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THE STALKER

M addie’s chest heaves from my words, honey eyes like melted caramel, hair shimmering around her shoulders like molten gold. She trembles in the seat beside me as my hand glides over the jeans she’s wearing, cupping her pussy.

God, I need to fucking peel her clothes off and touch her.

Her breath hitches as I rub harder over her clit. “Jagger,” she moans, turning her head toward mine. The flames of desire shooting from her eyes like a spark in me, turning into a raging inferno within seconds.

I pull off the road onto the overgrown road that hasn’t been used in years, heading into the dark woods. Maddie’s eyes widen from fright as she stares at the window, her body tensing. Blinking rapidly, she leans forward, her hand digging into my leg. Slowly, her head drops to my leg, and she yanks her hand back, as though she’s scared to touch me.

Whoa. What is going on with her ?

I stop the truck, throw it in park, and turn to her. Cupping her chin, I tilt her head to mine. “Maddie.” My tone is low and gentle, coaxing her to reveal what is going on. “What’s wrong? Why are you scared?”

Swallowing hard, she stares into my eyes. “Are you… A-Are you g-going to h-hurt me?”

My brow furrows, my head tilting as I study her intently. Where is this coming from? Did Ben hurt her?

Confusion turns into rage as my body overheats at the mere thought of him harming my girl. “I’m not going to hurt you. I promise.” Leaning forward, I press my lips gently against hers.

Though I desperately want her pants off, my fingers and tongue inside her, I’ll take her back to her friend’s apartment right now to prove that I don’t mean her any harm.

My monster flips out, shaking my insides like an animal rattling a cage. I glower at him. Shut the fuck up.

When she speaks, her voice is timid, causing my monster to retreat. “Do you mean that?”

Removing one hand from her face, I grab her hand, wrapping my fingers around it. “I promise you, baby girl. You’re safe with me.” Safer than you could imagine since I’m a cold-blooded killer. “You call the shots here, okay?’ I raise our interlocked hands to my mouth, kissing her hand.

The fear disappears from her face, her expression soft from the relief coursing through her. “I believe you, Jagger.”

I can’t help the groan that leaves my lips. “The way my name sounds coming from your lips is so fucking decadent it’s almost immoral.”

Her laughter fills the cab of my truck, making me feel a hell of a lot better.

“Jagger?”

“Yeah, baby girl.”

“Kiss me.”

She’s barely finished speaking before I lunge for her, grabbing her face and pulling her against my mouth for a kiss that leaves us breathless. She squeaks from surprise but I swallow the sound, desperate to taste her again. Her skin is like satin beneath my rough palms. God, this woman is everything . She’s so responsive, her mouth moving against mine, her hands reaching up and wrapping behind my neck, tugging me closer.

When I pull away, I’m breathless. My gaze drops to her slightly parted, swollen lips, watching as she greedily sucks in oxygen.

“You never answered my question,” I finally say.

Her brows draw in, her face puzzled. “What question?”

“When was the last time you had sex?”

“Oh, that one.” She pauses, studying me intently. “I’m going to be really honest with you. A couple of weeks ago, when I finally returned to my apartment, I… um….” Her cheeks are so red beneath my dashboard lights. “Well, I had sex with Ben.”

Jealousy courses through me like a raging inferno. My hands clench into fists, images of me beating the shit out of him filling my head.

Her hand moves to my cheek, drawing my attention back to her. “I had to think of you to… Get through it.”

My thoughts are a funnel cloud, spinning inside my head. “What do you mean, to get through it?”

She drops her eyes, fidgeting in the seat. “He wanted to try something new. He wanted me to act like I didn’t want him and fight him. Only, he started really scaring me and I was no longer pretending to try to get away. But he didn’t let me.”

That sick son of a bitch. I’m going to kill him.

She darts a peek at me, biting her lip. I nod encouragingly, needing to hear what the hell that bastard did to her.

“Ben… Well, it seemed to excite him. It was like he was getting off on my fear. But then he realized I wasn’t pretending. He became gentler but soon, he became rough again. I couldn’t fight him off and well, I had agreed—”

“No,” I roar, so pissed I can barely contain my rage. “Anytime you say no, it’s a no. A woman has the right to change her mind and no man should make her do anything she doesn’t want to do.”

She blinks, her eyes wide.

“I’m sorry.” Lowering my tone of voice, I gently caress her cheek with the back of my knuckles. “I didn’t mean to scare you.”

Maddie gives a slow disbelieving shake of her head, a soft smile curving her lips. “Who are you, Jagger?”

I blink, unsure how to answer her because I don’t know what she means.

She leans closer, pressing her lips against my cheek. “You’re one helluva man. If only other men thought the same way as you.”

My monster lowers his head, snorting in disgust as she slinks away. He knows when he’s been defeated and right now, Maddie just threw an axe into the center of his chest.

“I mean it.”

She nods. “That’s what makes you so damn special.”

I shit there, at a loss for words, having no idea what to do. I intended to make her come undone in these woods tonight, not the other way around.

Finally, I said, “What did you mean when you said you had to think of me to get through it?”

