Page 84 of Echoes of You

I’d never felt anything like it. Somehow, Nash lit me on fire and made me feel at home in the same breath.

My hips rose to meet his. Small, testing movements at first and then deeper, longer, wanting thrusts.

Nash groaned as he drove deeper. My back arched as I sought more. His tempo picked up, angling so he hit a spot that had tremors rippling through me.

“Nash…” It was all I could say. His name was both a plea and a prayer.

His hand slipped between us, his thumb circling my clit. “Not gonna last. You’re too good. Too everything.”

His words snapped that cord tight, and as his finger pressed down, everything around me unraveled, spinning into a cascade of colors and sensation. As he arched into me one more time on a shout, it was as if everything before him had been black and white. Now, with Nash, there was only color. And I knew I’d never see anything the same again.

28

NASH

My arms loopedaround Maddie’s waist, and I nuzzled her neck as she downed the last of her morning coffee. I couldn’t stop touching her. Smelling her.Feelingher.

It was as if years of pent-up need had burst free now that the dam had been broken. Each time the panic that I’d made a catastrophic mistake reared up, I shoved it down. I lost myself in Maddie.

“You sure you need to go to work?” I nipped at her pulse point. “We could both call in sick.”

She chuckled, the sound husky from lack of sleep. “Because everyone wouldn’t see right through that.”

“They can mind their own damn business.”

Maddie set her mug on the counter and turned in my arms. She pressed a kiss to the corner of my mouth. “I like my job. And I like my coworkers even more. So, I’m not going to leave them in the lurch so I can have my wicked way with you. It’ll have to wait until tonight.”

The corner of my mouth kicked up. “Wicked way, huh?”

“Yup.”

“I like the sound of that.” I leaned in, my lips meeting Maddie’s and drinking her in. I’d never get enough.

Maddie pulled back on a groan. “I know what you’re doing.”

“What? I can’t say good morning?”

She gave me a playful shove and slid out of my hold. “That tongue should be registered as a dangerous weapon.”

I grinned. “Good to know I have an effect.”

Maddie shook her head. “No ego at all.”

A ding sounded from Maddie’s purse, and she stiffened.

I was instantly on alert. “What’s wrong?”

“I, uh, I meant to tell you yesterday, but I got distracted…”

I understood the distraction. The hottest sex of your life would do that to a person. But the anxiety radiating from Maddie had me on edge. “Did you hear from Adam?”

Just saying his name had anger pulsing through me.

She nodded, pulling her phone from her purse, unlocking it and scanning the screen. “This one’s from Grae, but I got an anonymous one yesterday. I told Lawson when he was here.” She tapped a few buttons and then handed it to me.

I scanned the text on the screen. The sender was another unknown number. The anger flowing through me turned to fury the moment I read the message.Come home with me or your best friend loses his badge.

I’d changed Maddie’s number myself. How had this asshole gotten her a new one so quickly? I pulled out my phone and hit Holt’s contact. He answered on the third ring.

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