Tied Up, Tied Down (Rough Riders 4)

Kade caught a whiff of her arousal. Thick. Sweet. Warm. He wanted to taste her so damn bad his mouth was watering. Keeping his hands gripping her thighs, he leaned over and put his mouth on her belly button.

Her stomach muscles rippled beneath his lips.

He dipped his tongue into the indentation, then dragged it down to the top of her pubic bone. He blew softly across her damp curls.

Goose flesh broke out across her legs and she softly gasped.

“Any objections about me kissin’ you down here?”

“Ah. No. Please.”

Kade chuckled at her polite eagerness. After a couple of gentlemanly licks, he buried his face in her pu**y, found her pulse with his tongue and began to suck her clit.

She moaned his name. His. Kade.

Oh yeah. This is what he wanted. Needed. Just Sky. Just like this. Pliant. Eager, and his.

Skylar’s hands stripped the sheet from the mattress. She ground her wet sex into his face as she started to come, gasping, thrashing against him and the bed, trying to suppress the sounds of her orgasm. He kept sucking her sweet pu**y until she sighed contentment and her legs stopped twitching.

“God, Kade, you make me crazy when you do that.”

“I know.” Grinning, Kade rose to his knees. He reached for the condoms, ripped open the box and tore a package free.

“Let me.”

“I remember how to do this part, although Eliza’s existence might convince you otherwise.”

“I don’t regret anything about her, Kade. Not a single thing.”

That shocked him into stillness.

“I didn’t get to touch you anywhere last time. Let me. Please.”

Couldn’t say no to that. He admired her silhouette as she opened the package with her teeth. Sky smoothed her left hand up his thigh and he withheld a shiver at her tender touch. Placing the latex over the head of his cock, she rolled it down to the root. She curled her hand around the girth and stroked.

His c**k jerked hopefully in her hand.

“You were pulling pretty hard and fast in the shower. Doesn’t that hurt?”

“No. Another time I’ll teach you the secret to a great handjob. Right now, lay back.”

As soon as she was horizontal, Kade levered himself over her—his legs brushing inside hers, his palms flat by her shoulders, matched pelvis to pelvis.

Sky touched his face with the tips of her cool fingers and passed her palms over his chest like she was sculpting him from memory. “You have such an amazingly hard body.”

“Some places are harder than others.”

“Show me.”

“It’s been awhile. This probably ain’t gonna last long.”

“Been awhile for me too, cowboy.” She whispered, “Kiss me. I love the way you kiss me. Like I’m the only thing in the world.”

“When I’m kissin’ you, sweetheart, you are the only thing in my world.”

Poised at the entrance to her body, he eased in as he took her mouth. He lost his mind in the glove-tight feeling of her pu**y closing around his c**k from tip to root.

He broke the kiss. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah.”

“That wasn’t very convincin’.” Kade noticed she wore a strange expression. “What?

Am I hurtin’ you?”

“No.”

“Skylar, what’s wrong?”

“This is going to sound so stupid. Embarrassing.” In a rush, she said, “Does it feel different for you?”

“Different how?”

“You know. Looser?”

“Looser?”

“Well, I did push an eight pound baby out of there. And I’ve heard the vaginal walls loosen and it doesn’t feel as tight for men afterward—”

“You are a f**kin’ perfect fit.” He pulled out and pushed back in. Three, four, five hard, deep thrusts that bumped her cervix and made her bow into him with absolute abandon. “Perfect in every way.” He shortened his strokes. “Jesus. You feel so goddamn good.”

“Not half as good as you feel to me.”

“You pick lousy times to have a conversation, Sky,” he teased.

She groaned, “I deserved that.” Then she bit his earlobe.

A shudder worked through him. “I don’t know if I can go slow.”

Pressing her lips to the hollow of his throat, she said, “So don’t. It’s not like we haven’t done this before.”

“Not like this we haven’t.” Something akin to a snarl burst from his mouth as he hammered into her. Pounding hips, flesh pounding flesh, his heart matched the rhythm of it all.

Sky arched her back, tilting her pelvis, allowing him a deeper angle. “Yes. Like that.”

With her nails digging into his ass and her mouth sucking at his neck, Kade shoved hard, stayed buried balls deep and came with a long groan, sending her into another orgasm.

Still breathing with difficulty, he lifted his head and reconnected their mouths for another slow kiss. Then he whispered in her hair, “Marry me, Skylar.”

She whispered back, “No.”

“It was worth a shot.”

Chapter Nine

Somehow in the following week Eliza settled into a routine, which made Kade happy. He and Skylar settling into a routine didn’t make Kade happy. Not one iota.

Wasn’t that why he’d moved in? What he’d wanted?

No. Not like this. Every night was the same. They’d put Eliza down. Skylar would sneak into the guest bedroom, strip, and wait for him. They’d make careful love, only face to face, only in the absolute darkness, only on the bed.

While they were in the moment, it was damn good. But, afterward, when Skylar immediately got up and dressed, he questioned why she bothered with a sexual relationship with him. After they both got off, she’d disappear, leaving him…lonely. At bedtime she’d curl up on her side of the bed and he on his. They’d take turns getting up with Eliza. Business as usual. Sky probably saw nothing wrong with the way things were going between them.

As the week progressed Kade became frustrated with the situation with Skylar and his incompetence in changing it. Or in his ability to be completely honest with what he needed from her. He’d had enough empty sex in his life…well, to last a lifetime. He wanted more with her…for both of them.

For years, Kade had acted in the same manner as Sky did, confusing sex with intimacy. Now that he’d learned there was a difference, he’d hoped to take their relationship to the next level, beyond parenting partners and mattress monkeys.