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He decided to make a start now, leaning close. ‘Make me.’

A fire ignited in her eyes, and she stood on her tiptoes, noses grazing first, then lips. He fought a gasp when she took his bottom lip between her teeth, the sharp twinge shooting straight down to his belly. ‘I’ve been trying, but there’s only one thing that seems to work.’

‘And what might that be?’ Aiden’s voice trembled with anticipation, his erection pressing against her.

He was rewarded with Juniper’s palm against his cock, caressing in agonisingly light strokes. ‘I’m sure you know.’

He should have pulled away then, wary that anybody could walk in and find them, but the idea of sneaking around only excited him more. He wanted her so badly that the rest of the world didn’t matter.

Her cold hands crept under the hem of his jumper, following the lines of his stomach up to his chest. When her thumb circled his nipple, he couldn’t help but groan. He’d never been so loud with a woman before, never needed to, but she conjured all sorts of noises and sensations from him.She could unravel him with just a touch if she wanted.

And she grinned like she knew it as she unzipped his jeans, releasing his length from his boxers and swirling her thumb across his pink tip. With him speechless, she pushed him down to the nearest chair and lowered to her knees in a way that made his own buckle.

‘I’ve never given someone a blow job before,’ she admitted.

‘You don’t have to. You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to.’ He drew circles over her arm, pretending he could be patient, controlled, even when her mouth was inches from his cock.

But it was in her nature to challenge him, so she did that now, tracing the inner seam of his thighs. Fuck, she was gorgeous, eyes big and bright and locked on his, framed by dark, fluttering lashes. Her lips were parted for him. Ready.

She took his cock in her hand and swiped her tongue across the head slowly. Aiden arched into her with a gasp. She felt better than his hands ever could. Than anyone ever could. The tears in his fabric stitched themselves up just slightly, the weight of his anxiety easing. He was himself again. ‘Fuck, Juni. I needed this. You have no idea how much I needed it.’

His words only spurred her, and she welcomed more of him into her mouth. He couldn’t keep from twirling her braid around his wrist, though he was intent to remain gentle with her. He’d meant what he said. He wanted her to be in control, just as she’d let him be in the workshop.

Nothing had ever felt so all-consuming as when he filled her mouth completely, hitting the back of her throat.

‘You’re doing so good, sweetheart.’ With pleasure pulsating through every inch of him, it was an effort not to lose himself all over again. But he refused, not wanting to miss a moment of this: not a suckle, not a blink. She was too beautiful to look away from, and though she’d started wary, her pretty mouth seemed to know exactly what it was doing.

As she began to bob up and down his length, tongue lapping so that there wasn’t a part of him left untouched, he couldn’t keep his hips from rolling in time. It only seemed to turn her on more, her moan vibrating through him as she began to buck against thin air.

‘Touch yourself, Juni,’ he pleaded. ‘Want you to feel good, too.’

She did, fingers disappearing into her leggings to play with her pussy, and fuck, he wasn’t going to last. Not when her cheeks hollowed out and he slid further down her throat. His orgasm approached in a shuddering, dizzying tidal wave. ‘Like that. Just like that.’

It felt like torture when she stopped, leaving him teetering on the brink of something earth-shattering. Her lips glistened as she said, ‘Thought this was supposed to shut you up.’

His laugh was raw, fragmented. ‘Can’t when it feels this good.’

‘You don’t have to be gentle with me, Aiden. I’m not gentle with you.’

Exhilaration rushed through him, fist tightening around her plait. As she parted for him again, he rutted into her perfect mouth until he could no longer remember where he was. In the far, far distance, an announcement drifting over the speaker system,but the words were jumbled, rendered meaningless in the wake of her.

‘You’re taking me so well, sweetheart.’ Sweat beaded from her hairline as she thrust both against him and herself, and when her lids closed, so did his. ‘I’m close. I’m so close. Fuck, Juni. Stop before I—’

‘I want you to,’ she rasped. Her cheeks were flushed and the sight of her finger circling her clit was sending him to the edge faster and faster.

She let him sink back into her, and it only took a few more heavy swirls of her tongue before he was spilling into her mouth with lazy, desperate thrusts. His entire body hummed with the pleasure of it, intensified when Juniper came against her fingers with a cry.

Only when he’d ridden out every last bit of his climax did she pull away, seed spilling down her chin. She swallowed, dragging another awed curse from him as her plait slipped through his fingers. He wanted to kiss her again, but he’d tried that the last time and she’d been quick to walk away. It was as though she only wanted him – orwantedto want him – when they were fucking. As soon as it was over, she was back to convincing the both of them that she hated him.

She didn’t touch him like she hated him, though.

He readjusted himself and zipped up his jeans. When he reached out his hand to help Juni off the floor, she took it. Naively, he wondered if maybe this time was different. Now that he’d shown her more of himself, couldn’t she do the same?

Since wishful thinking was clearly in his nature, he dragged her close, pulling her onto his lap. Their breaths were ragged and hot as he cupped the back of her neck.‘Can I taste myself on you?’

She nodded, so he kissed her, salt and musk leaving him wishing they could have more time together. That these encounters wouldn’t always end with her leaving.

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