My stomach quivered, because I knew what would happen if I went inside that room with him. “Okay.” I started the engine and left the bar’s parking lot, careful to keep all my focus on the road. The ride back to his motel took a ridiculously short amount of time. My hands sweated on the steering wheel as I pulled into a parking space. I snapped the keys out of the ignition and turned to reach for my duffelinback.
But Axel stopped me with a hand on mythigh. “Cax?”
“Hmm?” I breathed, suddenly all too aware of how close he was to me, and where we were. At a freakingmotel.
He gave my leg a squeeze, and I almost died from yearning. “I need to know what to expect. Before we go into that room, you need to tell me if we’re hooking up or not. If you just need a place to crash, I’m fine with that. But don’t make me guess yourthoughts.”
I let out an achy breath. But I didn’t say a word. Instead, I put my hand over his andsqueezed.
Axel flipped his hand over to grasp mine. His thumb caressed my palm, andholy hell. I had no idea there were so many nerve endings in my hand. “I still need to hear you say it,” he whispered. “You’re not so easytoread.”
“I want to,” Iwhispered.
“You want to what?” he returned. “If you can’t say it, we shouldn’t do it. I care about you, Cax. You make me crazy, but I don’t want to get thiswrong.”
Oh, the agony. He wasn’t going to let me be my usual chicken-shit self. I took a deep breath. “I want tohookup.”
“Are you going to regret it later?” Axel askedgently.
“No.” I gave my head a firm shake. “I’ve always wanted you. And this might be our onlychance.”
He picked up my hand and brought it up to his mouth. The kiss he planted on my palm was gentle and arousing all at once. “Then let’s go,” hewhispered.
I grabbed my duffel and got out of that car faster than you can say “desperate.”
He didn’t make me wait. As soon as he got the door open, we ducked inside. He kicked the door shut and then pushed me up against it. My duffel fell to the carpet as Axel’s hard body lined up to mine, and his kiss found my mouth inthedark.
Warm, firm lips caressed me. I opened for him, ready to taste him on my tongue. He moaned against my mouth, and then met me in a wild kiss. Jesus, I was on fire. And so was he. Ten seconds in, we were making out like porn stars, his hips pinning mine to the door. I wasn’t the only one who was hard inside my jeans. I was trapped between two hard objects and I freaking loved it. There were no decisions to make. My only choice was to lean in and enjoy him. Every stroke of his tongue convinced me that I’d made therightcall.
A strong hand cupped my jaw, tilting my head for a better angle. “Been waiting…” he said between kisses. “…my whole life to get younaked.”
“You don’t have to wait anymore.” It wasn’t the most original line, but I liked delivering it. Just for tonight I could be that guy—the one who drinks at a gay bar and has sex in ahotelroom.
And with Axel Armitage, who I’d wanted mywholelife.
The next kiss was so hot that I felt my balls tighten. Jesus Christ, I could come in my jeans just from making out like this. I turned my head, breaking the kiss so that I could calm down for a second. Eager hands worked open the buttons of my shirt. I took a few deep breaths and let him do allthework.
I rested my shaking hands on his hips. The feel of his solid body made me want to shout with excitement. I could hardly believe that I was really here, and we were going to get busy. I dug my fingers into the fabric of his shirt, and tugged it out of his jeans. Then, in a move that felt impossibly bold, but I put a hand under his shirt to palm his firm stomach.Yesss. These were the abs that had tortured me from beneath his tight-fitting T-shirt in the gym the other day. The ridges of muscle beneath his smooth skin felt every bit as good as I’dimagined.
Axel popped the button on my jeans, and my heart skipped a beat or four. I was a cocktail of fear and excitement. With shaking hands, I reached down and undid his belt, while Axel unbuttoned his own shirt. “What do you like?” heaskedme.
I’d never lived one of my fantasies before. I didn’t answer his question, because I likedeverythingthat was happening here. With his belt out of the way, I unzipped his jeans. A whimper may or may not have escaped my lips as my fingertips brushed the hard cock straining against hisunderwear.
Axel kicked off his shoes and jeans in a flash. Then he grabbed my hand and pulled me through the darkened room until we both scrambled onto a bed. He tried to yank off my jeans, but it took a second until I worked out that I needed to help him. When they were gone, I threw my socks overboard. That left me in an unbuttoned shirt and boxerbriefs.
By the time Axel rolled on top of me a few seconds later, he was gloriously naked. I wrapped my arms around him and squeezed. My hands took a trip down his bare back, gliding over miles of warm skin, coasting onto his bare, muscular ass… I shuddered fromexcitement.
He kissed me once. Twice. “Caxy, talk to me. I have supplies if you want to fuck. I’m verse, but it’s been a long time since I bottomed. You’ll have to warm me up if we’redoingthat.”
I groaned. The idea of fucking Axel was almosttoomuch.
He kissed me again. “Is that whatyouwant?”
Probably not, actually. Because I didn’t have any experience, except for watching porn. And I’ddieif I did it wrong and hurt him. “I’m too impatient,” I said, and that was one hundred percent true. If he kept kissing me and grinding on me, I was going to burst before this conversationwasover.
He chuckled. “Me too, honestly. I just want to make you come.” As he said it, he slipped a hand down the front of my briefs and grabbed my dick. My bellow echoed off the walls. “Fuck, you’re so hard.” He squeezed the base of my dick. “Don’t come yet,though.”
“Easy for youtosay.”