Good Girls Don't (Donovan Brothers Brewery 1)

“How much stuff?” he asked.

Oh. She probably shouldn’t have said that, not without thinking it through. But strangely, it didn’t even scare her. “Come here,” she repeated.

He sat on the edge of the bed, eyes narrowed to study her face. Tessa closed her eyes and rolled to her side, letting the blanket fall open just a little. She felt so warm. Her skin hot and naked and beautiful. When the cold air touched her, her nipples drew painfully tight. She looked at Luke again, and he was no longer studying her face. His hand disappeared beneath the sheets and curved around her hip.

“Mmm,” she purred, feeling how the warmth of his hand disappeared into the searing heat of her sleepy skin.

“I’ve got to shower,” he murmured, but his hand slid up her waist and over her ribs. “Your brothers will be here in an hour.” He cupped her breast and she turned to her back and arched into him. “Tessa…”

This could be her real life if she wanted. This kind of heat. This connection. Up until now, her relationships had all been happy threads, trailing through a life she kept separate. But this kind of connection was an anchor. It was strength. “I love you,” she whispered, reaching up to pull him down to her.

“I love you, too.” His hand kept exploring her body as he leaned down to kiss her. She never got tired of hearing it. She wanted to hear it every morning. Every night.

“As much as you want,” she said.

“Hmm?” His hand touched lower, smoothing down the hair of her sex, cupping her heat.

“As much stuff as you want. I don’t like the way you have to leave here in the mornings.”

His fingers slid down, and Tessa parted her knees so he could feel how wet she was. She could tell by his sigh that he loved it.

“You want me here?” he asked.

She didn’t know if he meant in her house or inside her body, but the answer was yes, either way.

Luke tugged her around until her feet hung off the bed and her sex was open to him. He unfastened his pants and Tessa watched past her lashes as his thick cock sprang free. She bit her lip and wrapped her legs around his hips.

When he reached for the bedside table, he pulled the drawer too hard and everything crashed out. “Shit,” he muttered, reaching blindly down to grab a pack of condoms. But his eyes stayed on her. Always on her.

Finally, he was pushing inside her, sliding deep and true.

Tessa couldn’t hold back a loud cry as she arched into him. She needed him so much that she felt empty with it. He filled her up, over and over. His eyes watched her hand slide down her belly.

She cried his name as she touched her own body, rubbing pressure into her clit. Pressure that built with ever slide of his shaft. Pressure that felt so good it made her sob.

“Tessa,” he breathed. “Tessa…”

Her body broke open within seconds, too full of pleasure to contain it. Luke followed right after, thrusting brutally into her as her hips spasmed against him.

He collapsed, laying his face tight to her shoulder, breathing ice across her breast. She curled her hand into his hair and kissed his temple. “Stay with me,” she said, not a breath of hesitation in her voice. “Stay with me, because I’m not afraid anymore.”

When she felt him nod, she grinned at the ceiling. This wasn’t so hard. Not with Luke. “Are you any good with your hands, Detective?”

He lifted up to frown at her. “Pardon me?”

“If you’re going to move in, I thought maybe we could refinish the floors. Fix a few things. Move some stuff out…”

“Sure. Anything you want. But what about your brothers?”

“I’ll talk to them. But not today.”

“Thank God,” Luke muttered.

Today was their first Sunday together as one big happy family. Or one big wary family of men who didn’t trust one another. They were easing into it with a Sunday lunch instead of dinner, because there was a baseball game at one that everyone wanted to watch.

“Speaking of which…” he said with a sigh. “I really don’t want to get caught in the shower again, so if you’ll excuse me…”

“So polite,” she murmured, curling back under the covers as he left her. “My brothers would really like that.”