Page 58 of You, Me, & Après-Ski
And he gave it to me.
Bending his head to his work, his tongue circled my clit, and a keening sound I’d never made before erupted from my throat as heat coiled low in my belly.Dios mío, what is this man doing to me?
“You like making a mess on my desk?” he asked, his breath against my most sensitive parts sending me squirming. “You want to come all over my face knowing I’ll have to sit here through the rest of my meetings with your taste on my tongue, thinking about every dirty thing we did? Every dirty thing I still want to do to you?”
“God, yes,” I moaned. With his mouth on me like this, all I could do was throw my head back and sink my hands in his hair, holding on for dear life as I chased my release, grinding my hips in time with the strokes of his tongue and fingers.God, those fingers.
I didn’t have to wait too much longer.
The next time Nolan’s tongue passed over my clit, I detonated. Pleasure like I’d never known barreled through me and I let out a wordless shout, my hands digging into his scalp as I thrust against his glorious tongue, riding out my orgasm to the sound of our ragged breaths.
When he pulled his fingers out of me, he brought them to my lips and I licked him clean. I knew from his darkened gaze that he was imagining my tongue elsewhere.
With a low moan, he said, “We don’t have time for that, Valeria. Although I wish we did.” When he smiled, seeing his chin and lips glistening with my juices…
Okay, nowthatis the hottest thing I’ve ever seen. I’m sure of it.
Nolan pulled me in for a quick but sultry kiss, and I loved tasting myself on him. After a moment, I moved to reclaim my pants, but he stopped me. “We still have three minutes before my meeting,” he said. “I want you just like this until then.”
“But I’m, um, leaking on your desk.” I could feel my slickness on the surface underneath me.Definitely ruined some papers.
“I know.”
Oh. Oh my.
This man just kept getting hotter and hotter.
With a look that nearly unraveled the rest of my sanity, he stepped between my legs and leaned close. “As much as I love being ambushed with oral sex,” he said, sinking a hand into my hair, “to what do I owe the pleasure?”
“My brothers are here. Diego said I won a raffle.Also, that I entered them for the West Foundation grant and it’s what’s paying for Juanito’s meds.” Grabbing him by both lapels, I tugged him into me. “Would you know anything about that?”
“Ah,” he said, and I felt his smile against mine. “I was hoping to be down there when they arrived to smooth things over. I had to be careful about how I planned it, to keep our relationship under wraps. Did I do a good job?”
“Who has a praise kink now?” I teased.
“Quiet, you,” he said, nipping the tip of my nose.
As his thumb smoothed over the hollow just beneath my ear, my pulse beat a staccato tattoo against my ribcage.God, hesmells so good.Some kind of manly aftershave had me practically salivating over him like a lovestruck teenager. “Frankie and I saw through it right away, but my family is none the wiser. How are you going to spin it to the rest of the employees? To Arthur and Cyrus?”
“As far as they know, your family is here of their own accord. I told Diego to keep the raffle thing discreet so as to not make the other employees jealous.”
I smoothed my hands over his hair, putting everything back in place, but then my touch strayed to his face and before I knew it, I was stroking his light stubble and the hard line of his jaw as I searched for the right words. “I can’t believe you did this for us.”
Smiling under my touch, he said, “I didn’t want you to spend another Christmas without your family.”
“You remembered that?” I’d said it as a throwaway comment during our cooking lesson with Rocco several weeks ago.
“When it comes to you, I remember everything.”
The statement struck me into silence. If someone had told me at the beginning of the season thatNolan Kellerwould be speaking to me like this, I’d have checked them for a brain injury. In lieu of blubbering all over him, I closed the breaths between us and kissed him, relishing the contented sound rumbling in his chest. Wrapped up in his arms like this, it felt so natural. Like coming home.
But in the back of my mind, the storm clouds were swirling.This isn’t real. It can’t be real. We have an expiration date.
So as nice as it felt to be cared for, I couldn’t get used to it. People had come and gone throughout my life, but it was always me and my brothers against the world. And as much as being physical with Nolan felt good—so,sogood—I couldn’t get used to that either. Maybe it was silly to hold off on sex when we’d already done everything else, but Icouldn’t fully give in. I needed to keep a small part of myself safe, just for me, for when this was all over. For when it ended.
So yeah, I was enjoying the heck out of the present moment. But I wouldn’t be me if I wasn’t planning for disaster. As if being prepared for it would somehow make it easier to deal with.
Too soon, Nolan pulled away, pressing his forehead to mine. “Sorry to cut this short, baby. But I’ll see you tonight?”
