The sound of her moans as he suckled and massaged her breasts had his dick rock hard. He rocked against her, lifting his hips to press himself against the apex of her thighs, still covered by the pink cotton panties he’d spotted earlier. They weren’t sexy and lacy, but something about them made his blood heat and fucked with his mind a bit.
Jesus, he wanted her. Had to remind himself to keep going slow. He slid a hand between her thighs, to rub her gently through the cotton, and the warm dampness of her arousal greeted his fingers.
He tugged the cotton to the side so he could graze his knuckles over her slit.
“You like that? You’re so wet for me.”
Kate made a mew of pleasure and her head fell back, revealing the creamy length of her neck and lifting her breasts higher.
So fucking sexy. How could anyone not find this woman an absolute goddess?
Todd curled one finger into her heat, sinking just to the first knuckle to test her readiness. Her hot sheath clenched around him, coating him with her slippery arousal.
“Love the way you feel,” he murmured and licked the pulse beating like a butterfly’s wings in her neck.
Kate’s breasts rose with the unsteady breath she drew in, and her body squeezed around his finger. He slipped another finger into her, working in and out of her tightness.
“I want you nice and ready for me. I promise it won’t hurt a bit when you take my cock this time, doll.”
“Todd,” she whispered, running her tongue over her lips as she stared down at him with pleasure-drugged eyes. “Please don’t stop.”
Her plea and the expression of blatant need on her face sent a wave of possessiveness through him.
Stop? Hell, they were just getting started. He brought his thumb up to her clit and flicked it, watching the sparks of ecstasy flicker in her pretty blue eyes.
“Lovely,” he murmured and then lowered his head to her breast again, sucking her nipple while he fingered her tight little pussy.
She gripped his shoulders and rode his hand, her moans growing louder and more abandoned. And then she gasped, the walls of her sex clenching and unclenching around him as she came.
Christ, she was so responsive. To every little touch and kiss. Which made him only want to please her more, to bring her to another climax.
Todd eased her off his lap and onto the cushions of the couch. She seemed oblivious as her body continued to tremble. He peeled her skirt and panties from her body, leaving her completely naked.
Her gaze once again became lucid as she watched him. Her cheeks were flushed and she licked her lips, looking both a bit seductive and uncertain.
Todd gave her a reassuring smile and sank to his knees on the floor. When he gently eased her legs open, her eyes widened.
“I want you to watch me go down on you, Kate,” he murmured and slid his hands beneath her ass to slide her forward. “Watch what the taste of you does to me.”
She let out a low groan as he lowered his head to the pretty pink folds of her pussy, still shiny from her release.
He licked around her swollen labia, lapping up her juices, before delving his tongue into her channel. Her hips lifted from the couch and she cried out, so he slid his hands up to cup her hips and hold her still.
God, this was heaven. The taste of her, musky and sweet, so slick on his tongue. And when she started those sexy little cries, he knew she would come hard again.
He flicked his tongue over her clit, nimble and light, before moving back to bury his tongue deep inside her sheath. Making love to her with his mouth.
Lifting his gaze, he watched her expression. Saw the heavy slant of her eyelids and the way her sultry mouth was parted to allow the soft pants she made.
His blood quickened and he groaned, burying his face deeper against her. Kissing and playing with her pussy until Kate was sobbing and crying out his name.
Triumph surged through him when she came again, knowing that she was here with him. Letting him go down on her, make love to her, instead of being at dinner with that schmuck Walt.
And then she screamed his name, her thighs tightening around his ears and her fingers tugging in his hair. He smoothed his hands down Kate’s thighs as he eased her through the release, loving the taste of her that slid over his tongue.
When she went slack and her fingers slid from his hair, he lifted his head. Her eyes were closed and her breasts rose and fell with each erratic breath she drew in.
Lovely.
Todd brushed the trimmed curls around her mound and placed another kiss on her swollen clit. She jumped and hissed, before letting out a soft moan.
