Page 37 of After Midnight (Skye Druids #7)

He turned and pressed her against the wall before tearing his lips from hers and pressing hot kisses down her neck.

Her eyes rolled back in her head as he rocked against her sex.

She clawed at his shirt to get to his skin, finally finding the hem of his tee and dragging it up his chest. He leaned back so she could tug it over his head and off one arm, then the other.

Sabryn sighed when she saw his bare chest and the Celtic warding the size of her hand. He had been lean and buff before. Now , he was chiseled in all the right places. She spread her hands over his pecs and then to the thick sinew of his shoulders and arms.

“ Wow ,” she murmured in appreciation. “ I want to see the rest.”

He gave her a crooked grin and lowered her legs to the floor. “ Only if I get to see you.”

“ Oh , you’ll get to see me,” she teased as she walked backward to the daybed. She let her gaze wander over the wide V of his shoulders that tapered to a trim waist and an eight-pack that left her mouth watering.

Kurt’s baby blue eyes burned with a craving that made her stomach quiver excitedly. “ I lost a piece of clothing. It’s your turn.”

Dear god, she had missed him. Missed this .

The sparks, the banter, the easy way they fit together.

She pulled off her shirt and tossed it aside.

His nostrils flared when his gaze lowered to her chest. She smoothed her fingers across the swell of one breast and the lace against it. “ Like this, do you?”

“ I’d like it better off you,” he stated in a low, ragged voice.

She grinned. “ Your turn.”

He yanked off his denim in record time, leaving him in boxer briefs, his arousal tenting the fabric. “ Yours ,” he all but growled.

This game had started off fun, but now that so little separated them, she was ready to end it.

It took her two tries to get a hold of the waistband of her sweats.

She was about to remove them with as much gusto as Kurt had his jeans, but then she saw how his breathing had quickened, and his eyes followed her hands as he anxiously waited to see more.

Sabryn moved her fingers to either side of her waist and cocked her hips to one side as she pushed the garment down.

His lips parted. She repeated the performance for the other side and saw his hands clench before he flexed his fingers.

It would be fun if she wasn’t also breathing hard, watching his cock jump.

She bent forward and pushed her sweats down to her ankles, showing off her cleavage as she did.

Then she stepped out of the pants and kicked them aside with her toes.

It had been years since a man had seen her in only her underwear.

She didn’t hide away from Kurt’s perusal.

Instead , she stood proudly and let him look.

“ Bloody hell, woman,” he murmured. “ You’re beautiful.”

He started toward her, and she held up a hand. “ Not yet, Romeo . You’ve still got on some clothes.”

Kurt looked down at his boxers and quirked a brow at her. His lips curled into a crooked grin. She thought he might rip them off, but she should’ve known he would treat her to the same show she had given him. He cupped his hand over his arousal and stroked it.

“ Not funny,” she told him. “ You’re supposed to remove it.”

“ Then come take it off,” he challenged.

She took a step.

He tsked. “ I think it’s only fair we even things up since you had on more clothes than I did.”

“ Oh , really?” she asked, amused.

He continued to stroke himself, drawing her gaze to his thick length. She wanted him inside her. She squeezed her legs together and bit back a moan.

“ Remove your panties,” he said.

The words didn’t register at first. Sabryn blinked and looked up at him. Panties ? He wanted her panties removed? That wasn’t what she’d expected him to choose, but she didn’t care. All of it was coming off eventually. She hooked her thumbs into the lacy thong and tugged it down.

“ Wait ,” he commanded. “ Turn around.”

She grinned and slowly turned.

He moaned and swallowed loudly. She kept her back to him as she shimmied the panties over her hips and let them drop to her ankles, then stepped out of them. Kurt was pressed against her back in the next heartbeat. Warm breath brushed her ear as he ran his tongue along the shell.

“ I dreamed of you every night.” He placed a kiss at the base of her neck. “ I heard your voice during the day, and when I closed my eyes, I held you against me.” Another kiss behind her ear. “ It was all that kept me going.” He spun her to look at him. “ And keeping you safe.”

The warmth of his hard body left her lightheaded.

She smoothed her hands down his chest and over his flat stomach to the waist of his boxer briefs.

She held his gaze as she peeled them down.

Sabryn dropped to her knees as his rod sprang free of the material.

She wrapped her hands around him, and he released another long moan.

His fingers tangled in her hair, but he held her back when she went to take him into her mouth. She looked up at him.

“ I’m barely holding it together,” he bit out. “ If your mouth touches me, I’m finished. And that’s not how I want this to go.”

She looked longingly at his arousal as he pulled her back to her feet. With deft fingers, he unhooked her bra.