taking me home?”
He rubbed a hand over his beard, in that way he did when he was upset or overthinking things. “Of course. Whatever you want.”
They dropped me off, and I said my goodbyes.
I showered, put on a pair of pajama bottoms and a T-shirt. Watched a couple of episodes of a TV show, thought about making dinner, but I didn’t feel like eating.
Mom was in Richmond at a gardening event and wouldn’t be home until late tonight. I thought about calling Josh or Kellan to hang out. I could use a drink or some friends, but I didn’t.
My phone buzzed with a text, and I was surprised to see Knox’s, I’m outside. Can I come in?
My pulse sped up, and I went to the door. Sure enough, he was leaning against his truck in front of the house. “Hey, come on in. Is everything okay? Did something happen?” Was it too much? Was he already going to throw in the towel?
“I just… We’re alone?” he asked, coming inside. I closed the door behind him.
“Yeah, Mom’s in Richmond.”
“I need you.” Knox’s mouth crushed mine. We kissed and touched and stumbled our way into the bedroom. He shoved the door closed before lifting my arms and tugging my shirt over my head. My cock was hard from the first moment his lips touched mine.
We pulled at each other’s clothes with rough, eager hands, our frustration at the day fueling us. I wrapped a hand around Knox’s cock and tugged just as he leaned forward and sucked the skin of my right pec into his mouth. Hard.
“Mine,” he said before drawing it into his mouth again.
“Yessss,” I hissed, pulling at his hair and his cock, one hand on each.
His mouth found mine again, kissing me deep and hard, then nibbling my lip and giving me his tongue again.
I ached with need, this fierce surge of desire flooding me. I wanted him inside me, to feel connected to him, to be reminded I was his. “I need it hard.”
Knox growled in response, walking me backward toward the bed.
“No.” I shook my head. There were no drawers in the bedside table, so I didn’t keep the lube there, plus that wasn’t how I wanted him. I pulled him over to the dresser. It was one that was lower and longer instead of tall with a mirror on it. The tree carving he gave me in the beginning sat perched on the side.
I grabbed the lube and condoms from the top drawer, set them down, then bent over. Our eyes met in the mirror, his green gaze intense and fierce, like he was possessed and would soon be possessing me.
“You have no idea what you do to me…the things you make me feel.” Knox danced his fingers down my spine, goose bumps chasing after them.
“Tell me.”
“Reckless and wild. Free. Like everything suddenly makes sense when I didn’t know the world wasn’t right before you.”
“Oh God.” I was trembling.
Knox lubed his fingers, ran his hand over the cheeks of my ass. I spread my legs, and he found my hole, our eyes locked on each other in the mirror as I lay over the dresser for him.
He pushed what felt like two fingers inside me. “Knox…baby, please.”
“Lucky,” he added. “I feel that too. Possessive. Like I can’t be tamed, except by you.”
He fucked me with his fingers roughly, the way I liked from him.
“Loved…in love. Like I belong. Like someone knows me in ways others don’t, in ways I didn’t before you.”
He pulled his fingers out, and immediately I felt empty, alone.
Knox slicked his cock, then pushed in, slow and gentle. Leaned over me and kissed my shoulder, fucked me softly. “I love you.”
When you looked at him, he appeared so hard. This rugged, tough man. I adored that he could be hard one moment and tender the next. That he was the most caring man I’d ever known. “I love you too.”
He leisurely pulled out before driving back inside again, then froze. “Shit. Condom. I didn’t think.”
Knox went to pull out, but I said, “Wait,” and he did. “I’m negative. I get checked religiously, every three months. I haven’t been with anyone in a long time except you. I understand if you don’t want to. No obligation, but…”
“I’m negative too. I, um…went in and got tested during a lunch hour at work last week. Just in case.” He looked bashful about that.
“Always smart to think ahead. Now are you going to fuck me or not?