to her clit, spreading her moisture over the straining bundle of nerves.
“For such a smart woman, sometimes you can be so dense,” he muttered.
Her eyes narrowed just as he added a third finger and stroked the walls of her pussy.
“Ah hell. How am I supposed to argue with you when you’re doing that?”
He found her lips again, silencing her with his mouth. And then his tongue. Like rough velvet, his tongue stroked over hers, warm, spreading his taste, and God, he tasted so damn good. He smelled good. He felt good.
“I think the idea is that you’re not supposed to argue.”
“Me not argue? Like that’s ever going to happen.”
He smiled and withdrew his hands. She wiggled in protest, wanting them back.
“I have something better,” he murmured.
He shifted his body, pushing her thighs farther apart. He positioned his cock at her entrance and pushed in the tiniest bit.
“You’re such a damn tease!”
He chuckled and inched forward, barely stretching her. She wrapped her legs around him and arched up, trying to make him slide deeper.
Finally he accommodated her and thrust all the way in with one forceful push.
She cried out. No matter how often he made love to her, she still felt the shock of that first penetration all the way to her toes. He was big and thick and she pulsed around him like warm honey. He just made her go all gooey, and she loved and hated him for that.
Still buried deep inside her, he put his arms down on either side of her head and levered himself up enough so that he wasn’t crushing her. He looked down at her, his green eyes so serious that for a moment she was worried. Until she remembered that he was as deep inside her as he could be. Who the hell broke off a relationship while they were buried to the balls?
“We need to get something straight, Julie.”
“Hell of a time for conversation,” she muttered.
“Oh, I think it’s a damn good time because you can’t escape me. You can’t run. You can’t avoid me.”
He flexed his hips, and she tightened her grip on his shoulders until her nails dug into his flesh.
“I love you, woman. And you damn well ought to know that.”
“I do,” she gasped. “Now fuck me please.”
“I’m not leaving you. I don’t want anyone else. You’re it for me, Julie. It.”
Her eyes widened and she went completely still beneath him.
“What are you saying, Nathan?”
He let out a string of curses. “Nothing I haven’t said to you a million times already. I’ve told you with words, with actions. I tell you with my body every damn time we get together, but you’re so determined only to see what you want to see. When are you going to get it into your head that unless you kick me to the curb, then this is forever?”
She honestly couldn’t formulate a response to that. Her mouth hung open as she stared into his eyes. He was serious. There was no hint of deception in his gaze. Just earnest ... love.
“I’m never kicking you to the curb, dumbass,” she said in a low voice.
He withdrew and then rolled his hips forward, eliciting another gasp from her.
“Good. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, I vote we talk about making our relationship a little more permanent.”
Fear, excitement, joy and trepidation all went a little nuts on her. But still she wasn’t about to make any assumptions. And not only that, but what she was almost assuming scared the shit out of her.
“How permanent?” she asked cautiously.
He slid his hands down her body again, cupping her ass as he hauled her up. Now on his knees, he drove relentlessly into her, the force of his thrusts making her breasts jiggle uncontrollably.
“Shit, I love it when they do that,” he muttered as he lowered his mouth to one straining peak.
He devoured her breasts, moving from one plump swell to the other. There wasn’t a part of his body that wasn’t touching hers. His hips met the backs of her thighs, and his balls slapped the crack of her ass. He rode her hard, and when he was hopelessly deep, he lowered himself back to her, gathering her tenderly in his arms.
“Very permanent,” he said gruffly. “So permanent that you’ll never doubt how much I love you and how much I want to be with you.”
“I think I could go for that,” she said softly.
He paused and looked deep into her eyes, and for the