Page 58 of Avery's Hero

“I hope so.”

Slowing the truck, I turn to look at her. She watches me, her expression compassionate. “Oh, Brock,” she says, as shereaches for me. Her hand brushes softly over my forearm. Feather light. After she strokes her hand up and down my arm a few times, she whispers, “I’m glad he’s staying there.”

Heat floods my groin. Blood as thick as lava starts to pump in my veins. My voice has gone totally rough when I ask, “Why is that?”

She leans toward me, and just before she presses her lips to my jaw, she whispers. “Because I want to take care of you tonight.”

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Something has changed between us. I don’t know the moment it happened. It was an eroding of the giant wall inside my shell. I felt my barrier starting to crumble but didn’t know it had been totally swept away until the moment I kissed Brock and knew the quickening of my pulse wasn’t panic, it was excitement.

He looks so surprised. A small, satisfied grin forms on his face as he says, “You kissed me, hot stuff.”

“Yeah,” I say breathlessly. “Take me home, Brock. I want to be with you tonight.”

The throaty, masculine sound that he releases sends shivering energy through my body. For a few seconds, heholds me. I can hear his heart slamming inside his ribs. It matches mine exactly.

I pull back and shove my hair aside with a shaking hand. “Get this truck rolling, Chief.”

He doesn’t say a word, just guns the accelerator. He drives in heated silence. Fast. Like he always drives. But it’s thrilling. Racing through the darkness toward the crescendo of something dark and delicious.

My body is crackling with heat by the time he wheels into his driveway like he’s rushing to a fire.

Well… I guess he kind of is. Lord knows there’s a fire consuming everything between my ovaries and my clit right now.

We tumble into the foyer, our breathing crazy loud. He kicks the door shut. Throws the lock. Then steps into my personal space.

Inches apart, we stare at each other. Breathing at each other. My body is tingly from head to toe. I’m electric inside like I’ve been plugged into a socket.

Like an animal on prey, he lunges for me, wraps me in his arms. Roughly whispers against my hair, “God. What did I do to deserve you?”

Against my back, his hands are shaking, he’s pulsing with emotion as he sucks air jaggedly against my neck.

Sliding my hands over his body, I try to take tension away with my thoughts and my hands. When I knead the muscles in his neck, he murmurs, “That feels so bloody good.”

Letting my hands drift down, I trace the shape of his muscular lats, then lower. I slowly lift his T-shirt. He helps me get it off over his head, then stands, looking down at me. His lids are heavy and lined with a thicket of black lashes, his eyes are incredibly dark.

My heart stutters and sprouts wings. His rough beauty undoes my sanity. Threatens things inside of me that I don’t let see the light of day.

I trace my fingertips down over his abs, letting them explore the dips and rises, then I slowly trail kisses over the smooth, hard muscles on his chest. He’s perfect. Literally. I can’t imagine wanting another man ever again.

“Mmmm,” he groans as he stands perfectly still. “Love having your hands on me.”

Gliding my fingers lower, sliding along the waist of his pants, I trace the muscles, bones, and vee that dips toward his growing erection.

“Let me take the edge off for you,” I whisper as I free his cock from the fly of his pants.

“You don’t have?—”

His words die abruptly when I wrap both my hands around his girth.

“Shhh,” I say as I look up at his angular face. God, those eyes. They’re so full of emotion. I love looking at those emerald green depths, trying to fathom just how many things lie beneath his tough exterior.

A guttural sound hangs in his throat. His body tenses when I brush my thumb gently over the crown of his cock, gliding along the slit there.

“I’m going to make you come with my mouth, now,” I whisper.

Roughly, he says, “God. You certainly are. There’s no way I’ll last watching those perfect lips of yours wrapped around my dick.”

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