Eric released her and came up breathing harshly, staring into her eyes as droplets of water ran down his beard.

Eric’s fingertips skimmed over her collarbone toward her breast. “It’s just the two of us tonight, Gracie Lou. No past. No future. And no one ever has to know.”

Gracie’s heart slammed in a fast, heavy tempo at his words. Without tearing her gaze away, she reached between them and grabbed his cock in her hand. In answer, he was suddenly sitting on the step along the wall of the shallow pool. She removed her legs from around his waist and straddled his hips, planting her feet on the rough pool floor.

He brought her mouth down to his and covered the hand she had wrapped around him.

“Tell me you want this, Gracie Lou. That you want me. This. Now.”

She tried to move his cock where she wanted it, but he stopped her with a tug of her hair.

“I want to hear you say it.”

If Gracie had been in her right mind, she might have told him to get over himself, stop being a caveman, and fuck her.

But the intensity of his dark gaze told her he needed this. Needed her to say that she knew it was him. That she wanted this because it was with him.

And a tenderness for Eric Henderson she’d never known before melted over her.

Holding his face between her hands, she brushed her lips across his, whispering, “I want you, Eric. I want you inside me. Now.”

Gracie gasped as he let go of her hand and hair, and dug his fingers into her hips. She didn’t have time to catch her breath before Eric was pushing inside her, stretching her, and she held on tight to his shoulders as he pulled out a little and pushed farther in. Her eyes closed as he did it again, each time pressing deeper and deeper until she was completely seated.

His voice was guttural, pained, and rougher than she’d ever heard it before.

“Holy fuck. You feel better than I ever imagined.”

Gracie would have laughed or lingered on the fact that he’d fantasized about her too, but he was suddenly moving. No more short and slow; these thrusts were deep, fast, and she cried out as he hit the end of her, lights busting in her vision. The sensation was enough to make her eyes cross, and she could feel her insides hum as her orgasm built.

As her body started trembling and shaking with release, high-pitched cries escaped her. “Oh. Oh ohohohohyesGod…”

He picked up speed, leveraging her hips faster, as though he was a galloping horse.

“Come for me, baby. I wanna make you come so hard.”

Boom, like a lightning bolt had struck her body, she stiffened just as tingles of heat shot down every nerve ending. Her muscles contracted as she screamed, the sound dying slowly as he kept moving inside her, sliding over her aroused flesh and letting her ride the wave of ecstasy just a little longer.

Finally, spent, she sagged against his shoulder, her lips pressing tiny kisses against his skin.

“I’m sorry, did you think we were done?” he asked, outrage evident in his voice.

She turned her head away, resting her cheek on his chest so he wouldn’t see her smile. “We’re not?”

He flexed his hard cock inside her. “Hell no.”

Chapter Twenty

“I never understood why in horror movies, when people are faced with danger, they just stand there. Run you idiots! Run!” - Miss Know-It-All’s Gossip Column.

Eric vaguely heard the distant sound of barking, but it was hard to really process much beyond the thundering blood in his ears. As he held Gracie’s soft curves against him, sliding in and out of her warmth, his breathing became ragged. Being with her consumed him. He’d been dreaming of sinking into her, of having her wrapped around him and breaking into a million pieces because of the things he did to her. Because she wanted him.

Now that he had it, he didn’t want to stop. Never wanted it to end.

But he could feel the thread of his self-control snap as she squeezed her muscles around him. Her hips jerked over him, and he sensed that she was close again.

Gritting his teeth, he closed his eyes and thought of anything else but the slide of her tits against his chest. Of the way his dick vibrated with restraint to the point of pain.

When she mewled loudly, he covered her lips with his and let go. He groaned into her mouth as he came inside her.