I was deprived and starving. Tali was the only thing, the only woman, who’d even come close to quelling my deprivation. When I dragged my tongue up her center and her taste saturated my taste buds, I knew right then I’d always be hungry for her.

I buried my face between her thighs, alert to the little sounds and movements she made, learning her body and how she liked to be touched. When I slid a hand up her side to her breast and pinched her nipple at the same time I sucked her clit between my lips, she nearly flew off the bed. Her back bowed and her thighs tightened around my head. Adding a hum while I sucked made her hips jerk erratically.

“I’m so close,” she rasped. “Jude…”

One finger, then two, slid into her opening while I kept up my worship of her clit. Her moans were unfiltered and loud, bouncing off the walls and ending up in my aching chest. I loved knowing her like this. Open and free. Not overthinking shit, simply letting herself feel.

My name fell from her lips like a chant, a prayer, an exclamation. Her hips bucked and clit swelled. I licked her through the wave, through her moans and squeezing muscles. Even when she went lax, I kept licking at her. Gentler, but still laving with my tongue. I would’ve gone on forever if she hadn’t tugged at my hair and whimpered my name.

“Come here. I want you inside me more than I want to breathe,” she said.

I pushed off my boxers and climbed up her body, keeping my knees on the outside of her thighs, my cock hard and hovering over her belly. I shook my head at how beautiful she looked, hair wild, eyes focused on mine, lips swollen and red and irresistible.

“You want this?” I asked.

She reached between us and wrapped her fingers around my length. “Yeah, Jude. It feels like I’ll die if I don’t have you.”

Leaning down, I pressed my lips against her, letting her taste her flavor on my tongue. “You have me, Tali. You gotta know that.”

I grabbed a condom from where I’d stashed a couple in the bedside table after I’d checked in—wishful thinking—and rolled it down my length. Dipping my head, I lapped at her tits until she was a writhing, sweaty, desperate goddess beneath me. I wanted her soaked and ready so I didn’t hurt her. Hurting Tali was the very last thing I ever wanted to do.

Moving between her legs, my hips pressed against hers, hard to soft. It took every ounce of my control not to slam into her. Jesus Christ, she felt so good, looked so pretty.

“Ready, Stripes?”

She nodded and looped her arms around my neck. “So ready.”

I reached between us, first sliding my index finger through her folds, then grabbing my cock and guiding it to her entrance. She arched, and I nudged until I was inside her, an inch, maybe two. She shuddered, and her fingers curled into my shoulders, but her eyes were on mine, trusting and wanting.

“More,” she whispered.

I had to take a breath, rein myself in before I lost it. I pushed in slowly, watching her the entire time. Her brow pinched, but she kept her body relaxed, even as I hurt her. She welcomed me, welcomed what was happening between us.

When I was fully inside her, buried as deep as she could take me, I stilled, dropping my forehead to hers. “Tali,” I said roughly.

“You’re inside me, Jude,” she said, voice thick with awe.

“You feel so damn amazing.” I lifted my head and cupped her cheek, her breast, her waist, then slid my hand under her thigh, lifting it higher. “I gotta move, baby. I gotta fuck you.”

She nodded, lip caught in her teeth. “I want that. I want to feel you moving inside me.”

Holding her leg, I pulled out, then pushed back in. It was the sweetest torture, forging a path inside Tali, in a place that had never been explored. She panted each time my pelvis hit hers.

“Is this okay?” I managed to grit out.

She nodded vigorously. “Don’t stop. Please don’t stop.”

I won’t.

I can’t.

We fit like puzzle pieces, the way our lips did when we first kissed. She was the answer to a question I hadn’t even thought to ask. Her body gripped mine, pulling me in deeper, harder, keeping me there.

Sweat beaded my temple, and my dick throbbed, edging closer to losing it. My eyes shut so I could concentrate on staying longer, giving her more. If I kept looking at her full tits bounce each time I thrust into her, her parted lips letting out little gasps, her lust-filled eyes, I’d be coming far before either of us were ready.

She whimpered my name. “I need to see you,” she said.

My eyes snapped open. I couldn’t deny her. Not her first time, and probably not ever.