Escalation - Tessa Teevan Page 0,60

on fire, and my skin tingles from head to toe.

I try to match his motions, but he increases his tempo. All I can do is wrap my legs tighter around him and dig my heels into his lower back as my climax builds.

Leaning my head back against the pillow, I allow the desire swirling inside me to take over, my orgasm racking my body. My walls clench around him, and he lowers down, lying so we're chest to chest, which increases my pleasure.

His strong hands cup my cheeks, and he brings his face mere inches from mine. As his eyes bore into my own, his gaze is full of adoration.

"I love you, Brie. I will always love you," he promises. His fulfilling thrusts emphasize his words. Then he releases my face and finds my hands to entwine our fingers.

The position is the most intimate one of my life, as if he’s locking us together, never to part. Hand in hand, heart over beating heart, and him still rocking inside me.

He pumps hard, drives deeper. My hips grind against his pelvis to create friction that has another orgasm cresting, ready to send me over the edge. Our bodies move in a sensual rhythm as we move together as one, faster, more frantic, and intense. His hands grip mine tightly and just as I whisper my own profession of love, he groans into my neck.

“I love you, Rafe. God, I love you,” I pant as he buries his head in the crook of my neck, biting down as his body goes rigid and releasing inside me, taking me right along with him.

We explode together in an electrifying orgasm that has waves of pleasure crashing all around us. The sounds of our cries echo in the room as he presses his body into mine, pushing in deeper as I milk him for every last drop.

My heart races as I pant erratically, on a mental and emotional high from this night. His fingers, entwined with mine, stretch and flex, but he doesn’t let go. His chest heaves, and my legs tingle, my body still trembling as I come down from the aftermath of our lovemaking.

I’ve never felt this way before. And it’s because no one has ever loved me the way Rafe does.

His lips settle against the curve of my neck. Then he rains kisses along my skin until his lips capture mine. He kisses me deeply, openmouthed as he breathes me in, stealing the very breath from my lungs, replacing it with his own as they mingle in our mouths.

When he pulls back, his eyes are full of unspoken emotion.

“What…what was that?” I ask.

His head drops before he looks into my eyes. “Giving you breath. The night… I just… I was doing what I couldn’t before. What I vow to do for the rest of my life. Keep you breathing.”

My breath catches, and when I see the slight shift in his eyes, I resume the most fundamental human act. I breathe. He lets out a sigh of relief, causing hot tears to spring to my eyes.

“Oh, Rafe.”

“Just as my heart with always beat for you, I will always breathe for you. You’re my life, Brie. If you’re not breathing, then neither am I.”

“Then we’ll breathe together,” I whisper, tightening my hands in his.

“Together,” he affirms.

As he hardens inside me, he slowly pulls out then pushes back in, never letting my hands go. Never taking his eyes off me. His breath on my lips the entire time.

Every time with Rafe has been damn near perfect, but this… This experience is different. Tonight, we’re altered completely as we come together as a couple in love. I’m transformed. I’m no longer aware of where I end and he begins. Or even if that matters anymore. It’s as if his very touch, now emanating the love we share, has taken every bad part of me, every awful memory, and transformed them into something beautiful. Not taken them away or erased them, because without the bad, there’d be no us.

As his hands skim over my skim, his lips branding every inch of my body, he confirms our connection, and I am renewed.

I am his.

I always want to be.

And the truth is that, no matter what lies behind us or ahead, I know the truth.

I always will be.

MY EYES ARE FIXATED on the ceiling as Brie sleeps next to me. Her little snores are the only thing breaking the silence in our hotel room. Last night was the most