slowly slid open the door and backed away.
Piper didn’t say a word. She stepped over the threshold and rushed inside, launching herself at his body, her legs winding around his hips, her arms around his shoulders. His breath gusted as she fell into him, and just as quickly, he grabbed her ass and held her against his erection, groaning through gritted teeth because she smelled amazing—like flowers and sunshine…and her.
“Condoms?” she moaned, rubbing her chest eagerly against his.
“Upstairs. Bed.” He couldn’t manage more conversation, because he was already gliding his mouth over her cheek and jaw, already tugging her earlobe with his teeth.
“Quick,” she gasped and undulated, grinding her mound against his cock.
Wolf didn’t need another prod. With her clutched tightly against him, he strode through the living room, straight to the stairs. He didn’t care who poked a head out a bedroom door—hell, his friends could stand around the bed because all he’d know, all he’d see, was the woman whose sensuality reminded him he was alive. Once he was deep inside her, nothing of the darkness that had filled his thoughts for months would last—not against the brilliance of this passion.
He stepped into his bedroom and kicked backward to shut the door. Three more long strides and he crawled onto the mattress, scooting her along with him. Another second, and he gripped her hips and sank deep inside.
She tossed her phone to the carpeted floor and wound her arms around him.
As her channel rippled around him, inviting him deeper, he had a moment of clarity. “Fuck!”
“No,” she said when he went still.
“Condom.”
“Fuck it. I’m safe.”
“I’m safe. Shit.” He gritted his teeth and began to pull free.
But she sank her nails into his buttocks. “No,” she whispered, then kissed his chin, his mouth. Her tongue slid between his lips and stroked his.
He groaned again and sucked on it, before pulling back his head. “You’re crazy. You don’t know me.”
“Buff, lean, short hair, so strong—fuck that turns me on. Military, right?” She peppered his cheeks and mouth with little kisses and pumped her hips upward, while a tremor shook the length of her body.
God, he felt it shiver right through him. No, he was quivering, too. “Ex-Navy. Your point?” he said, cradling her head to hold it still while he pressed another kiss on her lips and then nuzzled her cheek.
“They check you for shit. Physicals.”
“No STDs, but you could get pregnant.” He bit her lower lip because she was squeezing her inner muscles around him, and he was about to lose it.
“Om Ph-ill,” she said, the words garbled.
He let go of her lip and laughed. “Still not smart.” But he shook his head. Who was he kidding? No way in hell would he pull free now. “All right. Fuck it.”
“Fuck it,” she said, grinning and nodding. “Fuck me.”
“Oh, baby. With pleasure.” Wolf slipped his arms around her, fitting their bodies together as tightly as he could, and then he flexed his buttocks and drove deep.
Her pussy, her soft body, her sweet sigh…were heaven. Just what he’d needed. More than he could have prayed for. Smart and funny. A smokin’ hot body and face. A sexual appetite that just might match his.
Maybe after he’d had her for a week, for a hundred fucks, then maybe he’d believe he could let her go.
Chapter Five
WHAT HAD STARTED as sexy fun for Piper quickly became intense and complicated. Like the steady thrusts delivered by the powerful dude who now quivered over her . He wouldn’t last long, she knew it. Saw it in the corded muscles of his jaw. But she didn’t really care. She was right there. Ready. Primed by her imagination, by their dirty game, by his intensity.
He held her close, so close she could feel his heart beat against her chest. Their bodies writhed together, her breasts flush against him, her legs clamping tightly around his hips as he surged into her, his cock