to pin anything down except lust and need. Summer affected him on a primal level. Her enchanting blend of innocent naughtiness and the joyful way she approached life was rearranging the emotional furniture inside him. She wasn’t immune to bad shit happening and hadn’t turned bitter because of a runaway mom and deceased father. Her spirit was stronger than what life threw her way.
When they made their way back to the car, and he held the passenger door open, she smiled shyly, and her cheeks flushed with color.
Without the background guesswork of “will they, won’t they,” there wasn’t any need to pretend. He wondered if anticipation would make her drip with need and had his suspicion confirmed by her sweet blush.
On a scale of one to ten, his smooth factor stalled near the bottom due to his being a cocky fuck at heart. He leaned close and growled in her ear, “Charming blush, golden girl. Are you imagining what my cock will feel like inside you?”
She proved herself a wanton witch when she fluttered her eyelashes, bit her lip, and moaned. “You’re reading my thoughts.”
The smoky gleaming in her eyes offered a beacon of hope and maybe, just maybe, real love.
After strapping in and entering her address into the navigation system, she touched his wrist to get his attention.
“I, um, don’t have condoms at my place.”
He blinked. Twice.
Right, right. Condoms. “Is there a CVS nearby? Or a Walgreens?”
“Oh, um, yeah. I think. Just start driving and let me see where we’re headed.”
Fifteen minutes of sexually charged silence later, he parked near the front of a CVS and ran into the store. Spoiled by at-home delivery, he wasn’t familiar with the drugstore layout and marched around for a few minutes like a clueless moron until he stumbled upon the right aisle. And that was when things went wonky.
The selection was mind-boggling. He searched for whatever looked familiar and gave a self-conscious shrug when his hand snatched a pack of Magnum XL’s off the rack. His eyes caught another familiar sight and quickly added a bottle of Astroglide lube to his haul.
Heading for the checkout, he veered into the candy and snacks aisle mostly because he didn’t want to deal with the cashier’s smirk. By the time he plunked down an armload of crap at the cash register, he had a little bit of everything—including a can of aerosol whipped cream from the chiller and a silk eye mask he found in the makeup department. All he needed was a few zip ties, and the cashier would have enough Fifty Shades jokes to last a lifetime.
Stashing the bags in the back seat, he lowered into the car and grinned. “All set.”
Her answering smile had a wicked edge to it. “I left something in the console for you.”
She did? His brows went up, and he flipped open the storage space. The usual assortment of crap came into view along with an unfamiliar slash of pink. He looked closer and reached into the console. What he pulled out was her bra.
“First rule after a long day. Remove the bra as soon as possible.” She shrugged. “Since it was going to come off anyway, I just started early.”
He held the thing up and nodded approvingly. His eyes looked for the tag. Double D. Nice.
“May I keep this?” he asked with a cheeky smirk but didn’t wait for a reply. He reached for the name tag still on her sweater and made a production of peeling it off. When he was finished and had crumpled the sticky label, he tweaked one of her nipples and grunted. “Fair warning. I have an oral fixation.”
“Can you teach me?” She giggle-purred. “The oral thing? I think I’d be good at it.”
He imagined her luscious lips stretched around his fat cock while she gazed up at him with greedy lust in her smoky eyes.
He took her hand and kissed her knuckles. “You’re asking for another lesson from the advanced manual. We’ll start with the basics, maybe my face between your pretty thighs.”
Her face turned dark red. “You don’t have to. I mean, if it’s something you’d rather not.”
“Ah, Summer. My sweet innocent. Licking your pussy teaches me what makes you come. How else can I learn what pleases you?”
She began to tremble visibly. He got off on the power she handed him.
“How about some music?” He turned on the entertainment system and pulled onto the road. In less than ten minutes, they pulled up to an older two-story apartment building.
Gathering