Page 47 of The CEO I Hate (The Lockhart Brothers #1)

LIAM

T he hallway was empty, so I reached down and squeezed Mia’s ass.

Mia batted my hand away, laughing as she fumbled with her keys. “Don’t do that! Someone might see you.”

“Then hurry up, woman,” I growled, pressing close enough to nip at her ear. “Before I take you right here against the door.”

She groaned, turning her head to look at me over her shoulder, her eyes hooded. “Maybe I’ll just take my sweet time then,” she teased.

“You like that idea?” I said, grinding against her. She shoved her hips back, and my cock throbbed in my pants, responding eagerly to her body. God , I’d missed her. Missed this. Missed the desire coursing through me that only she could inspire.

How had I ever let us be apart for even a single day?

How had I denied us both?

I snaked my arm around her waist, dipping my hand into the waistband of her pants, and she threw her head back against my shoulder, lip caught between her teeth.

She was so needy, so wanton, and I couldn’t wait to spread her out on a bed and enjoy every delicious inch. I snapped the elastic of her underwear.

“As much as I’d love to fuck you up against this door, I think your neighbors might complain.”

“I don’t care,” Mia husked.

“Keep in mind one of those neighbors is your brother. And I’d rather not put myself back in his bad books so soon.”

That caught her attention. “Ugh, you’re right. Why do you have to be so good?”

“Trust me,” I growled. “I’m barely holding it together. So you better get that door open. Fast .”

Mia finally got the door unlocked, and we surged inside, barely remembering to lock the door behind us as I got my hand around the back of her neck, pulling her against me for a heated kiss. Mia’s tongue slid against mine, and I swallowed her moan as I kneaded her ass with my other hand.

“Sophie’s not home, right?” I said as we bumped up against the wall.

“I don’t think so,” she replied, attempting to scale me.

“Mia,” I grumbled, getting my hands around the backs of her thighs, hauling her up and pinning her against the wall. “I’d like to know if anyone is going to walk in on us before I take my pants off.”

She grinned against my lips, smug. “You didn’t seem too concerned earlier, when you suggested we come here.”

“Because your place was closer than mine, and you told me Sophie was out for the day.” I bit down gently on her lower lip. Her giggle turned into a groan as I rolled my hips against her .

“Soph?” she choked out loudly. We both paused, waiting for a response. God, I hoped there was no response.

“See?” Mia said after a beat, grinning at me as she twined her hands around my neck. Her fingers tugged gently at my hair.

“Don’t play with me,” I growled.

“Or what?” she said coyly.

I kissed her cheek, her jaw, her neck. “You don’t want to know.”

“Oh, I really, really do,” she said, gasping as I arched against her. My cock was painfully hard now, and I knew she could feel it. I rubbed against her center, divine torture for me, until her eyelids fluttered.

She braced herself against my shoulders, attempting to take control of our grind together, but I pinned her harder, denying her the friction.

“Liam,” she groaned.

“Yes, Gretel? You seem to have gotten lost on the way to your bedroom.”

She whined. “ Liam! ”

“Would you like something?”

“Fuck me,” she said breathily, still squirming. “ Please .”

I whirled away from the wall, Mia’s legs wrapped around my waist as I carried her down the hall toward the bedroom, our lips fused together.

I wanted to fuck her until she saw stars.

I dropped her down on the bed. She bounced once, then stripped down at lightning speed.

As soon as she was naked, she started playing with the wetness between her thighs, moaning as I hurried out of my shirt and pants. It was frenzied desperation.

I wanted my hands on her, greedily feeling my way across every warm inch.

She squirmed back on the bed, and I got my head between her thighs.

My cock ached, desperate to sink inside her, but I wanted to hear her come undone first. I wanted her overwhelmed with so much pleasure she couldn’t stop moaning.

I pressed my face between her legs, lapping at her clit, one arm wrapped around a thigh, the other reaching up to thumb one of her nipples. I swirled my tongue in the same circular motion, her body undulating like a wave.

“Oh—” she said, her words trailing off into a moan. “God, yes.”

I alternated sucking and running my fingers over her until she came undone against me, the sounds echoing around the room.

“Fuck,” she hissed as she came down from the high.

“Yes, let’s do that,” I said, crawling up her body to press a gentle kiss against her forehead.

“Mmm,” she said, reaching for my cock. She gave it a few slow strokes, and I shifted onto my back, watching her work.

Mia sat up slowly, leaning over me to take my cock in her mouth.

I grunted at the feel of her soft tongue laving at the head before she started taking me deeper, milking me with her mouth and hand at the same time.

Shit, it was good. So good I wasn’t going to last long, and after all this time apart, I intended to fuck her properly.

“Condom?” I rasped, desperately struggling to hold on to my self-control. I wanted to be inside her before I exploded.

She released me with a pop. “I don’t have any.”

My eyes widened dramatically. “What do you mean you don’t have any?”

The look on my face must have been hilarious because she chuckled. “I don’t usually have people over. It’s normally the guy’s job to…Well, you know. ”

“Mia, are you telling me that we can’t?—”

“Oh, wait!” she said, scrambling out of bed.

“Where are you going?”

She rushed across the room, and I appreciated the sway of her naked hips and the curve of her ass as she flung the door open and hurried into the hall.

She returned a moment later, condom in hand. “Got one from Sophie’s stash. I keep forgetting she has like a million of these things.”

