Page 77 of Hero Unbound

“Lie down on the bed.”

“Yes, ma’am.” He gave her a wink and loved the smile she gave in return. He would do damned nearanythingto see that smile. Lying naked in bed for her was absolutely no problem.

She crawled over him until she was straddling his hips. Maybe they weren’t going to do something too new after all, which was also completely noproblem. “You know I love it when you ride me.”

There wasn’t anything close to a lie in that statement. He could spend the rest of his life with her straddling him and driving them bothinsanewith pleasure.

“I like that too,” she said, a gentle flush on her cheeks. “But I’d like to try something a little different this time. Just lie still.”

She started kissing down his chest, over his abdomen, as she trailed her hands up his thighs and wrapped her fingers around him.

Oh, holy hell.

“Evie,” he groaned. “You know you don’t have to do this, right?”

She leaned her chin on his stomach and looked up his chest at him. “I’m not doing it because I have to. I’m doing it because I want to.”

A moment later, her lips stopped talking and wrapped around him. It took every ounce of his strength to keep still. To force his hips to stay where they were on the bed rather than to arch up and bury himself deeper in the wet heat of her mouth.

His hands, which he’d been in the process of linking behind his head—his favorite way to lie whenever she was on top of him—had frozen halfway up his chest like he was trying to creep up on someone. They clenched into fists and fell down to his sides, but all he really wanted to do was bury them in her hair and guide that mouth on him.

“God, Evie, you’re killing me.” He could barely recognize his own voice. Between her tongue and lips and fingers, he was amazed he could tie a complete sentence together.

He hung on as long as he could, letting her explore and play and tease at herleisure. But it wasn’t enough. He didn’t want to finish without her. With a growl, he reached down and pulled her up, her lipsreleasing him with a pop that had him closing hiseyes in bliss for a second.

“Enough. Ride me. Now.”

Her smile was once again that of a temptress, but this time, there was fire blistering in her green eyes. She reached up to the nightstand and grabbed a condom and rolled it on him. Then she straddled his hips and eased herself down on him. Within a few seconds, even that wasn’t enough.

He reached up and cupped her neck, pulling her down so he could speak directly into her ear. “Still up for that hard and fast?” He nipped gently at her earlobe and could feel her clench around him.

“Yes. Please.”

This time, she really wanted it.

He wrapped one arm around her waist and the other around her head and flipped her in a move so quick it was like the self-defense classes he taught. Immediately, he reached down and drew one of her slender legs up and over his shoulder, opening her fully to him.

She let out a squeak as he filled her to the hilt.

“Okay?” he asked.

“More than okay. Take me, Theo. Hard. I like it like this, but only with you.”

It was all the permission he needed.

He pulled out of her then slammed back home, over and over. He pulled her other leg up onto his shoulder, his hands gripping her hips as he continued to plow into her. Almost from a distance, he could hear her chanting his name, begging him for more.

He gave it to her, reaching down between their bodies to touch her in the way he knew would throw her over the edge. She screamed his name as he did. A few seconds later, he followed in a bliss he’d never known before.

Hard. Fast.

Hers.

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Eva woke up the next morning reaching for Theo, but he wasn’t there. She blinked, opening her eyes to try to figure out what was going on, and saw a note he’d left for her on the pillow.

Callum had a search and rescue emergency and needed my help. You were exhausted, so I didn’t want to wake you.

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