Page 105 of Break My Fall

When I felt calmer I looked up and started to apologize for my craziness, but Nico stopped my words by smashing his lips down over mine and kissing me hard and fast, devouring me and doing exactly what I needed him to do, distracting me from everything but him.

His huge hands moved from my back and to the hem of the t-shirt I wore. He lifted it slowly, not breaking the kiss until he had to pull the t-shirt over my head, then I sat in his lap completely naked. When we had returned from the service earlier I had showered, then too exhausted to look through my bag, grabbed kai’s shirt off the bed and pulled it on and nothing else.

“Are you sure about this, Maddie?” he whispered as he trailed kisses down my neck and behind my ear.

“Yes, please Nico,” I gasped as I squirmed in his lap, my skin rubbing against the soft fabric of his shorts.

“Turn around for me then, sweetheart,” he whispered into my ear again, the heat of his breath making me shudder and my core clench.

I turned around so my back was facing him, then gasped when his arm went around me and pulled me against him, so my back was pressed to his chest.

“Can you put your hands up behind my neck and keep them there for me?” he asked softly. I nodded shakily and did as he asked, locking my fingers together so I would remember to keep my hands there.

“You’re so fucking beautiful,” he told me as he leaned his head over my shoulder to look at my body as he trailed a hand up my stomach slowly.

My whole body shuddered violently at his touch and the prospect of more. I needed this. I needed his touch to take me somewhere where the pain and grief didn’t exist, even if just for a few moments.

He seemed to hesitate at my shudder, so I looked up at him, meeting his eyes and pleading with him to give me what I wanted.

“You promise you’ll tell me if I hurt you, or if it feels uncomfortable?” he asked.

“Yes, I promise. Please Nico,” I gasped.

“I’m only going to touch your clit, okay sweetheart? I don’t want to hurt you. I just want to see if I can help you relax a little,” he explained between kisses down my neck and over my shoulder that were driving me wild.

“Yes, please, just touch me,” I cried.

Finally, he slid his hands down over each of my shoulders and over my very sensitive nipples. I blocked out the thought that flashed through my mind about why they were so sensitive. I didn’t think about the milk I had been producing all week for the son who couldn’t drink it. It had stopped the day before, and that had hurt too.

“Maddie, stay right here with me,Amore Mio,” Nico whispered in a husky voice that instantly brought my mind back to him and his hands roaming down my body. I looked down at the colorful tattoos on his arms and focused on them as his hands moved lower and lower.

His hands landed on my thighs, his palms alone so big they covered almost the entire things, his dark skin such a contrast to my milky white.

“Open for me. Straddle my legs,” he urged as his hands guided my thighs apart until I was sat wide open astride him. For a moment I felt conscious of being so on show with the man who was my boss for the last year, but then he resumed his trail of kisses and I forgot everything except how desperate I was for him to touch me.

Eventually his hands started to move again, making their way up to exactly where I needed them to be. I was crying out at his first touch on my clit.

“That’s it,Amore Mio. Just relax for me and feel,” he soothed between kisses on my neck and behind my ear as he toyed with that sensitive bundle of nerves like he knew exactly what he was doing. When his other hand slid up and teased my nipples alternately, my orgasm started to build, heat and tension filling me as it built and built.”

“Nico!” I cried as I lay my head back against his chest..

“Just let it happen, Maddie,” he told me, and the husky tone in his voice was enough to push me over that edge. I untangled my fingers and grabbed the back of Nico’s neck, holding onto him as my orgasm rushed over me all at once. My body shook violently as the waves kept coming, Nico continuing to touch me through out, only prolonging the perfect moment.

Panting and gasping the pleasure that had pushed my pain back for a short while, ebbed away and the pain came flooding right back in. Tears filled my eyes as Nico turned me to face him again, and laid back, settling my body on top of him as he wrapped me in his arms.

“Let it out, sweetheart,” he whispered as he held me tightly and cradled my head against his chest. A sob slipped out, followed by another, and another, my emotions overwhelming me after the release he had given me.

Nico just held me, soothing me with his hold and his gentle touches until finally I had nothing left in me and I drifted into sleep, soothed by the strength and heat underneath and all around me.

CHAPTER 27

MADDIE

I was awoken by the shrill ring of my cell phone. Groaning I turned over, disconnecting myself from the warm body I was half laid on. I pried my eyes open and looked around the room, remembering we were still in the hotel in Washington. I looked up and found Nico at my side. He opened his eyes and moved to grab his cell, but I knew it was mine. It seemed unlikely he had ‘baby shark’ as his ring tone. That was, of course, Willow’s choice for my cell.

“It’s mine,” I told him groggily as I rolled to the edge of the bed and stood up. I felt a little shaky, since I hadn’t eaten much the day before, but I managed to make it to my purse.

“Let me get it, Maddie,” Nico said as he sat up and moved to get out of the bed.

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