Page 95 of After You

Or if he did, he was ready to regret it even more, because the next moment, he rolled, pinning her underneath him and looking into hereyes.

God, he looked good like this. His hair was mussed, his jaw sported morning stubble; his eyes were soft and sleeping, and he exuded a relaxed, happy air that she didn’t see very often. Happy, yes. But happy in a driven-and-rewarded kind of way, not happy just because.

In this position, she could look at him without protest from her neck. She was still dreading getting upright and trying to move, but this was great for right now. She threaded her fingers through his hair and smiled up at him. “I could get used to this too,” she said honestly.

Was this all incredibly complicated? Yep.

Had she been hoping to avoid complicated? Yep.

Had she really thought that was possible? Noway.

Kyle lowered his head and kissed her deeply, and she was soon shifting her legs against him, his hot erection pressing into her belly and the deep rumbles of desire from his chest ratcheting up her own need. She spread her knees and he settled in between them as if made to be there. A few minutes later, when he slid into her, she wrapped her legs around him and held tight. He moved against her slow and easy, a much lazier pace than any of the times the night before, and she relished the feel of him againsther.

“God, Hannah,” he said against her lips. “I can’t let you go again.”

She stiffened in his arms. Had he meant to say that? Was this just the sex and pleasure? Or was itmore?

“Need you,” he muttered, as he picked up thepace.

Hannah didn’t know if it was the deeper thrusts or the words or the way he was looking at her, but her body tightened around his, and the next moment she was shooting through the orgasm ether and never wanting to float back to earth.

He was right behind her, pumping deep, and saying, “God, yes,” in her ear in a deep, gravelly voice that made her inner muscles squeeze again.

She didn’t know how long they lay there tangled up in the sleeping bags and each other before her phone rang. But she knew immediately that their little escape wasover.

She groaned and reached for her purse. She had to stretch for it, and as she did, she felt Kyle’s hand skim down her side and his mouth on her nipple.

Heat pulsed through her and just like that, she was ready for him again. Good Lord, she’d never considered herself insatiable.

“I have to answer,” she told him, arching closer to his mouth.

He licked and sucked. “Yousure?”

“God, I don’t want to. It’s probably foryou.”

He paused, and then huffed out a breath. “Damn. You’re probably right.”

He was the doctor in a small town. He was the go-to guy. She knew that, and if she had even the vaguest thought of staying and being with him, she knew she’d have to share him. He’d be leaving her—naked and needy—from time to time. Period.

And—holy crap—it was already noon. They’d been up on and off through the night, but she’d had no idea they’d slept solate.

She pushed herself into sitting and immediately winced as her neck reminded her that she’d abused it. She didn’t have her special pillow. Any of the three of them. She hadn’t stretched before going to bed. She hadn’t meditated. In fact, she’d slept on a hard floor with her body up against an almost-as-hard man. And there had been thrusting. And even a little pounding.

Even as heat infused her, she lifted a hand to her neck, rubbing as she put her phone to her ear to listen to the voice message.

“Youokay?”

She looked over to find Kyle watching her massage her neck with a concerned frown.

She shrugged. “I, um…usually use a special pillow.” That sounded stupid even to her ownears.

“Why didn’t you say so? We could have picked itup.”

She couldn’t deny that made her heart melt a little. “That kind of takes away from the spontaneity,” she said, not hearing the words the person leaving the message was saying in her ear. She so wanted to be able to be spontaneous with and for Kyle. He needed some of that. If she was the only one who could really get him to take time off and temporarily blow off some responsibilities, then she had to be able to be there withhim.

“But I want you to feel good.” He got onto his knees, completely naked, and moved behind her, putting his big hands on her shoulders.

She tried to relax. And ignore the naked part. Which was very difficult with him pressing his front to her back. She swallowed as he started rubbing.

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