happy tears, tears that were born of his commitment and love and reassurance. Tears that told her that her heart was safe in his keeping and that she needn’t have worried so powerfully after seeing him in the barn. She hadn’t known that then, but she knew it now, and it filled her heart with such joy, it felt like bursting.
Her hands were loose at her sides, her long blonde hair reached the tips of her breasts.
“This is me,” she whispered, staring back at him, proud to return his vow. “And I belong to you.”
At the same time, they ran for each other, colliding in the center of the room, his hands on her hips to lift her up. She locked her ankles around his back as his lips smashed into hers, their teeth scraping, tongues mating, his erection thick and throbbing against her clit as he kissed her.
“I need you,” she said, cradling his face as she covered it with kisses. “I need you inside me.”
He set her down on the bed, leaning over her to kiss each nipple and the valley between her breasts. His lips trailed down her stomach in a path of fire until he reached her clit. Spreading her gently, he kissed the bud of rigid flesh then sucked it between his lips, his tongue flicking out across the bundle of nerves until she bucked off the bed and flooded his fingers.
The rip of foil.
His knees spreading her legs.
“Say it again.”
“I want you inside me,” she said, opening her eyes. “Now.”
With one smooth stroke he entered her completely, the walls of her sex sucking him forward until he was buried to the hilt. His eyes were black and rolling, fierce and desperate.
She reached for his face, caressing his cheeks as she looked deeply into his eyes.
“I love you,” she sighed. “You are my sweet place too.”
His eyes fluttered closed for a moment, and he exhaled, his breath warm on her forehead as he withdrew from her body and plunged forward again. He opened his eyes, holding hers captive as he continued to move within her, massaging her wickedly from the inside out, learning every secret place within her and claiming it for his own.
“Stay with me,” he panted as his thrusts became faster and harder, making her muscles tighten and gather, compress like a spring ready to explode.
“Yes!” she screamed, falling over the brink of bliss, her body convulsing madly, her muscles milking him, forcing his climax.
She watched from beneath him, in a haze of orgasmic pleasure, as he threw back his head and growled her name, spending himself in throbbing pulses she could feel, then collapsing beside her with a low groan of pleasure.
“Baby, you’re going to kill me,” he muttered into a pillow several minutes later.
“Never.” Beside him, she laughed softly, her insides still quivering and tender, her smile lazy and replete.
He leaned up on an elbow, reached down for the condom, and unrolled it. Tying a knot in the top he dropped it in a wastebasket beside the bed, then turned and grinned at her. “What now?”
Plunging her hands in his hair, she pulled his face down to hers, reveling in the feeling of his body covering hers. “Again.”
CHAPTER 15
“I’ve never seen someone so excited about Slip’N Slide day,” said Colt as they pulled back into the driveway of his house after dropping off Ryan, slathered in sunblock, with his swim trunks rolled up in a towel, at Bonnie’s Place. He and Melody had embraced like long-lost best friends upon seeing each other again, and Melody proudly introduced Ryan as her “best friend” to everyone before Colt and Verity left, promising the morning CM that they’d be back to pick up Ryan at eight.
“They looked happy together,” said Verity.
Colt nodded. “I added you and Ryan to the visitor list so he can go see her when he wants to. They do the Slip’N Slide twice a month.”
Verity grinned. “At the rate they’re going, maybe we’ll be related someday.”
Her words pinged around in his head, but he wasn’t thinking about Ryan and his cousin when he answered, “Maybe we will.”
She sighed. “I wish the weekend could last forever.”
“Me too.”
He knew that work wasn’t going great for her since last week. Beverly had reported Verity for not returning to work on Wednesday, which had resulted in a formal warning from HR and the advisement that another such infraction could lead to her dismissal. And she wasn’t the only one cleaning up messes. Colt had