Page 61 of Keeping it Real

Alek’s eyes went wide before he quickly closed them.He sucked in a deep breath.“I’ve been a fool,” he murmured.

Her body grew tense with dread before he snapped his lids open and met her gaze head-on.His eyes were glassy.He shook his head slightly.

“Such a fool,” he repeated.“Looking past what’s been right in front of me all this time.”He dropped to his elbows, his mouth hovering right above hers.“But no more, Sheridan.No more.I intend to worship you for as long as you let me.”

He kissed her then.A greedy kiss that felt like he was branding her.Not that she minded.She hitched her legs around his back, giving him better access.Alek drove into her with such intensity that she felt another climax beginning to overtake her.He reached between their bodies.With one flick of his finger, she shattered, her body convulsing around him.Seconds later, he roared her name when his own pleasure washed over him.

A few minutes later,Alek slipped back into bed after grabbing a water from the bathroom.He offered it to Sheridan.The sheet slipped down low when she took a long pull from the glass, teasing him with a peek at one of her strawberry-colored nipples.It was all he could do not to reach for it.Just like that, he was hard again, as if he hadn’t had the most meaningful sex of his life moments before.

Alek had entertained more than a few women in this bed over the years, but none of them as guilelessly gorgeous as the treasure next to him.Even more amazing, Sheridan seemed oblivious to the picture of sensuality she was with her flushed skin, finger-tossed hair, and kiss-swollen lips.Perhaps it was part of her mien of invisible people-pleaser she’d adopted at a young age.He hated how much she doubted herself.And he hated himself for not seeing the real Sheridan all this time.

He leaned in and brushed his lips over her shoulder.The musky scent of sex still clinging to her was doing crazy things to his nerve endings.Not to mention his balls.

“I want to hear all the things you dreamed of me doing to you,” he murmured against her skin.

She trembled beneath his touch.“I thought you had your own list.”The husky timbre of her voice was making him twitch.

“Who says we can’t compare notes?”He reached around and palmed her breast.

Sighing, she dropped her head back, exposing her long neck to his mouth.He dragged his tongue along her collarbone, realizing there were still parts of her he needed to taste.A groan rang out in the room.He was pretty sure it was his.

Alek pressed her onto her back and crawled on top of her.She gasped when his erection brushed against her belly.He was being a jerk for jumping her so soon after their first round, but he couldn’t help it.Her passionate response had turned him into a horny teenager.

“School gets out soon,” she said.

He flicked his tongue over her nipple.“Detention, remember?I don’t have to pick him up until five.Until then, I plan on spending the next two hours doing things to you that might get me suspended if I were still in school.”

“Are you sure you want to pick him up?I can do it.”

People-pleasing Sheridan was fighting her way back into the bedroom.Alek wasn’t having it.He tore his mouth away from her sultry skin and lifted his gaze to meet hers.

“I said I’d do it.”

She gave him a one-shouldered shrug while her fingers toyed with the top of the sheet.“I thought that with everything that went down with Finn’s teacher this morning, you might, you know, want to avoid the place.”

He swore to himself.

Why the hell must women be so complicated?

“If you’re insinuating my ego is damaged after Finn’s teacher cut me loose this morning, you’re wide of the goal pipe.In case you haven’t noticed, I’m much more interested in another woman.”

An adorable blush broke out on her cheeks and chest.

“Still, I’m sorry it didn’t work out.I?—”

Alek slapped a hand over her mouth.“Don’t you dare.She wasn’t what I wanted.I barely kissed the woman once, and it obviously left her with a bad impression.I never wanted to kiss her here.”He pressed his lips to the underside of her breast.“Or here.”He traced her navel with his tongue.“Definitely not here.”He spread her thighs wide and scraped his teeth along the inside of one.“And most certainly not here.”

“Oh God, yes,” she cried when he blew on the tender spot between her legs, already wet for him.

“Yes what, Sheridan?”he demanded.“Bring back the assertive woman who knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to ask for it.Tell me what you dreamed I’d do to you.Tell me it was this.”He blew on her again.

She was panting now.Her throat moved, but no words came out except for a sound that could be described as feral.She dug her fingers into his hair and positioned his head at the apex of her thighs.Alek would have laughed, but he was nearly undone by the need to taste her.

“Oh, please, yes,” she cried when his tongue delved into her.

Alek tugged her to the edge of the bed and kneeled beside it before hooking her legs over his shoulders.He tasted his fill, teasing her as he brought her to the brink not once but twice before pulling back.Sheridan writhed beneath him, her fingers tangling in the sheets as she pounded her heels into his upper back in frustration.

He took pity on her.But only because he was so riled up himself, things were becoming painful.Working his tongue against her sensitive bud, he drove her to the precipice and let her fall over its edge.

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