A smile crossed his face as he kissed his way back up her body to claim her mouth again, letting her taste herself on his tongue.
Her arms wound around his neck and she kissed him back fiercely, making soft noises in the back of her throat that had his cock jerking against his jeans.
Todd lifted his head and issued a ragged, “I need you, Kate.”
“Yes,” she whispered and parted her thighs further so he slid between them. “I want you inside me.”
He gave a slow smile and moved off her. “Let me grab a condom. And I’ll be right back. I want to show you a new way to do this.”
A new way? Kate’s pulse fluttered again and she ran her tongue over her mouth. She stretched her muscles, which were languid and well used from her climax. Or two climaxes.
God, they had been so powerful. So beautifully intense.
She watched as Todd reentered the room, a silver packet in his hand and still fully dressed. But he set the condom on the couch, so easily, like he’d done this a hundred times before, and peeled off his shirt.
A prick of jealousy stabbed in her chest as she admired his defined, muscled torso. She knew better though, than to let the emotion take any large hold of her. Todd was Todd. He made no pretenses about being the stable, one-woman kind of man. And for tonight—and however many nights she let him make love to her—she’d just have to remember that.
When his jeans hit the floor and his boxers followed, her mouth dried at the sight of his thick, long cock straining in the air.
“I want to taste you.” The words were out before she could rethink them. “To please you. Like you did for me, Todd.”
He stilled in his movements to open the condom, his gaze darkening.
“You ever done that before, doll?”
Her cheeks heated and she knew he read her inexperience without her confirmation.
“How hard can it be?” she said huskily.
A slow smile slid across his face, before he moved directly in front of her.
He closed his hand around his cock and murmured, “Oh, Kate, it can be pretty damn hard.”
Kate’s stomach flipped as a shiver of anticipation ran through her. Raising an eyebrow, she nudged his hand aside and replaced it with her own.
Todd’s let out a hiss as she moved her fingers up and down the hot steely length of him. So hard and yet silky soft on the outside.
Leaning forward, her hair falling in a curtain around her face, she let her tongue flick out over his swollen head. Todd groaned in response and she watched the muscles in his thighs tighten.
Her pulse quickened and she repeated the gesture, before curling her tongue around his girth and then sliding down his length.
“Take me in your mouth,” he pleaded, threading his fingers into her hair.
Swallowing the tiny bit of nerves, she parted her lips and let him slide into her mouth. He tasted clean and just a tiny bit salty. So potently male it had the flesh between her legs dampening again.
“Oh, God,” he muttered thickly. “Yes, just like that.”
A thrill of power raced through her as she moved her mouth up and down his length.
“Ah—watch the teeth, doll,” he hissed. “Wrap your lips around them—oh God, yeah, you’re amazing at this.”
Kate let her eyes flutter closed as she found her own rhythm, using her tongue and letting him slid
e deep. But he never went too deep.
Then, just when she was starting to really get into it, he pulled away. Her eyes fluttered open in surprise.
“Todd?”
“I want to be inside you, Kate.” He brushed his thumb over her bottom lip. “We can go for the full effect another time, and I’ll come in that sweet mouth of yours. But for now I need you.”
He moved onto the couch and sat down, then reached for her, pulling her astride his lap again as they’d been earlier. She straddled him and watched as he quickly placed the condom on his erection.
“I want you to ride me this time,” he said softly, settling his hands on her hips. “See how you like this position.”
Kate nibbled her lip, her cheeks flushing. Ride him. Oh how casually he could make the suggestion. But he was an excellent teacher, clasping her hips in his large hands and easing her down onto his cock.
She caught her breath as he stretched her, filled her, and only when he was buried to the hilt did she let out her throaty moan. A tremble racked her body and she refused to move for a moment, just leaned forward and pressed her face against his shoulder.
