could see he wasn’t putting her mind at ease. “But I will promise you one thing. You let me in, Sky, I’ll take good care of you.”
“Will you?”
“Yeah, I will and I’ll make sure you have no regrets about tonight.”
She grinned. “Is that a promise?”
“That’s a guarantee.” He dropped his mouth to hers, kissing her softly, and then he lifted again, looking in her eyes. “It’s taken me all summer to get you here.”
“Shades, I’ve been here before.”
“Not talkin’ about you bein’ in my place or even in my bed. Talkin’ about you bein’ under me, like this.” He rolled his hips to underline his meaning.
“Oh.” Her answer came out in that soft breathy voice he loved so much.
“That’s not how I usually roll, babe. I’ve never spent this much time getting to know a woman the way I have with you.”
“I don’t want to hear about you and other women, Shades. Not now.”
“I’m telling you this so you’ll know. So you understand. This means something to me, Sky. You mean something to me.”
“Shades?”
“Yeah?”
“Tell me everything’s gonna be all right.”
He knew better than to lie to her, but he couldn’t stop the words she needed to hear from spilling out. Words he knew sure as shit were probably a lie. “Everything’s gonna be all right, baby.”
“I want you, Shades.”
He smiled down at her, letting her words melt through him. “Feeling wanted feels good.”
“I want to love you tonight.”
“Gotta say, likin the idea of being loved by you, Sky.” Her hands stroked softly up the bare skin of his back, and his eyes slid closed, and his jaw tightened as he felt himself grow even harder than he already was. And he knew there was no turning back now. He wanted his dick buried inside her. It was all he could think of, all he’d thought about all summer. No, not thought about, been consumed with. And there was one thing he knew wasn’t a lie. He couldn’t stop now if he wanted to. A muscle ticked in his jaw as he looked down at her. “I don’t mean to scare you, baby…but, this is going all the way. Ain’t no stopping now.”
She stroked the hair back from his head tenderly, and then repeated the strokes several more times, while he stared down at her. “I don’t want to stop you.”
“No one’s ever paid me attention like you,” he confessed. “The gentle way you touch me, shit, you got my heart pounding. I don’t think you realize, Sky, the way you affect me.”
She grabbed his rosary chain and pulled him down, her mouth opening under his as he dove in. His body moved against her as he slid up a few inches and took control of the kiss, claiming her with his mouth as he pinned her to the bed.
After a few minutes, he went up on his knees, looking down at her, his hands going to the fastening of her jeans. While he worked at getting them down, she writhed on the bed, pulling her shirt over her head to toss it to the floor where her jeans soon followed. And then Shades sat back on his haunches and grinned as he took in her camouflage patterned bra and panty set. He chuckled. “Camo, babe, really?”
“I saw them at Wally World. I thought they were cute.” She wiggled. “What, you don’t like them?”
“Oh, I like, darlin’. I like. But I’d like them a hell of a lot more on the floor.”
She undulated her body, and tempted, “Then maybe you should do something about that.”
“Oh, I plan to.” He reached to hook his hands in the fabric at her hips and began to slowly pull them down. They joined the growing pile on the floor. Then he stretched next to her and slid one bra strap slowly down her arm, pressing kisses along the edge of the bra. And then his hand was sliding under her to unhook it and toss it to join the rest.
His eyes roamed over her, his palm following along the trail of his eyes.
“No fair. You’re still half dressed,” she whispered breathlessly.
“You in a hurry all of a sudden?”
“No.” Her voice