“This is chunky dunking?” she asked paddling toward me. When she reached me again, she wrapped both her arms and legs around me, putting our naked bodies together. I was surprised the lake didn’t start boiling.
I dipped us down into the water so only our shoulders were exposed. “I have never in my life been skinny, honey. So we certainly aren’t skinny dipping.”
“Oh, that is going into a song absolutely immediately if not sooner.” She laughed again and splashed me. “Declan Kingman... I love you.”
For a moment, everything stood still, the water, the sun in the sky, even my own breath. Kelsey’s unexpected confession caught me off-guard. She stared at me, her eyes a bit guarded. I think she hadn’t meant to blurt that out, but I also thought she meant it.
I traced her jawline with my thumb, gently grazing the curve of her cheek, my gaze falling down toward her lips and then back up to meet hers. A wave of emotion crashed over me, overwhelming in its intensity. I looked into her eyes, shining with sincerity and vulnerability, and a surge of love so strong it nearly knocked me off my feet roared through me.
I held her closer, my heart pounding so hard, it might be trying to get out of my chest. “I love you too, Kelsey Best. I’ve never felt this way about anyone, and I think it’s because my heart was waiting for you.”
Her smile lit up the air around us brighter than the Colorado mountain sun. But it wasn’t nearly as hot as the kiss she laid on me. The chill from the lake evaporated with the heat building between us. “Kels, I want nothing more to let you ride my cockright here, right now, but the condoms are in the picnic basket, and I don’t think they’d work in the water anyway.”
She let her legs down and grabbed my hand, then pulled me toward the shore. Pooh was yards ahead of us, almost at the shoreline already. “I’m pretty sure I’m going to be freezing when we get out of the water. Know any way to warm me up?”
A few steps from the edge of the water, I picked her up into a princess-style carry and took her back to our blanket. Pooh met us along the way, yipping and yapping. “I think she wants me to pick her up too.”
“She’s a jealous girl and for good reason. But after that swim, I’ll bet she’ll settle down for a nap.”
A pinprick of guilt hit me at that. “She’s probably got the right idea. You should nap too. I’ll be just as happy to hold you in my arm all afternoon. We don’t have to?—”
Kelsey set her feet down and faced me, putting her hand up to my face and cupping my chin. “I know you’ve decided it’s your responsibility to take care of me, and I love that, Declan, I really, really do.”
“Don’t you dare say that you can take care of yourself.” That’s always what came next. “I know that, of course you can. But you don’t have to.”
She smiled so sweetly, and not in the way women did when they thought I was being dumb, or overprotective, or that I simply didn’t understand what they wanted. No, Kelsey looked at me like I hung the sun in the sky and she was waiting for nightfall for me to hang the moon and stars too, and it was giving me life.
She put a finger to my lips. “I’m telling you I do love that. But I’m not fragile. You don’t have to handle me with kid gloves. I know I gave everyone, including myself, a scare. But I promise, if you make love to me under the shade of a tree, by a mountain lake, on a sunny fall day, I’m not going to break.”
She was right, both in that she’d scared me, and that I was worried I was going to hurt her or hinder her recovery. But Kelsey was stronger than I was giving her credit for. I could already see how even a few hours away from the stressors of her tour were good for her psyche. And she did have a whole lot of gorgeous color in her face.
“I will always want to take care of you. Taking care of what’s mine, the people who belong to me, is a part of who I am.” I pushed my hands into her hair and lowered my lips to hers, brushing my mouth gently over hers. “So let me take care of you now with a whole lot more orgasms.”
Kelsey’s eyes met mine, her pupils dilated and her breaths shallow. I saw the hunger in her gaze, the need for me just as strong as my own. With a swift movement, I slid her wet panties down her hips, going down on my knees in front of her. The soft blonde curls over her mound were still wet from the water, and neatly trimmed in the shape of a triangle pointing right at my target. I wanted her wet in another way.
I leaned in and kissed the apex of those plump pussy lips, and Kelsey pushed her fingers into my hair. “Tell me what you want, sweetheart.”
This time she didn’t need more prompting. “Lick me, use your tongue on my clit, and don’t be gentle.”
I obliged, my mouth watering at the thought of her sweet taste on my tongue. I gripped her thighs and spread them apart, kissing her inner thighs softly before diving in for a long lick. Kelsey’s throaty moans filled the air as I dove in with my tongue, licking and sucking at her wet, swollen clit. Her taste exploded in my mouth, sweet and salty, the perfect combination that made me crave her even more.
As I focused on her pleasure, I felt Kelsey’s hands gripping my head, her fingers tangling in my hair, pulling me further into her. She moaned softly, and her hips bucked against my face. Ireached up and grabbed her ass, holding her against me, letting her thighs tremble against my shoulders.
I continued my assault on her clit, my tongue flickering and pulsating in rhythm with her body, pushing her higher and higher until she reached her peak. Her moans grew louder, urging me on, and I began to suck her clit harder, flicking it with my tongue just how she asked, not gentle at all.
Her hands gripped my hair tightly, her nails digging into my scalp as the pleasure built within her. She was so close, and I could feel it in the tremble of her thighs and the way she got wetter by the second.
Her hands moved from head to my shoulders, and her knees buckled as she cried out my name, coming so hard, I could feel her swollen clit pulsing against my tongue.
I held her up as her body arched and twitched while she cried out in pleasure. Her release burst onto my face, wetness trickling across my mouth and beard, and I reveled in it. I continued to lick her until she begged me to stop, her legs shaking as she caught her breath.
Finally, the spasms of her orgasm subsided, and I slowly lifted my head and then stood up and pulled her into my arms, kissing her deeply, loving the way her eyes sparkled when she tasted herself on me. “You taste so good, Kels. I could eat your pussy all day.”
She hummed a satisfied sound that was music to my ears. “I think I would enjoy that very much. But what I’d like even more is to have you inside of me and getting to hear you moan my name when you come with my pussy gripping you tight.”
Oh, how I loved a dirty talking woman who knew what she wanted. Because I was going to give her it all.
I’D LIKE TO TEACH THE WORLD TO SING