“Jesus, Kate, you feel incredible,” he choked out and then pressed a kiss against her forehead. “Take your time. This is all you, doll.”
She bit her lip and squeezed her inner muscles around him, just to see how he’d react. The groan he let out and the way his fingers tightened on her hips showed he approved.
Drawing in a slow breath, she began to rock back and forth on him. Small, gentle movements that helped her become used to him inside her, until it wasn’t enough and she wanted more.
She experimented with moving hard and fast, slow and gentle. Lifting up and down. Following the sounds of Todd’s groans as a guide and the way her own body responded. It didn’t matter, though. No matter what she did the sensation was pretty much fantastic.
And then Todd slid his hands down to her ass and he cupped her hard as he began to thrust up into her, stealing the control he’d promised without apology. She gave it over without a fight, grateful to just cling to his shoulders and feel. Be thoroughly taken.
The hot, out-of-control sensation grew low in her belly again, spreading throughout her body and swirling in her mind. It was so intense tears filled her eyes as she dug her nails into Todd’s shoulders, her moans mingling with his.
Even without him directly touching her clit, she was so close to coming because of the angle. She ground down on him, pressing just the right spot, and sent herself into another orgasm.
Todd pounded up into her, again and again as she trembled through her climax. Then he let out a cry, holding still, before making a couple shallow thrusts and finally staying deep.
“Oh God,” she whispered raggedly, blinking away the tears. She sensed Todd had also experienced the power and emotional impact behind what had just happened between them.
She tried to lighten the thickness in the air, by saying, “I’m not going to be able to walk for days.”
Todd gave an unsteady laugh. “Staying in bed could be fun.”
“Except you need to work tomorrow and so do I.”
He lifted his head and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. “Stay the night anyway. We can get up early.”
Her heart skipped a beat and she glanced down, running her tongue over her lips. Stay another night in bed with Todd. There might even be cuddling—which would make it really hard to remember she was only supposed to be thinking about sex here.
“Please, Kate.”
With his soft plea, she gave a small nod. She didn’t really want to go home anyway.
“Great.” And then he stood up, to her shock, and wrapped her legs around his waist as he moved them to the bedroom.
It was sexy as hell, but she was really hoping he didn’t throw his back out carrying her. Fireman, Kate, he works out.
And when she was cuddled up next to him awhile later, falling asleep, she could admit that these two weeks would be worth the risk to her heart.
Chapter Twelve
Friday came and Todd was itching to get off work and see Kate. She’d been at his house every night this week. It was like the time they spent apart nursed a lit fuse, and when they came together the need and passion just exploded.
When neither worked, they spent every moment together. And when one of them was working, he couldn’t stop thinking about her. He was pretty sure Kate felt the same by the sweet or sexy text messages she’d send him.
It had never been like this. Where a week into being with a woman, he still had no desire to run. Well, he couldn’t say never. Once before.
But Kate was different. There was no urge to move on. Sexually she was amazing. Always so excited to try new things in bed, and it blew his mind with the trust she placed in him. Her eagerness and innocence so completely refreshing.
It wasn’t exactly a relationship, but…it went beyond sex, he thought as he drove home from the fire station. Yes, they were good in bed. But they were good out of it too. They’d spent time outside the house, bundled up in their winter coats and walking the beach. Going to dinner, not caring who saw them. And he knew people saw them and were talking. But it didn’t matter. This was between him and Kate, and to hell with whoever had a problem with it. Including his brothers…
Tonight Todd was already planning on charming her with a cedar-planked salmon and wild rice dinner, maybe an action movie after, followed by a little action of their own. It didn’t really matter what they did, he loved every minute he spent with Kate.
Before he could swing by Kate’s shop though, a text came in from Tyson. Todd checked it and scowled. His brother had asked him to drop by for a few minutes to talk about the attacks on Kate’s bakery.
Todd hesitated, but since he was about twenty minutes early picking up Kate, he made the turn toward his brother’s house.
