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Her eyes locked with mine, and I brushed my lips over one thigh and then the other, getting closer to what I really wanted.

“Jude.”

I slid my hands up her legs until my fingers were on those same thighs, ready to spread them apart and reveal the promised land. “Do you want me to stop?”

Lena shook her head. “No, I don’t want you to stop.”

“Good.” I smiled and gently lifted her legs open. The frenzy I’d been fighting caught up with me. I couldn’t even pause to admire how gorgeous she was because I needed to taste her like I needed my next breath.

Holy. Hell.

Lena sank her hands into my hair again, and she cursed, hips lifting to my mouth. Life-changing, earth-shattering, and more. I drank in Lena and tried to hold on to myself in the process. I’d thought she was the center of my world already.

I was wrong.

Now she was the center of my world. The center of everything. And if I spent my life only bringing her pleasure, it would be enough.

“Jude,” she moaned. “I need you.”

Tracing circles around her swollen clit with my tongue, I savored her gasp. “You’ll have me,” I said. “More than enough of me.”

But first, she would come on my tongue. I wanted the burst of deep sweetness from her orgasm to brand me with a flavor I would never forget as long as I lived.

I gave in, taking more control, gripping her thighs and pushing them wider. She was completely exposed to me, just the way I wanted. The image of her bound for me like this entered my head, and I groaned. I could happily spend hours between her legs.

“Oh—” Lena stiffened. I dragged my tongue under her clit, finding the spot which had made her speak. I repeated the motion and felt her shake. There it was. The key to her undoing.

She dug her fingers into my scalp, and I scooped my hands under her legs, pulling her to my mouth like the feast she was. I didn’t stop. That same swift, gentle movement had her hips jerking and stifled moans escaping.

“Don’t stop,” she whispered. “Please don’t stop.”

I didn’t.

Sealing my mouth over her, I sucked her deep, keeping my tongue exactly where she liked it. Fuck, I was going to enjoy learning every inch of her. She was shaking now, hips moving on their own, begging me without words for more.

Her wish was my command.

I dragged my tongue over her once more, and she came. Lena arched, shuddering. She called my name, and I wasn’t even sure she realized. I closed my eyes to enjoy her orgasm on my tongue, never letting go until her body sagged down onto the bed, newly spent with pleasure.

There was more where that came from. We weren’t nearly finished.

Chapter 10

Lena

Stars danced behind my eyes.

I hauled in a breath, trying to catch it and recover from the orgasm. Which was…indescribable.

This. This was what I wanted. The chemistry that had always spun between us played out on our bodies.

Jude lifted himself from between my legs, and I drank him in. Every line of muscle that came from a lifetime of training and hard work. The dusting of hair on his chest that drove me mad. Lines that dipped below his belt to where his jeans were so tight it looked painful.

He came back to me, kissing me again, and I wrapped myself around him. Arms, legs, anything I could move. I twisted around him and pulled him down to me. He was so much bigger, I didn’t get much purchase. I just wanted him closer.

Holy shit, we’d just done that.

I wasn’t totally convinced I wasn’t sleeping and was about to be woken up from the best dream of my life. “This is real,” I said quietly. Earlier, I had asked him, but I needed to say it again. “You’re real.”