Page 25 of Even If the Sky is Falling
Maya blinked. Well, this was embarrassing. She took a breath. “I think my teenage self would really, really hate that pin. She’d tell me the world was fucking ending and this could be my only chance with you.”
He looked at her for a few moments, then smiled. And it was a different smile. Hungry. So fucking sexy Maya’s toes were already curling. He put a hand behind her neck.
“Great thing about pins is you can take them out to try something on, then put the pin back in again.” He pulled her close, so their lips were almost touching.
Maya swallowed. Shewasscared—her heart was pounding in her ears, but...if the world ended without her getting another chance to taste Tarek’s lips she’d be both scared and pissed off. “What do you mean bytryingsomethingon?”
He pulled her even closer against his warm body. “Well,” he said, smiling the playful smile that had been burned into her brain since forever. “I mean ithasto be fate that you and I specifically are stuck here together. I am quite sure that wewillwalk out of this market—but getting through this ordeal would be easier if we had the possibility of more of this—” he kissed her briefly “—to look forward to. Committing to anything in a disaster is a bad idea. We’re just trying it on. We can decide later if it fit.” He kissed her a little longer this time, even briefly licking Maya’s bottom lip. “And if nothing else, it will give us a way to pass this time that would actually be a longtime fantasy come true for me.”
She was the one to lean in for a kiss this time. “For me, too,” she whispered against his lips.
And his almost feral smile was back for a moment before their lips crashed into each other properly.
This wasn’t sweet and slow like the last kiss. This was hot, urgent and insistent. They didn’t need any preamble, any getting to know each other. They already did all that, and they had no idea how long they had together right now. Maya immediately climbed on his lap, straddling his strong thighs. His hands were all over her, and she couldn’t believe how good he felt. Forget fireballs outside, the fire was right here between them. Maya arched her back, pressing herself into his hardness, aching to feel some release.
“Look at you,” he whispered. “You’re hungry, aren’t you?”
She dipped her head to suck his earlobe, loving the moan he released. “So are you,” she said, pressing his groin into her.
When his hands reached under her sweatshirt, then T-shirt, then bra, she pushed him away so she could remove them, tossing her clothes on the floor behind her. His hands immediately found her nipples and pinched, and she cried out with pleasure, then clamped her mouth shut.
He grinned at her. “You’re a screamer. Ilovethat, Maya.” He leaned forward to lick her nipples. “We’re all alone,let go.”
He was right. This was the end of the world—why have inhibitions? She didn’t hold in her cries of pleasure when he almost brought her to ecstasy with only teeth, tongue and fingers on her nipples. Eventually it was too much, so she gently eased off him and started taking off his shirt. And he let her.
He was amazing. He was Tarek, and that long and lean chest was bare and in front of her. He was her literal first crush, but really, he was so much more than that. He was the one who’d comforted her on what should have been the worst night of her life. He’d made her smile, laugh, read books with her and even made her a comfort food dinner. He wasn’t some mythical teenage crush, or a family villain, or even a professional rival. He was the good man in front of her. The verysexy, good man. And even if nothing ever came from this, she knew with certainty that she was doing the right thing right now.
“I can’t believe this is happening,” she said, because she couldn’t.
“You still want to?”
She grinned. “Yes. You?”
He took her jaw in his hands and kissed with such ferocity that Maya thought she’d explode. His bare skin felt amazing against her live-wire nerves. She needed more of it.
Maya hadn’t been with that many guys. Ben, of course. And a few before him. But she didn’t remember it ever feeling like this before. She felt wanted. He made her feel so powerful.
So she climbed off him and pulled him to the edge of the couch, then dropped to her knees on the floor between his legs. His eyes were wide with awe as she slowly started pulling down his sweatpants. He helped, lifting off the couch so she could inch his pants down, exposing more of him. His briefs came next, revealing an impressive, mouthwatering erection right in front of her face. Maya ran her hands up his hips, teasingly, ever so slowly, feeling him shudder under her touch. She leaned her head down and looked up at him.
“Holy fuck you’re amazing, Maya. Do it,” he whispered.
She smiled before opening her mouth and taking him inside. And oh god, he tastedsogood. Maya loved this. Feeling a person quiver with unrestrained pleasure in her mouth. She worked him slowly, methodically, with one hand holding the base of his erection and the other gripping his solid thigh. His muscles were clenching as he held on to the back of her head, muttering words of encouragement. Words of affection. She was pretty sure he said, “Holy fuck, Maya, this is why I love you,” at one point, but she was too far gone herself to process anything but the feeling of him in her mouth. His muscles tensed even tighter—he was close. She flicked her tongue against his tip before sucking deep, and he nudged her off him. She looked up at him, her lips still tingling.
“You are so fucking good at that,” he said. “I’m close. I have a condom.”
She nodded. “I want you in me when you come.”
He hauled her back to the couch, then went searching for his wallet and his condom. Maya removed her pants and underwear, then watched as he rolled it on. When he finally climbed on top of her, she tossed the blanket to the floor. They didn’t need it for warmth anymore. He was so beautiful balanced over her. Those eyes. That jaw. She wished she could have him like this all the time. She wrapped her legs around him and smiled.
“Are you ready, Maya?”
“Do it, Tarek.”
He entered her slowly. “You are so beautiful,” he said, going deeper while staring into her eyes. “Oh god, yourface. You feel so good.”
He felt amazing, too. Better than she could ever imagine. Despite their feverish beginning, now they moved slowly. She didn’t want it to end, and it seemed neither did he. Their eyes stayed locked as he moved in her, and Maya actually teared up from the intensity. Before long, he leaned down to kiss her while increasing his pace. When she arched her back, he reached down and rubbed where they were joined, reading her body’s reactions perfectly. That was all she needed. She screamed in ecstasy as the orgasm crashed through her, not holding back one bit. His climax came seconds later, and he shuddered as he clutched her tight and repeated her name like a promise.
They lay in each other’s arms for a while after. He’d pulled the blanket over them, and neither said a word. Maya wasn’t entirely sure she could say words anymore. But her mind was calm. Content. Not cataloging all the things that could go wrong. Not anticipating doom.
