Page 57 of Steal Me (Rebel Hearts Heists 1)
Chapter 20
On The Brink
Kaden
I wake up surrounded by her subtle floral scent. Her soft body is molded against mine, her head is nestled in the crook of my neck and for a second I don’t even breathe, trying not to break the spell, enjoying the feeling of Sloane abandoned in my arms.
I’ve been in love once before, my senior year of high school. It’s really as cliché as a story can get: I was the football team’s starting quarterback and she was the cheerleader captain.
She was my first and no definition was more appropriate than ‘high school sweetheart’. Heather and I did everything together, I really thought that we’d get married. And I did ask her on Prom night and when she said yes and she agreed to my plan, I thought that I had my life mapped out.
I had already decided to enlist in the army: it was the only way for me to afford college and support my mother and brothers at the same time. A football scholarship would have taken care of me but would have left my family without the paycheck I brought home from my part-time job and unable to afford even the basic necessities. Life had been hard since my dad had been killed during a bank robbery and my mom had done everything in her power to keep us above water but without my help, she would’ve lost the tiny apartment we had to move into after we lost the house shortly after Dad’s death. There was supposed to be life insurance but the fact that that day Dad wasn’t wearing his kevlar for some reason, caused the insurance company to refuse to pay the hefty lump sum citing negligence on my Dad’s part.
So I took responsibility for my family and the only way to do that was to enlist in the Army and use my G.I. bill to go to school part time.
Heather and I had decided to elope after boot camp graduation but it never really happened. Our relationship didn’t even survive the ten weeks of basic training. When I came home on leave as Private Vance, ready to drive to Vegas, Heather explained that she didn’t want to move away from Chino and follow me to my first duty station in Fort Bragg. She had met someone else and had been waiting to tell me in person.
My heart was shattered and after that, I never really bothered with relationships, life as a soldier first and as an FBI agent after, didn’t make relationships easy to maintain, that’s for sure. Hookups? Sure, I had plenty of those but I had been guarding my heart. Even when I wanted to ask Sloane out, I hadn’t thought beyond asking her out on a date.
And now … here we are. I look down at the beautiful woman in my arms and my lips open up in an easy smile when I find myself staring into her huge jade green eyes.
My heart starts beating faster in my chest and all I want is to keep her close, to see her smile, to kiss her.
Fuck me, I’ve got it really bad. I know I’m falling for her harder and faster than is prudent, especially since I can’t tell her who I really am. Not yet, definitely not until I’ve heard from Walker. And there’s also the complication that Sloane seems to care for them as much as she does for me.
“Hey, good morning.” She rubs her smooth, naked leg against mine and I feel my body responding immediately when my cock goes from morning wood to a raging hard on, throbbing with my need to feel at least her hands on it.
But I take a deep breath and smile back. “Morning, baby.”
She’s so fucking beautiful that I can’t keep my hands to myself and I lift the hem of the t-shirt she’s wearing and start tracing the delicate skin of her rib cage, traveling up, towards her tits without breaking eye contact.
I’m trying to go slow, to give her the opportunity to turn me down if she feels hungover but her lips attack mine immediately as she jumps on top of me, taking her t-shirt off.
“Goddam, you’re so fucking beautiful,” I growl when she pushes her chest closer to my face and noticing that her nipples are hardening even before I begin circling one with the tip of my tongue.
She moans, closing her eyes and throwing her head back when I take the now hard nipple into my mouth and I begin to suck on it and then graze it with my teeth. Things begin to spin out of control when she straddles me and rolls her hips against mine, rubbing herself against me and making my cock twitch as a rush of hot sensation travels down my spine and all the way to my balls, tightening everything down there to the point that if I can’t be inside of her, I might pass out.
“Baby, I—”
She grinds against me again and I’m really hanging onto a hair thin thread of self-control, ready to take her but I try to be responsible and fumble with my hand, trying to open the drawer of my nightstand where I know I have some condoms.
When she realizes what I’m looking for, she smiles and tells me that she started the pill a week ago. “We don’t need a condom, unless you really want to use one.”
Must be the best words I’ve ever heard and I totally lose it: I don’t even bother sliding her panties off her hips, I push the silky fabric aside and I bury myself inside of her with one single thrust, not stopping until I’m completely surrounded by her wet heat.
“Oh, fuck!”
I growl when she tightens her muscles around my hard shaft and I feel a gush of wetness coat me and the sleek, velvety skin of her walls close in on me, encasing me in the hottest, tightest embrace I’ve ever felt. She begins moving up and down my hard length, rolling her hips every time she sinks down, her eyes fixed onto mine and her hands flat against my chest to keep her balance.
For a couple of minutes I’m completely still, letting her find her own rhythm, enjoying the show of her sexy tits bouncing when she moves on top of me. She’s so fucking hot that I never want this to end but after a particularly strong squeeze of her tight muscles around me, I can’t help it but thrust my hips upward, meeting her movements with my own and making her gasp in surprise when I surge deeper and deeper inside of her.
“Oh my God, Kades, don’t stop.”
We keep moving together, gazes locked, completely lost in each other and chasing the pleasure that’s building up quickly with every thrust.
I feel her inner walls beginning to tighten around me even more and I know she’s almost there, so I take one of my hands away from her hips and brush the tip of my fingers against her center, making her tip her head back as she comes with the sexiest moan ever, pulsing around me and leaving me no choice but to let go too.
I feel myself twitch inside of her as I spill every drop of my release with my eyes still fixed onto hers.
