by Anna Antonia
“Not yet.”
Victoria moaned. “But I want you. Now.”
Adrian closed his eyes and sucked her, greedily trying to fit as much of Victoria’s breast into his mouth as he could. Her fingers tangled into his hair and her leg rubbed restlessly against his hip. Adrian held her tightly and switched from one nipple to the other, back and forth, while Victoria cried out his name in a sensual plea.
He eventually licked his way across her ribcage and down her belly. Victoria parted her thighs, obviously eager for what was bound to come next. Adrian wasted no time in teasing her further. He opened her delightful folds and thrust his tongue deep.
She cried out his name. Adrian growled, satisfaction filling him as fast as her honey did. He pushed her thighs open as wide as they could go and held his hands there. Adrian felt her sleek muscles strain against his palms, especially when he centered his lips over her sweet clit.
Victoria pushed herself up on her elbows. Knowing she watched him, made Adrian hurt as his cock hardened further. He looked at her, gaze heated, and sucked her gently before going harder. Adrian pulsed her this way and Victoria’s belly tightened the closer she came to the edge.
He relished in watching every bit of raw emotion cross her face. She pressed the back of her hand against her mouth, as if trying to keep her loud cries contained.
Adrian released her but put one finger on either side of her clit. “Put that hand down, kitten. I want to hear everything. Everything, understand?”
Victoria shook her head.
He said her name in a low, warning purr.
“I can’t.”
“Everything, Victoria.”
Her mouth twisted in a grimace of pained pleasure. “Adrian…”
“Everything.” He didn’t move an inch until she nodded jerkily. He then bent his head back down. Adrian took her between his lips and licked her delicately. It was a test, a way to see if Victoria would do as he needed her to do. She passed beautifully.
“Oh yes…”
He gave her more and she responded louder. It became a game of give and take. Adrian gave Victoria pleasure and he took it for himself with every hitch of her breath and broken cry of his name.
The more pressure he gave on her sweet pearl, the more she gave him in return. Adrian rested his hand on her belly and redoubled his attention on her luscious folds. She whimpered and he could tell she hung on by a ragged thread.
“Don’t hold back, Victoria. Come.”
Her eyes widened and then bliss crashed, taking Victoria over. She yelled his name and then said the words he’d only heard until the very end.
“Oh God, I love you!”
Adrian got on his knees and snatched her up to him. With his hands buried deep in her tousled hair, and belly against her chest, he could feel the violent tremors rocketing through Victoria.
“Say it again!”
Her soft mouth parted. The words breathed into him even as her eyes filled with tears. “I love you.”
Adrian bowed, taking her with him. Distantly, he felt her arms against his back. He wanted her to say it again, to tell him she’d never leave and that he could finally put his obsession to rest.
“I love you, Adrian. Then and now. I’ve never stopped loving you. Never.”
He shuddered. She was his and he was never going to let her go.
Never.
***
Victoria’s heart flew on wings. She confessed her love and not only did he not pull away, Adrian returned it a thousand-fold.
He declared it against her mouth and neck as he pulled her beneath him on the bed. He moaned it into her ear after he unrolled the condom onto his shaft and then carefully slid into her tight sheath.
“I love you, kitten. I love you so much.”
Victoria let out a shaky breath when he was fully seated inside her. Despite have his child, she felt the sting of his possession as she rapidly tried to accommodate Adrian’s girth.
“Am I hurting you?”
She shook her head and linked her arms around his neck. “No. Not even a little.”
“Are you sure?” His hand tightened on her hip. “You’re just so fucking tight, kitten. Tighter than I remember.”
Victoria didn’t want him focusing on the changes childbirth and abstinence had wrought. She arched her hips and groaned, “I need you, Adrian. Please…I want to come again with you deep inside me.”
He smiled wickedly. “As my lady commands.”
