Page 140 of Dove
The burn in my chest moved south, and it took my all not to pounce on her and take what I hadn’t yet been given.
I shook my head, causing drops of water to rain down on her.
“No, baby,” I argued, descending to lick a stray droplet of water from her stomach. “That title belongs to you and only you.” She gasped as I bit into the sweet softness of her belly. “No one else.”
“Ibelong to you,” she whispered vehemently, threading her hands into my hair, holding me close.
I shuddered at her words. This girl was bound to ruin me, but I could only focus on one thing right now.
Pleasing my girl.
Dove
Josh’s tongue was dangerous.
It had my heart pounding and my blood turning into molten lava.
It had me saying things I normally would keep locked deep inside.
Things like, “I belong to you.”
Those words had been secretly tattooed on my heart for so long, it was hard to believe they were out into the world for Josh to hear. I’d been his since before I realized it. Since he’d coaxed me out of that car with a parade of kittens and then let me keep one.
He’d given me a cat; I’d given him my heart.
Even if I hadn’t known it at the time.
He bit at the flesh of my stomach, looking up at me with that devilish grin of his, and every moment I’d hopelessly longed for his return was soothed. Every wish I’d spoken into the star-filled sky was answered. Having him look at me so lovingly erased the three years I’d spent desperately longing for him, missing him to the point of physical pain.
But now that hewashere, Iachedfor him.
Tightening the fingers I’d weaved into his hair, I pulled him up to me, taking what I could have had for three long years if things might have gone differently.
My lips claimed his fiercely, my tongue swiping over his bottom lip with urgency. Because thiswasurgent; if I didn’t have Josh now, I was afraid he might slip through my fingers like fine grains of sand and disappear again. The deep groan that escaped him had me clenching against the ache in my core, fueling me to go farther, urging me to crawl into this boy and never leave, so he couldn’t leaveme.
I’d carve a space out for myself in his heart and become a permanent fixture.
“Fuck,” he cursed gravelly.
I nipped at his bottom lip in reply, raking my nails through his hair until they reached the base of his neck, where I cupped my palms around his neck and pulled him closer, tilting my head so our lips slotted together perfectly. My thumbs pressed against his pulse points, which fluttered wildly under the jut of his jaw.
Our exchange from all those weeks ago echoed in my head.
“Tell me you want me to.”
“To what?”
“Ruin you.”
He may have ruined me for anyone else the moment his lips touched mine, but I wanted to ruin him right back. No one made me feel the things Josh did; a desperate, pulsing need combined with an uncontrollable craving that wouldn’t be sated until I’d finally had him, and he’d finally hadme.
I slipped my leg over his hip to gain leverage and rocked up, moaning as the thick length of him rubbed against my clit. A too brief shock of pleasure raced through me, and I tightened myself around him, needing every inch of Josh pressed against me.In me.
“Baby,shit, wait,” he panted, his breath coming out haggard along my cheek as he broke our kiss. As if he hadn’t spoken, I continued to grind against him, feeling him twitch along the crease of my thigh. “Dove.”
“I want you.”More than I want anything in this world.“I needyou.”More than I need my next breath.
His hands found my shoulders and pinned me down. Distance grew between us, but my lower half was still imitating an octopus, my legs clamping tighter around his waist in the hopes of gaining more of that delicious friction. Josh looked wrecked as his broad chest heaved and his brown eyes shuttered, giving way to darkness, like it was taking his all to stop.
