was between them was more than just two people stuck together for a week pretending to be who they weren’t. This could be them. It should be them. Here. In Harbor City. Anywhere. They belonged together.
Her ass, overflowing his hands in the absolute best way possible, tightened as she bit down on her bottom lip and increased the pace of her rocking, telling him without words what she wanted from him. She didn’t have to worry. He’d always give her exactly what she needed. Pulling her more firmly against him, he closed his eyes and got lost in the slick sweetness of her swollen folds. He swept his tongue over her clit again and again, harder and faster with each pass, until her orgasm pulled her body taut above him and she cried out.
Holding her, steadying her, she came down from that high and collapsed onto the bed next to him. If there were words to explain everything he wanted to tell Hadley at that moment, he didn’t know them. It was all too big, too new, and too important. Then he rolled onto his side so they were face-to-face and the sight of her, flush and satisfied, took even the possibility of forming words out of the realm of possibility.
“I’m done pretending,” she said and kissed him as if she’d been waiting her entire life to do it.
Will knew the feeling because that was exactly how he kissed her back.
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It was like Hadley was high—when Will touched her, it was more intense, more pleasurable, more perfect. Something had changed tonight when she’d come clean with her family. It was as if the oppressive fog that kept her from seeing anything clearly had finally lifted and the world was practically glowing with possibilities. And the man in her bed? He wasn’t just a possibility, he was a promise, and she was done lying to herself about how she felt about him. How she’d always felt. All that denial was a footnote in the history of her life because starting tonight, it was all about tomorrows.
Breaking the kiss, she trailed her lips over the barely there stubble along his jaw, down the column of his throat, over his quickly beating pulse point, and across his muscular chest to lap at the flat nub of his nipple. Of course, it wasn’t just her mouth staying busy; she was exploring with her hands, too. What could she say, women were natural born multitaskers. The second she wrapped her hand around the hard length of him, his entire body moved with his groan of appreciation.
Keeping a firm grip, she stroked her hand up and down. “You like that?”
“I like it any time you touch me,” he said, each word coming out deep and growly.
She glanced up at him, putting on as much of an air of innocence as possible when they were both naked and she had her fingers curled around his cock. “Only when I touch you?”
He grabbed her wrist, pulling her hand away from him, and rolled them both so she was on her back and now he was above her, a nearly feral, possessive gleam in his eyes.
“I like it when you walk in a room. When you walk out of one.” He trailed his fingers across her sensitive skin. “When you look at me.” He rolled her nipple between his fingers with expert ease. “When you smile. When you shoot me that little smirk telling me you know you’ve one-upped me again. The absolute best, though…” Dipping his head down, he delivered a string of soft kisses across the upper swells of her breasts. “Is your snore.”
It took her brain a second to override the delicious sensations he was delivering with his mouth, but once it did, his words had her spluttering. Planting her palm in the middle of his chest, she pushed him up so he loomed above her without touching. “Are you kidding me?”
“Nope.” Will grinned down at her. “Because whenever I hear it, I’m going to remember our first night together and how it was the beginning of everything changing.”
If she hadn’t already been lying back on the bed, she would have collapsed from the shock of it. Will “The Evil Twin” Holt had a gooey, soft, everyday-hero kind of center. “You’re such a sentimental softie underneath all your assholery.”
His smile faded, replaced by a look of raw honesty. “Only when it comes to you.”
Her breath hitched and her heart sped up as she bit down on