punk for taking your snack in preschool. The kind of love that a man and his woman share for eternity.”
Addy sucks in a breath and tears flood her eyes. When she lowers her hand, she’s smiling a quivery smile. She nods and wraps her arms around me, burying her face into my neck. “I love you an eternity, too.”
“I love you.”
I sit back so I can see her face and relish the feel of her small hands when she cradles my face. “I love you more.”
My nostrils flare and my pulse pounds. I need to be inside her. “Not possible.”
She grins and whispers, “Guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree on that.”
“Guess so.”
She waggles her eyebrows and squeezes her legs together, letting me know she’s totally on board with what I’m thinking about, too. Of all the ways we can show each other just how much we love each other. “It’ll be fun, though. The battle, I mean. I show you. You show me.”
“Maybe I should start showing you right now. I think we’ve said all we needed to say,” I tell her, even though I know we have more to say. But the important stuff, the fact that we’re in love with each other is out in the open now and that’s all I need to know. The rest we can deal with as it comes. I stand up, lean over her, wrapping an arm around her lower back and shifting her so she’s lying down.
“Hmm. If you must,” she says on a sigh, practically purring when I crawl over top of her and give her some of my weight.
“Let’s start by getting rid of these pesky clothes, shall we?”
“Definitely.”
And then everything moves at a rapid pace. We scramble to sit up, tearing at clothes and throwing them anywhere that gets them out of the way. It doesn’t matter where they land, we won’t be needing them for quite some time.
And then everything comes to a screeching halt. Because for the first time in the over twenty-five years that we’ve known each other, we’re completely naked together.
My eyes don’t know what part of her to stare at first and it seems as if hers don’t either.
I’m gathering information, all the little bits that I’ve fantasized and wondered about.
Her hips flare out just slightly, her stomach isn’t perfectly flat and the four small stretch marks on each side only make her that much sexier. Her nipples are a dusky pink and there’s a freckle on the swell of her left breast that is so tempting, I look forward to hours of getting a closer look at it.
The dip in her belly button makes me almost lose my mind and her legs… they were just wrapped around me minutes ago and I’m already anxious for her to do it again.
Everything about her turns me on and even though I’ll never get enough, I need to do more than look.
Starting with every single inch of her body that was so clearly made for me.
Chapter Nineteen
Beau
“Are you ready for this, Addy? What I gave you before? It was nothing compared to what I have planned for us.”
“Yes. Please, Beau. Yes.”
I smile before descending down, my lips touching her skin starting with her forehead and slowly moving downward.
Eyes.
Cheeks.
Temple.
Pause to let my nose skim there, slowly sliding it to the soft space below her ear. She inhales and squirms, arching toward me. Her hands fist the sheets and she whimpers, her legs rubbing against the bed.
I move to kiss her, keeping my lips above hers. She reaches with hers but I resist, wanting to tease her.
One hand’s wrapped up in her long hair, cradling the back of her head and upper neck. I let my thumb slide along her jaw and lift slightly, pressing my dick into her thigh. She gasps and I smile, loving how responsive she is.
“Beau.”
“Yeah?”
“You’re…”
“Showing you how much I love you just like I promised I would. Don’t rush me, Addy. I’ve got years of pent-up energy to use up and I plan to take my time.”
“Yes,” she breathes, releasing the sheets in order to fist my ass.
I continue my trek, moving down her neck, collarbone, over to her shoulders.
Down both arms.
The tip of her fingers.
Letting my lips coast over her breasts but not allowing myself to focus there.
Not just yet.
Fuck it.
With the flat of my tongue, I lick her nipple, then the other. Back and forth, paying attention to each of them.