He didn’t realize the truth was there until it left his mouth. He’d never imagined leaving his team behind, his home, his family. But wherever Rae was, that was where he needed to be. The rest could figure itself out later.
“Saint—”
Reluctance laced her voice, but he didn’t think it was reluctance to be with him.
“No, Rae.” He slid his hands down her neck, savoring the caress of her skin, along her chest, over the full mounds, all the way down to the curves of her waist. “I’m a big boy, and I can make up my own mind. I don’t care where we are as long as you’re mine. I want you to be mine.” His hands clenched. “I need you to be mine more than I need anything else in this world.”
She stared a moment longer, and he wondered if she realized her hands had migrated to his biceps, holding on to him as hard as he was holding on to her. And then her grip relaxed and she moved them to his chest, right over his straining nipples. The light rub of her palms pulled a shaky gasp from him.
“I want you to be mine too,” she finally whispered, the words shaky, almost afraid. She leaned in, her breath warming his skin before she planted a kiss between her palms. “Is it possible for that to go both ways?”
“What?” he croaked.
“The ‘being mine.’”
“Not only possible, but essential.” The last word was half groaned as her tongue flicked out to taste him.
Despite his grip on her waist, Rae slid lower, planting a kiss at his navel on the way to her knees. Her fingers got busy with the catch to his fatigues, but it was her solemn stare that held his attention. “I think I’m falling in love with you too, Saint.”
He didn’t quibble over thethink—she could think as long as she wanted to, given her circumstances, but in his heart he knew the truth. Rae was his woman. They’d figure out the future later.
His zipper slid down, and Rae pulled his fatigues and boxers to the floor together. His cock, stiff and aching, pointed the way home. Rae opened her mouth and took him in.
“Holy fuck!” His eyes closed and his head fell back and he dug his fingers into Rae’s hair. The wet warmth of her mouth was heaven on his swollen head. A tiny burst of precum left him, and she moaned as she sucked it away. “Rae! Christ, mi amor…”
She let him pop from her mouth. “I love it when you speak Spanish with me.”
His chuckle was strained. “Get your mouth back on me and I’ll do it some more.”
Rae went back to what she was doing with enthusiasm, and he did as promised, murmuring endearments and curse words and flat-out pleas with every passing second. He did all that he could to stave off his orgasm, until he was sweating and panting and his fingers felt permanently tangled in Rae’s curls. When his crumbling control couldn’t take a moment more, he drew her away, bending at the waist to kiss her with every ounce of hunger burning inside him.
“On the bed, beautiful.”
A sexy, self-satisfied grin curved her lips as she complied. Along the way, her jeans were pushed down and kicked off, as well as her socks. Her panties followed, and Saint nearly swallowed his tongue when she bent over in front of him to tug them off. That ass… He couldn’t resist a firm smack to one round cheek. A yelp escaped Rae’s mouth before she climbed onto the bed, the dusky pink folds between her legs peeking back at him. He gripped the base of his cock and squeezed hard, willing the rising need to climax back as Rae unclasped her bra, turned to lay on her back, and drew the fabric from her body.
For the longest moment, all he could do was stare. He was a damn lucky man.
With a firm stroke along his length, he growled down at his woman, “You are the sexiest thing I’ve ever seen, cariño.”
“Then we’re a good match, since I feel the same way about you. Bring that sexy ass over here, Saint.”
She opened her arms and legs to him, and he grabbed a condom from his pants, tore it open, and went willingly, desperate for the feel of her bare skin against his. Wishing he could feel it everywhere even has he protected her. After rolling on the latex, he settled over her, notching their sexes together, his rock-hard cock sliding sweetly between her creamy folds, and they both moaned at how good it felt, like two pieces of a puzzle finally coming together after too long apart. Saint couldn’t resist thrusting, enjoying the slick glide up, then back down to tease her clit with the head of his cock.
Rae clutched at his back, her words a long groan. “Saint, please…” Her legs folded over his ass, her ankles crossed behind him. “Saint!”
She pulled his head down and guided him to one taut, chocolate-brown nipple. His mouth watered as he took her inside.
“Yes, yes! That’s so good.”
He tunneled one arm beneath them, forcing her pelvis harder against his, and the other circled beneath her shoulder, bracing her body for his thrusts. Time lost all meaning as Rae took over his world—the taste of her, the scent of her skin, her sex, the sound of her pleasure ringing in his ears. His mind spun out the years ahead, an eternity to be consumed with this one woman, and his soul sent out a resoundingyesin response. He no longer needed anyone but Rae, and as he bit down gently on the rigid nub in his mouth and notched his cock at her opening, eager to drive inside, her cries told him she felt the same.
Her body opened reluctantly to the push of his thick sex. “Every time, Rae,” he rasped against her breast. “Every damn time feels like the first time.” He pulled back, then entered her again, this time fast and hard. “It feels like heaven.”
She drove her fingers into his hair and pulled his mouth up to meet hers. “This is heaven,” she gasped. “I need more.”
He sat up, planting his fists on either side of her body as he drove his knees beneath hers. “I can give you more.” Staring down at where they were joined, he began to piston inside her. “Touch yourself, Rae. Let me see you give yourself pleasure.”
Shyly at first, then with a hint of desperation, she set her fingers to her clit and began to circle the tender bud. His name was a breathless cry on her lips as she arched up to meet every thrust. Her free hand went to her breast and pinched down on her swollen nipple.