One Night with Sole Regret 02 Tempt Me (13 page)

She reached for him, seeking his mouth
to seal their declarations. She kissed him once on the lips. Once
on the chin. Repeatedly at the base of his neck between his
collarbones. “I’ve loved you for so long.”

He wrapped his arms around her and
crushed her to his chest. “Why didn’t you tell me sooner?” he asked
breathlessly.

“
Because . . . Because I didn’t think you wanted
anything serious.”

“
There you go thinking
again. Have I ever done anything that made you feel I didn’t adore
you?”

She looked up at him, and she could
see it—adoration—in his eyes.

“
Kennedy said—”

“
I’m not
Kennedy.”

“
But Owen told
me—”

He lifted an eyebrow at
her.

She lowered her gaze. “I know you’ve
been with other women.”

“
I can’t deny
that.”

Her heart squeezed up into her throat
until she thought it would suffocate her.

“
But that was before I
realized I love you,” he said. “I couldn’t figure out why I was
losing interest in sex. Not with you.” He tucked her hair behind
one ear and gently stroked her cheek. “When you’re around, all I
can think about is sex. But any other woman I was with didn’t do
for much me. My performance has been—how do I say
this—
subpar
.”

She frowned up at him,
confused.

He flushed and stared over the top of
her head. “Not every time, but um, limp noodle?”

“
You mean you couldn’t get
a boner?” She’d thought erect and ready was pretty much a permanent
condition for him.

He laughed. “Hey, easy on the ego,
babe. The past few months I haven’t slept around much at all. I was
always wishing whoever I was with was you and when it
wasn’t . . . ” He cringed. “I guess the little
head figured it out before the big head did.”

That made her feel marginally better.
“I can’t even think of being with anyone but you. I’ve felt that
way since the first time you made love to me on my
desk.”

He kissed the tip of her nose. “I
didn’t realize you had such strong feelings for me, Madison. It’s a
good thing that you waited to tell me until I understood what I was
feeling, or I probably would’ve been an idiot and dumped you for
pressuring me.”

“
I was afraid of that.” Her
heart thudded, because she needed to pressure him now. She had to
put her conditions all out on the table. Let him know exactly what
she wanted. “I want to be with you, Adam, I do. I can’t even
express how much I want to be with you. I
just . . . ” She licked her lips, her mouth
impossibly dry all of a sudden. She pushed forward with what she
had to say. “I love you, but I can’t be with someone who sleeps
around on me or even
tries
to sleep around.” God, it was hard to think she
might have to give him up when she’d just heard him speak the words
she never thought he’d say to her. “If you can’t be mine alone, I
can’t be with you at all.”

She took a deep breath and
waited.

He gazed into her eyes for seconds
that felt like days.

“
I can be faithful to you,
Madison. I
will
be. It won’t even be a challenge. Do you believe
me?”

How could she not when he
looked at her with such promise? And love. Overcome with emotion,
she blinked back tears. Adam loved her. He pledged to be faithful
to her. And he loved her. He
loved
her.

Even more baffling, she
believed him. Believed
in
him. Believed in
them
. She didn’t have to let him go
after tonight. He was hers.
All
hers.

“
I do,” she
said.

His eyes widened, and then he
chuckled. “Now let’s not get ahead of ourselves here.”

She flushed. “I wasn’t thinking
marriage I-dos or anything,” she said. “I meant, I do believe you.
I do believe you’ll be faithful. I do believe we can make this
work.”

He squeezed her against him so
tightly, she could scarcely draw breath. “We’ll make it work,” he
said. “We have to. I can’t live without you.”

Face buried in his strong
chest, Madison inhaled his scent, drawing it deep into her lungs.
She wished more of him were within her. Wished
all
of him were within her. She
wanted to be as close to him as physically possible. “Can we take
that bath now?” she asked hopefully.

He laughed and released her just
enough to gaze down into her eyes. “I do stink, don't
I?”

She shook her head. “That's not why. I
like the way you smell.” She pictured him with his ink-decorated
skin all exposed, and her nipples tightened in anticipation. “I
just want an excuse to get naked with you.”

He smiled and touched the tip of his
nose to hers. “You don’t need an excuse.”

He reached behind her and unfastened
her bra with practiced ease. He stripped the garment from her body
and gazed down at her exposed breasts. “Beautiful.” He sank down
and sucked her nipple into his hot mouth, rubbing the sensitive tip
with his tongue. She fisted her hands in his thick hair and allowed
her head to drop back in wonder. He released her nipple with a loud
sucking sound and turned his attention to her other breast. Fingers
of pleasure licked through her breasts, down her quivering belly
and to the juncture between her thighs. Her pussy tightened with
need.

“
Oh God, Adam, I need your
cock inside me.”

“
Mmm,” he murmured around
her breast. She pulled at his shirt until he released her throbbing
nipple and stood straight. He helped her remove the sweat-damp
garment and tossed it on the back of the sofa. Madison stared at
his bare chest, tracing the heavy, dark lines of his tattoos with
her fingertips. Something about the ink decorating his skin always
got her blood pumping.

“
Adam?” she
whispered.

“
Yeah, baby?”

“
Why aren’t you naked
yet?”

He laughed. “I thought you needed to
talk.”

“
I did,” she said, reaching
for his belt. “But now I need what’s in here.”

Her fingers trembled as she unfastened
his pants and jerked them down over his hips. Her pussy clenched at
the sight of his rising cock. It wasn’t nearly hard enough for what
she craved. She sank to her knees and captured his shaft between
her palms before caressing its sensitive tip, with the flat of her
tongue. He groaned and placed his hands on the crown of her
head.

