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The edges of his mouth—gah, his firm, beautiful mouth—kicked up, making her feel less self-conscious.
“What about you?”Chloe asked, although her pulse made her work for it.“What do you want, Tyler?”
“I want you to be absolutely sure,” he said, his body so close to hers that she ignited in half a dozen places even though they touched in none.“Because I want to give you those orgasms, Chloe.Fuck, I want to make you see God.I have ever since that night.But you have to be sure.”
Want and need and something that felt even darker pooled in her belly, mixing with the certainty she’d felt for months, and Chloe answered him the only way she could think of.
She kissed him.
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Tyler was crossing the line into dangerous fucking territory, he knew.If he didn’t stop this kiss with Chloe, it would become more—Christ, it would become everything—and they wouldn’t be able to undo whatever happened next.
But the second she’d used her pretty little mouth to ask him for orgasms, then added that breathy “please” that told him how badly she needed satisfying, his composure hadn’t just slipped.He’d been absolutely totaled.
Chloe might deserve more than Tyler could give her in the long run, but what she wanted, right now in this moment?That,he could give her.
Starting with this kiss.
Angling toward Chloe, he pressed his lips against hers a little harder.He’d meant it as a question, or at least an exploratory mission to ease into things.If he was going to give her orgasms—plural, because yes, that’s what she’d asked for, and no, it wasn’t semantics—he’d need to get his bearings, at least a little.But there she was, parting her lips and sighing into his mouth and making it impossible for him to think with his brain, and Tyler shoved pleasantries aside.Digging his hands into her hair, he held Chloe right where he wanted her.Their tongues touched, then tangled, the kiss growing deeper and hotter—fuck, yes, make that sound again—until finally, a tiny shred of reason let him get a thought in edgewise.
“Chloe.”He pulled back, but the want screaming in his gut wouldn’t let him go more than a couple of inches.“We’re going to need some rules of engagement, here.”
Her soft laughter coasted over his lips.“I know there’s only one degree of separation between me and my virginity, but I do get the mechanics of the act.I hardly think we need standard operating procedures.”
“Okay, first of all, there isn’t going to be anything standard about how hard I make you come.”To prove his point—or maybe because his dick had definitely entered the chat and wanted him to know who was in charge of the rest of him—he swept his thumb over Chloe’s bottom lip, smiling darkly when she shivered.“Secondly, I’m not talking about basic principles.”
“Oh,” she breathed, arching toward him, but he buckled down on his restraint.“You’re not?”
“Uh-uh.”Tyler slid his fingertips very lightly over her jawline, then back and forth over the spot just under her ear.How was her skin so goddamn soft?“You’ve already done ‘fine’.I’m going to give you so much more than that.”
Leaning in, he brushed his mouth over that same spot, adjusting the pressure until—there you are—her pulse jumped.“I’m going to treat your body with nothing less than pure fucking devotion until you forget words like ‘fine’ and ‘basic’ ever existed.I’m going to do whatever it takes to give you the earth-cracking, orbit-bending orgasms you’re hungry for.”
The sigh drifting up from Chloe’s chest might have derailed him under other circumstances.But right now, Tyler was on a goddamned mission, and nothing was going to stop him from making sure she knew exactly what she deserved.
“I’m going to make absolutely certain thateverytime you remember your new first time, you get a smile on your face that you can’t shake for days.But in order to do that properly, there are a couple of things we should agree on that are better discussed before I start taking your clothes off.So, yeah.We need a couple of rules.”
Her nod arrived on a few seconds’ delay, but she met his stare with understanding.“Okay.You’re right.I’m assuming protection is at the top of the list?”
Tyler never, ever left this one to chance, so he said, “It’s a great place to start.”
“Well, I’m on the pill, but condoms are probably still smart.Just in case.”
“Agreed.”Tyler nodded.This next part had the potential to shift the mood, but given Chloe’s past, not asking wasn’t an option.“Is there anything you know you don’t want?Places I shouldn’t touch you or things that feel off-limits to you?”
She slow blinked.“Oh.Well, I don’t think anything rough would be a turn-on for me, and I don’t like the idea of having my hands bound or my eyes covered.”
“Okay,” he said.“That’s good to know.How about what youdowant?”
A flush traveled over her face, but this was Chloe, so she didn’t look away.“I’m not quite sure.We covered the sex and orgasms territory, obviously, but other than that, I don’t really have a barometer for this kind of thing.At least, not with another person involved.”
Christ, her unguarded honesty was so foreign to him and so goddamn sexy, all at the same time.“Well, then, let’s make one.We can take tonight slow.You teach me what you like and what you don’t, and I’ll use that knowledge to make good on my promise.Sound okay?”
“Oh,” Chloe murmured, heat corkscrewing through him at her hummed response.“That seems like a smart plan.”
“You’ll have to talk to me.More, less, stop.It’ll be up to you.”
“All of it?”she asked, and Tyler didn’t hesitate.
