Page 63 of Red Hunt

I smiled. I loved his nicknames for me: monkey, dove… Nobody ever gave me nicknames. Nothing other than Milli that was. Then he flipped us so I lay beneath him and he started kissing me again. He kissed his way down slowly, kissing every inch of skin he uncovered by pulling the sheet down with him. My skin turned hyper-sensitive anticipating where his lips would touch next. When he reached that place between my legs, I stopped breathing altogether. At some distant corner of my mind, dark thoughts surfaced. Wisps of suppressed memories of looming chaos and pain materialized, like dark clouds on the horizon predicting bad weather and thunderstorms.

“What’s wrong?”

His voice pierced the darkness like a bolt of lightning, brought me back out of my head and into my body again. Made breathing possible again. “Nothing.”

“You tensed up.”

I chuckled, even though inside I was shaking. “I’m anticipating your touch. Would you touch me already?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

I could hear the smile in his voice, mocking me. But a second later, I didn’t care. His lips nibbled, then sucked, and I had never felt anything that good.

I was free-falling.

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MAX

When my lips connected with her folds, my cock turned rock hard, and I was sure I’d died and gone to Heaven.

Everything since last night felt surreal and hyper-real at the same time. When she fell asleep against me, I could’ve listened to her breathing for hours. When I woke up with her in my arms, I wished we could stay like that forever, and now…inhaling her sweet scent, strongest down here between her legs, I couldn’t remember a time or place I’d felt more at peace, more right, more perfect.

I nibbled, and she groaned. I sucked, and her sharp, breathy cries were like music to my ears. She was wet, almost dripping, and I lapped it up.

So hot.

She grabbed my hair, my ears and moaned.

I circled her clit with my tongue, sucked, then pushed one finger inside of her. So tight. Her whole body stiffened, tensed like a bow…and shattered with a piercing cry of my name.

Heaven, that was fast.

Then she grabbed my arms, urged me higher. “I need to feel you inside me. Now.”

I groaned and got rock hard. Her sense of urgency made me smile and turned me on at the same time. I turned on the lamp on the nightstand and grabbed the condom that I’d placed there yesterday evening, not trusting myself to be able to resist her.

Not in a million years had I expected it to be this way between us with her as the driving force. I’d pegged her as timid, even downright frightened at times. But she had a spine of steel and an iron will. The dichotomy was insanely sexy, attracting me more to her than any other woman I’d met in my lifetime.

I rolled up the condom and was close to the panting I did when I was done. Her hands on my ass cheeks, while she watched intently, didn’t help.

“I need you, dove, and I probably won’t last long.”

It had been a damn long time since I’d last had sex. Probably too long. But my desire for peace had been stronger than my desire for companionship. Superficial relationships or one-night stands had lost any appeal a long time ago. And a more meaningful relationship? I’d never met a woman I wanted more with. Wasn’t searching for one…until her.

I pushed inside her and needed every ounce of self-control I could muster to take things slowly. She felt like Heaven. Hot like molten lava, incredibly tight, and oh so gorgeous.

I swallowed her groan with my lips, then pressed my forehead against hers. “You feel amazing.”

She chuckled, and I felt the ripples throughout my body, then moaned when I pushed farther inside her.

“More.”

The pressure was off the charts, and I panted.

I pulled back, the friction excruciatingly perfect, then pushed forward again. I squeezed her breast, then plucked at her nipple while sucking the other one deep inside my mouth, almost coming by listening to her moans alone.

“Oh, Max.”

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