Some days, I would have stopped. Dragged it out. Done whatever I could to keep it going as long as possible. But today isn’t like that. Today, I just want to reach the pinnacle with her. I want to feel her pleasure and mine cresting at the exact same moment, our bodies responding to each other perfectly in the way I know they can.
“I want you to come for me,” I breathe. “Can you do that? Are you close?”
“I’m so close.” Her voice is shaking. “Give me your hand.”
I wrap my arm around her waist so that I can release my other hand. She wraps her fingers through mine and pulls our hands between our bodies. There’s hardly space for them—She’s pressed right up against me—but I understand what she wants.
I find her clit with my thumb and circle it, slowly at first, then faster, increasing the pressure. She gasps and grinds into me, and I feel her clench around me, and that’s what pushes me over the edge.
For a moment we’re all arms and legs, wrapped around each other, clinging to each other, our hands scrambling for purchase on each other’s bodies. My legs buckle, my feet slip out from underneath me, and we both fall below the surface of the water. Alicia’s thighs are quivering against my waist, her nails digging into my back. She’s coming so fucking hard. She’s still going. I slip a finger inside her alongside my cock so that I can feel her body squeezing me.
Our heads break the surface, and she screams in pleasure as I gasp in a mouthful of air.
I’m too exhausted in the wake of my orgasm to stand against the current, so as Alicia goes limp in my arms, I reach out for the riverbank and grab the root of a tree growing there, using it to hold us in place. I rub my hand slowly up and down her back, bringing her back to Earth.
Her breathing slows eventually and she looks up at me.
“That was amazing,” she murmurs.
“Pretty good for me too,” I say, chuckling lightly.
Alicia releases her limbs from around my body, but I don’t trust her strength yet—she’s still shaking—so I catch her arm and pull her to the bank. I support her as she climbs up onto the dirt and rolls to her feet, then I haul myself out after her.
She’s moved a few feet away from me. “This was fun,” she says.
I frown. “This was fun?”
“I have to get back,” Alicia says. “I can’t stay out any longer. Emmy needs me. And besides, I left Kayla in charge, and she’ll be wanting to get away from her babysitting duties—”
“No, she won’t.” How did this turn so fast? “Kayla wanted us to go out, Alicia. She told me she’d watch the baby all night if she needed to. I mean, go back if you want to, but if that’s what you’re doing, own it. I know you’re not going back because of your sister.”
“All right,” Alicia agrees. “Fine. I’m going back because of my brother. I’m going back because of Deidre. I can’t afford to get serious with you while they’re a threat to my family. And you know that.”
She turns and starts to walk away.
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BRANDON
Foramoment,Ijust watch her go. I can’t believe this is happening. I can’t believe she’s walking away from meagain.
And then I shake my head.
No. Not this time.
I hurry after her and grab her arm. Alicia turns, confused, and stares at me. “What?”
“Where do you think you’re going?”
“I told you. I need to get home.”
“And what about what you said in the river?”
“What did I say?”
“That we would talk afterward. Sex first, then talking.”
She shakes her head. “I didn’t say that.”