Laid Bare - Lauren Dane [106]
“You see, I know you. I know you deep inside. I care about all of you. I want to understand you. I’m not with you for your magical cock, although I do enjoy it. I’m with you because you’re like a wish come to life. She didn’t love you. Not really. But I do, and because of that, she’ll never have you the way I do. I’m not jealous, I’m just annoyed she wasted my time and yours.”
He kissed her, feeling laid bare before her.
“You have Todd. You’d have been happy without me.” And there it was. She’d pulled his deepest fear from him without asking, without prying. Because he trusted her.
She looked at him carefully, not jumping to answer and deny off the bat. “Yes. I do have Todd, and yes, I’d have been happy without you. I was happy without you. But that was before you stepped into our lives and now that you’re here, I wouldn’t be happy without you. It’s not Ozzie and Harriet, but it’s us and it works.”
She knew just what to say. He was defenseless. If she wanted to hurt him, she could do so very easily. But he knew she wouldn’t. That last bit he’d been holding back, that small knot of fear, of feeling on the outside, loosened and fell away.
He rolled on top of her and she opened to him easily, wrapping her legs around his waist as he slipped inside.
“Already wet.”
“We’ve established I like you.” She smirked up at him.
“Good. But if this is how you are with everyone you like, I’m concerned.” He set an easy rhythm.
“Ah, but I don’t like too many people. You’re safe. My pussy’s virtue is safe.”
“I love you. It doesn’t matter what Caroline wanted today. She can’t have it.”
She arched, rolling her hips to take him deeper. “I love you too. And I know.”
He laughed and continued to fuck into her until a pretty flush built from her breasts up her neck. He bent to lick, tasting salt and woman against the heated column of her throat.
“Would you like to come?” he murmured, kissing up her neck, stopping just below her ear.
“Yes.” She swallowed hard and whimpered when he swirled his tongue in that supersensitive spot.
“Touch yourself.”
She reached in between them, and he felt her forearm muscles cord as she began to work her clit. He wouldn’t be long once she started this. First it was ridiculously hot and made him want to blow every time she did it, and second, her cunt was utterly irresistible when she climaxed. Hot, wet and tight, those inner muscles rippling around him until he couldn’t take it.
But really, it was the intimacy they’d shared that had pushed him so far to start with.
When she gasped and her eyes went desire-blurred, he felt his own orgasm rush from the tips of his toes and fingers straight to his balls and deep into her body.
He’d just kissed her and rolled off when Todd came home.
“I’m going to clean up really quick,” she said, rolling out of bed. “I’ll be back.”
He watched her pretty, naked ass as she hurried into the bathroom.
Todd smelled the sex when he got to the doorway. He was hungry for her, hungry to reconnect and to know she was all right. Hungry to know they were all right.
“Hey,” Ben said from the bed, looking every bit as satisfied as he should.
“Hey, yourself.” Todd dropped the pizza and antipasti on the bed. “I’ll grab us something to eat on and be right back.”
Before he’d reached the hallway though, Erin came out of the bathroom, naked and disheveled, looking beautiful and sex-tousled. She saw him and smiled, coming into his arms and everything was all right again.
“I’m sorry,” she said as Todd held her. “I know you were just looking out for me.”
Todd snorted, kissing the curve of her cheek. “You stole my thunder. I’m sorry too. I know I pushed your buttons at a time you were most likely to react.”
“Mmm,” she hummed as he kissed down her neck. “I’m starving.” She eyed the pizza box and he hurried to grab the plates and some cream sodas, which she took from him and began to pass around as he got naked too.
Sitting on their big bed, naked and laughing, they ate