Page 45 of Tempt

He searched my face. “I don’t want this to be the end of us.”

“It’s not,” I panted, grabbing him and pulling him into me for a deep, messy kiss. He groaned and adjusted, sliding his fingers out of me. “I don’t have answers and I don’t know where we go from here, but this isn’t the end.”

He ran his nose along mine and kissed me lightly on the lips. “We’ll talk over dinner.”

I nodded. Yes, we would talk. And it would be hard and the answers might not make sense yet, but we’d start finding our way. We had to. What we did to each other… the physical and the mental… we couldn’t walk away from that.

The car door opened and Martin set a paper bag on the passenger seat. I recognized the logo immediately. Talking was going to be very difficult withthatfor dinner. “You’re really trying hard to win me over, aren’t you?”

He chuckled and kissed me again before sitting up. “I like to stack the deck in my favor whenever possible. Sushi seemed like a good idea if I wanted you to give me a second chance.”

Chapter 16

“Woman…” he hissed through his teeth.

“Don’t buy me sushi for dinner if you don’t want me to have fun,” I warned as I sucked the white sauce off my finger. “It makes me crazy horny.”

He grinned. “Oh, I know.”

I savored the flavor then resumed my slow, careful sucking of his cock. Exhaustion, plus beer, plus more sushi than we could possibly eat in a night, had gotten me naked and needy in Theo’s kitchen. Again.

It was becoming a problem. One that Theo had every intention of exploiting for our dinner conversation.

And one I had every intention of letting him exploit. My last lover hadn’t liked sushi at all and never found it an aphrodisiac like I did. I guess there was a reason we didn’t last.

But Theo… oh, he’d understood from the moment my eyes lit up. He recognized that fire. The kind that comes from being aroused by something unusual. For him it was tables. Theo liked tables.A lot.Or maybe it was hard surfaces in general, I wasn’t really sure. It was probably why he’d mentioned the conference table with so much enthusiasm. At first I’d thought it was just a fantasy, but since then I’d come to realize it was much more. My hand across the smooth surface was enough to make him hard, but me naked on one? The arousal and excitement that came off of him was palpable.

Kind of like me and sushi.

It was just such an oral food—something about the large bites and tongue placement—or maybe it was the flavors and textures. Or maybe it was just the indulgence of it all… I didn’t know and I didn’t care. All that mattered was that I could be myself around Theo—horny and all. He didn’t find my need strange. He didn’t mind all the moaning and groaning I did. And he definitely enjoyed the way it made me want to orgasm over and over again.

I licked up the length of his cock and around his head, watching his eyes roll back and the rise and fall of his chest. Seeing Theo come apart made me wet, but having his cock in my mouth made me wetter. His hands gripped the edge of the counter so hard I was afraid he was going to rip it off.

And then I stopped for another bite and a shot of saki. “How long are you going to draw this out?” he groaned, but he wasn’t really asking. This was what he liked best.

I swallowed the bite, feeling every cell in my body light up in response, curled my toes against all that need, and then took his cock back in my mouth. But this time I didn’t let up until I knew he was close to coming. It was only then that I stepped back and made him watch as I touched myself. I rubbed slow circles over my swollen clit and rolled my nipples between my fingers.

Theo groaned and watched, but didn’t touch himself or move. Not until I told him he could fuck me.

“Finally,” he sighed as he sank slowly inside.

I braced my hands against the countertop and Theo wrapped his hands around my hips as he took me from behind. Slow at first, letting me get used to him, then faster and harder as we both lost control.

I glanced back at him over my shoulder. “We’re not getting a lot of talking done.” Because talking while getting pounded by your sexy lover was totally normal…

He paused long enough to stand me up. His cock pulsed inside me as he wrapped his arm across my chest and pressed his lips to my cheek for a kiss. “Please don’t go.”

I relaxed in his arms. “I don’t want to. I don’t care about your past.”

He tightened his arm around me. “You should. The past is never in the past and Toni is dangerous.”

He kept rocking up and into me, and my body quivered. Life was dangerous. Anything could happen to anyone at any time. It was true that being with Theo came with a guaranteed threat, butnotbeing with him wasn’t a guarantee of anything either.

I pressed the back of my head into his shoulder, seeking some reassurance. “But as long we keep this a secret, it won’t matter. I’m either here with you, where it’s safe, or I’m at work where it’s safe. Toni doesn’t know I exist. He’s not a threat to me.” Just my heart was at risk. If he hurt Theo…

He kissed me over and over. Behind my ear, down my neck and across my shoulder. “Maybe, but this will be messy and I can promise you it will get complicated. My life is so fucking complicated.”

“Let’s just see where this goes,” I couldn’t catch my breath. I was too turned on.

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