With a husky laugh, I nipped at his shoulder with my teeth. “Do you want me to describe my plans in detail?”
Against me, his body tensed, letting me know he liked what I was doing. But what he growled was, “Stop. This isn’t going to happen. Just because I held you doesn’t mean we’re back together.”
I paused and tipped my head to the side. “Yes, we are. Because we’ve never really been apart. From the moment you bumped into me in those woods, we’ve belonged to each other. I tried to deny it for two years, and you’re trying to deny it now, but it’s not going to change the facts. I don’t care if we’ve grown up. We’re still Knox and City at the core, and we’ll always love each other. You know why?” I leaned in to whisper into his ear. “Because we don’t know how to stop.”
His breathing picked up, the tension in him mounting. He turned to me, and I swear his mouth was close enough to press against mine. I could feel his breath on my lips. “I’ll still fight it,” he swore. “I’ll resist you because I can only hurt you, and I’d rather die than hurt you.”
“The only thing you’ve ever done to hurt me is when you’ve pushed me away.”
“I’m no good for you,” he insisted.
I shook my head. “You’re the best thing that ever happened to me.”
“City...” He groaned, letting me know he was close. So very close to giving in to me. He just needed one more tiny...nudge.
Using the hand he wasn’t holding captive, I slid my fingers down his body and gripped him through his pants. “I can feel how much you want me.”
He grunted and seized that hand too, but he couldn’t seem to remove my grip from him. Instead, he groaned and pressed my hand in, forcing my palm to grind against his straining cock with more force.
“I’m in bed with a woman I find attractive,” he grated out. “Of course I’m hard.”
I kept working him through his jeans. “Oh really? So I’m just like any other woman to you right now, huh?” With a sniff, I continued, “Sorry, but I don’t buy that. In fact, I bet you couldn’t fuck me like a stranger. I bet the second you filled me, you’d put your entire heart into it. Because we belong together. We love each other.”
He growled and caught my wrist when I went for his zipper. “Really? Now you’re trying to convince me sex is going to fix this. I’ll go back to being the old Knox, and all this shit that keeps haunting me will just...go away.”
“I don’t know,” I said, “but I’m willing to try.”
“Yeah, whatever. You only want an orgasm.”
“Actually, yes, I’d take one of those too. You’re the best I ever had.”
I could feel his surprise as he froze. A second later, he said, “Fine.”
As he l
eapt off the bed, I sat up, confused. “What? Where’re you going?”
“I’m turning on the light. If I’m going to fuck you, I want to see how much you’ve grown up.”
The light flipped on and I blinked against the sudden brightness until my eyes adjusted. Knox remained at the doorway, watching me.
“Take off your clothes,” he said.
Heat zapped through me at Knox’s command, the muscles deep in my stomach clenching hard as moisture welled between my legs.
He was going to attempt it. He was going to try sex with me without any emotion, like some kind of stranger.
My body surged with pleasure at the challenge because I felt confident I would win this round.
Game on, handsome.
But either way, I couldn’t lose, because this was going to feel really good.
Grasping the edge of my shirt, I kept eye contact as I slowly peeled it up and off, over my head. His brown eyes glittered with a primal kind of arousal.
He was going to fuck me. Hard.
God, I almost came just anticipating it.