d. “You should get used to hearing it. I plan on telling you for a very long time.”
Katie held in a sigh as his head lowered. When he placed his lips on hers, she melted beneath him. She’d missed this so much. Bennett had a way of making her feel like she was the only thing he needed.
When he tried to pull back, Katie wrapped her arm around his neck to hold him there.
“Aren’t you tired?” Bennett asked.
Katie pulled him closer and kissed him again. “Not that tired.”
?
Bennett allowed Katie to pull him down closer so she could steal another kiss. He was happy to let her take whatever she wanted from him. He settled on top of her, allowing his full weight to press her into the mattress. Katie responded with a soft, satisfied sigh that made Bennett smile.
Then she reached down and cupped his hard length and he stopped breathing.
“You are going to kill me.”
Her husky chuckle sent even more blood below his waist. Her slender fingers moved over him gently, stroking him through the thin fabric of his boxers. Bennett wasted no time getting her T-shirt off. She stretched beneath him, her full breasts bobbing temptingly in front of his face.
“How the hell did I get so lucky?”
The smile that crossed her face lanced through him like a blade. She probably thought it was just flattery but Bennett truly wondered why a vivacious creature like Katie was attracted to him. But he certainly wasn’t going to argue the point. Sometimes you got lucky and that’s how she made him feel.
Like he was finally the lucky one in the family.
Katie tugged at the edge of his boxers, pushing them down over his ass. He sat up long enough to kick them off before he came back. The first contact, skin to skin, made them both groan.
“I missed you so much,” Katie whispered in-between soft kisses to his neck, jaw, and finally his lips again. “I survived being left behind before but I won’t be okay if this doesn’t work between us, Bennett. This is so much more.”
She sighed and shook her head, like she couldn’t figure out how to finish the statement. But she didn’t need to. Bennett understood her completely. She was telling him not to start this if he wasn’t ready to finish it. Not to play with her heart because she was in this thing all the way.
Which was exactly how he felt, too.
“I’m going to show you, over the next few days, weeks, months, that this is it for me. You, Katherine Mason, are it for me. So get ready to be courted.”
Her answering laugh was filled with wonder and hope. “Courted? Wow. I can’t wait to see this. What does courting look like?”
Bennett slid one hand under her back, holding her in place so he could trail kisses over her neck and shoulders. Her breathing was getting faster as he moved lower.
“It looks like dinners out and nights in. Spending time with Hunter and Matthew so they can get to know me.” He raised his head from where he was currently hovering over her breasts. “It means proving to you that I’m here to stay. That I’m serious about us being together. It’s showing you what our life together can be.”
Her eyes glittered. “I’m scared how much I want that.”
Bennett pressed his face between her breasts, listening to the beat of her heart. Katie wrapped her arms around his back, holding him against her. He was overwhelmed with the love and protectiveness he felt in that moment. He vowed right then and there that he was going to show her love was nothing to fear.
Just then she surprised him by locking her heels behind his back and rolling them over. She settled on top of him, rocking her hips over his erection. Bennett moaned at the contact and her eyes went dark and sultry. Then she reached down and caressed his hard length, positioning him so he could slide deep.
Her eyes closed as she took him inside, the look on her face one of sublime pleasure. Bennett wanted to remember it forever, the moment she let herself go, trusting him to catch her.
They moved together, her hips riding him until they were in perfect sync. He watched her, taking in every inch of this woman he loved, wanting to imprint the sight of her on his brain. He couldn’t look away. He wanted to drink up the sight of her.
“You are so perfect. And all mine.”
Her eyes met his at the softly growled words. Then her mouth fell open when he reached down to stroke her clit as she moved her hips. She shuddered at the extra stimulation, her inner muscles clenching desperately.
“Oh god.” He couldn’t hold back, even though he wanted this to last forever. It was too good, being held in her tight heat while she looked down at him with slumberous eyes. He stroked her faster, wanting her to go first.
He would always put her first.