heard in his dreams sometimes, and it skidded across his skin in a way he hadn’t anticipated. He wanted to hear it again.
“I don’t know what you’re planning to do, but I can honestly say wolves was not on my list of top ten.”
“Not on my list either.” Her gaze met his, and a glimmer of something precious spanned the space between them. Once, they’d made plenty of lists together, and he’d missed their easy banter, the flirting that had led them to check off the items one by one in as many fun and creative ways as they could. “But I do have a list. Shall I run it down for you?”
She didn’t answer, and he took that as an affirmative. Which would have been the case even if she’d said no.
“First, I’m going to kiss you. Second, I’m going to pull up the hem of that dress and put my hands on your thighs. Then I’m going to spread them. Fourth, you’re going to lie back on that desk, and I’m going to part your folds. Then lick you from bottom to top.” Her lungs hitched with a tiny satisfying gasp, and he lost his place as his erection grew painfully hard at the promise of that sweetness in his future. “Where was I? Number six?”
At her nod, he chanced stepping closer, hand still extended.
“What if I just show you?” he murmured and fluttered his fingers for emphasis, aching to sink into her. And then dropped the final hammer. “I don’t have any condoms. This is one hundred percent about you.”
Heat sprang into her gaze, and he had her. He could read the capitulation there as easily as if she’d scrawled it across her forehead with a marker.
“Why?” she asked simply, and it was clear she meant it honestly, like she couldn’t imagine a reason he might want to make her feel good without any return expectations. As if she’d rarely experienced selflessness when it came to sexual pleasure. Given the last man she’d slept with, he understood her confusion.
And all at once, he didn’t have a good answer as to why he was bent on getting his hands on her. Sure, maybe he’d started out to prove he could make her forget about Anderson, that every orgasm could delete a part of her memory. Then he’d moved on to closure and like four other excuses. But none of that was the truth.
His agenda evaporated as he drank in the raw vulnerability in her demeanor. He wanted to show her how beautiful she was, how much he enjoyed touching her. How fragile and precious these moments were when there was nothing else in the world but the two of them, locked in bliss only the other could bring.
He just wanted to sink into her, to be together like they’d once been. So he could forget the last eighteen months.
“Because your pleasure pleases me,” he said hoarsely. “You’re so gorgeous when you come. That’s when you touch me the most. Here.”
He tapped the center of his chest. And then all words failed him as she took his hand and then fell straight into his arms.
Without hesitation, he used the other one to swipe all the papers from her desk. They fluttered to the floor unnoticed as he met her in the middle, bodies crashing together at the same moment their mouths did.
The flawless splendor of Audra poured down his throat and clutched at his insides. God, he’d dreamed of her like this, prayed he’d have it once again, and cursed whatever roadblocks fate had thrown up that had kept them apart.
This was not what he’d been after, not what he’d expected to suddenly crave more than his next breath. This was supposed to be nothing but sex. It wasn’t supposed to be meaningful.
And then her tongue darted between his lips, claiming his in a demanding dance of heat. Groaning, he pivoted and backed her against the desk until her bottom hit it and he levered her up, nudging apart her knees until he could get between them. Her sweet center opened wide, and he ground his shaft against it, seeking relief from the ache all his dirty talk had created.
Fingers fumbling with her zipper, he got it all the way down and slipped the dress from her shoulder to bite his way across her exposed collarbone. Her bra strap was in the way, so he yanked it to the side, exposing her breast.
That worked too. Fitting his lips to