Page 35 of Too Guarded to Love (Project VIPER #3)

O livia watched indecision swirl in Nic’s dark gaze. Did he really think a fling with her was going to put his position at VIPER at risk?

Before she could ponder the question, his mouth crashed onto hers. With a desperate sound she felt deep in her bones, he shoved his tongue between her lips in a deep and furious kiss that mirrored the emotions swirling in his gaze. He tasted like mint and anger and passion, and it stole her breath.

He pulled his mouth inches from hers and framed her face in his hands. “I can only promise tonight, or until I get the call to go. I’m not capable of more right now.”

One night would never be enough of this resilient, wounded man who shared the painful past that shaped him into a warrior. “Well then, stop talking and help me get naked.”

His lips covered her breast before her shirt hit the ground. She cradled his head and leaned into his mouth, offering her body.

Herself.

Everything.

Pushing him back, she straddled his hips. With a ragged inhale, she ground her pussy against his erection. “Take your shirt off.”

He pulled it over his head. She kissed the spot where the bullet that had gone through her shoulder hit between his steel and skin.

He moaned, the sound as deep as her desire to taste every inch of this man, as she licked down the seam that bonded living flesh to machine.

Smooth steel and rough skin created a coarse tingling on her tongue.

The sensations she knew she’d never feel anywhere else shot down her belly and landed between her legs.

Settling back on her heels, she traced the area she’d tasted with the pad of her finger. God, he was magnificent. All corded muscle and coiled strength, and hers for the night.

Her heart sank at the reminder he’d be gone in the morning, but she ignored the disappointment. If this was all the time she had with him, she’d make the most of it. Rushing because she needed to touch him everywhere, she fumbled with his belt. He pushed her fingers away and yanked it open.

“The zipper too. And your pants.” She needed to finish what she started at the beach before the VIPER-verse and all the danger and mayhem inside of it stole her chance.

He rolled her to the side and shoved his pants and boxers down his hips. “So you’re leading this time around?”

A little gasp sprang from her throat as his cock sprang free.

He was as thick and potent as she remembered.

Scooting back, she straddled his legs. The feel of cool, hard steel against one thigh and warm, solid muscle on the other nearly spiraled her into an orgasm.

With a moan of pure delight, she gripped the base of his hardest body part and dipped her head for a taste.

He gripped her hair. “Oh no, baby. You’re not going back there until I have all night and into the next day to thoroughly enjoy every lick, every suck of your sweet mouth.”

She lifted her gaze and smiled. “Good point. Frantic sex it is then.”

“Glad we agree.” Scooting back against the wall, he lifted her over his hips and slipped his finger under her damp panties. Her eyes rolled back in her head as he thrust a steel digit inside.

“So wet, sirena. Like you’ve come out of the ocean to play with me.”

“Yes.” He may have said play, but there was nothing playful about the way he surged his finger in and out of her pussy.

“Do you like the way my steel feels inside you?”

She threw her head back and moaned as he hooked into the spot he’d discovered and claimed as his own.

He stilled his hand. “Look at me.”

She obeyed and almost detonated at the heat in his gaze.

“Good girl.”

He hooked his finger again, and she purred like he’d pressed a secret button. “Nic. Oh my God. Do that again.”

Chuckling, he obliged. “You’re the first woman I’ve ever touched like this with my steel. Tell me again how much you love it.”

“So, so much.” Bracing her hands on his chest, she rocked against his palm as she lowered her hips.

“I’m going to fuck you fast and raw. I haven’t been with a woman since my physical last month and I’m clean.”

“I was tested after I broke up with Jonathan and I’m clean too. And I’m on the pill.”

He grazed her clit as he sank another finger inside her. “I’ve been thinking about your pussy since I tasted it last night.”

She circled her hips against his hand. “Yeah?”

“Yeah. I couldn’t get your taste, your scent, your voice, or anything else about you out of my head, not even when I was afraid that Jonathan asshole would hurt you.”

He caught her nipple between his teeth. Pleasurable pain shot fireworks down to her core as she sucked in air and hissed. A heartbeat later, she let out a long, slow moan.

Smiling around her breast, his heated lips on her skin, he nipped harder. “If anyone’s allowed to hurt you, it’s me, and only in ways that make you purr like that, and only if you want me to.”

The hottest, grittiest words any man ever said to her ignited an unknown craving. “Yes. More.”

With a noise that sounded like his own satisfied purr, he clamped his teeth on her other nipple as he ripped off her panties. As she cried out from the double onslaught, he raised her hips and held her over the tip of his erection.

“Ready for me?”

Chest heaving, gaze fixed on the controlled desire in his eyes she couldn’t wait to be unleashed, she braced her hand on his chest. “Ready for me? ”

With the force of his steel behind it, he slammed her down onto his cock.

Stars exploded in her vision. Her pussy burned and her eyes teared as he stretched and filled her to the point of pain. Damn, he could hurt her like this anytime. Riding the pleasure-laced burn, she rocked against him and sought more delicious, torturous friction.

“Oh my God.” She buried her head in his shoulder and moaned low and long as she adjusted to the exquisite intrusion.

As he lifted her hips and crashed her back down onto his cock, she yelled to the heavens.

Screw being quiet. She was impaled on a super soldier, for hell’s sake.

How could a girl expect to be silent when sitting astride the most magnificent man to walk the planet?

As he gripped her hips and controlled their union, the connection between them wrapped around them in a fiery glow. She couldn’t explain it any more than she could explain the superpowers she suspected Nic had, but she felt an inexplicable force gather around them as she rode his cock.

