Chapter 11
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Stacey woke up Saturdaymorning held tightly in Gage’s arms.Her head resting over his heart, which was beating slowly and steady.After Ethan left the night before, she had mentioned dinner and the two sat in bed and ate.She could tell that the events of the day had him worried, hell she had been worried herself.Over dinner they did not talk about the panic attack or her lunch with Grant.Stacey felt her brow furrow as she wrestled with herself.Should they talk about it?Just let it go.
“You’re thinking pretty hard over there babe.”Gage mumbled, tightening his hold on her.
“I didn’t mean to wake you, Gage.”Stacey apologized.
Gage turned his head and looked down at her.“You didn’t wake me.But I could tell you were thinking something over there.Your body tensed up just now.Care to share?”
Stacey sighed, “Gage I don’t want...”
“Babe, I’m fine.You hear me?”he said.When she nodded, he continued.“You want to talk about yesterday.What you and Grant talked about.About my panic attack.”
“If you don’t want to...”she started, but he lay a finger against her lips.
“Tell you what, I think it could actually help.I am no shrink, but my mama always said talking things out was just another way to see the bigger picture.Let’s grab a shower, some coffee and talk.Okay?”he suggested.
“Alright.”She agreed.
Slipping from the bed, they headed for the shower.As the water warmed up, Gage slowly undressed Stacey before undressing himself.They stepped under the hot spray and Gage pulled her into his arms before kissing her slowly.Her arms slid around his waist as she felt her body melting against his.She moaned, feeling his hands sliding over her skin.The heat of the water mixed with the firmness of his touch was heating her blood.
“Gage...”
“Just relax Stacey.”
She moaned as his mouth started traveling down the column of her neck.His tongue sliding over her pulse point making her shiver in delight, gasping his name.When his hands reached up and cupped her breasts, she felt her knees buckle.Her body being held up only by his hands on her breasts and his body behind her.Gage’s fingers started teasing and rolling her nipples.Oh, the man knew how to tease her.To light her blood on fire with a single touch.A kiss.He was the master of her body, and she loved it.
“Touch me, Gage.”She sighed, her back arching, her head rolling back against his shoulder.
“God, I love touching you, Stacey.Feeling you come alive under my hands...”Gage flexed his fingers around her breasts.“My mouth...”he sucked at her neck.
“More yes...”she breathed.
Gage moved one hand down her body.Following the rivulets of water over her flat stomach, teasing the indention of her belly button.When he reached her mound, she cried out, making her hips roll.He banded his left arm around her as he eased a finger into her slowly.He moaned, feeling her slick walls tighten around his finger.“That is, it Stacey.Move your hips.Feel what I’m doing to you.Imagine all the things I can do to you.All the things I want to do to you.”
“Oh, fuck Gage...I’m...”
Gage added a second finger.Sensing she was close, his fingers moved in and out of her faster.Deeper.Pushing her higher and higher.He wanted her to come apart in his arms.Wanted her trembling before he took her even higher.As he thrust his fingers deeper, the shower was filled with her husky voice calling his name, begging for more.Gage was hard as stone when she came for him.Her body shaking in his arms, her head thrown back against his shoulder.
Giving her no time to recover, he spun her around, lifted her off her feet and backed them up so her back was braced against the cool tile of the shower.Her eyes lazily opened and locked with his, as he stepped into the v of her legs.Not taking his eyes off her, Gage stroked himself once.Stroked again then thrust forward sinking into her.Stacey moaned, her nails digging into his shoulders, her body welcoming him.
“Stacey...fuck babe.So tight.”He groaned.
“God, I love you inside me.”She breathed, locking her legs around his waist.“Please Gage.Take me.”
Gage’s restraint vanished with those words.Brutally his lips captured hers.He slapped his palms against the tiled wall and started moving.The gentleness he had started with was gone.In its place was a raw and primitive need, a hunger to take his woman as she asked him to.The way Stacey clung to him and moved with him; told him she was feeling the same thing.No sweet words of love.Only need.Hunger.Desire.
“Gage!Yes, fuck yes...”
“I fucking love you Stacey.Take my cock babe.Take it all.”
“I...I can’t...Gage...now...”
Gage plowed into her faster.He was so wound up now, he was hanging on by a thread.With three more hard deep thrusts, he felt Stacey grip around him seconds before she screamed his name.Gage let himself go then and growled her name as he thrust one last time.The bite of her short nails on his shoulders was a delicious sting as he felt himself empty into her willing body.Fusing them together as one person.Their breaths ragged, mingled, and merged as their bodies slowly came down.Gage shifted and remained intimately connected for a few more moments, before withdrawing from her.Wrapping his arms around her, feeling her body going limp in his arms.He tenderly kissed her, brushing her wet hair from her beautiful face.
“My god.That was...amazing.”Stacey sighed, her feet finally touching the floor.