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After closing his door, he turned to say something to me but I didn’t give him the chance. Instead, I pulled his mouth to mine, putting everything I was feeling into the kiss.

He stood frozen for a second before his arms closed tight around me.

Jake picked me up with little effort. His ability to do that was one of the few reasons why I didnotwish I was six inches taller. Carrying me to his bed, he placed me gently on it before following me down.

“My lips,” he whispered, his lips brushing against mine as he spoke. He brought his mouth to my neck before continuing, “My neck.” His mouth moved to the spot behind my ear. “My sweets.”

His lips traveled down as he opened the tux jacket. My back arched when his mouth covered my nipple and sucked hard. He went agonizingly slow as he worked his way further down. When he finally,finallysettled between my thighs, his tongue lightly teased, licked, and flicked through my panties.

I heard a tear and my panties were gone, a shred of torn, expensive fabric in his hand. His mouth covered me, devoured me, as he lifted my legs over his shoulders. Gripping my hips, his tongue was relentless. Even when I cried out as I came, he didn’t ease up as he drew out my orgasm.

When I finished, I pushed Jake up onto his knees. I unbuttoned his vest and shirt, the process taking entirely too long. He worked at removing everything from the waist down while I leaned to the side to unhook and kick off my shoes.

Dropping between my spread legs, he eclipsed all else, his face all I could see. The feel of his hardness sent a fresh wave of arousal through me.

Jake lowered his strong body to mine. His forearms went under me and his hands wrapped over my shoulders. Entering me, his fingertips dug into my collarbone as he thrust up.

There was so much sensation, pleasure, and intensity that it took my breath away.

“I can’t go back to no sweetness in my life, Piper,” Jake groaned in my ear. “I can’t not have you.”

“You have me, baby.”

Jake shifted his hips, his pelvis grinding against my clit.

I moaned at the friction, my orgasm barreling through me. My nails clawed into his back as his mouth found mine, swallowing my cries.

Pushing up onto his knees, Jake went slowly, teasing me as he coasted in and out with shallow thrusts.

“More.” I lifted my pelvis and tried to move faster.

Grabbing my hips, he held me still as he continued his leisurely pace. “Tell me what I wanna to hear.”

“I’m yours.”

“Fuck yeah,” he growled. “Never leave me, Piper. Never take away the sweetness.”

Before I could respond to his words, his movements sped up and became more forceful. His head fell back, exposing his angled jaw and the strong column of his neck. The power in his thrust increased and his hold on my hips was all that kept me from flying up the bed.

It was frantic. Frenzied.

It was desire, lust, passion, obsession.

It waslife.

*******

I awoke in the middle of the night to moonlight streaming through the window. After we’d finished, Jake had rolled, keeping us connected as I straddled him. I’d snuggled into him as I tried to work up the energy to fall to the side.

As I woke up fully, I realized that I was still sprawled on him. I snuggled my face deeper into his neck.

“Piper?” he whispered.

“Hmm?” I kissed his neck and then his jaw.

I didn’t know jaws could be so damn sexy.

“Good, you’re awake.”