take every chance we have to make something of our time together.”
“Very convincing, Ms. Northsea.” He sounded amused.
“Oh no, don’t you dare use that teacher scolding voice on me and then—”
“And then what?” He pressed me against the cold glass, his lips finding that spot on my throat again. Then his fingers swept up into my hair, drawing my head back against his shoulder, claiming my mouth with his.
Maybe he intended to follow through after all.
Rafe’s kisses now were fierce, and his fingers tangled in my hair tugged on my scalp in the best of ways. My lips parted, welcoming him in. I raised one hand to capture his cheek, feeling the faint stubble of his five o’clock shadow against my palm as he kissed me fiercely.
His hand between my thighs cupped my mound, then slid upward. I groaned in disappointment, and he smiled.
“Cruel,” I murmured.
He raised one brow. “You’ve never minded that before.”
He undid the top button on my jeans with deft fingers, and this time when his hand slid down my lower abs, his fingers skated over bare skin. When his fingers swept over my already aching mound, I let out a low moan.
He captured my lips with his, muffling the sound. His fingers kept strumming over my clit, although it was hard for his deft fingers to maneuver trapped between my skin and my panties, and after a second, he pulled away. His hands gripped the waistband of my jeans and yanked them down, leaving me suddenly naked from the waist down.
In the reflection of the window, I could see him behind me, his eyes sharp and intense no matter how slowly he took things. “Don’t tease me.”
“What do you want me to do?” he whispered against my skin. “Do you want me to fuck you?”
I let my head fall onto his shoulder as his hands glided over my thighs, thinking that the way my breath hitched was answer enough. He slid two fingers through my folds until he pressed the sensitive little bundle of nerves, and my back arched subtly.
He withdrew his fingers and popped them into his mouth, still watching me in the reflection. From the pleased look on his face, he savored my taste.
I finally caught on. “Yes please.”
He grinned, one of those sudden, genuine Rafe smiles that was all the more endearing because he was so often grim and serious.
“You have become so polite over the past few months,” he congratulated me.
Well, he was probably congratulating himself, to be honest.
He took a step back, unbuttoning the cuffs of his shirt, then quickly and neatly unbuttoning his shirt itself. He slipped it off, then pulled his white undershirt over his head; his defined abs and wide chest rippled with the motion.
“We should put a mirror over the bed,” he said. “When we go home. I want to watch you from every angle.”
“It’s nice to think of going home,” I said, although my mouth—and my brain—didn’t seem to be working quite properly, since he was tugging my sweater over my head. I raised my arms to let him undress me. “Of what comes…after this…”
I’d been so afraid that we would lose Rafe and Lex, and he stopped suddenly, staring at me, as if he saw that on my face.
“What’s bothering you, Maddie?” he asked. He stepped close to me, cupping the side of my face with his fingertips resting lightly on the nape of my neck.
I was about to say that there was nothing wrong, and he must have known that, because he ordered, “No nonsense. Tell me the truth about what’s going on in that wild brain of yours.”
My lips parted. Of course, Rafe wouldn’t let me lie to him any more than he would allow Silas, even if we just wanted to pretend that we were fine.
None of us in the team would be fine until we were all together, someday in the future.
Probably after a lot of therapy.
“What if I don’t?” I asked, raising my chin as I met his gaze. Just for fun…and to stall.
He shook his head, although his expression was amused. “I need to introduce you to the good girl spanking before you drive me nuts trying to earn the other kind.”
I had to smile. “I thought that my driving you nuts was foundational to our relationship.”
He smiled back at me, but he also took another step into my personal space, which brought his body against mine. I looked up at him, not sure what he was going to