the back of her head, I tuck some hair behind her ear, and wrap my fingers around the side of her throat. She’s serious, she’s firm and as much as I want to bulldoze over her, I won’t.
“Okay, honey.”
“Really? Okay?”
Nodding my head once, I continue to take her in. She’s achingly gorgeous, I don’t know how she is even single, but she never will be again, not if I have anything to say about it. She leans forward, touching her lips to mine in a quick kiss.
“Really, Tennessee. For now. We’re new. I understand, when you’re comfortable, we’ll make a decision together.”
Her eyes flick over my face, her lips rolling together as she watches me. “How are you so wonderful, Landry? You hardly know me.”
“I know all I need to,” I grunt, repeating my words from earlier.
Her lips twitch into a small smile. “Me too.”
Touching my lips to hers, she buries her face in my neck and inhales deeply before she lets it out on a sigh, curling even closer. She feels as if she’s trying to actually burrow into my body. I don’t mind, not at all, she feels right there.
TENNESSEE
I can’t let him move us into another place. I refuse to take advantage of him, to be that gold-digger that Lucinda all but accused me of being. Instead, we’re going to make this work, here, just as if he were any other guy other than Landry Astor.
Staying curled in his lap, neither of us speaks for a while. I don’t know what he’s thinking about, but his arms hold me tightly the entire time. Eventually, I lift my head to look up at him.
“Are you thirsty or anything?” I ask.
He chuckles, then shakes his head once. Those amber eyes of his are focused on me, they have been for a while and there’s something about them that just reassures me. Everything is going to be okay. No matter what it is, as long as he’s here, it’s all going to be alright.
“Not thirsty, but I am hungry.”
“Hungry?” I ask, my brows snapping together in confusion.
His lips slowly curl into a wicked smile. “Hungry for you, Tennessee.”
“Me?” I ask.
He hums, then turns me until I’m lying on the couch. My head resting against the arm. He shifts so that he’s hovering on top of me. My legs spread to give him some room on the narrow space.
Lifting my hand, I cup his bearded cheek, feeling the soft hair beneath my fingertips. “Starving,” he rasps. His lips touch mine for just a brief moment before they start to move down my body.
His hand shifts between us and I feel the backs of his fingers graze over my belly from beneath my shirt. My muscles tremble beneath his touch. My breath hitches as he begins to slide my shirt up my torso. Lifting my arms, I take the shirt from his grip and toss it away.
Reaching between my breasts, I unsnap and unhook my front closure bra before I toss that away as well. Landry lifts his head, his lips letting out a growl right before he lowers his mouth to my breast.
His lips cover my nipple and he sucks me into his mouth. Arching my back, I let out a whimper at the feel of his mouth on me. Lifting my hand, I slide my fingers through his hair, gripping him, holding him against my breast as his tongue flicks and his mouth sucks.
“Oh, god,” I cry on a whisper.
He releases one breast, then kisses over to the other and repeats the move. Pinching my eyes closed, I let out a breath, needing and wanting so much more from him. He’s driving me to the brink, to the edge and I feel as though I’m about to snap.
His mouth releases my breast with a pop, then his lips slide down my belly. He tugs my sweats down, letting out a grunt when he discovers that I didn’t put panties on after my shower. Wrapping his hands around the backs of my knees, he tugs my body down the couch and spreads my thighs.
Landry’s tongue slices through my entire center without warning. I let out a gasp, and then a sigh as he begins to eat me because I know, without a doubt, I’m going to come and it’s going to be fantastic. Words couldn’t describe how he made me feel yesterday with his mouth.