If Only: McKenzie Cousins Book 5
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“That woman needs to be put in her place.”
“I did earlier.” He takes my hand and ushers me upstairs. “I’ll run you a bath while I change the bed, and then I’m going to hold you all night.” He shudders against me. “Whenever you leave in future, I’m coming with you.”
“You’ve no idea how much I love that idea.” I grin, trying not to shiver.
“Bath,” Derek mutters in response.
My fingers are numb and stiff as I try to remove my clothing and Derek noticing my predicament slowly helps peel them away. He’s already stripped down to only his jeans, so having him on display for my eyes only, warms my body in ways the bath can’t. As my eyes won’t leave him, I notice the large erection he’s trying to discreetly rearrange, and I smirk. “I think you should join me in the tub.”
He groans. “Don’t tempt me.”
“Why not?”
“Madison,” he takes my face between his warm hands, “I love you, and getting a hard-on while I’m trying to take care of you isn’t my intention right now.”
“You and that hard-on need to be against me in the tub.” I become serious, wrapping my arms around his neck. He grabs my bottom as I wrap my legs around his waist. “I want and need to have your arms around me, and I don’t ever want you to be annoyed with yourself for getting hard around me, even if I’m shivering with cold, or just plain sick. I love that I do that to you.” I rest my forehead against his. “Carry me into the tub. I’m cold but your warmth is working its way through me.”
He sits me on the vanity while he removes his jeans and briefs, my eyes fluttering with awareness when they land on the tightly swollen erection.
“Oh,” I mumble. “I want you inside me.”
I hold his gaze and sigh when I’m completely wrapped around him as he lowers us both into the large tub with me straddling his lap while my breasts press into his chest. “Having you naked and close is certainly warming me through.” I moan against his chest, and feeling wicked, I stick my tongue out and lap at one of his nipples.
He moans and presses my hips firmly against the pulsing hardness, rubbing between my legs. I sit up and move back so that I can see his erection bob in the water. So rigid and long with need.
Derek swallows hard, his hands clenching into fists when I wrap my hands around him, guiding him to my entrance, and then I’m pushing down. He slides in easily, his hands now gripping my hips. I intertwine my fingers with his on my body and move seductively on him.
Our breaths become uneven while Derek lets me control the speed of my rocking, which is slow and sensual. “You feel too good inside of me, I don’t want the pleasure to stop.”
“I’m barely holding on.”
On every downward slide my bundle of nerves rub against Derek, making me wetter, and bringing me closer to release.
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Derek
It’s difficult to breathe with Madison all over me; her nipples grazing my chest, my cock hard and throbbing for release inside the tight sheath. I’m in pleasure overload and I’m finding it difficult to remember she needs to get warm. She needs to be looked after.
The slow slide downwards causes my hands to tremble on her hips, and when she takes every bit of my shaft into her warm pulsating body, and grinds down, rubbing her pussy on me, I know I’m about to lose it. I can’t hold on much longer.
Then I get the most glorious sight of my woman as she throws her head back, arching upwards, and orgasms. I gasp and grunt with the feel of her contracting around my achingly aroused flesh, sucking and milking my release out of me. My body quivers with the power of my release.
Panting harshly, I rest back against the tub and hold Madison tightly in my arms when she gives in to exhaustion and collapses on me.
“I’m warm now.” Her eyes find mine and a hand reaches up to caress my face. “I missed you, and I’m so sorry I let her get to me.”
“You don’t need to apologize. I get it okay. And in the end, you trusted me, and came back to where I waited.” I kiss her soundly on the lips. “I love you.” I smack her on the bottom. “Don’t ever forget it.”
“Hmm,” she rocks forward, “I won’t.” Her hips slowly rock and tease my cock into getting hard as steel again, but this time I can’t give her slow.
“I need hard and fast, baby.” I grab her tightly around her hips and hold her steady while I climb from the tub.
Her bottom lands on the large vanity and with a gentle nudge she lays back, tightening her sweet little pussy around my shaft.
“Oh,” she moans, arching upwards, squeezing me even harder. “I could come just like this.”
My hands reach up and cup her beautiful breasts, my thumbs pressing and rubbing her hard nipples. The reaction I feel against my hard flesh as she tries to get me moving.
Not one for disappointing a lady, I hold her legs open wide and slowly pull out, watching as my dick appears coated in her release and excitement. I push in through the tight quivering walls of her core before I start thrusting—harder—faster, until I can’t think straight and only feel. I bend and capture a large breast in my mouth and suckle hard.
Madison flies apart, tugging my release from somewhere deep. I push and hold to the hilt, grinding, trying to get even deeper as the top of my head blows off. Having her pulsing in pleasure on my cock is exciting and draws the pleasure out for me until I’m exhausted with my head resting on her breasts. “I can’t breathe.”
She chuckles, and I groan when small after pulses flutter along my length, currently hardening again.
“You’re insatiable.” She laughs.
“It’s all your fault. I can’t get enough of your sexy body.” Raising myself to hover over her, I use a finger to trace along her brow, bringing it down to run along her plump lips. “But most of all it’s because of this feeling inside of me called love. It’s because of how much I love you that my body is reacting the way it is.” I offer her a wry smile. “It’s all because I love you.”
Slowly withdrawing, I help her into a sitting position and I don’t miss the wince as I do. “I’ve hurt you?”
“No. Think I need some sleep.”
I smile. “That is the plan, and no waking me in the middle of the night for my body,” I tease, kissing her waiting lips. “Sleep, Madison.” I kiss her forehead. “Let me tuck you in.”
After I’ve quickly dried us both, I help her into bed and spoon her from behind.
“Derek,” she whispers, “Just so you know, I love you with my body and soul.”
Tears hover close to the surface as I bend and kiss her shoulder.
I never once thought I’d fall in love again, after the loss of my wife, just over ten years ago now. But here I am, with the woman I love sleeping in my arms. She’s young and that does scare me, but I know between the two of us we’ll make it work.
THE END
I hope you enjoyed this shorter story for Madison and Derek and look forward to Paige’s story in Princess and the Puck, where you’ll catch up with more of the McKenzie’s.
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Acknowledgments
Cover Designer: Robin Harper, Wicked by Design
Editor: Abigail Higson
Readers: Emma Clifton, Jo Magson, Kathrin Magyar, Laura Ward, Lynne Garlick, Nadine Winningham, and Sonya Covert
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Book 3: Sultry
Book 4: Savor
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Book 1.5: The Wedding (Novella)
Book 2:Rapture
Book 3: Delight
> Book 4: Entice
Book 5: Cherished
Book 5.5: A McKenzie Christmas (Novella)
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Book 2: Love in Purgatory
Book 3: Love in Bloom
Book 4: Love in Country
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Book 6: Love in Game
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About the Author
Lexi Buchanan is the pseudonym of Rona Jameson. Lexi is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of romance.
She’s a wife and mother who moved with her family to Ireland, in 2010.
Her love of reading sweet romance is what eventually drew her to writing and self-publishing her first book in 2012. Since then she has self-published more than thirty books.
Her first signing was in New York in 2013, and since then she’s been to signings in: Belfast, Boston, Dublin, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, to meet readers. This is one of her favorite parts of being an author and she tries to attend at least three signings a year, with at least one, in the United States.
Thank you to each and every one of you for your continued support.
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