Crazy for Love

When he pulled her shirt up, Chloe raised her arms without hesitation. A bra was no different from a bikini top, after all…except that it was made of sheer white lace and her skin had gotten nice and tan in the last few days…

Max dropped her shirt and stared down at her, suddenly still.

“What?” Chloe whispered, aware that his eyes were locked on her chest. She started to raise her arms to cover up.

“Are you on the pill?” Max asked in a low tone.

“Oh. Yes, but…I’d still expect you to…”

His eyes snapped up to meet hers. “Of course! I just like to know I’m being careful.”

She smiled nervously. Then grinned. Then began to laugh. “Of course you do.”

“Don’t laugh.” His mouth twisted into a grimace.

“I’m sorry. It’s just that…you’re so damn adorable.”

“I think it’s actually called an anxiety problem.”

“Shut up,” she ordered, reaching for the hem of his shirt to even the score. “You are total hotness, Max.”

“Well, if you feel that way about it…” He whipped his shirt off and curved his hands around her naked waist to steer her toward the bed. Not that she needed much steering. He used his foot to slam the door and close out the rest of the world.

Her laughter was still fading, a smile still hovering on her lips, when Chloe found herself caught up in Max’s arms and was overwhelmed with the feel of him. As if she’d been standing in a calm sea and was suddenly overtaken by a crashing wave.

His hands slid hot and rough over her back as he dragged his open mouth down her neck. Her belly pressed to his naked skin. He felt like the sun and smelled like it, too. Hot and clean and stunning. Her bra fell away and she gasped loudly at the feel of his skin against her nipples.

Max went to his knees as if the feeling were too much for him, as well.

“Max,” she whispered, but her whisper turned to a moan when his mouth touched the underside of her breast.

“My God, you’re beautiful.” His breath skipped over the curve of her breast.

She could do nothing but breathe, then breathe even harder as his mouth traced a slow path upward. The tanned skin of his face made her skin look like fine white silk. The faint roughness of his chin made her shiver. Nearly dizzy with anticipation, she watched his tongue turn a careful circle around her nipple. She closed her eyes just as his lips closed and heat and suction became her whole world.

She felt everything, the push of his tongue and the sucking and the delicious sharpness when he pressed his teeth into her. She felt it all, and her hands were shaking when she buried them in his hair.

They’d only known each other a few days, and yet it seemed that every minute, every second, since she’d seen him, Chloe had been waiting to feel his mouth on her. To feel this wildness take over her body.

As he sucked at her and skimmed his hands up her thighs to sneak beneath her skirt, her body tightened to an unbearable knot of need. He was touching the curve of her ass now, slipping beneath the fabric of her panties. His thumbs rested on her hips, but the tips of his fingers were so close to where she needed them.

Her pulse beat there, every push of blood adding pressure to her sex. This was almost painful, and Chloe suddenly understood the desperation of teen age boys who seemed willing to say anything to be touched. She’d say anything right now. Do anything.

A low whimper escaped from her throat. She curled a fist tighter into his hair.

Max kissed his way to the other breast, but more important, his hands edged toward the seam of her body.

She was going to die. Turn in upon herself until there was nothing left. The tension she’d suffered in the past month was nothing compared to this.

But he was so close…. Her breath hitched and then his fingers brushed over wetness.

“Ah,” she gasped, body jerking in his hold as his touch slid over her. Pleasure sprang from his fingertips, jagging through her body on a rough, unsteady course. She felt swollen with lust, breaking open with it.

“Ch

rist,” Max cursed. “I can’t…”

His hand slipped away, and Chloe gasped in horrified alarm, but then he yanked her underwear down and stripped her bare, thank God.