.

But no, I was milling around on the sidewalk in front of his hotel, glaring at my phone and willing the last seven minutes to go by.

Connor was in there. Right now. In his room, probably on his bed, naked and ready for me to dick him down like I’d beendyingto do. And what was I doing? Standing out here like an idiot.

Fuck it. I had five minutes now—somehow I didn’t think Connor would mind if I showed up a little early. Not if the absolute“get your pants off and your dick in me”in his eyes had been anything to do by.

I jogged up the hotel’s front steps and strode across the lobby. The elevator crawled down, because of course it did, and as soon as the doors were open, I jumped inside and jabbed the button for the fifth floor. I didn’t think I’d ever been more aware of all the grinding and groaning of an elevator’s mechanisms; it was just impossible to ignore this time how fucking slowly they were doing their thing. Or maybe time had just slowed down because I needed to get into that man’s roomright the fuck now.

Mercifully, it got me to the right floor before the sun burned out, and I squeezed out through the slowly separating doors. I followed the numbered doors until I reached Connor’s. Once there, I double-checked I’d come to the right room, tapped the keycard against the reader, and when the light turned green, I pushed open the door.

Oh.Hell.

Connor lay back on the bed, completely naked with his hard cock in his hand. He watched me with hooded eyes as he stroked himself slowly, and I barely remembered how to shut and deadbolt the door behind me.

“Oh my God,” I whispered.

“Come here,” he ordered. “Doesn’t do either of us any good if you’re all the way over there.”

“No,” I murmured as I started unbuttoning my shirt, “but I gotta say—the view is?—”

“Alex.”He squirmed on the bed. “Please.”

I didn’t need to be told a third time. Shirt half-unbuttoned, I crawled onto the bed and on top of him. With his free hand, Connor grabbed my shirt and dragged me down to him, meeting me in a deep, needy kiss. It had only been half an hour since we’d been making out beside the men’s room, but I swore it felt like we hadn’t touched in years. Every nerve ending in my body lit up with desire as we kissed and pawed at each other. When was the last time I’d been with a man who could kiss me right into oblivion like this?

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