She would go have a quiet life after this. But not tonight. Tonight she would be loud.
He opened up the drawer of his dresser and took out a condom packet, tore it open and quickly rolled the latex over his arousal.
And then he moved back between her legs, hooking her leg up over his head before he thrust hard inside her.
She had not been prepared for that.
She gasped, pain tearing through her.
“What the hell?” he asked, frowning fiercely.
“I’m all right,” she said, putting her hands on his lean hips and urging him to stay there. “I’m fine.”
“You’re a virgin.”
“Not now.”
He gripped her chin and held her face. “What game are you playing?”
“I’m not playing a game. We played that game already. And I won. But Isawyou. The same as you did me. I haven’t been able to forget. I just wanted tonight. That’s all. I just wanted you to be the first one.”
Maybe the only one.
She just wanted him. That cost her nothing to admit it because she would never see him again. All she would have was tonight. This beautiful, raw memory of tonight.
“I cannot give any more than this,” he said.
“I don’t want any more than this. I couldn’t take any more than this. My father is a crime lord. I’ve spent the last few years running from him. Trying to make a new life for myself. Trying to make myself safe.” She refused to bring Maren into this. It wasn’t her sister’s fault that she had decided to do this. “I won tonight. I made myself safe. I’m going to go off and have my life. But I just wanted this first.”
“But I will make it a night you don’t forget.”
If only he knew.
If only he knew she would never forget, no matter what. Not one breath. Not one heartbeat. Not one moment.
But she was grateful that he would make it wonderful. He withdrew from her, and then pushed back inside, and the delicious friction made her wild.
She wrapped her legs around his lean waist as the pain began to recede, as need replaced it.
His thrusts became hard, less measured.
And she felt her arousal tightening within her.
Felt herself climbing toward that peak again. But this wasn’t an unraveling.
This time, when she came apart, she shattered. It was violent, intense, her body gripping his hardness, drawing him deeper within her, and he responded with an animal need. His thrusts wild and hard. And when he lost control, she felt like she was staring into the center of the sun.
Because it wasn’t only she who shattered. But he as well.
And in the aftermath of it all, they lay there together.
She wondered if she would have to leave. If it was time for her to go and find Maren.
“Stay there,” he said, getting up and going into the bathroom.
He returned a moment later with a towel. “I will get you cleaned. And rest with you for a moment. But if tonight is all you have...”
“Yes,” she said, relief rolling through her. It wouldn’t be just once. “Show meeverything.”