He fumbled in his nightstand and pulled out another condom.
“I thought you said we had to wait.”
“Yeah, we should. But I can’t. I don’t seem to have any self-control when it comes to you, sugar.” He looked her in the eye. “I can if you need me to. If you don’t want this, I can go right back in that bathroom and take care of the problem myself.”
“I—”
“It’s okay, sugar.”
“I… I want to do it again, Chad. I’m fine, really.”
He touched between her legs and dipped one finger into her opening. She shivered.
“You’re wet enough. Ready enough. You sure? Because I’ve gotta tell you, I want you so badly right now I can’t think straight.”
“Yes, it’s okay. I want you.”
He turned her around and pushed her onto the bed, so she was lying on her stomach. She heard the rip of the condom package, and then he was pulling her hips forward. The heat of his tongue laved her opening and his fingers slipped in. “That okay?”
She sighed. “God, yes. More than okay.”
“Sugar, my God…” The tip of his erection nudged her flesh.
“Please…”
He plunged into her.
She cried out, but not from pain. From the pure unadulterated sweetness of the joining.
He stilled, and his body tensed behind her. He was worried. Worried that he’d hurt her again.
“It didn’t hurt, Chad,” she said. “It felt good. That’s why I”—embarrassment flooded through her—“made that noise.”
“Sweet heaven,” he said, as he pulled out and thrust into her again.
Her hips moved backward, meeting him thrust for thrust.
“Catie, you’re so beautiful.” Chad’s voice was rough, primal. “I wish you could see this, how I come into you. It’s beautiful. Just beautiful.”
She didn’t need to see it. The beauty of the act melted her heart, opened her soul. Joining with him was a dream come true. Her skin began to tingle. “Chad—”
He reached under her and rubbed her swollen bud. “Yeah, sugar, yeah. Let yourself go. It’s okay. Come. Come for me.”
At the command of his words, she shattered as her climax exploded, her body soaring into euphoria.
“That’s it. Make it feel good. So good.” He continued to thrust into her. “Ah, I can feel you coming, baby. Coming all around me. So tight.” He thrust hard one more time, so hard he pushed her down against the softness of the bed, his body covering hers. He kissed the back of her neck, her ear. “So good, sugar. Never this good with anyone else. Never.”
He released her, lay down next to her, and pulled her into his embrace. Their slick bodies—wet from the shower, or from the perspiration from such joyful lovemaking?—melted together.
“What the hell have you done to me, Catie Bay?”
“I-I…” A tear trickled down her cheek. A tear for the sheer beauty of the experience they had just shared. Might share again. But wouldn’t share forever.
“Hush. S’okay.” He kissed her forehead. “Just let me hold you.”
Catie breathed in the spicy masculine scent of Chad. She remembered the words he had spoken to her in the black of night, under the veil of sleep.
I’ve waited so long for you.