Adrian’s first slow thrust was heaven. The time between his first and second was hell. It was too much and not enough. She kissed his chest, neck, and mouth while running her hands all over his wide back. Adrian was so wonderfully masculine and she loved feeling every hard muscle beneath her fingertips.
His hardness melted into her softness and Victoria quickly felt the delicious tremors beginning low in her belly. “God, Adrian, you make me feel so good. I’ve missed being with you so much.”
Adrian kissed her into breathy silence. He snaked his arm beneath her, making a tight seal between their bodies. Hungry and greedy for every bit of carnal sensation, Victoria desperately wound one hand at the nape of his neck and the other around his waist.
He groaned loudly in her ear. “Your pussy is squeezing the life out of me, kitten. Are you about to come?”
“Y-Yes!”
Adrian sat up and pulled her on top of him. His hands roamed across her naked back before he reached down and squeezed Victoria’s backside. “I want to watch you come. You feel so good…don’t stop moving.”
Victoria rolled her hips, feeling every inch of his glorious shaft pushing deeper and deeper inside her. When his lips fastened around Victoria’s nipple, she went crazy. Crying aloud, she dug her blunt nails into his shoulders and churned her hips harder.
Adrian’s deep moans echoed in Victoria’s ears along with her thundering heartbeat. On the edge, she dragged his mouth from her breast to her lips. She kissed him like fire—blisteringly hot and out of control.
He cupped her cheeks and brought his face up to hers. Adrian’s gaze softened. “Beautiful.”
Victoria unraveled. Adrian held her, telling her of his love in a low, passionate whisper before he stiffened beneath Victoria. They collapsed together and held each other, breathing softly in the darkness and finding there were no words except the three most important ones.
“I love you.”
“I love you.”
NINETEEN
They slept for an hour. Adrian woke up with Victoria’s mouth kissing down his ridged belly. She sucked him, alternately fisting and laving his long, thick length with her tongue, until he barely pulled her off in time before rolling her beneath him.
Their lovemaking was familiar and different just as they now were. Adrian took immense pleasure in reacquainting himself with her curvaceous body. His lips burned a path from her luscious mouth all the way down to her tiny toes.
Adrian smiled when Victoria declared it was her time to play. She pushed him onto her back, laughing in delight as he crossed his arms behind his head and wagged his eyebrows.
“What are you going to do to me, kitten?”
“Finishing what you interrupted,” she answered with an arch tone.
“By all means, Ms. Montford.” Adrian then spent the next half-hour in bliss as Victoria teased, sucked, and licked him before finally letting him come in her mouth. He gripped her by the hair and bowed over her as she sucked him dry of every last drop.
When he laid back in sated exhaustion, Victoria crawled up beside him and snuggled against him with a proud smile on her lovely face. He wanted to come all over again when she said, “Yummy!”
Adrian had the pleasure of repeating it after he lifted her onto his face, holding her hips firmly in place as he licked her sweet folds, driving his tongue deep into her over and over again.
Victoria shimmied down his body and took him back into her mouth. It was hell pulling her off to reach into the nightstand, but once he was sheathe
d, Adrian rolled her to her tummy and took her from behind.
It was savage, primal, and thrilling, especially when Victoria rocked back against him, begging for more. Knowing he wasn’t going to last as long as he’d liked, Adrian reached beneath him and rubbed her clit in frantic circles.
Victoria went crazy. She spread her legs wider and ground her pussy against him while arching her hips up to meet his frantic thrusts. Neither of them were in control and it was glorious. Soon their cries spilled together as they fell together on the bed.
“Victoria, I’m not going to let you out of this bed until you can’t walk straight.”
Her delighted peals of laughter rained down on him like rose petals. Adrian hugged her to him, prepared to drift back to sleep, when he felt her try to shift out from under him. His arm tightened, keeping her pinned by his side.
“Where are you going?”
“I’m hungry.”
He sat up. “Hungry?” Adrian bit back a smile when he saw a look of embarrassment flash across her dewy face.
