Tied Up, Tied Down (Rough Riders 4)

“What show?”

“I’m not supposed to react when you’re diddlin’ yourself in your sleep?” Kade leaned forward. “I watched you come. It was hot as the Fourth of July. Made me hard as a f**kin’ brick. And rather than risk wakin’ up Eliza and goin’ all caveman on you, poundin’ your luscious body clear through that mattress, I took matters into my own hands. Because sweetheart, I’ve had a lot of experience with that in the last year.”

Kade thought her body was luscious? Skylar stared at him. Turned on, turned inside out. “You haven’t been with anyone?”

“Not since you…not since the night Eliza was conceived in my truck in Ziggy’s parking lot.”

She whispered, “Me either.”

Kade stood so fast the chair crashed to the floor.

“No one has touched me since that night.” As he stalked her, she backed up until her lower back connected with the counter edge. “Well, I mean, I’ve been touched. I had to be when pregnant and giving birth, but no one…no man…except that one male nurse…oh God, I’m not making any sense am I?”

Her gentleman cowboy was right in her face. A sexy menace. A man out of patience.

“Skylar.”

“What?”

“Shut up.”

And then he slammed his mouth down on hers and kissed her.

Chapter Eight

Kade kissed her as thoroughly as he’d been dying to.

His hands were buried in her soft hair; his body was pressed tightly to hers until not a sliver of daylight remained between them. He ate at her deliciously sweet mouth, nibbling, licking, leaving tiny love bites on her lips. Sucking on her tongue. Drawing the scent and the taste of her down his throat and into his lungs like food and air.

Skylar opened her mouth wider, attempting to swallow him whole. Her tongue grew hotter, wetter, more insistent. She clutched his shoulders. Her nails dug through his T-shirt and gouged his skin. Whimpering noises vibrated from her throat into his mouth and traveled down his torso to settle in his already hard cock. His prick damn near saluted when she’d confessed to spying on him as he’d whacked off in the shower.

His hands untangled from her hair and Kade went straight for her tits. Still kissing her, he made short work of the buttons on her dress.

Kade trailed his lips down her flawless neck. “You taste as smooth here as I remember. Way better than chocolate cake. Remember what I said I’d like to do with the frosting? ”

“You always pick lousy times to have a conversation, McKay.”

He chuckled. Her abundant br**sts were straining against the fabric and he couldn’t get them free. “Undo this damn bra for me, Sky, so I can put my mouth on you.”

She batted away his fumbling fingers. Something snapped and those perfectly soft mounds fell into his waiting hands.

“Oh yeah. Gimme.” Kade swept his thumbs across her rosy ni**les, placing open-mouthed kisses on the upper swells of her br**sts. Rubbing his cheeks and lips and jaw against her bared flesh, feeling her whole body quiver in response. Watching her face, he closed his mouth over her left nipple and sucked. Hard.

Sky arched back and released a strangled moan.

He worshipped the tits he’d been fantasizing about for months. Teasing her, pleasing himself. He was in no mood to be rushed. He suckled her ni**les softly, then with unrestrained zeal. Tweaked them with his fingertips. Nipped the tips with his teeth as he held the weight of them together. Squeezing and tonguing, imagining sliding his c**k in the slippery valley of her cle**age. Kissing them, loving the fullness and her responsiveness to his every touch.

“Kade. Enough. I-I can’t think.”

“Good.” He scattered kisses up to her lips and stared into her eyes, letting her see the hunger raging inside him.

Don’t be a gentleman; be a real man. Tell her straight up.

“I wanna make love to you, Sky.”

Make love? What the hell happened to “I wanna f**k your brains out, baby” ?

“I want you too,” she whispered against his mouth. “In a bed this time. Do you have a condom?”

Kade tasted the smooth skin of her jawline. “I have a whole goddamn box. Let’s go.”

He guided her upstairs. They stopped in front of the door to the bedroom where Eliza was sleeping. Skylar’s nervousness was obvious and he softly touched her cheek. “How about we do this in the guest bedroom across the hall?”

She nodded.

“I’ll grab the condoms. And if you ain’t in there, make no mistake, I will rip this house apart lookin’ for you.” Kade sprinted to the bathroom. He dug through his shaving kit for the stash and was back at the door to heaven in under a minute.

With the shades drawn and the hall light off, the room was completely dark when he stepped inside. “Where’s the light switch?”

“Doesn’t matter. The bulb is burned out.”

“Don’t you have a lamp in here or something?”

“Kade, I’m in the middle of the bed completely naked. Do you really want to talk about the lack of lighting?”

“Nope.” He stripped to skin. “But I’ll admit I’d hoped to see more of you this time than last time.”

“You can feel as much of me as you want.”

He walked in a straight line until his shins hit solid wood. “Fuck. That hurt.”

“Come up here and I’ll kiss it and make it better.”

“I’m holdin’ you to that.” He crawled on the bed to find Skylar was indeed, totally buck-ass bare and in her usual position—right smack dab in the center of the bed. “You do know you’re a bed hog, right?”

“What are you talking about?”

“You. See, a week or so back, you started snugglin’ into me in the dead of the night.

At first I thought it was because you liked bein’ close to me.” Kade’s fingers circled her ankle and he slid her right leg aside to crawl between her thighs. “I hoped that was your way of sayin’ you wanted me.” He kissed the top of her foot, jangling the bells on her ankle bracelet. “Then I realized you were used to havin’ the bed to yourself and didn’t wanna share. Snugglin’ into me was your way of pushin’ me out of your space.”

The mattress shifted and Skylar sat up. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

“Because I liked havin’ you next to me, no matter what your motives were. Don’t matter right now.” He fluttered his fingertips up the inside of her thighs. “Spread your legs wider for me, sweetheart.”