A Nanny For The Mechanic

“See,” he said. “I knew you liked me.”

Terra didn’t smile. She just continued to stare at him, a mix of shock and fear shadowing her gaze as she struggled to catch her breath. Whatever she wanted to say, whatever she wanted to do, there was a war raging through her about it.

“Fuck.” The curse came out as barely a whisper on her tongue, and suddenly she was melded against him, her mouth colliding with his just as perfectly as her body. She pressed up against him, and Gray could feel every delicate curve and contour, a heady sensation that only sent his body further into overdrive. He wanted her. Needed her. In a way he couldn’t understand.

And she was losing herself in the same battle. Hatred was replaced by incessant desire. It made no sense, and yet perfect sense at the same time.

To hell with whether it was right or wrong—Gray didn’t care. He lifted Terra, his hands cupping her ass and silently pleading with her to wrap her legs around him. He carried her down the hall, his lips never leaving hers, unable to break their kiss in fear that he would come to his senses and step away from her.

He kicked the door shut, immediately stiffening at the thought that he could wake up Allie and this whole rendezvous would be over. He fumbled around in the dark, flicking the lock into place.

“I’m going to make it really hard for you, but I need you to not scream my name and wake up Allie across the hall.” He tugged at her T-shirt, pulling it up hastily over Terra’s head.

“Get over yourself,” she panted out, peeling away his shirt with rushed movements.

They were a flurry of hands and fingers, grasping and tearing at every piece of fabric that came between them. Gray scoffed in between the kisses he trailed down the side of her throat. “You still want to hate me, don’t you, sweetheart?”

“Wanting to do something and actually doing it are two very different things, Gray.” The desperate moan that escaped her lips betrayed her icy tone.

She might have meant it as an insult, but he grinned in the dark, nipping at her collarbone. “Then let’s get past the wanting and get straight to the doing, Terra.”

He wasn’t the only one through with words, as Terra tossed his shirt to the floor and fumbled with the button of his jeans as she stretched up on her tiptoes to meet his lips again. This time, there was no hesitation, only determined fingers desperate to get the barriers out of the way that kept them apart.

Gray pulled her hands away and backed her up until her calves hit the bed, then he laid her back on it. His eyes never left hers as he quickly undid his jeans and pushed them down his thighs, dragging his boxer briefs down with them. In the pale moonlight, another wave of smug satisfaction rolled through him as he saw Terra’s eyes grow wide at the sight of his long, thick erection jutting out before him.

“Jesus...” she whispered, only adding to Gray’s smugness.

“See something you like, sweetheart?” He left his clothes in a pile on the floor and climbed onto the bed, hovering over her. On his way, he dragged his lips and tongue up her bare abdomen to her chest, biting at her hardened nipples through the thin fabric of her bra. The desperate moan it elicited from her only encouraged him, and he continued his trail up to her throat, then her mouth, claiming her as his own.

“Oh God,” Terra breathed against his mouth as he devoured her, hell-bent on tasting every inch of her. “Oh God, Gray...”

He was pretty sure that nothing had ever sounded so beautiful and sexy as his name falling from her lips in a desperate plea.

“What, Terra...” He grunted the words against her skin, nipping at her collarbone again just to hear the sensual gasp that followed. “Tell me, baby,” he goaded. “I want to hear you say it.”

The words didn’t come in a hurried rush, but Terra’s hands seemed to have a mind of their own, undoing and pushing her jeans down, the turmoil written on her face as her hips bucked upward, desperate to feel his rigid length against her.

“I want you inside me,” she admitted finally on a sigh. “Please, Gray. God, please.”

Her confession almost undid him then and there, and a low growl escaped his mouth. Between the two of them, they managed to peel away the remaining clothes Terra wore, and Gray stared down at her sexy naked body. He could feel the relentless lust coursing through his veins like wildfire, and surely that truth was ignited in his eyes, too. The desperation that stared back at him was unnerving, and it cut through Gray to the core.

He’d never seen such unadulterated desire, especially not for him.

He crashed his mouth against hers again, just as hopeless, giving over to his primal need to possess this woman. He kissed her hard, tasting every whimper and moan that came from deep in her throat as he positioned his rock-hard length against her damp entrance and sank into her. Every sound she made was like a bullet to his brain, killing every brain cell and leaving him only able to comprehend the here and now, the physical need and the desperate desire that pulsed through them in perfect synchronicity.

Snippets of rational thinking managed to cut into the sensual haze that consumed him, and Gray knew he should be gentle, give Terra time to adjust to his size...but he couldn’t. Gone was his ability to do anything but take her and claim her body.

He began to move steadily, his hips thrusting to bury his hardness deep inside her. He growled low in his throat, when Terra began to roll her hips up to meet his, taking every slam of his cock in stride despite the panting and whimpering that hinted at the pain mixed with her pleasure.

Everything within Gray tensed and twitched and throbbed with the need to have her, to get as close as possible and make her succumb to him. But even buried deep inside her tight core, he knew he’d never be close enough, never be strong enough to overpower the force that was Terra Payton.

She owned him just as much as he possessed her.

“You feel that, sweetheart?” His damp forehead was pressed against hers, and stared into her hooded eyes, watching the fire in her eyes as she took everything he gave her. Terra tightened around his thick cock, making the intense throbbing so severe that Gray wasn’t sure he could hold off much longer. “Let it go, Terra.”

He thought he saw a flash of willful determination in her eyes. She wanted to defy him, to refuse to shatter beneath him purely because he’d commanded her to.

He couldn’t let that happen.