Page 81 of Lost Love on 6th Street

Which makes him work even harder.

It’s a different kind of orgasm, though. He’s able to reach an untouched part of me, one that is wanton, warm, and willing.

I cling to him with everything I have in me, every muscle contracting to hold on.

Luke puts his mouth to my ear. “You have no idea how badly I’ve wanted to fuck you since the moment I saw you.”

And then I’m falling off the edge of a cliff.

I can’t see the bottom and don’t know when the earth will strike, so I enjoy the thrill of falling, the euphoria coursing through me. I press my mouth to his neck and scream out, knowing that if I let it free and wild, it would ping against the walls of the apartment and make a strange first impression on my neighbors.

“God, you’re tight, you’re so tight, I’m coming,” he husks with a few final thrusts until he gives into the way I’m pulsing around him. An unrepentant groan explodes from his mouth, but he does not pay any mind to decorum. He lets it free. Wild. So that I know exactly how badly he’s wanted this.

Together, slick with sweat, we try to catch our breath. I couldn’t get off of him even if I wanted to. Luke has his hands clasped around my lower back, keeping me tight to him, right there, afraid he might lose me if he were to let go.

I kiss a line up his shoulder to his neck, across his jaw and chin, and land at his mouth. He squeezes me tighter if that were possible. And though the kiss is chaste, it’s the deepest kiss we’ve ever shared.

When my lips part from his, Luke smiles and nuzzles his nose against mine. “Welcome home, baby.”

26

LUKE

By a stroke of genius, I remember I have a blanket in the trunk of my car. Part of my mother’s idea of an emergency kit, and what kind of a good southern boy am I if I don’t try to appease my mother?

Eleanor and I sleep in fits and starts thanks to the hardwood. And another kind of wood. Now that I’ve had Eleanor, I don’t know how I’m going to stop having her. Lying naked on the floor of her new place, it’s impossible to keep my hands off her. So, I don’t. An hour of sleep here, a quick dip into her personal brand of heaven there . . .

It’s paradise.

I didn’t plan well enough ahead, so I only had one condom. But after the first time and a confirmation of her being on the pill, we both threw caution to the wind.

Because there are no curtains on the windows, we’re up at first light. Earlier than early. So early that Eleanor hasn’t even put her glasses on yet. Her curls are a rat’s nest, pointing in every direction. And she’s already grabbed her camera, pointing it at the way light is draping across the wall.

“My room . . .” she says, then turns the camera on me, grinning. “With a view.”

I’m covered in all the places I’d need to be to avoid a scandal, but I’m still a bit camera-shy. “Someone should be taking pictures of you, not me.”

Eleanor is quiet. She twists the lens. I don’t claim to know what she’s doing, but from the looks of it, she’s a master. Her lips tense in focus and so does her forehead.

I remain perfectly still, marveling. Because she’s sitting there, crisscross on the floor, blanket over her lap, and her torso bare. She’s so focused that she’s not trying to suck in her stomach the way most women do. Two perfect rolls of silk skin. I’d like to lean over and kiss them raw.

She snaps the photo and then checks the screen. Smiles to herself, pleased.

I’m glad I please her. In all ways.

Eleanor grabs her glasses off the floor and thrusts them on one-handed to get a better look at me. “I find more satisfaction with keeping a record of the world through my eyes.”

My heart flutters. “And what does that look like?”

“Really fucking sexy,” she says.

I laugh and grab her, rolling onto my back so she is splayed across my chest. “Shut up.”

“Like a Calvin Klein ad.”

“That’s laying it on a little thick.”

Eleanor traces her finger from my collarbone down to my belly, letting it loop and curve like a bumblebee. “Not thick at all. Except . . .” Her hand dips below the blanket toward my dick, which has been sporting a semi since we woke up.

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