a girlfriend in his life. Just a string of women with a mutual understanding about meeting each other’s needs and moving on.
He clenched his jaw and squared his shoulders. She looked like she might be plotting physical violence on all mankind. And he’d come out here running after her like an idiot. Ready to be her practice dummy. As fierce as she suddenly was, her eyes still held a certain softness. Hurt. He’d seen it before, though it had never bothered him as much as it did right now. Well, it had once. But he didn’t like to think about that anymore.
Screw it. He reached out and stroked her face. Unable to get enough of her soft warm skin, he palmed her cheek, using his fingers to tug her face closer to his. “Tell me what you need. Tell me what’s wrong. Just…tell me something .”
She pulled her full bottom lip in with her teeth and he went so hard it was painful. But he didn’t break eye contact.
“I need to feel something,” she whispered. “Something good. Something to make me forget.”
The force of the emotion behind her words hit him like a fist to the chest. Normally such potent desperation surrounding a woman sent him running. Fast and far. But this time, his body ignored the urge to turn away and head for the hills.
Lowering his lips to hers, he gave her a soft kiss. She opened to him and he let his tongue plunge into her warm, wet mouth with everything he was worth. She didn’t back off, didn’t scream, slap him, or even try to stop him. She pressed her gentle curves against his body and wrapped her arms around his neck.
God, she tasted good. Felt so good against him—perfect, actually. Her fingers slid into his hair and he grabbed her ass and lifted. She wrapped those long, luscious legs around him and let out a little moan of pleasure that nearly broke him.
Woman knew what she wanted—he’d give her that.
He walked them over to a dip in the sand where they wouldn’t get wet but wouldn’t be visible either and lowered her onto a flat patch. She never once let loose of his mouth or his hair.
This was nuts, but who was he to ignore the temptation of fate?
Except…he was about to take over a multibillion-dollar dollar company. And it was his dad who thought with his dick, not him.
Groaning, he pulled back from her velvet mouth. He braced his arms and propped himself above her. “Please tell me you’re a consenting adult.”
Please, for the love of God!
She grinned, sending an impish little smirk up at him that caused his heart to stutter. “I’m a twenty-two-year-old graduate of UT. Hook em’, Horns.” She did something with one of her hands, winked, and continued. “I have degrees in marketing and finance and am about to move to New York to start my new job as an assistant to the director of mark—”
He didn’t let her finish. Twenty-two was all he’d really needed to hear. Sliding a hand between her legs as he familiarized his mouth with hers, he gave in to the desire to push her as far and hard as she was willing to let him.
Gripping fragile, lace panties, he pulled until he was holding scraps of fabric in his hand. He let them fall on the sand before he resumed his exploration.
Holy mother, she was soaking wet. If he got to put his dick inside her, it would be heaven. He stroked the slick folds and sucked her bottom lip. The sounds she made in response made his cock throb.
“Baby, I don’t know how far you’re willing to go, but I’m about to reach the point of no return.” He spoke softly against her lips, and she arched into him.
“I-I don’t want you to stop.”
“Yeah, I got that.” He pressed a finger deep inside her. His own eyes threatened to roll back in his head as hers did. She was the tightest he’d ever felt any woman be. Almost too tight for his finger . “I’m happy to get you off, beautiful, but I’m going to have to limp back home if we don’t stop soon.”
She answered with a moan and his grip on reality began to slip. He