Page 139 of Proof of Guilt

She always had been, and even though it’d been ten years since they’d been together, it was as if all those years vanished. All the old baggage, too. A good kiss could do that.

Along with making him stupid.

Theo should just end the kiss, move away from her and go back to watching the computer screen. But he didn’t. Not only did he keep things at the stupid level by continuing the making out, he upped the ante by deepening the kiss and pulling Ivy even closer to him.

Ivy didn’t exactly shy away from this, either. In fact, she was the one who moved the laptop to the counter so that there was nothing in between them. No reason for them not to position themselves so that his chest ended up against her breasts.

Theo kept kissing her, too. Kept moving her until she was practically in his lap. All in all, it was a good place for her to be if they were going to have sex, but he was pretty sure that shouldn’t happen. Of course, he felt the same way about the kiss, but that hadn’t stopped him.

Ivy finally stopped, though. She took her mouth from his, eased back and met him eye to eye. He figured she was about to apologize or say something else before she moved back to the floor.

She didn’t.

“Don’t overthink this,” she said.

Since that’s exactly what he was doing, Theo hesitated and stared at her. Along with the old baggage vanishing, so did the years. Suddenly, he was nineteen again and wanting Ivy more than his next breath. He hadn’t had much willpower, but that ate up the rest of it.

Theo pulled her back to him and kissed her.

This time there was definitely no overthinking. Hell, no thinking at all. He just kept kissing her until the fire was burning so hot inside him that he knew sex was going to happen even if it shouldn’t.

Thankfully, Ivy was on the same page. Without breaking the kiss, she lowered her hands to his shirt and started to unbutton it. It was not a graceful effort. For one thing, Theo was trying to get her clothes off, too, and their hands kept bumping against each other. Still, he was finally successful at pulling off her top. He flung it to the side, and in the same motion, he turned Ivy and laid her back on the floor.

Because they’d been teenage lovers, they’d rarely had the luxury of a bed for sex. And Theo hated that they didn’t have it now. Ivy darn sure deserved better than this, but there was no way he could risk taking her into the bedroom.

“Don’t overthink this,” she repeated.

She went after his shirt again, succeeded in getting it off him, and then she went after his jeans’ zipper. Since things were moving fast, Theo got in some foreplay before the heat built to a point that they’d be beyond that. He took the kiss from her mouth to her neck. Then to her breasts. That brought back some sweet memories, and they got even sweeter when he unhooked her bra, bared her breasts and kissed her the way he wanted.

Ivy made a sound of pleasure and pulled him on top of her. Not a bad place to be, but he wasn’t done yet. Theo went lower, dropping some kisses on her stomach while he unzipped her jeans and shimmied them off her.

Her panties went next.

And Theo probably would have kept kissing her for a few more seconds, but Ivy had a different notion about that. She latched onto him, hauling him back up to her so that she could kiss his mouth. And unzip him.

Theo didn’t have much of a mind left. Not with his body burning to ash. But he did remember to take the condom from his wallet before Ivy got him out of his jeans. He also remembered how to put it on. No easy feat with Ivy still kissing him and trying to pull him into her.

The moment he had on the condom, he stopped resisting her attempts, and he slipped into her. Hell. He got another slam of memories. Of the first time they’d been together like this, and that slam only fired up his body even more. Definitely not something he needed, because this was already going to end much too fast. The pleasure was always too fast with Ivy, and like those other times, Theo tried to hold on to it.

She lifted her hips, bringing him even deeper into her, and Theo had no choice. There was no holding back, no more trying to draw this out to savor the pleasure. So he took control of the pace. As much as he could, anyway. He kept moving inside her. Kept holding her. Kept kissing her.

Until it was impossible to hold out any longer.

Especially when Ivy came in a flash. She made that sound of pleasure again. Gathered him in her arms. And she gave Theo no choice. He let Ivy take him right along with her.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Ivy dressed while she waited for Theo to come out of the private bathroom area. She figured he wouldn’t be in there long, which meant she needed to try to compose herself before she had to face him.

The sex had been amazing, and while that pleasure was still causing her body to hum, she doubted that Theo would be humming. No. He was probably already regretting this.

He would see it as a lapse in judgment, something that had caused him temporarily to lose focus. Heck, he might even regret it because it was too much, too soon between them. Either way, she didn’t want to look as if she expected something more than sex between them.

Don’t overthink this, she’d told him.

Well, it was advice she needed to take, as well. What was done was done, and she’d just have to deal with the consequences later. In hindsight, though, Theo and she should have worked out a few things before having sex.

Ivy pushed all of that aside, put on her clothes and sat back on the floor with the laptop. There were still no signs of an intruder. Both a blessing and a curse. Part of her wanted this to come to a quick end so she could see Nathan. Another part of her wished there was a different way. One that didn’t involve her brother and the hands in possible harm’s way.

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