Thumbs stroking the ridge on the
underside of his thickening erection, Madison trailed sucking
kisses in a circle along the rim of his cockhead. His hips rocked
rhythmically as she teased him. Her tongue flicked over the tip and
then she blew a hot breath over the moisture left behind. She
licked. Kissed. Rubbed. Purposely didn’t suck.

“
Madison,” he whispered
brokenly. “Please.”

He tried to thrust into her mouth, but
she turned her head and his cock brushed against her cheek. She
moved one hand aside so she could lick and kiss her way up his
shaft from the thick base to the slightly upturned tip. He
tightened his grip on her head and directed her to take him into
her mouth. She resisted.

“
God, Madison. Stop fucking
around and suck it.”

She squeezed her thighs together, her
pussy so swollen and achy she couldn’t stand it. When he said
things like that to her, it only turned her on more. With gentle
fingertips, she traced the veins straining against the skin of his
now rock-hard erection. She did good work, if she did say so
herself. She circled his thick shaft with both hands and tugged
gently. She wondered how long it would take him to come if she just
played with him like this.

“
If you don’t stop teasing
me, I’m going to fuck you right here on the floor,” he said in a
dangerous growl.

She peered up at him as she licked the
underside of his cock—a slow, sensual dance from base to tip. He
had to know that was what she was after. She wanted to tempt him
into losing control. Wanted him to fuck her. Holding his gaze, she
opened her mouth wide as if she planned to suck him inside. His
cock twitched with excitement. She closed her empty mouth and
grinned deviously.

“
Fuck!”

He tackled her to the carpet between
the sofa and the coffee table. Gasping for air and muttering under
his breath, Adam fumbled with the panties at the tops of her thighs
for a few seconds before getting frustrated and pushing the crotch
to one side. He entered her with one penetrating thrust. She cried
out, her pussy convulsing with delight as he took her fast, driving
his cock into her hard and deep.

“
Yes, Adam, fuck it. It’s
greedy and it needs fucked.”

Her back scraped across the carpet as
he pounded into her with greater and greater force. His hands
tangled in her hair; he rubbed his face against her neck; his
saliva wet her skin. She wasn’t sure if he realized how hard he was
pulling her hair or that he was banging into her cervix with each
deep thrust, but God, she loved it. She wrapped her legs around
him, her boots digging into the backs of his thighs, and held on
for the ride. They strained against each other as they sought quick
release. Their breaths came harsh and rapid. Madison feared her
heart would burst, it was beating so hard.

“
Come,” Adam demanded.
“Madison, come.”

She obeyed, spasms of intense pleasure
clenching deep in her pelvis, around his thrusting cock, through
her clit, up her belly and down her thighs. She cried out, her back
arching off the floor, every muscle in her body taut with ecstasy.
His shoulders tightened beneath her fingertips as he thrust deep a
final time and shuddered with release.

He spoke her name—might have even
whispered words of love against her throat—as he pumped his seed
into her.

Breathing hard, he collapsed on top of
her, gathering her in his arms and holding her tight.

“
Damn it, Madison,” he said
breathlessly. “Why do you have to get me so worked up that I jump
you like some animal?”

“
I like it,” she said,
squeezing him in gratitude.

“
I want to be gentle with
you, baby, and treasure your body, but I always end up fucking you
like a maniac.”

She kissed his shoulder. “I promise
I’ll let you be gentle with me in the bath,” she said.

“
You’d better.”

She laughed. “But I’m going to need
another good hard fuck afterward.”

He groaned against her throat. “Will
you listen to that dirty mouth?” he muttered to himself. “And she
looks so deceptively sweet and innocent.”

“
And then I’ll need you to
hold me facedown so I can’t move while you pound your cock into my
ass as deep as you can.”

He shifted to cover her mouth with one
hand. She could smell her sex on his skin. Her eyelids fluttered as
her inner muscles clenched hard on his softening cock.

“
Stop saying things like
that.” Adam stared down at her with an intense, angry expression.
“That’s what gets me so worked up in the first place.”

She was well aware of that; she loved
to get him worked up. When he couldn’t keep his hands off her or
his dick out of her, it made her feel sexy.
Irresistible.

“
I love you,” she said
against his hand.

His expression softened, and his
entire body melted into hers. “I love you too.”

After a lengthy kiss that made her
toes curl inside her boots, he pulled out and rose to his feet. He
removed his shoes and shucked his jeans, which had settled around
his knees. He stretched his arms over his head, and she drank in
the sight of his lean torso, solid chest, muscled arms and thighs,
and that delightful trail of hair on his lower belly that drew her
attention to his softening cock—still wet with her juices. Maybe
she should offer to lick them off. Would that make him grow hard
again?

“
I hope that tub has jets,”
he said, stretching his lower back by tilting side to side. “I’m
getting too old for hot monkey sex on the floor.”

She hoped it had jets for different
reasons. He leaned forward to offer her a hand up. She wouldn’t
have minded enjoying the view for a few more hours, but a bath did
sound heavenly. She struggled to her feet and when she moved,
discovered her back was deliciously raw with rug burn. She wouldn’t
be able to get Adam out of her thoughts for days with that reminder
on her skin.

She tugged off her boots, but left her
panties at the tops of her thighs, and followed him to the
bathroom, eager to see what he had in store for her next. She
wondered how long it would take her to tempt him into fucking her
senseless again. He seemed determined to take it slow, which meant
she was going to have to up her game.

Adam turned on the faucets and
adjusted the temperature of the water. With Madison in the tub with
him, he should probably set it to frigid so he could keep his wits
about him longer than ten seconds. Her hands slid up his ass as she
moved to stand behind him. Case in point. When her fingertip
pressed into exit-only territory, he jerked upright and spun around
to capture her by the arms.