Page 65 of Reckless
“Beautiful,” he said, finally parting her legs with a press of his palms against her inner thighs. She chased the affirmation with a lift of her hips, and he gave in with an audible exhale. He took off his boxer briefs, grabbing a condom from his bedside table drawer in just one move. Zoe reached out, pushing to her knees in the middle of the bed as her fingers curled around his.
“Wait.”
Alex stilled. “What’s the matter?”
“Nothing.” Laughter whispered past her lips for emphasis. God, she’d never felt so perfect in her life. “But this is you and me, together, right?”
“Of course.”
Zoe kissed him, taking the condom from him before running her fingers down his abs. “Then I want to give you everything, too. Please, Alex. Don’t just fuck me. Let me in. Let me have you right back.”
He didn’t protest, and Zoe didn’t wait. Letting her hand travel lower, she wrapped her fingers around his cock, a thrill sparking through her blood at the groan grating up from his throat. She pumped slowly, pressing her body into Alex’s side as they knelt face to face on the mattress. He tilted his hips into the movement of her hand, letting his head fall to the side as she kissed her way from his shoulder down to the fold of muscle just above his heart.
But stopping was the last thing on her mind, and Zoe slid her tongue even lower, using her free hand to push Alex’s knees further apart. The sharp lines of muscle wrapped around each of his hips pointed her to exactly what she wanted. Bending lower at the waist, she kissed her way between his legs, replacing the fingers on his cock with her mouth.
“Holy—” Alex finished the sentence with a hiss, and Zoe’s lips curled into a smile before parting to take him in again. She circled her fingers around the base of his cock while she tasted the rest of him with her lips and tongue. His palms turned to fists at his sides, one falling open over her shoulder as she picked up speed. Alex’s exhales gave way to moans, each one daring her into the next glide of her mouth. But Zoe had meant what she’d said. She’d never wanted anyone with so much pure, sweet intensity.
And she wanted this forever.
“Zoe,” he ground out, his fingertips turning into the heated skin of her shoulder. “This night is going to have a different ending than you’re expecting if you keep that up.”
She pulled back to look at him. “Is that what you want?”
Alex bit out a curse, but he guided her back to the bedsheets anyway. “Not this time. This time, I need to be inside you.”
He knelt between her parted legs, reaching for the condom she’d placed on the sheets. Seconds later, he pressed her knees wide. All the want banked in Zoe’s blood came charging back as his cock slipped over her, and she pushed her hips up for more.
“Don’t hold back,” she whispered. Alex angled himself over her, spreading his hands wide on either side of her shoulders and closing the space between both their bodies and faces to mere inches.
“You either,” he said, his voice going as soft as his stare. “You and me, remember?”
Zoe’s breath caught in her lungs. “Together.”
Alex filled her with a slow thrust, and she was helpless against the cry spilling past her lips. For a minute, he stayed perfectly still, their bodies joined together and their breath twining between them.
Then he started to move, and Zoe nearly lost her mind.
Steadying his weight between his hands, Alex drew back, the friction of his cock sending bursts of sensation through her pussy. Her muscles squeezed in response, her body growing slicker with need as he withdrew by an inch, then pushed back inside. He started slow, as if trying to savor each movement. But too quickly, the need in Zoe’s belly rekindled, begging for more, more,everything.Rocking up to meet each thrust, she wrapped her hands around his ass to keep him deep inside her as she moved. The pressure combined with the angle of his cock on some deep-inside spot made pleasure unravel from her pussy in a hot curl, daring her to break apart in Alex’s arms.
“Together, baby,” he said, the promise raking over her skin as he dipped his mouth forward to kiss her. “And I’ve got you. I swear.”
Zoe arched up to meet him in one last thrust of her hips before she came hard. Alex never stopped holding onto her—not when she screamed his name, not when her fingernails curved into the small of his back to keep him close, and not even when she was so overwhelmed with sensation that she couldn’t do anything but gasp for breath. He pushed up to his knees, gripping her hips to keep her flush against his cock as he rocked into her over and again, until finally, his hands trembled at her sides.
“Christ,Zoe, I…”
She grabbed his wrists, dug in tight. “I’ve got you, too, Alex. Don’t hold back.”
He came on a harsh moan, thrusting inside her to the hilt. Zoe blinked up at him, a ribbon of shock spiraling through her at his vulnerability and the way that, even caught up in his pleasure, he was looking right back at her. After one last exhale, Alex lowered his chest to hers, the rapid thump of his heart beating a pattern against her breastbone.
“Together,” he whispered. “Just like this.”
And as they lay there, surrounded by shadow and caught up in nothing but each other, Zoe knew with undeniable certainty that she was one hundred percent, completely, insanely in love with Alex Donovan.
23
Alex stood outside the battalion chief’s office, fiddling with the buttons on his uniform shirt and trying to convince himself not to puke. He didn’t get nervous often, but like everything else in his wheelhouse, when it happened, it was an all-in type of affair. Considering his freaking job was on the line, he’d give himself some leeway in the feeling-a-little-tense department.
Provided he got reinstated and not shit-canned.
