neck and pulled it off his body, throwing it behind him. I stared at his body in awe.
“Holy shit,” I breathed. “Kale, you have abs, and that V thing that is making me forget my own name.”
“Oblique muscles, they’re called oblique muscles.” He snorted and crawled onto the bed, nudging his way between my thighs. “I worked out a lot while you were away,” he said, then brought his mouth down to my neck.
I placed my hands on his chiselled back, and the muscles beneath my hands moved. The pulse between my thighs was becoming unbearably achy, for which I blamed Kale’s stunning body.
“You’re so hot,” I breathed.
Kale spoke in a low, guttural voice, “That’d be you.”
I felt my cheeks heat up. “I’m not the size I was when I left here. I’ve probably gained between fifteen and twenty pounds and look like I’ve aged forty years while you’ve gone and got yourself ripped and become even more gorgeous. That’s a shitty trade-off for you.”
Kale pulled back from kissing my neck and glared down at me. “You. Are. Beautiful.”
My heart thudded against my chest.
“Thank you,” I whispered.
His gaze was still hard as he stared down at me. “Do you remember when you were fifteen, and I stood behind you while we looked at you in the mirror, and I listed everything I thought was beautiful about you?”
I’d never forget it.
I nodded, my breathing turning rapid.
“All of those things I listed back then have multiplied by a thousand now,” he said and smiled down at me. “You’re perfect, Laney Baby. Simply perfect.”
My voice was tight with emotion, but I refused to cry.
“Take me,” I pleaded. “Right now.”
Kale’s eyes flashed with fire as he reached down and pulled me into a sitting position. In the space of a few seconds, he rid me of my jumper, T-shirt and bra, throwing them God knows where. I lay back and fisted the sheets around me as he kissed his way down my stomach and used his teeth to pop the button on my jeans.
“Oh, God,” I breathed when he lowered my zipper and I felt his hot breath on my skin.
My boots, jeans and socks were next to go. Kale gripped the hem of my underwear and slowly inched it down until I almost screamed at him to tear it from my body.
“Please,” I panted.
He flung my underwear over his shoulder and brought his mouth down to my centre and inhaled. His hands gripped my thighs and he groaned.
“Fuck,” he said, his voice strangled. “You smell better than I remember.”
Crimson. That was the colour I was certain my face and neck were.
“Kale,” I pleaded. “Inside me. Now.”
“What if I want to take my time with you?” he asked, his voice low and husky.
I whimpered. “I’ll fucking die, that’s what.”
I screamed when Kale suddenly buried his face between my thighs and flattened his tongue against me, lapping at me like I was his favourite treat. I thrashed about, and like our first time, he hooked his arms around my legs and clasped his hands together atop my mound. He held me in place while he licked and suckled on my slick bundle of nerves.
“So close,” I cried out when I felt the delicious heat of bliss lick at my core, igniting a fire within me that I thought had burnt out long ago.
Right there, my mind screamed. Right. There.
“Kale!” I shrieked.
I sucked in a deep breath and held it as the first pulse of heaven slammed into me, followed by another and another. Each throb of pleasure spread to my every nerve ending, and sensation became me. I greedily sucked air into my lungs when they began to burn, a reminder that I wasn’t breathing.
“I can’t wait,” Kale’s voice growled, breaking through my clouded high.
I blinked my eyes into focus just in time to catch him rid his body of clothing and climb over me, his hardened length thick and purple as it jumped with anticipation.
“Later,” he swore. “Later I’ll take my time with you, later I’ll explore every inch of you, but right now, I need you hard and fast.”
I needed that too.
“Yes,” I pleaded. “Yes, please.”
Kale gripped the base of his length and rubbed the head up my glistening slit, causing my body to jerk at the sensation. He lowered the head to my entrance and slowly, painfully slowly, he pushed inside me. I cried out as I felt my inner walls stretch to accommodate Kale’s thickness.
“Christ,” he shuddered, his face looking almost