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Her eyes flew open as she stared at me.

“I’m sorry,” I said immediately letting go.

“No,” she said, shaking her head. “Don’t be. You can…that’s okay.”

She kept her arms above her head, crossing her wrists over each other.

“I don’t know what I’m doing,” I said and then wanted to hide under the bed.

Cadence smirked. “Oh, I wouldn’t say that. I think you’ve got good instincts. If there’s anything you don’t want or don’t like, just say stop and we can stop. And I’ll do the same.”

I nodded. “Yes. Okay.”

Sex had never felt this monumental before. Not even my first time. Being here with Cadence mattered, and I didn’t want to do the wrong thing.

“Do you want to stop?” Cadence asked, her arms still above her head. Fuck, I liked seeing her like that. There was something about it that sent a pulse of lust between my legs.

“No,” I said. The last thing in the world I wanted was to stop. “No, I don’t want to stop.”

“Do you want me to keep my arms like this?” she asked.

“Yes. Until I tell you otherwise,” I said, in a voice that didn’t seem to belong to me. It was new. This was new.

Cadence nodded.

Now that she wasn’t touching me, I could focus on her. Sitting back, I dragged my hand down her body from her shoulder to her hip.

“Freckles, freckles, everywhere,” I said. “So lovely.”

Her body was absolutely perfect, with breasts I could fill my hands with, a little curved belly and hips that I wanted to sink my fingers into. All kinds of fantasies I’d never let myself have burst in my brain like fireworks. Too many to count. Lurid and so intense that they made my hands shake.

“Want you,” I said, stroking her outer hips. “Want you so much, Cade.”

“You have me. Take me,” she said, and it was like she lit a match inside me.

Chapter Twenty

Cade

Eloise in bed wasn’t what I’d expected. Since I knew about her inexperience, I’d assumed she would be shy. Maybe a little reluctant. I’d prepared myself to do a lot of handholding and explaining.

That wasn’t what happened. From the minute she called me “good girl” (what the fuck was THAT), I was completely surprised. This wasn’t an unsure woman. She might not know exactly what to do, but she knew what she wanted.

Me, apparently.

I kept my arms above my head with my wrists crossed. Hopefully my arms wouldn’t fall asleep, but that wasn’t my focus at the moment.

No, that was Eloise, who was kissing and licking her way down my body with such focus that it was like she was following a map.

I’d told her she didn’t have to do anything she wasn’t ready for and I kept waiting for her to pull back or say she wasn’t ready to go forward or ask me what to do, but then she kept going and before I understood what was happening, she was spreading my thighs apart.

“I’m going to taste you, Cadence,” she said. “I’ve been thinking about it and I’ve decided that’s what I want.”

Well, fuck.

“Yeah, absolutely. Go for it.”

She was diving right in and I didn’t know what I’d done to deserve this, but I wanted to fold this night up and store it in my memory forever.