Total pages in book: 81
Estimated words: 75592 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 378(@200wpm)___ 302(@250wpm)___ 252(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 75592 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 378(@200wpm)___ 302(@250wpm)___ 252(@300wpm)
Eyes locked onto mine, she says, “I wonder how your touch would feel after all these years? Where might your hands wander? Would you be sure and confident, or hesitant because we’ve both changed?” She tilts her head, brushes her lips along my neck and now I’m the one shuddering. Her voice goes husky and promising. “I wonder if you’d lose control…”
“Jesus Christ, Hell Kat,” I mutter, leaning in and brushing my nose along hers. “Are you trying to get yourself fucked?”
Eyes still clouded with passion, a certain clarity filters in and her tone is deadly calm. “Would it be wrong?”
I shake my head. “Not in any way.”
She considers that a long moment.
Some would say way too long, but then I see resolve in that ferny stare. She rises up to kiss me again, but I hold her in check. Her brows furrow in confusion.
“I want you to say the words, Kat.”
Her eyes narrow. “The words?”
“I want you to ask for it. I want to know that you want this.”
Eyes hooded, glittering with challenge, Kat once again rises up and puts her mouth on mine, not to kiss me but to bite my bottom lip. She’s not gentle but makes sure to lick the sting away.
A rumble of disapproval that she’s being impish emanates in a growl. “Christ, you’re a piece of work.”
A complaint to be sure, but not in any meaningful way that would stop what I’m about to do. My lips crash onto hers as I lift her up, my hands under her ass. I turn, walk her into my room and we tumble onto the bed.
Kat has never been wishy-washy and when she commits, she’s normally all in. But in the off chance she gets inside her head and decides this is wrong, I start to touch her in all the forbidden places. My hand squeezes her breast before my palm presses between her legs, feeling heat through the denim.
I hiss in surprise and pleasure when she grips my hardening length, then curse when she squeezes me. She’s a wildcat right now, but then again, she always was. Wild, uninhibited, so fucking sure of her sensuality.
“Too many clothes,” she gasps, hands going to my belt buckle.
Chuckling, I bat her hands away. “I’ve already got a head start. Let’s work on you.”
I had every intention of stripping her slowly, taking my time with every inch revealed. I want to drag this out so it never ends but Kat and I have never really been slow with things. Almost with an animalistic urgency, we tear at each other’s clothes, trying to force material away from bare skin and then finally… finally, we’re naked and wrapped up with each other in the middle of the mattress.
It’s not until this moment that I realize, I want Kat in all ways. Not just in this bed, our bodies entwined. I want her heart again. I want a future with her, just the way I’d envisioned but didn’t have the maturity or the confidence to act on.
I’m not the same man I was all those years ago. I’ve changed over time, and in the last two months, I’ve changed even more. I’m confident I can be the type of man Kat needs me to be, but she’s going to be a tough nut to crack. I have no doubt she’s got her heart wrapped up tight in a protective layer of Gabe-resistant armor.
I may have been that way once, but the man I am now is not afraid of a challenge. In fact, I kind of relish it.
CHAPTER 18
Kat
My heart is slamming so hard in my chest, I’m afraid my ribs might break. I’ve never been with a man like Gabe in the years since we broke up, and this older, sexier and more mature Gabe is a thousand times more potent.
He kisses me… so damn domineering, and I feel it down to the marrow in my bones. His mouth devours mine, his hands possessively roaming. Within every touch, I can read his thoughts.
This is mine.
And this is mine.
I’ll take that too.
Gabe was ever the alpha and it turned me on back then. Still does for that matter, but I have to keep in mind, I’m only willing to let him possess my body right now. If he tries to go alpha on anything else, I’ll shut it down.
Lifting his head, he stares at me, a perplexed expression on his face. “What’s wrong?”
“What do you mean?” I counter, stroking his bare chest. “Shut up and kiss me.”
My hand goes to the back of his neck to pull him down but he’s too strong and holds himself above me. “You may think otherwise, but I still read Kat Blackburn just fine. Your body tensed up, and not in the way it normally does when I’m touching you.”