as he moved his pelvis farther forward as if trying to reassure me.
It made stroking him a little more difficult, but I was losing speed as my climax crept up on me anyway. It didn’t seem to bother him. If anything, he was just getting more into it.
“Come for me, Linds. Just remember to keep quiet.” His voice was a harsh whisper.
I buried my head in the crook of his neck, biting his shoulder to keep any sounds from escaping as heat spread through my veins and that euphoric precipice was so close my toes were already curling. A retort about how bossy he was in the bedroom—or the forest for that matter—died on my lips when I went tumbling headfirst over the edge with another flick of his thumb.
My body tensed against his, but I didn’t feel like he was about to let me fall. Somehow in the midst of everything that we’d done together, I had come to trust him. Really trust him.
The realization sent powerful aftershocks ripping through me before I finally went all but limp in his arms. Looking up at the savage expression on his face as he watched me in the aftermath of coming apart, I knew he wasn’t done with me yet.
Despite him following through on his promises the first time we were together, I felt so sated that I really doubted I’d get there again. Seeing that look on his handsome face made my insides involuntarily clench again, though.
How? How does this guy have such an intense effect on me? I didn’t know, but this was hardly the time to question him. Not that I thought he knew, but at least I was pretty darn confident it was the same for him.
“You okay?” he asked, his voice almost tender even while he was pulling a condom out of his wallet and shoving his pants and underwear down over his large cock.
I nodded before dropping my head back to kiss his lips while hooking one leg around his hip. “How are we going to do this?”
He kissed me, fast and demanding, before he brought his palms to my thighs and lifted me against him. “How’s that bark against your back?”
I didn’t even have time to answer him before he released one of my legs to yank his shirt off over his head. He blanketed it over my shoulders before resting me against the tree again. Instead of answering him with words, I offered my mouth again and he took it as he lined himself up.
Concern clouded his gaze when he glanced down at me again. “This is going to be hard and fast. You okay with that?”
“It’s like you read my mind.” I looped my arms around his shoulders and burrowed my hands into his hair, kissing him again as he thrust into me.
I would’ve cried out if his mouth hadn’t already been on mine, but it came out as a muffled moan instead. He withdrew as far as he could before returning to me like he just couldn’t help himself.
His hips set a brutal pace, but I loved every minute of it. I worked to meet his thrusts, but it was almost impossible to do much in this position.
Leveraging my arms on his shoulders and calling on muscles I didn’t even know I had, I managed to roll into him instead of thrusting, but my efforts felt pretty amazing to me. From the concentration on his features when I opened my eyes to sneak a peek at him, I’d say he felt the same way.
At this angle, with him filling me up and hitting me in all kinds of places as a result of my own actions, it didn’t take me long before I was fluttering around him again. Pleasure swelled up from deep inside me, cascading out in an almost violent wave when the dam walls burst and I let him have it all.
He moaned right along with me, his rhythm finally breaking as he slammed into me three more times before finding his own release. I felt him expand deep inside me, his powerful muscles quivering as he rode out his climax.
When he was done, he dropped his forehead against my shoulder, breathing heavily as he placed kisses on my bare skin and whispered between them. “Fuck, Linds. That was incredible, but we need to get dressed.”
“Could you give me a minute?” I held on to him, unable to feel my extremities but also more than hesitant to let him