She panted. No man had ever filled her this completely. This savagely. This…

He gripped her hips and lifted her until he teased her swollen entrance. “Am I too much for you?”

“Yes. No. I don’t know, but…” She tried to coax him back inside. “I need you.”

“Good.” He slowly, inch by inch, filled her with his cock again. “Ride me like you mean it, baby.”

Riding, rocking, she rode him like a rodeo champ hell-bent on the ultimate prize. She groaned loud enough to be heard multiple floors up in headquarters as spasms more powerful, more super than any gift science could have engineered, racked her core and spiraled through her body.

He sat up and grabbed her ass cheeks. With a sharp tug, he yanked her against his chest. “Come for me, sirena.”

She wrapped her arms around him as his cock hit the place only he’d discovered, and she screamed.

The sound of her pleasure bounced off the bare walls.

Sweat and the connection she couldn’t explain fused her body to his as she gyrated against his hips and chased her release.

Holding her against his unyielding chest, he whispered in her ear.

“You feel so perfect, baby. So tight. Dios mio, Olivia. You’re driving me wild with how good you feel.”

Just as her orgasm subsided to pleasurable twinges, he stilled. With a guttural moan that sounded like a plea, he combusted inside of her and roared her name. Another orgasm rolled through her body before the first had time to subside.

As they caught their breath, he rolled her into his arms and grazed his fingers along her shoulder. “Are you okay?”

“My injury is fine.”

“That’s not the body part I’m asking about. ”

“I’m going to be a bit sore.” She squeezed her thighs together and relished the ache already forming.

“Good.”

She clung to him, suddenly afraid if he left, things would go bad and she’d never see him again. A weight so heavy she couldn’t discern what dark emotions composed it settled in her chest. Sighing, she snuggled closer into his warm strength.

He kissed her cheek as he gently pushed her away. “I probably won’t be here when you wake up, so listen…”

She rose onto her elbow and faced him. Something serious that mirrored the ache in her heart mingled with the desire in his gaze.

With the tip of a steel finger, he traced the curve of her breast. “Every time you move and your muscles remind you of how thoroughly I fucked you, and every time you look at your body and see the marks my teeth and hands left on your skin, I want you to remember this. I’m in charge of you.

Listen to what you’re told while I’m gone and be safe. ”

She’d thought his earlier words were the hottest she’d ever heard, but these melted her from the inside out.

Still, she couldn’t let his alpha order go unnoticed.

“I’ll let the ‘in charge’ comment slide on account of the remarkable orgasms you just gave me.

I only thought two in one night were possible in books. ”

“That’s one superpower I’m happy to demonstrate in great detail.”

With a soft kiss to her lips, he pulled her back into his chest and told her to go to sleep.

As she listened to his breathing, she sent up a prayer.

Please let Gran’s soulmate sense clear up soon.

A few hours after Nic had fallen asleep on the narrow bed with Olivia practically on top of him, he rode the elevator with Linc up to the helipad on the roof and rolled his tight shoulders.

He’d happily sleep in a cramped space with Olivia every night if it meant feeling every curve against his body until the sun rose.

And in the daytime, he’d watch those curves as he kept her out of trouble.

The intel Ryan uncovered from Jonathan’s phone confirmed he’d been in contact with the Diablos for the last six months.

Cartels and complicit exes aside, the woman had a knack for finding danger, whether it be at the beach or in a garage.

She was still his responsibility, and he didn’t like not having eyes on her.

Linc drummed his fingers on the helmet in his hands. “So, you and Kane’s sister, huh?”

“No.”

“Don’t bullshit me. I know what your morning-after face looks like, and you look like you just got laid.” Linc laughed. “You are so fucked, bro. It’s hysterical that women all over this city kneel at your feet, yet you decide to get all googly-eyed over the last one you should be falling for.”

“I’m not googly-eyed.” At least he didn’t think he was. Unlike when he’d overlooked the signs of addiction in Natalie because his attention-starved teenage heart had clung to her friendship like a lifeline, his eyes were wide open.

But that was in the past. Right now, Olivia wasn’t pretending to be his friend. She’d never pretended to be anything she wasn’t. Sure, she’d deceived him at the beach, but he understood her reasons. She’d been spot-on about his fears, though.

If anyone or anything ever came between him and his brothers, he’d lose the life he’d worked so hard to build. And if anything happened to Olivia, he didn’t know what he’d lose, just that the loss would hurt.

“You are one hundred percent, certifiably, googly-eyed over Olivia. You know how I know?” Linc smirked. “Because I’ve watched Chris and Kane fall, and now I see you being pulled under. Congrats on succumbing the quickest. I’ll get you a trophy.”

Great. Now he was the romance trope Valentina said she wanted in their next book. Insta-love or something. “I’m not falling for Olivia.”

But what if he was?

Linc stepped toward the door as the elevator dinged their arrival. “That love shit ain’t ever happening to me.”

“Of course it isn’t. You scare women away because you’re a dickhead.”

Linc grinned. “Yup, and that’s the way I like it.”

“You planning on being a dickhead forever?”

Linc rubbed the VIPER ink under his tactical vest. “It’s easier than the alternative.”

Nic wasn’t surprised by the sudden melancholy in Linc’s tone. He’d always suspected there was more to the fighter pilot with the heart carved from an iceberg. If they had time, Nic would press him about it. He shouldn’t have to be the only one on this mission talking about his damn feelings.