“I didn’t get to eat much today and since I’ve expanded all this energy with you…”
“All right.” Adrian got up and slipped on his pants before finding his shirt. Coming back to the bed, he commanded, “Arms out.” Adrian then dressed Victoria in his shirt, making sure to leave the first buttons open and thoroughly enjoying how sexy and tousled she looked.
“You don’t have to get up. I can get something for myself.”
“Hush. It’s purely selfish. I’m going to feed my woman so I can build up her strength for me later.” Adrian picked her up and walked out of the bedroom and into the kitchen. He loved how easily she fit in his arms and back into his life.
Turning on the lights, Adrian lifted her up onto the kitchen island. “Now you just stay right here and I’m going to…”
Victoria crossed her legs and leaned into his kiss. “Going to what? Kiss me? I think that sounds good.”
“I think you’re right.” His lips feathered across hers. “Mmm, that’s sweet. I want another. And another. And another.”
Victoria laughed and tilted her head back so Adrian could smother her with kisses. “Are you happy?”
“Happier than I’ve been in years, kitten. And you?”
“The same.”
Adrian wrapped his arms around Victoria and pulled her to him. “Kitten, why were we both so stupid?” Victoria’s smile faded. Sadness glittered in her tears. He immediately went to comfort her. “Kitten, I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to make you cry. Forgive me.”
She covered his hand with hers. “There’s nothing to forgive. Adrian, you’ve done nothing for me to forgive. Please believe that.”
Adrian frowned, not liking how he sensed her words meant more than they appeared to on the surface. “Victoria, are you okay?”
She dropped her gaze and nodded. “I am now that I’m with you. I wished that I could make time stop and we could be here for as long as it takes to make everything okay again.”
Adrian didn’t admit to how much her words echoed the ones that repeated over and over again in the secret parts of his heart and soul. He’d always wanted to stop time for Victoria. He didn’t imagine that would ever really change for him.
“No crying,” he ordered gruffly while wiping her tears away with his thumbs. “It will ruin your appetite.”
Victoria let out a watery giggle. “Normally you’d be right. I’m so hungry though that I think I could still stuff my face even if I were crying a river.”
“I can’t have that, kitten. I want you happy while you’re stuffing your face.”
Only after her eyes dried up did Adrian leave her. Reluctantly. He was thankful he at least had the ingredients to make her a sandwich, but unfortunately he didn’t have much else.
Victoria graciously accepted his offering with a sunny smile. Adrian, however, wasn’t satisfied. With an eye on the clock, he mentally ran down the lists of what they should order for take-out.
She protested when he asked her if she wanted Thai, Chinese, or Italian. “This is enough, Adrian. Honest. Besides, it’s not like I can’t afford to drop a few pounds.”
The frown he sent her was enough to kill the self-deprecating smirk on her face. “I’m not even going to dignify that with a response other than I love your curves and I won’t have you badmouthing my tastes.”
“Sorry.”
“Sorry is right.” Adrian took a seat and pulled her on his lap. Snuggling her close with one arm, he whispered in her ear, “Now which one tickles your fancy, kitten? I know these were your favorites once upon a time.”
Victoria slid aside her half-eaten sandwich and peered at the menu. “Chinese.”
“Chinese it is. Do you still want the #9?”
Victoria swiveled her head and looked up at him. “You remembered?”
“Of course.” Adrian couldn’t resist dropping a kiss on her soft lips. “I haven’t forgotten a single thing about you.”
“Oh.”
He laughed, feeling happier than he remembered ever being—especially because he now understand all that he’d had when this darling woman had first crashed into his life.
“Adrian, do you mind ordering for me while I run to the restroom?”
Although he didn’t want to let go of her for even one second, Adrian kissed her shoulder and helped her down. “Don’t take forever.”
“I won’t.” Victoria took several steps before looking back. Adrian didn’t doubt that she’d felt his gaze on her. She blew him a little kiss and then walked out of the kitchen.
