“I’mwhat?” he teased with a half-smile tugging at the corner of his mouth. “Care to finish that sentence?”
I curled my fingers into his shirt. “You said you heard everything I said to Mira, which included my spilling my guts out about you.”
“Oh, that’s right,” he said, his eyes dancing with mischief. “I think there was something about you falling for me…”
“And? ’Cause there was more.”
Kelly scratched his jaw, pretending to think it over. “That you think I’m the sexiest, most amazing man you’ve ever met. And by far the best fuck you’ve had.”
Laughter bubbled up from my chest. “It’s all the truth. Though I’m pretty sure I left out that last detail. You know, to spare Mira any more trauma.”
“Then I probably shouldn’t mention the part about you worshiping my cock.”
Fuuuck, the man’s mouth made me want to drop to my knees and do just that. But that was nothing new. I’d wanted nothing more than to taste and kiss and touch him from the second I laid eyes on him.
“What else did you hear?” My words came out breathy, but I was beyond the point of caring.
Kelly lowered his head, and his lips traced a searing path along my jaw that ignited shivers down my spine. “That I make you smile. Laugh. That your heart skips when I walk into the room.”
“Youwerelistening.”
“What about right now?” he said, shifting back to look at my face. “Any skipping I should know about?”
I guided his hand to my chest. “What do you think?”
“It’s fast. Ithinkit means you kinda like me.”
“No,” I said, sucking in a deep inhale that did nothing to steady my racing heart. “It means I love you.”
Kelly’s mouth parted, a mix of surprise and emotion lighting up his handsome features.
“And just so you know, all of this, every choice I’ve made, it’s been mine,” I said, my voice unwavering. “And if I had to do it all over again, I would, the same way, every time. Because this, you and me? We’re worth it.”
This time, I could feel the way his pulse seemed to stop and then quicken beneath where my thumb rested along his wrist. When his obvious shock passed, he slowly smiled. “And you love me.”
“I do.” I linked my fingers through his and brought his wrist up to my lips to press a kiss there. “So much I don’t care if the world burns, as long as I can have you.”
“Donovan…” For the first time since I’d met him, Kelly’s voice shook, and he closed his eyes briefly. When he opened them again, those golden depths glistened. “I don’t know that I deserve you. But I want to.”
“Don’t say that. You’re the most incredible, worthiest man I’ve ever met. You, Kelly Sinclair, deserve the entire goddamn universe. And I just want to be a part of it.”
Kelly shook his head, like he couldn’t believe the words coming out of my mouth, even though I’d never lie to him. There was nothing I wouldn’t do for this man, nothing I wouldn’t give up—and if that included my career, then good fucking riddance. It would never compare to the way I felt when Kelly looked at me the way he was now, like I was the most precious thing in the world.
He threaded his fingers into my hair, bringing our faces in close so that his breath was a warm whisper on my lips. “I love you, Donovan Truitt. I think I’ve loved you from the first minute I saw you—”
I didn’t let him finish. He’d already said everything I needed to hear with those three words, and I closed the final inch between us, taking his mouth in a kiss that sealed everything we’d just confessed to each other. The intensity of the moment had me feeling weightless, like I was tethered to earth only by Kelly’s lips moving urgently against mine. Our tongues and teeth clashed as we consumed each other, hands roaming, dicks rubbing through our jeans in sweet, tortured friction.
While we had always been fans of putting on a show, I didn’t want this moment to happen where anyone could watch us. The floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room were high enough that there wasn’t a building directly in front of us, but I knew anyone with a wandering eyecouldwatch, and we’d let everyone see enough already.
Ripping my mouth away, my voice was a throaty growl as I said, “My bedroom. Now.”
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MY HEART FELT like it was about to burst. Donovan backed me up into his room, and our kisses were wild and untamed, our hands roaming everywhere. His words had set me on fire, and all I wanted—no,needed—now was to brand him, claim him so he always knew whom he belonged to.
He kicked the door shut behind us then shoved me up against it, and damn, this possessive alpha side of him was so fucking hot. I didn’t have time to react before he captured my mouth again and rolled his hips over mine. His dick was a rough tease through too many layers of clothes, and I thrust against him, cursing when Donovan suddenly jerked his head back.