Page 79 of Resisting Fate (Hope Falls: Brewed Awakenings 3)

In one swift movement, he reached down, lifted her up and laid her on the bed.

When he did, she looked up at him and her nose scrunched as she asked, “Was that okay?”

“That was a hell of a lot better than okay.”

The satisfied smile that tilted on her full ruby lips caused his chest to ache.

Most people didn’t associate the words endearing or sweet when it came to blow jobs. But the fact that he had been her first was both of those things.

He opened his mouth to tell her that but instead said three words he’d been holding in for years. “I love you.”

Her eyes widened and her jaw dropped open. He saw that her lower lids filled with unshed emotion but she sniffed it away. “Wow. I would have done that a long time ago if I knew it would make you say that,” she teased.

“I’m serious, Aud. I love you. I think I’ve loved you from the first day I saw you when you were setting out the sign for Brewed Awakenings. I remember how much pain I was in that day and I was just…in a really dark place. And I looked up and there you were. You smiled and it was like the sun breaking through the storm in my head. You were so beautiful. So perfect. You were an angel. You were my angel and I love you.”

“That’s good because I’ve loved you from the first day I saw you when I was four years old and yes, I did keep your glasses, and I’m not ashamed of it. Because I love you, Josh. I always have and I always will.”

He had so much more he could say to her, so much more he wanted to say to her, but first, he needed to be inside of her. She must have seen the switch in his eyes because she laid back on the bed and her legs parted in invitation.

Within a second, he was above her. Leaning on one elbow he started to reach between their bodies but Audrey beat him to it. Her fingers wrapped around his shaft and he sucked in a breath of air through clenched teeth as his balls tightened against his body. Her touch nearly put him up and over the edge but he managed to get himself under control.

Then she began to rub his engorged head along her damp entrance and once again the telltale signs of release began to build in his body. As much as he loved her taking control, if she kept teasing herself and him like this he was scared he’d explode before he was inside of her.

Her breaths were coming in pants now as the grip of her hand tightened. Through the cloud of lust that was fogging his brain he realized that she was concentrating her efforts to the top of her sex. His eyes opened and he watched as her cheeks began to flush. She was masturbating with his cock and it was the sexiest thing he’d ever seen in his life.

“Does that feel good?” he rasped against her ear.

“Yes,” she breathed.

“Can you make yourself come like this?”

“Yes,” she gasped as her thighs began to shake.

He started kissing her neck as her body began to shake and she moved his dick lower and guided him inside of her. Her walls clamped down on him, spasming as her orgasm claimed her. His own climax was a whisper away and he didn’t try to hold himself back. Instead, he gripped her hip and tilted her body up so he could sink deeper into her warm, tight canal. When he was fully engulfed by her his world exploded in a jarring, pulsating release.

He let himself go, abandoning himself to the pleasure and a deep, primal groan ripped from his chest. As the climax subsided, he rolled over onto his back and collapsed in exhaustion, completely spent from utter and complete satisfaction.

Audrey laid her head on his chest and curled up against him. He pulled her tighter to him, pressed a kiss to the top of her head and said, “I love you. I love you. I love you.” He repeated those three words over and over.

Now that he was finally able to express his true feelings, it was like a fire hydrant that had been popped and his emotions were spraying everywhere uncontrollably.

She lifted her head and smiled at him. “I loved you first.”

“Is this a competition now?” he teased.

“Yep.” Her smile widened. “And I won.”

That was where she was wrong. She loved him, so he’d won.

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