a beautiful woman sneak into my bed. I thought we discussed this, I’m not crazy or stupid,” he said on a laugh. The tension in her built, but he hoped his light tone settled her nerves. Relieved, she stirred awake and settled her head on his chest, draped an arm across him, and threw her bandaged leg over his thigh and between his legs. Every part of her cool skin pressed to his warm body. She snuggled closer, eliminating any space left between them, and he held her close. Content, he settled into the moment and her and the undeniable connection between them.
“You’re naked.”
“You’re overdressed,” he teased.
“We have to get up.”
“I already am.” He tried to keep things light and make her laugh despite his rising ardor.
“The messenger is coming with my papers. Caleb, Summer, and Lily will arrive soon, so we can go shopping. You have a surprise today.”
“I’d say the nicest surprise is waking up with you in my bed. Though it would have been better if you woke me in the night.” He kissed her on the head and held her close, loving the feel of her body pressed down the length of his. He inhaled her flowery scent and thought this is where she belonged.
“We’ll have plenty of time for that later. Behave yourself. Now, don’t you want to kiss me good morning?”
“You just said to behave.” He kissed her anyway. Long and slow. Their lips met again and again. Warm, sweet, soft, she responded to every caress of his lips to hers. Drugged beyond reason, Jack’s endurance snapped and he took her mouth in a demanding sweep of his tongue, branding her as his.
Opening her mouth to accept his invasion, Jenna relished every taste and kiss. He rolled toward her and pressed her into the mattress. His erection pressed against her belly, her nerves tingled with awareness and apprehension. She hadn’t had sex in a long time and Jack was a big man, in every way.
The heat between them built. Jack cupped her breast and kissed his way down her neck. He pulled up her shirt and his thumb made slow circles over her aching breast, finding his way to her taught nipple. His rough palm against her sensitive skin made her breasts grow heavy. Jack groaned with pleasure and she arched into his touch, responding to the heat and need rolling off him and sweeping her away. Her heart beat so fast, her head spun. His weight settled into her, pressing her into the mattress, trapping her. Unwarranted fear raced through her mind, stealing away the pleasure of the moment. She pressed her palms to Jack’s chest and gave a half-hearted push. A voice inside yelled pull him back. Fear won out, and she hated her ex for doing this to her, taking one more thing from her.
“Jack, stop. Stop.”
Jack pulled back, pressed up onto his hands, and shook off his blinding desire. “Are you okay?”
“It’s just that, um, I haven’t done this in an extremely long time, and we have to get up, and you’re making me really nervous, and I don’t think I’m ready for this,” she rambled on.
He tried to lighten things without moving from where he needed to be. The thick head of his cock pressed to her entrance. He shifted and pressed harder. Her thin panties adding to the friction of the caress. Her eyes went soft and drooped closed as she sighed.
“You’re not ready yet, but give me a few minutes and you will be,” he said, his voice husky with pent-up desire. He buried his face in her neck and kissed a trail to the soft spot behind her ear. God, she tasted better than she smelled.
She gave out a giggle. “Jack, I’m serious. Get up. People are coming over.”
“You’re killing me, you know that.” He rose above her on his hands, the lower half of his body keeping her trapped. He narrowed his eyes, deadly serious, he said, “We will finish this later.”
“We will,” she assured him, cupping his beard-roughened jaw in her hand to soothe him. As always, he leaned into her touch. “Seriously, I haven’t been with anyone since, well, a long time. I’d like us to take our time. Learn how to enjoy each other. You’re, uh, a really big guy, and you’re scaring me a little bit,” she admitted.
The last thing he wanted to do was make her pull away. Then he thought about what she was telling him. She hadn’t been