Page 64 of Just Business

I take the stairs two at a time, flinging my bedroom door open to see a groggy Penny lying in the middle of my bed and everything inside of me roarsmine. She’s still wrapped in the beach towel, her chest and shoulders tinged pink—and she’s absolutely perfect.

I stand in my doorway, chest heaving at the sight of her. She sits up in bed and a small smile curves up on one side of her mouth.

“Take the towel off.” I stalk toward her until I’m standing at the foot of my bed.

Her smile grows wider as she removes one side of the towel.

“Penny.” My voice is low. Desire is coursing through me, my heart jackhammering behind my ribcage.

She pulls aside the other half of the towel, and rests back on her elbows. I drink her in, dragging my eyes up and down her body from those yellow toes up to that damn yellow bikini that will be my undoing. It’s held on by nothing but flimsy little ties that would only take a couple of tugs and she’d be bare to me.

With a few quick movements, I’m hovering above her, my arms on either side of her head.

I lower down and suck her bottom lip into my mouth, and when I release it, her eyes have gone hazy.

“I’ve been losing my mind all fucking day. I’ve never packed an apartment so quickly in my entire life.”

With one arm still holding myself up, I take the other and reach behind her head, tugging those tiny strings until they’re finally loose, and drag them so that her top comes down, exposing those beautiful breasts with those perfectly pink nipples. Penny leans up, reaching around to unhook the band of it, letting it fall to the floor beside us.

“Lie back down,” I command, and she lifts one eyebrow, smirking.

“You really are bossy today.”

Instead of responding, I lean down, circling my tongue around one nipple, while grazing the edge of my thumb around the tender flesh of the other. The sweetest little gasps fall from her lips as she arches up into me. Groaning, I swap sides and do the same with the other nipple, sucking it into my mouth allowing the edge of my teeth to graze back and forth before taking it back in my mouth.

With one hand, she reaches down, stroking me through my gym shorts.

“Fuuuck,” I groan out. “Baby, if you keep doing that I’m afraid you’ll be real disappointed by how quickly this ends. You hear me?”

But the devil woman she is, gives my cock one more stroke, flashing me a teasing grin. That grin fades when I hook my thumb into the waistband of her bikini bottoms, and drag them down her legs, kissing my way down with them.

Rising on my knees, I rake my eyes down Penny’s body, naked for me to see.

“You’re next,” she says, nodding her head toward my shorts where my aching cock is straining against the fabric.

Standing, I reach behind my head and tug off my shirt, dropping it to the ground with her swimsuit. When I lower my shorts and boxer briefs, my cock springs free. My eyes track her tongue when it darts from her mouth to lick her bottom lip.

The air around us is thick with tension as we openly admire each other’s naked bodies. Completely exposed to one another. Hers is the most exquisite body I’ve ever laid eyes on, with her soft middle leading down to thighs that have the faintest traces of beautiful silver stretch marks.

In two steps, I’m back in bed, hovering over her. I don’t want to interrupt this moment with awkward discussion, but the thought of not having her bare physically pains me.

Reaching up to tuck one lock of her auburn hair behind her ear, I take in a breath and just say it.

“Listen, I know this is awkward to talk about right now, but if we’re doing this, you need to know. I was tested during my tour. I haven’t been with anyone since that day.”

Penny chews her bottom lip and a pang of worry hits me in the chest. Did I just single-handedly decimate this moment? She starts to turn her face, but I gently catch her chin, guiding her back so our eyes are locked.

“Don’t let your thoughts go there for even a second. You have no fucking clue what you mean to me. No clue.”

Her throat works on a swallow when my words land, her eyes bouncing between mine.

“Also,” I say, embarrassed by what I’m about to admit. “I don’t know how long I’ll last. I mean, you’re—well, you’re you.” I allow my eyes to flick up and down her body, repeating the words she said to me a few nights ago. Her chest and neck flush an even darker shade of pink than they already are.

Penny lets out a giggle, probably due to nerves, and I lean down to capture it with my mouth.

“I’m on the pill,” she says when I pull away. “I don’t know why I’ve stayed on it, since it’s been years for me. I’ve been on it since I was sixteen and I’m meticulous. I don’t miss it.”

“My little rule follower,” I say against her mouth.

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