does it take to break your control?” she mused, leaning forward to place an openmouthed kiss at my throat.
“You don’t want to find out.” God, that felt good.
“You make the rules. We’ll keep it a secret. It’s only for one time. We agree on the date.” She punctuated each rule with another kiss, working her way to my mouth. “Anything else?”
“Rule five, our hearts don’t get involved.” That would be disastrous on every single level.
“Agreed. I want it to be tonight.”
“Don’t you want a little more planning? Something memorable?” I lifted my head, keeping her mouth from mine by only a breath.
“I want you, Hendrix. Only you.”
“Savannah—” There were a million and ten different ways this was a bad idea, and yet the fact that I wanted her was overpowering every single one of them.
“You’re right. I won’t give control over to anyone else. No one else is strong enough to take it. You’re the only person I even considered asking. Just you, Hendrix.”
Her words broke me like nothing else could have.
I took her mouth in a hard, deep kiss, sweeping my tongue past her lips and taking everything she offered. Just a few seconds was all it took to lose my head in her taste. I released her wrists and tunneled the fingers of one hand through her hair while grabbing onto her ass with the other.
“It’s not about being strong enough. I don’t want to take control,” I said between kisses, tilting her head so the next one would be even deeper. “I want you to give it.”
“That’s the only reason I will.” She laced her hands behind my neck and pulled me in for another drugging, carnal kiss. “Consider it yours. Right now.”
“Right now,” I agreed, searching my common sense for the point of no return, only to realize we’d passed it. I wasn’t even sure when, but we had. We weren’t a choice anymore, but an undeniable fact. I carried her up the stairs without breaking the kiss, then into my bedroom.
She ripped her mouth from mine only to kiss my jaw, my earlobe.
I laid her back in the center of my massive, heavy bed, then stood beside it.
“Hendrix?” she asked, lifting up on her elbows.
I pulled my shirt over my head, and her lips parted. At least being barefoot meant I had no shoes to bother with, so I hooked my thumbs into the waistband of my pants, catching my boxer-briefs at the same time. “You’re sure you want this?”
“Yes.” Her eyes flared and darkened as I took off the rest of my clothes and left them on the hardwood floor. Then the big, brown depths were focused on my cock as her lips parted.
“Still sure?” I asked.
“Yep.” She blinked a few times. “You are ridiculous, you know that?” Her gaze traveled over my naked body with open appreciation. “Completely. Utterly. Ridiculous. No one should be as hot as you are.”
“You should see the view from where I’m standing.” I couldn’t keep from grinning. Not that I hadn’t heard compliments like that before, but it was different hearing it from Savannah. I walked to the nightstand, opened the new box of condoms there, and took one out. “You understand what this means?”
“I’m clean,” she blurted.
“I wasn’t doubting that. I am, too. This means safety is non-negotiable for both of us.” I threw it on the bed beside her. “That means I have every intention of fucking you, Savannah. Still agree?”
Her gaze snapped from the foil to my eyes as I climbed onto the bed. “I’ll sign a contract if it makes you feel better.”
“A contract isn’t going to save us from this fallout,” I said, my voice dropping low as I rose above her. “Just tell me you still want this.”
“I want this,” she repeated, reaching for me.
Thank you, God. I kissed her senseless, then got a mental grip on my self-control. I couldn’t rush this. Couldn’t hurry. Couldn’t give in to the driving need to be inside her. There could be nothing fast about this. I fucking refused to hurt her.
I kissed her again and again, lowering my body to hers, using it to rock against her fabric-covered core until she caught the motion of my hips and returned it. Holy shit, she was a fast learner.
I tugged at the hem of her sweatshirt and lifted her arms so I could slide it off. “My number, huh?”
“I figured that might push you over the edge,” she admitted with a grin.
“You are a dangerous woman,