grumbles, but I can hear the affection in his voice.
“You know what a good surprise is?”
“If you say no surprise, I’m going to turn this car around right this second,” he threatens, so I clamp my mouth shut and zip my lips for good measure.
We drive for a few more miles before Gray turns the car to a narrow road, and we follow that for another twenty minutes or so before he parks the car next to a small cabin. Fairy lights have been strung all over the place. There’s a deck overlooking a lake, and tall trees are surrounding us. It looks like something right out of a fairy tale.
I turn toward Gray, excitement bubbling inside.
“Are we on a getaway?”
He nods.
“It’s just the two of us for the next three days.”
“Fucking awesome,” I say as I throw myself at Gray. He easily catches me, and I wrap my legs around his waist, pressing an enthusiastic kiss on his mouth.
“Dork,” he says. “I thought it would be good to take a break for a couple of days. You’ve been working your ass off these last few weeks, so you deserve it.”
“Aww, you’re turning sweet on me. Who would have guessed?”
“It gets even better,” Gray says. “We’re completely alone here. There isn’t another cabin anywhere in the vicinity.”
I press my lips against the soft skin below Gray’s ear, and he squeezes me tighter as I start nipping at his neck.
“You know what that means, right?” he asks on an exhale.
“What?” I murmur against his neck.
“No one will hear you scream,” he says.
I pull my head back so fast that I get whiplash.
It’s a good thing there aren’t any people close by because my roar of laughter would have definitely marked us immediately as the noisy neighbors. Even right now, I scare a couple of birds into flight from a nearby bush.
“No one will hear me scream? How very serial killerish of you,” I manage to get out through howls of laughter as I unwrap myself from around him and jump down.
“No! I meant that in a sexy way,” Gray protests.
“Because you’re going to kill me seductively? Got it.”
“I meant screams of pleasure.”
“I’ve never been more attracted to you,” I say as I wipe the tears of laughter from my eyes.
Gray just shakes his head and goes to grab our bags.
“You know, we should really explore before we start carting things inside,” I call after him.
Gray peeks his head out from behind the car.
“Explore?”
“Explore,” I say as I grab the hem of my shirt and pull it over my head in one swift move. “It’s the logical thing to do. Otherwise, how will we know if, say, the bed is big enough?”
“That is important,” Gray says, prowling toward me with all the grace of a lion out on a hunt.
I waggle my brows at him before I turn around and take off toward the cabin. Gray is right at my heels, and we stumble inside together.
We’re both stripping out of our clothes as quickly as we can. Shirts and pants are littering the floor as we make our way toward the bedroom, wrapped around each other, kissing, touching, fumbling with the last of our clothes.
I notice almost nothing about the bedroom, except for the fact that the bed is a king, and that’s all I need to know before I throw myself on it.
Gray topples on me, lips searching mine out and from there we’re nothing but frantic kisses and pent-up desire.
His hands are in my hair, and his lips are traveling over my body. I arch up to meet Gray. The need between us builds to something explosive as I start thrusting against Gray. The desperation is making the air around us vibrate with frantic need.
“Make love to me,” Gray whispers into my ear, and all I can do is nod.
My hands shake as I pop the bottle of lube open. My heart is beating in a wild staccato as I start teasing Gray open. It’s not the first time my fingers have found their way inside Gray, but today we’re not stopping with my fingers or my tongue, for that matter, so I’m a tiny bit nervous. I want to make this good for him.
I move down his body and suck him into my mouth, teasing him until Gray is desperately squirming beneath me, head thrown back, muscles straining with the way he’s trying to hold on to the last shred of clear head.
“Oh fuck, just do me already,” he