He parked his truck a few minutes later in his brother’s driveway and climbed out. The door swung open on the second knock.
“Come on in,” Tyson drawled. “Can I get you a beer?”
“Thanks, but I’m meeting Kate—”
“Have a beer, Todd. I called Kate and let her know you’d be late.”
Todd’s jaw flexed. “You don’t say.”
Tyson gave a hard smile. “It’s been a week, Todd. Shouldn’t you be moving on to the next vagina by now?”
Instinct had Todd’s fist flying, and Tyson just barely blocked the punch to the face. In the next instant Todd found himself pinned against the wall, his older brother glowering at him. The verbal attack had thrown him off guard, but he shouldn’t have been surprised.
“Ah, now you know violence isn’t the answer, little brother,” Tyson teased. Then his tone hardened, “Look, I don’t know if your male-whore stage is because of Anne, but you need to let that shit go. You can’t hurt Kate like this.”
“Fuck you,” Todd growled and threw his brother off him easily. Heat stole up his neck as Tyson’s works sunk in.
As an unspoken rule they didn’t talk about Anne. Had barely discussed it all those years ago, and now here Tyson was resurrecting it in his face.
Todd turned and headed for the door. “I’m outta here.”
“Hang on,” Tyson said placidly. “I’ve said my piece about Kate, and I’ll back off now. But I really did want to talk to you about the attacks on her shop.”
His anger faded, instead tension swept through Todd’s body and he paused, before turning to face his brother again. He’d been ready to walk out, but this had to do with Kate’s safety and that was his top priority.
“And? You find out who’s doing it?”
“No. Penny might be a crotchety chick with a grudge toward Kate’s shop, but she seems to have an alibi for all the events.”
Todd drew in a slow breath and shook his head. His conversation earlier in the week with Kate flitted through his head. “And what about Andrew Lewis?”
Tyson cocked his head and stroked his jaw. “The guy she dated i
n high school?”
Dated? Hah. The scumbag had been using her to win a bet. Todd’s lips curled with derision. “Yeah.”
“Hmm. I can check into it, but he’s kept a pretty low profile lately. Keeps to himself and runs the garage.”
“Do that.” Todd nodded and narrowed his gaze. “And while you’re at it, why don’t you do some digging into Walt Chapman too.”
Tyson folded his arms across his chest and smiled. “Looking for a reason to rule out the competition, Todd?”
“What competition? Kate would pick me over any guy hands down.”
The smile faded from his brother’s face. “And you don’t see a problem with that? Kate loving the one man who will never want more than a brief fling?”
His chest tightening, Todd said firmly, “She doesn’t love me.”
“Doesn’t she?”
Holding his brother’s hard stare, and hoping like hell Tyson was wrong, Todd gave a small shake of his head.
“Kate’s not stupid. Virgin or not, she knew exactly what she was getting when she seduced me.”
Disappointment flickered across Tyson’s face, before he looked away and shoved his hands into his jeans. “I hope you’re right, Todd. I really do.”
Todd tried not to show the wave of unease that swept through him.
He hoped he was right too.
Kate finished prepping the dough for tomorrow’s danishes and slid it into the fridge. After checking her watch, assuring herself she had at least another ten minutes before Todd arrived, she went to the bathroom for some primping.
A little perfume, lip gloss and she was about as good as she would get.
Pulse racing, Kate stepped out of the bathroom, then yelped in surprise.
“Sorry,” Walt said quickly. “I didn’t mean to startle you. The door was open and I came in.”
Right. She’d left the door open for Todd.
“Oh right,” she said a bit lamely. What was he doing here? She’d…oh, God. Dinner. It had been kind of routine for the past few months. They’d been doing dinner on Fridays.
Shoot. She really should’ve called him and let him know things were definitely off…though shouldn’t he have figured it out by now? It wasn’t a hardly a secret about her and Todd.
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