Flashing an embarrassed smile, she says, “I pretended you were watching me. I imagined you taking off your jacket and sweatshirt. You climbed onto the bed, hovering over me, and the look in your eyes…” Her voice cracks, honey eyes blazing with desire. “It’s the way you’re looking at me right now,” she whispers.

“How am I looking at you?” My smile is salacious and this time, she moans.

“That smile. Your dimple. It’s my undoing.” She laughs, turning her head away. But I grab her chin, turning it back to mine.

“You look at me like you see me, and accept me for who I am.” Her voice lowers and I strain my ears as she finishes. “Like I’m the only one you notice.”

I pull her against me, her lips so close to mine they practically touch. “Because you’re all I see.”

Her hands move to my hair, pushing it back from my forehead as she closes the distance. The ever-present spark between us ignites and what starts out slow and gentle rapidly changes to passionate, demanding, and possessive.

I drag her across the console and onto my lap, settling her on my hard, aching cock. Maddie moans, her hands roaming on every part of me she can touch as she swivels her hips with a desperation that communicates how much she wants me.

My hands roam beneath her shirt, sliding beneath her bra and cupping her breasts. She moans against my lips, the motion of her hips unsteady.

Pulling back, I catch my breath, my gaze locked on hers. “Tonight isn’t about my pleasure, baby girl. It’s about yours.”

Then I lift her back into the passenger seat, my hands moving to the waistband of her pants. “Do you want me to touch you?”

“Yes,” she breathes, arching up toward my hands. “God, yes.”

Grinning, I undo her button and zipper, then tug her pants down her hips to her feet. Tugging them off, I toss them into the back seat of my truck, then remove her panties. After tossing them, I shed my jacket before pulling my sweatshirt over my head. F

Folding my sweatshirt, I tuck them beside her head.

Her hands plant against my chest, her eyes locked on me as she rubs her hands slowly down my abs, then back to my shoulders. I hover, remaining still, letting her touch me. Honey irises are heavy with desire as she says, “How the hell do you have so much muscle?”

I chuckle. “I work out a lot. Watch what I eat.” Grinning, I say, “Why? Do you wanna work out with me?” My smile is salacious, making her laugh.

“I don’t think I’d get muscles like this from the workouts you have in mind.”

“True. But you’d have lots of orgasms, so there’s that.”

She laughs until my hands slide to her thighs, spreading her legs. Her face changes instantly, a needy look that draws me to her. My hand slides up her inner thigh, then gently caresses over her pussy. She jolts, her breath hitching. Watching her closely, I continue to tease her, grinning as she whimpers and arches toward me.

Leaning forward, I kiss her, my fingers stroking over her wetness. Licking the seam of her lips, she opens for me and I swirl my tongue inside her mouth, mimicking what I’m going to do with it between her legs.

“Do you want my tongue on you, baby girl?”

“God, yes. Please, Jagger.”

Shifting, I settle between her legs. My tongue slides through her soaked folds, breathing in her scent, tasting her on my tongue before I move to her clit, sucking it in my mouth. “Is this what you want?”

“Oh,” she gasps, her hands gripping my hair. “Fuck yes.”

Shit, she’s so hot .

The needy expression on her face as my tongue teases her pussy is everything. Her body jolts from the unexpected pleasure before she arches up toward me, wanting more.

My tongue moves from her folds to her clit again, sucking it in my mouth.

Releasing it, my eyes meet hers.

“Tell me what you want, baby girl, and I’ll give it to you.”

“I… don’t really know. I’m not very experienced.” She blinks as though she’s searching for the words.

“Tell me what you fantasized about. Did you dream about me between your thighs?”

“Yes.” Her voice is breathy and desperate. “I don’t know what you were doing but it was just everything. Slow and fast, hard and soft… your fingers and tongue teased and pleased me until I was weightless. Floating among the stars.”

I grin. “I can work with that.”

Then I did exactly what she said, my tongue and two fingers touching her, tasting her. I’d suck her clit into my mouth gently before tugging on it, sucking it between my lips, while my fingers moved in and out of her walls, slow, then fast.

Then I’d switch, my tongue deep inside her walls as my fingers circled her clit, slow then fast.

Maddie writhes, moaning and arching her hips. Two of my fingers rapidly thrust in and out of her, my tongue expertly working her clit, making her scream my name. Her nails dig into my scalp and her body shakes as she comes all over my tongue.

I stay with her, licking every drop of her come from her body, before sliding up her body. “Did you float among the stars?”

She nods. “Still there.”

Flashing a weak smile, her arm thrown over her eyes, she sucks in a breath, then releases it.

I chuckle, waiting as moves her arm away from her face, her eyes luminous and bright. I rain kisses over her cheeks to her lips, hesitating to see how she reacts to the taste of herself on my lips.

Wrapping her arms around my neck, she deepens the kiss. When she finally pulls away, her grin is flirtatious. “I taste good on your lips.”

“I agree.” With a smile, I continue over her other cheek, then down to her neck. She tilts her head, giving me access, fingers lightly running up and down my back.

Moving to her ear, I whisper, “That’s one.”

Her eyes are wide as I pull back. “One what?”

“Orgasm number one. And we’re going for number two,” I say, moving down her body and sliding into my new favorite spot between her legs.