Page 5 of Defended By the Lumberjack
This isn't just tonight.
Chapter Three
July
Levi's been pretty quiet, but his eyes are laser focused on my every move. From taking out the pins in my hair to untying my pants.
He doesn't say a word when I confess my inexperience or to my obvious proposition.
I don't think he would have waited for me after work if he wasn't interested. I don't think he would have followed me to my apartment if he wasn't expecting something.
Maybe my body isn't what he imagined now that he can see what's under the loose chef's uniform. Or maybe he's rethinking getting involved with a woman who just admitted she doesn't really know what she's doing.
Although, the heat in his stare makes me think that's a battle he might be losing with himself.
I'm down to just my bra under a camisole top and a pair of cotton panties that definitely back up my claim that I'm not used to seducing strangers I've just met.
"I like a lot more than just what I can see, July."
Levi's gruff voice is thick and low as he steps closer to me.
His hands slide up my arms, his thumb trailing over my throat and up my jaw line. His eyes rake down my body so completely I feel it.
My nipples are already hard under my bra, my panties uncomfortably wet between my legs.
I want this man. I want this man in a way I've never felt before.
"I don't know how to explain it, darling, but you're mine, July. And I'm yours. You owned me the minute I saw you in the hall downstairs."
"Is that what this feeling is, Levi?" I step free of the clothes pooled on the floor and meet him halfway. "Because I feel the same way."
"Good. Because you need to know that if I stay, it's going to be for good. I want you July, but I want forever, not just tonight."
It's a ridiculous demand and I shouldn't be nodding my head so eagerly, let alone giving myself over to this man so completely so quickly. I can't help myself. It doesn't sound like a line, and I feel what he's saying with the same certainty that's carried in his tone.
Our lips crash together in a new kiss and Levi picks me up easily, carrying me into my room and dropping me on the bed as if I were as weightless as a doll.
I move into the center of the bed, making way for Levi to join me, his large body covering mine as he crawls onto the mattress to settle between my legs.
Struggling to sit up, I start working on the buttons of his shirt while his hands reach behind me to unclasp my bra and then strip me from it and my cami at the same time.
"My God, July, these are perfect for me."
He breathes the words like a prayer as he fills his hands with my breasts. Pressing me back into the heavy, winter duvet, Levicovers one of my achingly hard nipples with his mouth. So hot and wet on my sensitive skin that I arch my back into the feeling.
I feel the warmth of his naked chest against my stomach, against my mound, with just my panties between my flesh and his as he lavishes attention on my breasts.
The sound of his shoes hitting the floor as he kicks them off echoes through my quiet room along with the sound of my moans and gasps as he tongues and sucks my nipples.
I want to finish undressing him. I want to unbuckle his belt and push the soft, wool trousers off his hips and find out what kind of underwear he wears to a fancy company Christmas party. Then I want those on the floor too.
But Levi's in control now and he's not giving it back.
Levi
July's body is all softness, filling my hands and molding so fucking sweetly to the hard planes of the muscles that I've built over the years of working for the logging company. Every part of her feels like it was made just for me.
I work my way down her body, giving each breast a goodbye kiss before exploring the roundness of her belly and then her hips.
