to release him before kissing my way back up his chest.
“Condom,” he muttered.
“In a sec …” He felt warm and hard between my legs. I wanted that feeling just for a few seconds as I rubbed myself up and down him. There was nothing special about latex, so I let myself indulge in skin to skin just for a few seconds.
We kissed.
He rocked his hips sliding against me.
Just on the outside.
I rationalized every move.
My hands pressed to the carpet beside his head, and his hands rested on my hips, guiding our movements … or maybe he was taming mine. I drew back from his lips and tipped my chin to watch us sliding together.
“Condom …” he whispered through heavy breaths.
I returned a slight nod. “In a sec … this feels too good.”
And I don’t know if it was him lifting a little higher with his hips or if it was me sinking a fraction lower with mine, but he sort of … slipped inside of me. The head of his erection snagged, stopping our motions.
We stared at each other and then down at what was a textbook visual of “just the tip.”
“Condom,” Kael said with a little strain to his voice, but he didn’t move. Not one inch.
“No” was my knee-jerk reply. Followed with a hasty, “I mean, yes. But just …” I panted like a woman in labor who wasn’t supposed to push.
If we didn’t move, nothing bad would happen.
If we didn’t move, we could just enjoy the most erotic view and feeling ever.
If we didn’t move … we wouldn’t have needed a condom.
Right?
“Just a sec …” I was on top. I held the most power.
It. Just. Felt. So. Good.
His left hand fell from my hip and moved to the side. “It’s right here.” He held the condom in front of my face. “But if you don’t want me to use it, I won’t.”
That grin. That was what made me come to my senses. In that moment, he was no longer just some hot, young guy rubbing his naked body against mine. That grin was my nemesis. The bane of my existence as a retail store owner in Epperly. He wanted to see me completely lose myself in the moment—in him.
“The hell you won’t.” I couldn’t even look at him when I said it. Instead, I lifted onto my knees, plucked the packet from his hand, and rolled the condom onto his cock.
Really, that grin had to go. Sure, it was charming and sexy. But I didn’t like how it made me feel like a flighty young woman enamored by him. I would stroke his dick for our mutual pleasure, but not his ego.
“Lose the grin and kiss me, you sexy idiot.”
Kael doubled down on his grin, keeping it firmly locked in place as he sat up with me straddling him. When I leaned in to kiss him, he moved just enough to deny me.
I narrowed my eyes.
“God … you’re feisty as hell.”
Feisty? I could live with that. “You have no idea.”
He grabbed my ass harder than anyone had ever grabbed my ass before. And I liked it. Too much, really.
“Let’s see whatcha got, Elsie.”
My breath caught in my throat when his hands jerked my hips downward onto every inch of him with unmeasurable confidence. Mesmerizing eyes greedily drank up the view of my reaction—heavy eyes, lips parted, and a long moan vibrating from my chest.
Yeah, yeah … you’re a fucking stud, Kael Hendricks.
Chapter Eleven
I loved my husband despite his inability to undress correctly. And yes … there was a correct order.
* * *
“Well, that was …” I hooked my bra with my back to Kael as he searched for his clothes scattered around the sofa along with pillows, blankets, and two condom wrappers.
Two.
I hadn’t had sex twice in a twenty-four-hour span since Craig and I were in Mexico for our ten-year anniversary.
“Don’t leave me hanging. That was what?”
Unforgettable.
Mind-blowing.
Hot as hell.
Sexier than anything I could recall.
“Not what I expected.”
His easy laughter filled the otherwise quiet room as I pulled on my jeans. “What did you expect?”
I walked right into that one. A reminder that we were competitors.
“I think I expected to be a little rusty. But I clearly wasn’t. I was quite good.” All lies. Well, the first part was true. I turned toward him as I fished my arms into my shirt. My mouth remained firm, giving nothing away as I kept my chin up. It was all about appearance.
After he finished pulling on his socks, he stepped