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Sidney wasn’t really a forward person, but she couldn’t imagine going home to the apartment she shared with her mom when being with Lucius was the only thing she wanted to do.

She’d never in her life felt so connected to a guy before. Had it only been a day? Because it felt like she’d known him forever. She’d told him things about her past that she’d never told anyone. She felt closer to him than anyone else in her life, and it was because of that feeling, that connection, that she told him she wanted to spend more time with him.

He looked at her in the darkness of the SUV for a quiet moment, and then he said, “I don’t want it to end either.”

She swore he purred a little, a gruff grumbling sound in his chest and she thought it was awesome.

He parked in the employee lot and entered a code into a gate to let them into the park. He held her hand as they walked through the park to his apartment. It was pretty sparsely decorated, but it had a comfortable couch and she’d snuck a peek at the master bedroom when she’d used the bathroom before their date and loved the big bed and the sage green quilt and pillows.

As they reached the small apartment building, she thought over what an awesome first day they’d had.

Great food, great conversation, and so much sexual tension between them that she thought she would combust if she didn’t kiss him.

So she had.

In the parking lot, she’d initiated the best kiss of her life.

Which led her to this point, where she wasn’t sure what was going to happen when she got into his place, but she sure as heck knew what she wanted to happen.

He opened the apartment door and held it for her. As she passed through, she walked into the front room with the sectional sofa with lots of throw pillows and flat-screen TV and turned to face him.

“I just wanted to say something,” she said.

“Anything,” he said as he shut the door and joined her.

He towered over her, all strength and protectiveness.

“I don’t want you to think that I’m just avoiding going to my home because of the situation with my mom and that’s why I wanted to spend more time with you.”

“I don’t think that.”

“Good.” She felt a little awkward, but pushed past it. “I like you. A lot. It’s weird because I feel like I’ve known you for years, like it hasn’t just been hours since we met in the safari tour line, you know? I’m probably not making any sense.”

He stepped even closer and cupped her face. Lowering his head to kiss her, he brushed his lips against hers and said, “You’re making lots of sense. I feel the same way. I didn’t want to say goodbye to you, but I didn’t want you to think that I had any expectations about being with you.”

“I don’t think that,” she said, then smiled as she realized she had parroted what he just said.

She tilted her head up for another kiss and when he gave it, she rose onto her toes and wrapped her arms around his neck. He slid his hands softly down her throat and over her shoulders, before cupping her hips and bringing her closer to him. Then he spun them both and pressed her against the wall.

The movement surprised her. She gasped into his mouth and he chuckled. Gently biting her bottom lip, he kissed his way down her neck and sucked on the place where her neck and shoulder met.

Her hands roamed his broad shoulders and down to his tapered waist. He was built like he worked out all the time with muscles on top of muscles. She was dying to see what he looked like naked.

When she tugged on his shirt, he pulled back from sucking on her neck and pulled his shirt over his head.

“Oh, wow,” she said as she got her first look at the muscles she’d felt under the fabric. He was even more gorgeous than she’d thought he would be without a shirt.

“Your turn, sweetheart,” he said with a rough tone.

She flexed her hips and leaned back into the wall a little, then pulled her shirt up slowly. She was very thankful she’d had the foresight to wear a matching bra and panty set, because she was dressed really casually in a gray top and shorts, but her underwear? Lacy and feminine.

It’s why she’d bought the set—because it made her feel sexy.

He was the first guy to see them, and she adored that because it made it all the more special.

As she lifted her shirt over her head, Lucius growled appreciatively and she grinned. “I love that sound,” she said. “So primal.”

“Just for you,” he said, hooking his arm around her waist. He laid his hand on her lace-covered breast and kissed her. He played with her, sliding his fingers inside the cup to tease her nipple and then finally pushing the material down to free her breast entirely. He found the clasp in the center of the bra and undid it, and then she was laid bare for him, and he growled again as he left the kiss to use his lips and tongue on her nipples.

She writhed in his hold as he teased her expertly, her breasts heavy and aching, and her core throbbing with need.

“Ah, Lucius, just touch me,” she whimpered, digging her nails into his shoulder.

He sucked her nipple into his mouth deeply and slipped his fingers down her stomach to the waistband of her shorts. He let her nipple go with a soft pop and straightened to gaze down at her as he undid her shorts and slowly slipped his hand inside.

“Are you wet, sweetheart?” he whispered, like the words were precious and shouldn’t be spoken loudly.

Her toes curled in her shoes and she whimpered out a yes .

He kissed her and worked his hand between her thighs. As he slid his fingers along her pussy, she realized how wet she actually was. She’d never been so turned on in her life.

She moaned into his mouth as he pushed two fingers into her pussy. She was desperate for more, desperate for him, so she shoved her shorts and panties down and managed to toe off her shoes and kick her legs free of her clothes.

He chuckled against her lips.

“You’re so fucking sexy, Sidney, and so wet, you’re like a dream come true.”

She cupped his head and panted as he began to finger her faster, his thumb grazing her clit. She kissed him, holding onto him for dear life as he fingered her to the height of pleasure, then pressed his thumb against her clit at just the right moment to send her flying over the edge. As she pulled back from the kiss and cried out in her pleasure, Lucius shoved his jeans down his legs to free his cock and lifted her into his arms as he pressed her back against the wall.

In moments he was inside her, thick and hard, and so deep she thought her eyes would cross at how good he felt.

He cupped her ass with both hands and pulled his length from her before plunging back in. She moved on him, bouncing on his cock and gripping his shoulders for leverage before reaching back to push against the wall and take as much of him into her as she could. She’d never felt so wanton and so right with a guy before, but Lucius made her feel things she’d never felt and she never wanted it to stop.

“You feel so good, I’m going to come,” he ground out, gritting his teeth together until a muscle jumped in his jaw.

She held onto him as he pounded into her, letting herself go into the pleasure that was still swirling through her.

“You do too, Lucius, you feel perfect.”

He snarled and bit her neck as he came, his teeth digging into her skin and sending a riot of shivers down her spine. She felt his cock spasm and thicken inside her, and she hooked her ankles together at the small of his back and hugged herself close.

Kissing his neck and his cheek, she rested her head on his shoulder as her heart pounded out a swift beat and her mind felt muddled from so much pleasure.

He kissed the place on her neck that he’d bit and held her close. “I’m sorry I bit you, does it hurt?”

“Nope.”

He turned with his cock still buried in her heat and carried her back to the bedroom. He climbed onto the bed and slid from her, then kissed his way down her body and pushed her thighs roughly apart. Her head kicked back as she moaned when he flicked her clit rapidly with his tongue, sending heat spiraling through her again.

His fingers sank inside her, fingering her as quickly as his tongue moved on her clit, and it took no time at all for her body to hit another peak of pleasure that ripped a happy shout from her as her body locked down on his fingers and her vision blurred.

He pressed a light kiss to her sensitive clit and kissed his way up her body before cuddling at her back and kissing her neck.

“I never want to come without you, sweetheart. I always want you to have the most pleasure.”

“You’re off to a really good start,” she said.

He laughed and kissed her. “Baby?”

“Yeah?”

“Stay tonight. I don’t want it to end.”

She turned her head to look at him and saw the sincerity in his eyes.

“I’d love to. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else tonight but right here with you.”

“Me too,” he said.

He snuggled against her, making her feel warm and safe, and totally sated.

She’d never felt so good in her life. Lucius was one special guy and she was so glad she’d met him.

And she was pretty damn sure she was falling hard for him.

Half in love with the sexiest guy on the planet.

How amazing was that?