Page 228 of Under Her Skin
Jess wished more than anything she could believehim.
Theo lethimself into Max’s apartment a little after one a.m. He glanced at the bottom of Max’s bedroom door and saw his light was out. Pushing the door of the guest bedroom open, he stopped in the doorway and just watched her sleep. She lay on her stomach, naked under the sheet, her face turned toward the bedside lamp so the soft glow fell across her honey-colored skin. Her dark hair clouded around her on the pillow, her long dark lashes swept down onto the faintly flushed cheeks. So beautiful. Theo closed the bedroom door and stripped quickly, dropping his clothes onto the floor then slipped under the sheet. Jess murmured and smiled as he pressed his lips to hers. Her body was so warm next to his and he sighed as she reached down for his cock, cupping it in her warm hand. She smiled sleepily athim.
‘Hey baby…’
She moved slowly down the bed, tracing a line down his body with her tongue, grazing his nipples with her teeth. Theo stroked her hair with his big hands gently pulling the soft silky strands through his fingers. As he felt her soft lush mouth envelop his cock, he felt it respond, blood rushing to fill it, her tongue tracing the pulsating veins. He grew harder as she sucked at him, her fingers tracing a line between his balls and his anus, pressing the sweet spot there. Theo’s breathing was coming in ragged gasps now as she worked on him, his cock quivering and swelling under hertouch.
‘Christ… .Jessie, I’m going tocum…’
He felt her lips curve up in a smile and then as he shot into her mouth. She swallowed his seed, again and again, massaging his balls, prolonging his pleasure. As soon as he shuddered to a halt, he pulled her up into his arms and kissed her so thoroughly they were both breathless by the time they broke away from it. He hitched her legs around his hips and plunged his titanium-hard cock into her, gratified at the gasp she gave. He molded his hands over her soft breasts, teasing her nipples with his thumbs until they were hard and quivered under his touch. As he thrust, he enjoyed the undulation of her soft belly, the way she flung her head back as she neared her orgasm, the scarlet blush of her skin. He caught her waist with hands and thrust harder, driving her onward. God, he wanted to consume every part of her, bury himself inside her and his head spun as he shot thick creamy semen into her. She tensed and shivered through orgasm after orgasm and eventually, as they collapsed back on the bed, he traced a line between her breasts down to her navel, rimming the deep hollow and making Jess moan with pleasure. He caught her mouth with his, tasting her sweetness alongside his own saltytang.
‘Hello, beautiful…’
She smiled up at him, awake now, her hands tracing a pattern on his chest. ‘Hey, you. I missed you somuch.’
He pulled into the cocoon of his arms. ‘A second would be too long without you, lovelyone.’
She stroked his face. ‘You look exhausted.’ He leaned his face into herpalm.
‘I admit I am…but in a goodway.’
‘You’re home, handsome, sleep.’ She pulled his head down to her chest and curled her arms around him. ‘Sleep…’
Theo woketo an empty bed and the sound of laughter. Pulling on his jeans, he wandered out into the kitchen to find Jess and Max demolishing a stack of blueberry pancakes. His body relaxed at the sight of his two favorite people. Max still looked drawn and thin but at least some of his color had returned and the dark circles under his eyes were starting to fade. Jess was good for him, for them, Theo realized now. For all her dark past, the woman he loved was a light in their lives, someone from whom love shone and warmed everything she touched. She looked up and her face lit up at the sight ofhim.
‘Hey, sleepy boy is up.’She hopped off the bar stool and came to him, sliding her arms around his waist, tipping her face up for a kiss. Theo, grinning and obliged until Max protested and they broke off, chuckling at Max’s mock-horror. Theo nodded at the remnants of their breakfast. ‘Saved any of that for me? I’mstarving.’
‘Of course…,’ Max faked annoyance, ‘…as if I’d deprive you of my famous pancakes.’ He pulled out a stack that he’d kept warming in the oven. Jess grinned atTheo.
‘If I’d known those were in there, I would have totally deprivedyou.’
Theo mussed her hair. ‘Fooddemon.’
Max leaned on the breakfast bar. ‘Saturday with my homies,’ he said softly. ‘Almostperfect.’
Jess squeezed his hand. ‘There’ll always be four of us here, Maxie.Always.’
Max looked at her gratefully. ‘I know.’ He was silent for a moment then shook himself. ‘I like having you both here. If it doesn’t cramp yourstyle.’
Theo and Jess looked at each other, then Theo patted Max on the shoulder. ‘We’d be happy to stay as long as youwant.’
‘Seconded.’ Jess grinned at him, nodding her ascent. Max visiblyrelaxed.
‘Thanks, dudes. I appreciate it. I also appreciate that the walls are so thick,’ he grinned and waggled his eyebrowssuggestively.
‘You should be,’ Jess dead-panned. ‘I’m quite thescreamer.’
Theo nearly choked on his coffee as Max laughed outloud.
Later,they had decamped to their favorite coffee house and Jess told them both about William Corcoran’s visit and Jules’ seeming relinquishment of his financial control of her. Both Theo and Max were as skeptical as shewas.
‘It makes no sense,’ Theo was scowling, ‘Why trash you in the press to just give up like that? I don’t trustthis.’
‘Me either.’ Jess looked at Max who nodded hisagreement.
‘It’s a trick, sweetheart. He’s an evil motherfucker. If he thought he was losing an inch of control overyou…’
‘He’s fooling himself thinking he has any control over me anyways. Not now, not ever again. As far as I’m concerned he can drop dead. I wish hewould.’