I grimaced. “That’s not gonna turn me a weird color, is it?”

Mia giggled, climbing back onto the bed. “Who knows? Might glow in the dark. Might give you superpowers.”

“Well, that wouldn’t be horrible,” I said as she rolled the condom over me.

“Right? Endless stamina would be great. Let’s test it out.” She straddled my waist, leaning down to kiss me as I palmed her breasts. Then she lifted up before sinking down on my cock.

I groaned, watching the pleasure flicker across her face. She took me easily, the glide smooth as she pressed her hands to my chest, shifting up on her knees, then slamming back down, taking me even deeper. I let her work herself on top of me, panting and moaning as she did, until she grew tired.

Then I took her by the hips, braced my feet on the mattress, and fucked up into her.

“Oh, yes… Yes , Liam!” she cried out, throwing her head back as she reached down to touch herself. The sight of it almost made me come on the spot, but I wanted one more from her first.

I kept moving, slamming into her repeatedly, and then finally, her orgasm took her. Her entire body seized up, then began trembling uncontrollably as she fell down against my chest. I rolled us over, giving myself better leverage, and fucked her straight through her orgasm.

I wanted to feel every convulsion. Every pulse of her muscles.

I wanted to bask in the satisfied moans that spilled from her lips.

“That’s it,” I said against her ear. “I love you, Mia. I love you. I love—” I grunted as I came, my body tensing as I spilled.

The orgasm rolled through me, seemingly endless, until my entire body surged with pleasure.

It was so intense I went slack above her, my vision blacking out for a beat before I came back down to Earth.

“I love you too,” she was saying, kissing me softly on the neck.

I realized abruptly that I had to be crushing her, so I carefully rolled off her and disposed of the condom, then returned and pulled her close, her back to my front.

We stayed like that for a long time, just breathing each other in.

When she turned her head to look at me, I knew exactly what she was feeling, because I felt it too.

We were home. Not this apartment. Each other. She was my home.

“Can I entice you to join me in the shower?” I asked after a while.

Mia groaned into the comforter. She’d grown so still I thought she might have fallen asleep.

I pressed my lips to her back, chasing her spine to the curve of her ass. She wiggled it at me, and I chuckled, my chest tight. I was so damn happy to have her back in my arms, back at my side.

The fact that I’d almost lost her…Never again.

“I don’t think I can move,” Mia admitted. “I think you broke me.”

“I’ll take that as a compliment. ”

“It was meant as one.”

I smirked as I stood and gathered up the pile of clothes we’d hastily discarded.

“What are you doing?” she asked, sitting up on her forearm as I dropped her panties on the ground in front of me. She stared down at them.

Plop . I dropped my pants next and backed toward the bathroom.

Plop . A sock.

Plop . Her shirt.

Plop . Plop . Plop .

She laughed, sitting up fully, gloriously naked as she stared at me, bemused. I just continued leaving my little trail all the way to the ensuite bathroom. “Seriously,” she said. “What are you doing?”

“Leaving you breadcrumbs,” I said, waving a sock enticingly before dropping it on the floor.

I waggled my eyebrows at her, then turned to start the water in the shower.

Once it was going, I leaned against the doorframe, taking her in.

“I know your sense of direction isn’t the best, but all you have to do is follow the trail, Gretel. ”

Her lips twisted. She stood, crossing the room in a heartbeat, and threw herself into my arms. “My sense of direction was good enough to find my way back to you,” she said.

“That’s true,” I agreed as the bathroom steamed up. “But I’m not ever gonna let you lose your way again, because you’re mine, Mia.” I cradled her face in my hands. “And I’m going to spend the rest of my life making sure you know exactly where you belong.”

After we’d gotten cleaned up, which took longer than I’d anticipated with both of us soaping each other up, we got dressed, and I’d texted Jake to let him know that my plan had worked.

Mia and I were officially back together, and we were currently down the hall if he wanted to swing by to give me the shovel speech.

I’d mostly been joking about the speech, but if he wanted to deliver it, I was more than ready to hear it. I was determined to start this second chance on the right foot by being honest with Jake.

When Jake knocked on the door fifteen minutes later, with Gabrielle in tow, Mia answered, smiling.

“Hey!” she said.

“Heard you took him back,” Jake snarked with a grin.

Mia lifted her shoulder. “He’s kinda cute. I think I’ll keep him.”

“Kinda?” I protested from across the living room.

Mia winked at me as I parked it on the couch.

“You guys want to do dinner?” Gabrielle asked. “We could order Chinese?”

“Yes!” Mia said at once. After all our extracurricular activities, she was probably starving. She and Gabrielle pored over an online menu. “Definitely shrimp fried rice. And hot and sour soup.”

“Honey garlic spareribs or no dice,” Jake told them as he rolled his way over to me. He got close enough to knock me in the shoulder. It wasn’t very hard, but his stare was.

“I know, I know,” I said. “If I ever hurt her again?—”

“No shovel speech, man. Just…” He sighed, the corner of his mouth curling a bit. “Do better this time, okay? ’Cause I don’t want to have to choose between my sister and my best friend. ”

“Not that it would be much of a choice,” I said. We’d both always choose Mia.

“Just love her, okay?” Jake said. “More than anything.”

“I will,” I promised. For the rest of my life.