her monthly cycle and pain. Kate might not trust love, but she believed Nick was a decent guy who wouldn’t deliberately mislead her about something so important. “And I’m also safe.”
He dropped onto the bed, his long, lean, muscular body easing down as he surrounded her in heat. Grasping her face, he kissed her long and hard. Faster and deeper. Devouring her as if he’d been waiting a lifetime for this one moment. Heaven knew she felt the same way. She trembled in his arms, arching her back and pressing his raging hard-on against her belly.
He reached back and unhooked her bra, which she quickly shimmied off. Her panties came next and then she found heaven, skin to skin, feeling all of Nick against her.
He kissed the tip of her nose, moved to her neck, her collarbone, sliding down to her breasts, teasing her with nips of his teeth and loving licks of his tongue until finally he drew one distended nipple into his mouth. Kate groaned out loud, not caring how loud she was or what she sounded like, focused only on the intense pleasure he managed to provide with his mouth. Over and over he lapped at her breast until she was tender, her hips shifting restlessly, and she didn’t think she could take anymore. She wanted only for him to fill the aching emptiness between her thighs. But he switched to the other breast, bringing it the same pleasure, arousing her impossibly more.
“Nick.” She cried out his name, thrusting her hips upward in a not-so-silent plea.
“Right here,” he promised, cupping her damp heat with his palm.
Her pelvis jerked against him. “Oh God, I need—”
“This?” He slid one finger inside her and a teasing wave crested and ebbed.
“More.” Of him, of everything.
She writhed in need and he pressed his palm against exactly the right spot, rotating his hand in hard, endless circles that culminated with the thrust of his finger inside her once more, and Kate shattered. Her climax hit and she came hard, Nick not letting up on the pressure or the movement until he’d wrung every last bit of pleasure out of her body.
When she opened her eyes, Nick was over her, his erection poised at her entrance. “That was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen,” he said, his dark eyes reflecting the seriousness of his comment. “And now I want to see it again.”
She was about to tell him that wasn’t possible but he thrust inside her, cutting off all words and any rational thought. She could only feel, and he was beautifully thick and full, and she felt him everywhere and not just physically, either.
Kate knew sex.
She’d had her share over the years, it feeling good but never meaning much. Right now, her emotions were involved and a lump rose to her throat. She’d known better than to do this. She’d avoided him for so long. And when Nick shuddered and stilled above her, his eyes glittering, she realized how young and naive she’d been all those years ago when she’d thought she was in love.
Oh God, she was in trouble but it was too late to stop it now.
Never breaking eye contact, Nick began to move inside her and the intense feelings and sensations grew. Her body responded to his and suddenly another orgasm seemed not only possible but likely, especially with the way he was staring at her with every thrust.
It was intense, and hot, and meaningful but it was also an explosion of her senses and she closed her eyes, her sole focus the mini contractions already wracking her body again with every bump of his thick length inside her.
“Open your eyes,” Nick said and Kate suddenly found herself staring back as he thrust harder. “Keep looking.”
Suddenly he wasn’t just arousing her with smooth thrusts, he was pounding into her, owning her, taking everything she had and giving back so much more. His jaw was tight, his gaze hot, and he never stopped watching her.
She rose higher, higher, and higher still. “Nick, God, I’m going to—”
“Come, Kate.” He pulled out and