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“That sounds so cliché.” She rolled hereyes—something she enjoyed doing.
“Cliché or not, it’s true. I won’t lie. Ourmeeting wasn’t by chance. I placed myself behind you at thatairport so there was no way we couldn’t meet. I’ve been off-balanceever since.”
Her eyes widened. “You did? I thought youwere just checking out the flight schedules.”
“I was checking you out.” He winked.“Something about you drew me to you the minute I walked throughthose sliding doors. And after just a few hours, I wasn’t going tolet you go despite your insistence we were a one-night stand.”
“You set this whole thing in motion?” Shetilted her head to the side and motioned between them.
“You can call me the mastermind.” Hegrinned.
She was quiet for a few moments. “I didn’tthink this could work.” She chewed on her bottom lip. “I’d neverhooked up with a guy I didn’t know. I’m not a spontaneous person. Icalculate the risk. You know that now. And you were risky. But Ithought because you’d had way more experience than me at hook ups,not because you’d convince me that this could be more than onenight.”
“I wasn’t walking away. I’m not walking awaynow. I’m here for the long haul.”
“I didn’t know what to do.” Her eyes filledwith tears again. One escaped. She swiped at it with the back ofher hand. “For the last several years, this promotion was all I hadbeen working towards. It was my focus. I thought getting to thisrung would mean I’d never have to worry about whether I had enoughmoney to do the things I wanted.”
“You deserved the promotion.”
“I think a part of me knew I wasn’t going toget it. Maybe a part of me didn’t want it because you’d come intomy life. But Jacob had an ‘in’ I didn’t have. I wanted to prove tomyself, and I guess everyone else, that my hard work and skillcould beat out favoritism.” She lowered her head. “I waswrong.”
“Anna, that’s not your doing. That’s onthem.” He ran his hands up and down her arms, trying to comforther.
“True, but taking it out on you was mydoing.” She shook her head and her cheeks reddened. “That’s onme.”
He pressed his lips to hers. She opened tohim, letting him deepen the kiss. He groaned. He missed her even ifhe’d only been gone a few days.
“Rex.”
His name slipped off her lips like a prayer,escalating his percolating desire for her and squeezing the hellout of his heart. He wanted to push her against the wall andre-enact their first time together, solidify that this relationshipwas more than either of them had bargained for, but she was in avulnerable state.
He pulled back. His chest heaved. “What doyou need from me? I’ll do whatever you want.”
She pushed to her toes and brushed her lipsover his. “Make love to me. I want to feel something other thandisappointment. I want to know you forgive me.”
“Nothing to forgive, Sunshine.” His insidesraced around in anticipation. He meant what he had said—that he’dthought he’d been in love before, but it hadn’t felt like this. Ithadn’t. Things with his ex had never been like this. Not evenclose.
He swiped his tongue inside her mouth,loving her minty flavor. The kiss was slow, easy slides of hertongue against his. He gripped her shoulders and nudged her back,breaking them apart again. “I need to know that you are okay beforewe go any further. I don’t want you to think I took advantage ofyou. I wouldn’t be able to forgive myself.”
“The only thing I need right now, the onlything I want, Rex, is for you to make love to me.”
He walked her backwards to her soft graysofa. He sat and pulled her on top of him. She straddled his hips,her heat and weight causing his dick to harden to epic proportions.He slid his hands over the outside of her bare thighs. Between theaffirmations of love and her first request that he make love toher, he felt more pressurized than the Dog Tired lager in thecan.
“At your pace, Sunshine. I’m all yours.”
She unbuttoned his jeans and delved her handinside his boxer briefs, where she stroked his cock withfeather-light movement. He swelled even more with each graze of herfingertips.Christ.If this kept up, he may come in herhand. He ground his teeth.
“Panties off, Anna.” He bit out. “Now.”
She shook her head and smiled, her sweetdimples punctuating her cheeks. It was the sexiest smile he’d everseen.
“Sunshine, I need to be inside you.”
“You said my pace.”
He growled. “Fuck me. I did.”
She gripped his dick and moved her hand in atorturous rhythm. He shuddered under her. This was supposed to befor her and yet here he sat coming undone by her ministrations.
