Page 74 of Pipe Dreams
“Lo,” he groaned, his hips driving forward. He took her mouth in another hungry kiss.
Pinned to the bed like a butterfly to a board, she let out a husky moan. This was the stuff of her fantasies. It was reckless and unexpected, and that made it even sweeter. Skin to skin, each new sensation was bright and overwhelming.
Above her, he made the soul-deep sounds of a man in love. She sensed a third presence in the room—there was Mike and Lauren, and also their union. Their closeness was back, gasping to life, shimmying between them.
It wasn’t long before she felt her joy building again. Breaking off their kiss, she jammed her face against his neck and cried out.
“Baby,yes,” he groaned. Then, with a shout, he planted himself one more time.
When his body relaxed against hers a moment later, nobody spoke. Theirs was a sweet silence, broken only by the sound of their mingled panting.
“See?” he croaked.
She did see. Even if she was still too blissed out to articulate it, she knew what he meant. What they’d just done wasn’t a spark of recklessness, but a force of nature. Like gravity. You could leap away from it, but it always pulled you back.
Their connection was still there, even if it had lain dormant a long time. Lauren had watched people search their whole lives for the One, and hers was currently on top of her. She wasn’t going to argue with him. Yet she mightteasehim. “You’re smug, aren’t you?”
“Only about a few things.”
“Which are...?”
“I’m good at keeping a six ounce hunk of rubber out of the net. I have a smart kid. And I can make you into a needy puddle of a girl just by chewing on your neck.” She shivered without meaning to, and he chuckled. “See?” He dipped down to kiss her collarbone again, and he gave his hips one more slow pump. “Christ, Lo,” he added eventually. “That was probably good for triplets. Or twins, at least.”
Triplets? “Bite your tongue.”
He laughed, but she wasn’t ready to think about the consequences. Later, when she was alone, there would be time to panic about the future, and whether they could work things out for good.
He chuckled into her hair. “I’m all in. Literally.”
“I noticed that,” she muttered. They were still joined, and she gave him a little shove to get off her.
But he caught her hands and kissed her again. “You can’t get rid of me so easily.”
Given what they’d just done, he might turn out to be right.
“Don’t panic, honey,” he whispered. “It’s going to be okay.”
Was it? “Youpanicked once,” she reminded him. “That was fun.”
He kissed her nose. “Fair enough. But I learned my lesson.”
“Let me up, okay?”
With a sexy groan, he removed himself from her body, and she padded into the bathroom for a little cleanup. When she emerged a couple of minutes later, he was still lounging in her bed. “Come here,” he demanded.
She sat on the edge of the bed, trying to wrap her headaround what had happened here tonight. The results were potentially life-changing.
Mike tugged her hand until she turned to face him. “I know you’re a thinker, Lo. It’s one of the things I love about you.” He pulled her down onto his spectacular body. “But don’t think yourself into a freak-out. Tonight you made me the happiest man in Florida. So get down here and kiss me.”
“I’m not freaking out,” she insisted. She curled one hand around his scruffy jaw and kissed him to prove it. “Don’t you have to go back to your own room? Is Elsa there alone?”
He grinned. “I should get back before she wakes in the morning. But she’s in a room that adjoins Hans and Justin’s.” He dropped a row of kisses along her jawline. “We have a few more hours. I can set my alarm for early in the morning...”
She wrapped her arms around him and accepted his kisses. There was no way to worry about the future when she had the love of her life in her arms, his hard body pressed against her own. It was late now, but neither of them was sleepy. They kissed until their lips were swollen, and his erection was a hot brand against her belly again.
He dipped his head and caught her breast in his mouth. As he sucked, she felt her body calling to him again. He released her breast with a wet pop and went to work on the other side. “If you get pregnant,” he said between kisses, “these will get all firm and heavy.” Then he ran a hand down her belly. “You’ll get round right here. I’ll have to lay you on your side and do you from behind.”
She moaned and squeezed her legs together against the slickness she felt there.
