Those gorgeous blue eyes held mine as he said, “Let’s not have a repeat of that, okay?”
 
 As he’d said it before, it went without saying this time around. In the way he kissed me, the reverence with which he held my body, how he played with me until I was a writhing mass of pleasure until I came so hard I forgot my own name, I knew. But also in the small, quiet ways he took care of me: knowing how I tookmy coffee, wanting to stay awake to feed me, hell, even asking his dumb older brother to stay with me when he was on shift.
 
 I knew how he felt.
 
 He wouldn’t survive it if something happened to me.
 
 And I understood because the feeling was mutual.
 
 I’d barely survived losing my sister.
 
 I didn’t think I could do it again if something happened to Crew.
 
 thirty
 
 . . .
 
 CREW
 
 My alarm pulledme from the hottest fucking dream I’d ever had in my life.
 
 Only when I slowly blinked my eyes open to the dimness of my room did I realize it wasn’t a dream at all.
 
 Instantly, my hand found Aspen’s hair as she bobbed her mouth up and down on my cock.
 
 “Fuck, baby,” I rasped, voice still thick with sleep. “My filthy little slut.”
 
 Aspen only flicked her gaze to me and hummed around my length as she took me deeper and deeper until my head bumped the back of her throat. I was fucking obsessed with her little gag, and how her eyes watered, the sharp inhale through her nose. How none of it deterred her from taking me another inch.
 
 Her hand chased her mouth as she pulled off, the other one fondling my balls in a way that had them drawing up. The base of my spine tingled with impending release.
 
 “How do you want it?” I asked.
 
 Over the last four weeks, since the first time we’d slept together, Aspen had given me more blowjobs than I could count,and her mind was always changing on where she wanted me to unload. I fucking loved how she kept me on my toes. We hadn’t worked our way entirely up to my…rougher appetites, but she’d taken everything I’d thrown at her in stride, greeting it all with equal fervor.
 
 She was making it damn hard not to fall completely ass over boots in love with her, and honestly, I didn’t give a fuck. As far as I was concerned, Aspen McKay would be the last woman I ever fucked, and my dick would be the last one she ever let in that tight pussy of hers.
 
 “Inside me,” she said, scrambling on top of me and reaching between us to shift her panties out of the way and sink down on my length. Both of us groaned, and I gripped her hips hard enough to bruise as she rolled them back and forth, working me in and out of her warmth.
 
 “Fucking hell, little phoenix,” I moaned as the sounds of her pussy sliding over my cock filled the room. “I love how wet you get for me.”
 
 Aspen hummed in pleasure as she rocked faster, her short nails digging into my chest as she rode me. This was without a doubt my favorite position. Her perfect little tits bounced in time with her movements, her mouth opened in ecstasy as she chased her orgasm, the nub of her clit rubbed against the root of my cock. Watching her unabashedly take what she needed from me was so goddamn sexy.
 
 I knew she was getting close when her inner walls closed even tighter around me, milking me, so I bucked up into her. She cried out and let go, collapsing against me at the same moment my release barreled through me, and I emptied into her while she quivered in my arms.
 
 Our chests heaved in unison as we came down from the high. When my breathing returned to normal, I brushed her hair off her face and planted a kiss on her forehead, which prompted her to tilt her head back and give me a real one.
 
 “Morning,” she murmured.
 
 “And what a good fucking morning it is,” I grinned. “Unfortunately, I really do have to get up for work now.”
 
 She clung tighter to me, arms banding around my chest as if that could keep me here in this bed with her.
 
 “You can’t leave me.”
 
 “Trust me, there is nowhere else I’d rather be than right here with you. But?—”
 
 “We can’t leave the citizens of Dusk Valley without their hottest firefighter,” she parroted, and I laughed, digging my fingers into her sides to elicit that giggle I loved so much.