Page 60 of Tempt My Heart

“Bringing you back to our room so I can make you tell me what the hell that was just now. Then, we’re going to have makeup sex.”

He threw her down onto the bed and she bounced helplessly as he closed the door and stood in front of her with his arms crossed. It was annoying how she couldn’t even be mad at him for carting her around like a caveman—firstly, because she realized she loved him so every time she looked at his face she wanted to do a weird happy dance. Secondly, he was wearing a dark tee and when he’d folded his arms his muscles did interesting things that kept her distracted.

“So?”

She startled, forcing her eyes away from his arms. She wasn’t ready to tell him what she’d realized yet. Maybe they’d gone into this too fast. She didn’t want to say the wrong thing and make this situation worse. “I didn’t like seeing you dancing with Katie.”

His eyebrows scrunched together. “So youarejealous?”

“I don’t know what we are!” She moved so she was sitting cross-legged. “Things have been intense with us since Jared started screwing with us. Are you my boyfriend? Friend with benefits? I have no idea! And then you were dancing with this gorgeous woman and laughing with her and—” Her mouth dropped open. “And you’re laughing at menow?”

She stood up and stomped over to the door, absolutely done talking.

His laughter cut off as he grabbed her arm and spun her around, crashing his lips to hers and fuck if her body didn’t respond. She groaned and then shoved him away.

“What are you doing?” she wished she’d sounded less breathless just then, but at least he wasn’t unaffected either.

“You are… the most infuriating, ridiculous woman I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing.” Did he think insulting her was earning him brownie points? “Katie asked me to dance with her until her date came back.”

Ali folded her arms across her chest, unappeased.

His mouth quirked up like he was trying not to laugh again. “Herfemaledate.”

She swallowed. “Oh.”

“Yeah.”

“Well, I still don’t know what we are,” she said, trying to maintain her anger even as he slowly approached, a desire in his eyes that had her blood pounding through her veins.

“You’re mine,” he said and the growl in his voice made her breath catch. “I’m yours.”

“You are?”

His hand cupped her jaw, framing her face as his lips lingered near hers. “Do you want me to show you how much I’m yours?”

“Yes,” she gasped and then his mouth was on hers, devouring and claiming her slowly in a messy clash of tongues and teeth that had her back arching to press her body more firmly against his.

He lifted her easily and she wrapped her legs around his hips, grinding against him until they were both groaning.

“Bed,” he panted and she nodded frantically. He dropped her down onto it and flipped her over, smacking her ass in a way that made her perk it up towards him for more. “No time for playing, Ali. Later.”

Her PJ bottoms ended up by her ankles, they didn’t even pause for lube but she was wet enough already as he rubbed himself through her dampness and sheathed himself inside of her with one long thrust.

Something about the fact that he was so desperate for her that she was still half-dressed made her clench around him and he hissed out a curse as his hips flexed. A hand landed on either side of hers as he held himself over her and thrust deeply inside of her, the angle so much more than she’d experienced before.

“Fuck, Ali. You’re so wet.”

“Christopher,” she said breathlessly and he responded by fucking her harder until his name was all she could manage to say. She tried to lift to press herself against him and a thrill went through her when he pinned her down to the bed instead, fucking her as he liked. “Yes,” she cried out and as she clenched around him again she felt him jerk, coming inside her as her own orgasm swept through her body.

He rolled off of her and she worked to catch her breath.

“Makeup sex, huh,” she said, winded and he laughed, equally breathless.

“I meant it, Ali. I’m yours, for as long as you’ll have me.”

Forever, she thought but didn’t say, instead pressing a kiss to his mouth before exhaustion crashed over them both.

ChapterTwenty-Nine

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