You’re getting wrapped up too fast.
He heard the warning but shrugged it off. What was the point of worrying? Victoria seemed just as crazy about him as he was about her, so her leaving would be a punishment to her too.
Adrian tried to believe his thoughts, but after making the call for their food, he found himself pacing the kitchen and watching the clock. When five minutes passed without her return, he began to get antsy. When another two minutes elapsed, Adrian poked his head out into the hallway.
Granted Victoria might need privacy, but the fear that maybe she’d decided to sneak out while he was tied up in the kitchen propelled him into action.
He checked the hallway bath and saw it was empty. He trusted she’d let familiarity dictate her actions and therefore she’d use the master bathroom. Adrian strode into his bedroom. His gaze zeroed in on the Victoria’s rumpled clothes still where they’d left them.
Relief hit Adrian hard. He was about to leave the room when Victoria walked out of the bathroom with her phone in hand. She seemed to see him there.
Feeling uncomfortable that she’d think he was spying on her, when he really wasn’t, Adrian shrugged and went for the blunt truth. “You were taking so long I got worried you snuck out.”
Victoria shook her head. “Sorry. I was just on the phone with Kathy.”
Adrian avoided her gaze, not wanting her to see the suspicion and hurt at the thought that she was talking to her lover back home. It was something he hadn’t asked, hadn’t been brave enough to ask actually.
It had been easier to freeze out the rest of the world and pretend tonight was all that mattered.
“You don’t have to explain to me. It’s none of my business who you were talking to.” Adrian could hear how his voice sounded stiff and distant.
She rushed over to him. “No, it’s true. See?” Victoria showed him the history. Although he tried not to look, the need for her words to be true demanded otherwise. Kathy’s name was the last one dialed.
“Okay. I see.” Adrian ran a hand through his hair, hating the jealousy and insecurity that driven him. “Are you, huh, upset with me for…you know?”
Victoria lunged towards him, wrapping her arms tightly around his waist. She buried her face against his chest and mumbled, “No. Never. I would’ve thought the same thing if it was the other way around.”
Adrian wasted no time in lifting her up. She linked her arms
around his neck and tightened her legs around his waist. “Kitten, I swear I’m going to end up having to put a bell on you until I get over this.”
“I wouldn’t mind that.”
He kissed her sweetly on the mouth before murmuring, “Don’t tempt me.” His large hands squeezed her bare bottom. “We’ve got about thirty minutes before our food is delivered. Do you have an idea of what you’d like to do?”
Victoria smiled.
***
The morning sun barely streamed in through the windows when Victoria woke up. Attuned to her slightest movement, Adrian popped his tousled head. “What?”
Victoria loved hearing his sleep-roughened voice. She reached for his shadowed jaw and stroked it. “I should get up if I want to make it back in time.”
Adrian groaned and plopped his head back down on the feather pillow. “Nope. Too early.” Decree given, he tucked her next to him and promptly fell back asleep.
Victoria laid there for several minutes, hearing the soft sound of his breathing. From what she remembered, Adrian would’ve already been up and working out for almost an hour. Other than the very beginning of their relationship, he never slept in.
Now Victoria never did either. She looked at her wristwatch. Adriana was definitely up and already getting dressed for preschool by now. Sadness settled over her. She missed her daughter terribly and always did whenever they were apart for more than the workday. Lying in bed with Adriana’s father made the ache worse.
As if he sensed her unhappy emotions, Adrian shifted and turned her on her side so he could wrap his arm around her waist and slide his leg between hers. Victoria relished the close contact.
Everything was going to change and maybe this would be the first and last morning she’d have with him. It would be an easy, selfish thing to pretend as she’d done all night that they could be the same people they once were.
But the truth stood before them, even if Adrian had no idea.
“Fine!”
Victoria startled. “What’s wrong?”
“That’s what I want to know. You keep squirming and won’t lay still.” Adrian yawned. “Okay, okay. Let’s get up.”
