Page 70 of Tangled Threats on the Nomad Highway
Mouth open and panting, she mouthed,“Please,” as her arms lifted to curl around his shoulders.
He pushed inside again, finding that halfwaypoint and surpassing it before he again retreated. Her worry waslessened this time, body finding the same rhythm as her hips roseand fell. A final long glide had him buried deep, the base of hiscock grinding against her clit in a way that set her bodyshuddering. The movement transferred directly to his dick, and hefroze with eyes wide open, panting as he held back his orgasm bywill alone.
“Please, baby.” Her mouth touched his, wordswhispered against his lips. “Please move. Please.”
Finding a rhythm between them was easy asbreathing, and the silken glide of her sweat-slickened skin againsthis ratcheted up the need, the desire. They moved, coming togetherand falling apart, joined intimately. His mouth found hers often,and hers matched the motion.
Propped on one forearm, Einstein drifted ahand along her side. Arms circling his upper body, Marian slid herpalms across his back. He caught her off guard when his handslipped between their bodies, thumb working her clit as he usedshort, deep, sharp thrusts of his hips that seemed to stoke herpassion. When she tightened around him and came again, it felt likehe’d won a victory. Burying his head against her neck, Einsteinbreathed out the truth he’d held inside for a long time.
“Love you, baby. Not gonna be without you.Mine, you’re mine, you get that? You and me, we belong together.”Each word strengthened the flames of his own desire, and he wentwith the demands of his body, moving faster, driving deep, buryinghimself inside her over and over.
“Love you too.” As if his words gave herspermission to exist, she repeated them. “For a long time now, I’veloved you. Want to be with you. Want you always. Don’t leave mealone.”
He pushed up enough to crash his mouth tohers, each sobbing sigh of breath joining them until he couldn’ttell where he ended, and she began—theyjust were. Then he was coming, the crashing wave of passion liftingand rising over him until it tumbled him under. Collapsing on topof her, he buried his face against her neck, each surge of pleasurerolling up and through him almost painfully. Gradually it receded,and he came back to himself with a realization that she’d wrappedhim up. Arms and legs, even her head was pressed tightly to his, asif she were trying to keep him from flying apart.
An apt metaphor for Marian’s very existencein his life.
Nothing in recent memory had ever felt asright as Marian in his arms. Einstein deliberately didn’t make hismind shy away from thoughts of Lauren and Makayla, because beingwith the woman he loved now wasn’t disrespectful to their memories.This, what he had with Marian, wasn’t moving on; it was just simplyliving.
Bringing her here had been easier thanexpected, and most of that had to do with the construction that hadtransformed the house completely. That had taken a conversationwith Vanna and Sharon to understand, and when he’d finally voicedthe anxiety he carried, their simple solution was brilliant. Don’twant to take his new love to his dead wife’s house? Change thehouse.
The whole ride had been his subconscious wayof purging out any residual pain, seducing him with the pleasure ofher wrapped around him on the bike. While instigated by her, it hadbeen a way to join them tighter.
Her here, in this bed with him, no one elsein the house—perfection.
He rolled them to their sides, chucklingwhen she clutched him closer. “Not going anywhere, Marian. Justneed to take care of the condom.” Backing his hips away, he reachedbetween them, pausing to stroke the slope of her breasts beforecontinuing across her belly and down to his softening cock. Rubberoff, tied, and thrown on the floor, Einstein turned back to her andcupped a hand over her sex. Not playing, just tracing the creases,watching her face for any flinches of pain. Finally satisfied hehadn’t hurt her, Einstein forced an arm underneath her head andangled to his back, pulling her with him so she was splayed outhalf on top of him. Already tight against his side, she snuggledcloser still, head fitting perfectly into the hollow of hisshoulder.
She shuddered suddenly, teeth chatteringlightly, and he realized his sweat-cooled skin was growing coldertoo as the air conditioner kicked on. It took a few moments, but hemaneuvered them underneath the covers, sheets crisp and smellinglike sunshine.
“You doing okay, baby?” His question was metwith a quiet hum, and he grinned up into the darkness. “Hungry, orwanting for anything?”
She hesitated for so long he wasn’t surewhat was going on in her head and had opened his mouth to ask againwhen she spoke. “Is Birmingham home? Is that why you had the houseremodeled?”
“It could be, in the right situation.”
“What’s the right situation?” Her teethclattered together briefly, and he wrapped her tighter in hisarms.
“Retro’s my president, like Bane is forGunny and Truck, and Blackie is for Bane.”
“What?” Marian looked up at him, herfeatures wrinkled into the most adorable frown he’d ever seen, andEinstein pressed a kiss between her brows. “No, seriously. Whatdoes that have to do with this house?”
“I don’t want to be without you. Neveragain. Do you get me?” He curled around her. “I’m wholly enamoredof you, Marian. This isn’t a flighty feeling, not some beerbravery. This is real as it gets, yeah?”
“Okay.” Drawing the word out, she angled sotheir gazes clashed, hers full of confusion.
“How attached are you to your little room atthe compound?” He shifted uncomfortably. “To your job there?”
He saw the moment understanding came overher, the expression on her face blanking. Hiding her true feelingsseemed second nature to Marian, and he made a mental note to circleback around to that.
“You’re moving back here.” There was nonuance to her words, just a flat statement.
Oh, that won’t do at all, honey.
“Following the most direct route, it’sthree-plus hours. Not even half a day back down to Baker.” Einsteindusted kisses along her cheek and across the bridge of her nosebefore angling to her mouth. “Retro’s put up with a lot from meover the past years. Man’s one of the most loyal I’ve ever met, andI love him like a true brother. But you tell me Birmingham is ano-go, then he’s going to have to be more patient. Me with you isnot negotiable. The rest of it? We have lots of time to figure itout.”
“You’d put this on hold so fast? The house,what I saw of it, looks gorgeous. A remodel isn’t cheap, either.You just sunk all that cost here, and you’d turn your back onit?”
“Baby, for more than three years I’ve beenin orbit around you without really realizing it. When I opened myeyes and saw what I’d been doing, the feeling that hit me surewasn’t being pissed. My heart’s known for a long time that you wereimportant to me, that I needed, as well as wanted…you. That’s allthat matters. This?” He gestured around the room and brought hishand back to rest on her cheek, cupping her face, heat from herskin sinking into him in familiar ways. “It’s a place. A house,baby.” Her lips were giving and soft against his gentle kiss.“You’re my home.”
