a plea than a demand.
“Say. It.”
His mouth moved up my chest and to my neck, up across my jaw and to my ear. He softly whispered, “Say it, Linz.”
“I want you to…to…”
“To do what?” he asked, and I could hear the smile in his voice.
“Fuck me. Hard and fast.” I gasped as he pushed another finger inside me.
“Here? On the kitchen island?”
I nodded.
“Say it.”
“Damn it, Nolan!” I cried out. But when his thumb rolled gently over my clit, I cried out, “I want you to fuck me, hard and fast, on the kitchen island!”
He wasted no time pushing inside me.
“Oh God!” I cried out as he buried his face in my neck and moved fast and hard while holding my legs up.
“Linnzi,” Nolan panted. He moved his mouth up and pressed it to mine.
I lifted my hands to his shoulders, and I held on as he gave me exactly what I asked for. “Nolan, I’m going to come!” I cried out as I felt him move faster.
“I can’t…I’m going to… Linnzi, now! Now!”
And like that, I was lost in an orgasm that felt like a free-fall. The room spun as I squeezed my eyes shut and saw bursts of light explode. Good God. Had sex always been like this with Nolan? I almost laughed. Of course it had, if my dreams had been any indication.
Nolan slowed and finally came to a stop. “Christ Almighty, I nearly threw my damn back out!”
I couldn’t help but giggle as I wrapped my legs around him, not wanting him to leave my body yet. “That was amazing,” I whispered, twirling my fingers in his hair.
“Yes, it was. I think I could come home from work and be greeted like this every day.”
I smiled and then drew back some. “How often will you be able to come home to Texas?”
He winked. “Often. Now that I have a reason to go back.”
I felt my smile grow larger. “Good. Now, I should clean this island and get you fed.”
Nolan reached around and picked me up. He was still inside me as he walked through the kitchen toward his bedroom. “Not until after we take a shower.”
“I like the sound of that!”
After showering, getting dressed, and cleaning the island…twice…we sat down on the back porch and ate while Duke and Belle played in the backyard.
“I put in for leave starting next week.”
“You did?” I asked, feeling a bubble of happiness spring up inside of me. “How long will you be off?”
“Two weeks.”
“That’s wonderful, Nolan!”
He chewed and looked away. He had something on his mind, and I knew he was trying to find a way to bring it up.
“What is it you’re struggling to say?”
Turning back to me, he let out a soft laugh and shook his head. “You always did know when I was debating something internally.”
My only reply was a soft smile.
“You mentioned about looking for a house. It’s just, you actually lived at the ranch house when we had the accident.”
“I did?”
He nodded. “Yes. You were originally going to move in with me after we got married, but you moved into the ranch house and lived there after we got engaged.”
I felt myself frown. “I can’t believe being in the house didn’t bring back any memories.”
A pained expression washed over his face, but he didn’t say anything.
“How long were we engaged?”
“I asked you to marry me when we turned twenty.”
My eyes widened. “That long?”
Nolan looked like he was about to say something when my cell phone rang with a number from Boerne I didn’t recognize. “I should get this.”
I slid my finger across the phone and answered. “Hello?”
“Yes, is this Ms. Cunningham?”
I sat up straight. “Yes.”
“Hello, this is Katherine Boone.”
Oh. My. Word.
“Ms. Boone, yes, it’s a pleasure.”
Nolan looked over at me.
“I received your email the other day, and I know you said you would be traveling from France back to Texas, so I wanted to give you some time.”
“Yes. Thank you, I’m back in the States now.”
“Wonderful. Well, as you know, I own my own company and employ four art brokers. We’ve got a rather large client base, and I’m looking to bring in another art broker. You come highly recommended, and I must say, you’ve gathered a rather impressive resume.”
I looked at Nolan who smiled at me, unsure who was on the other end of the call. “Thank you, I appreciate your kind words.”
“All true. Now, I’m looking to bring another person on part time, and you would mostly be working from home. Although, twice