my labia, the promise of his callouses as he stroked the dampness waiting for him and spread it around. It wouldn’t take long for me to soak his hand. Not once did we look away from each other as he played.
“Did I say thank you for that?” The depth of emotion in his eyes was almost too much but I wouldn’t turn away from him.
“No,” I whispered. “But I’m pretty sure it was implied. Especially when we couldn’t move.”
He chuckled. “How’s your back?”
“Fine,” I promised. Sure, it ached, but I didn’t care about it right now. “Yours?”
“Not even a blip.” He pressed two fingers inside of me, and I let out a sigh. “Fuck, I just want you, Frankie.”
“You can have me,” I told him, and he withdrew his hand, then caught my hips and tugged me back toward him. I turned and then straddled his lap there on the floor and sank down. Together, we gripped his cock and angled it so I could just impale myself on him, and he echoed my shudders.
The friction of his erection pushing into me lit me up. Hands on his shoulders, I locked my gaze on his as we lingered there, connected, but still. With one hand, he cupped my face and then pushed my hair up and away.
“Do you remember when you left for Germany?” I asked him softly.
“Try to forget it,” he murmured, nuzzling a kiss to my jaw. “I hated leaving you and Coop.”
“We hated it, too.”
“Then why are we discussing it?” He mouthed kisses on his way to my ear, and I rocked my hips, the barest motion, and it had him hissing. There was something really empowering about knowing how much I affected him.
God knew he had an amazing effect on me.
“Because,” I said, beginning to ride him slowly, no rush, just a gentle up and down. It seemed like I took him deeper with each downward push. Or maybe it was wishful thinking. “If you hadn’t come back…I think I would have tried to find you someday.”
Lifting his head, he snapped his gaze to mine and dropped a hand to my hips, helping me move but not rushing me. “Even after I didn’t write?” The rawness there echoed something in me.
“Maybe especially because you didn’t.” It didn’t seem so weird to vocalize this. “Jake, I missed you so much when you were gone, I think Coop got sick of me bringing you up.”
He chuckled. “I missed you, too.”
“But I didn’t have the words for it. I tried to write you, you know.”
A frown. “No…”
“I didn’t know where to send it, and I nagged Maddy to death about helping me find an address.” He thrust up to meet me this time, and the jolt sent little shocks through my system. “Probably pissed her off.”
“I never got any letters,” he admitted. “I didn’t write because I had no idea if we would be back. Dad went where the assignments took him. It might be that I would never see you again.”
Every arch of his hips as I sank down delivered a stroke to that spot that had me tilting my head back and groaning. “I wouldn’t have let that happen.” My breath came in shorter bursts, and Jake was panting. “I would have figured it out. Internet…it’s a great thing.”
Jake surged upward, and then I was sprawled back on his bed without ever losing him as he pressed my thigh higher and deepened his angle. “Friend me somewhere?”
“Oh yeah.” The second word rode a whimper as he slammed his hips forward, and I dug my fingers into his shoulders. We were touching everywhere, and where I might have been chilled earlier, I was burning. “You’d have totally stalked me on Instagram.”
A huff of laughter, and then he sucked a spot on my throat before kissing it gently and laving his tongue over it. “Yeah, I would have. Probably road tripped if I saw some of those bullshit posts giving you a hard time.”
“See…” Fuck, I was so close, and the tension corded tighter and tighter. Jake hadn’t slowed for an instant, every push and grind sending another delicious wave through me. “We would have found each other…maybe reunited for your birthday.”
Another laugh, this one harsher. “That’s a nice dream,” he said, pinning me with a look. My back rubbed against the cover, but I didn’t care. The little stings added to the pleasure spiraling out in my system. He framed my head with his hands, keeping me in