Page 28 of Relentless Surrender

Conner carried her to his truck. He swung Sage off his shoulder, letting her body slide down his front. She took one look at the intense grimace on his face and for once remained silent. He needed a moment to get control of his emotions. He couldn’t explain it. Since meeting her he felt this overwhelming need to protect her, to touch her, to be with her. It drove him crazy to not know she was okay. To not know she was safe. And then to hear she was at a bar possibly drunk. None of it made sense. But he didn’t give damn. She made sense to him and that was all he needed. Well not all.

Conner grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled her in close. His mouth smashed down on hers. God, he missed the taste of her. Conner walked her back till she was pressed against his truck. His tongue swept inside tasting lime, sugar and tequila. He pulled the end of her t-shirt up out of her skirt, pressing his warm hand against her cool, flat stomach.

Sage groaned. Loving how his hand felt rough, warm and masculine against the softness of her skin. She boldly grasped his hand and pulled it up, pushing against her breast.

“Does my baby want more?” he growled against her neck.

Sage responded by forcing her right thigh between his legs so she could rub it along his hard cock. At the same time, she sank her teeth into his lower lip, drawing blood in her eagerness.

“Jesus Christ!” snarled Conner, almost past his breaking point. Reminding himself despite her enthusiasm not to hurt her with his own. Throwing the passenger door open, he climbed in. Pulling her in next, he forced her to straddle his strong thighs, pushing her skirt up above her ass.

“Close the door, baby,” he ordered while he unzipped his jeans, freeing his fully engorged shaft.

Digging his fingers into her bouncy waves, he leaned in for a fierce kiss. Breathing heavily against her mouth, he commanded, “Grab my cock. I want you to put me inside you.”

Sage wrapped her small hand around his wide shaft, still more than a little intimidated by its size and girth. Rising up on her knees, she guided the head to her narrow entrance. She could feel her tight muscles stretch and strain to accommodate him. Taking quick shallow breaths, Sage slowly lowered herself onto his shaft, loving how the bit of pain enhanced how filled and overtaken he made her feel.

Conner grabbed her shirt and whipped it over her head, needing to see and taste her breasts. Unhooking her bra, he filled his hands with their perky weight, taking one pink nipple deep into his mouth as he pinched the other. When his cock was fully seated deep inside her pussy, he pulled her close, wrapped his arms around her back.

“Hold on, baby.”

Keeping one arm around her mid-back, the other on her ass, Conner lifted her slight weight up, enough to give his hips movement. Sage grasped his shoulders and cried out as he relentlessly drilled her already swollen pussy with his hard cock.

“Oh God! Please! Oh God! Oh! Oh!”

“Yes, baby! Come for me, baby! Cum for me!”

From her position straddling him, each thrust of his cock, pushed her clit against his hard stomach, causing a delicious friction. It was the perfect amount of pressure and movement. Sage came with a scream. Biting down on his shoulder. After several more punishing thrusts, Conner followed her, growling his release against her neck as he breathed deeply her familiar sugared orange scent.

* * *

Hours later in his bed

Sage laid curled in Conner’s arms while he played with her hair.

“Can you just tell me why?” he asked.

Sage stopped fighting it. “I got scared. It’s too much. Too soon. Something like this only happens in books. We barely know one another.”

“I know you silly girl. That’s why I’m trying to get to know you, if you’d stop making me chase you for half second!”

“What if I fall in love with you?” she whispered. “You’re leaving in a few weeks. Another deployment probably. I don’t know if I could handle that. You obviously love the Marines. It’s your career. I just…I just…plus I’m so independent and you’re so…so…”

Conner held her tightly. “Shhh…baby, I will handle everything. Will you just trust me, this once?”

Sage cuddled in closer. Perhaps she didn’t have to be the one in control all the time. Perhaps she didn’t have to have it all figured out. It did feel so safe and good in be his arms. “Okay,” she answered. After a pause, “Just this once.”

Conner chucked. “That’s my little Spitfire.”

EPILOGUE

Six months. Six whole months without him. It had been strangely horrible and wonderful at the same time. It was horrible to be away from him. To not feel his arms around her. To worry about him. On the other hand, the time apart had given them the opportunity to truly get to know one another in ways few couples get a chance too. Long conversations about their childhoods. Funny stories from college and old friends. Cautious tales about crazy family members. That last one was mostly on Sage’s part.

After his leave, Conner had left for Camp Pendleton California to train with Marine Squadron 303 on the new Venom and Viper helicopters. At least he wasn’t in Syria or Afghanistan but the work was still dangerous. A Marine could be killed in training almost as easily as in combat.

She had been able to visit him once. It was nice out in California. They had even discussed the possibility of him leaving his current squad and joining the 303 as a Trainer one day. Secretly, Sage loved the idea. She could do her job remotely from anywhere so the move would not be a problem for her career. But she really like the idea of Conner not going into any more war zones. Unfortunately, it made her feel selfish too. To take him away from something he loved, from people who needed him. She was determined to not influence him in any way.

She had long ago stopped fighting the idea of loving him. He was arrogant, domineering and drove her crazy with his possessiveness sometimes but he was also sweet, caring, intelligent and amazingly unselfish in how he sacrificed his own safety for complete strangers.

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