A Little Bit Dirty
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As I nuzzle closer, Asher wraps his arm around me. His body’s hard and warm, but molds perfectly to mine. Inhaling his masculine scent, I note that this is home. This is exactly where I’m supposed to be. In his arms. In his bed … although I do wish we had a box spring.
“Thank you for making me happy,” Asher whispers and it strikes a chord in my heart.
“Always,” I tell him, my voice a little too raw with emotion. Moving my knee up and letting my thigh rest on top of him, I joke, “If talking didn’t help, I was prepared to distract you with my womanly ways.”
Asher’s rough chuckle is everything I need right now. Smiling, I peer up at the man I’ve always loved. His stubble has grown out more than he usually keeps it, and his expression is weighed down with tiredness, but he’s happy.
Lying here with me, he’s happy. And there’s nothing else I could ever want more.
“I think the saying you’re looking for is feminine wiles,” he corrects me, pulling me closer to him and I know exactly what he’s up to.
“If you say so,” I tease back, nipping his lip and feeling the warmth between us turn hotter.
He kisses me once and then twice, breathing in deep and heavy as he adjusts me to lie on my back.
His lips find the crook of my neck and his stubble tickles but his touch is fire along my bare skin. “What are you doing?” I ask as if him lifting the covers up so he can duck under them isn’t obvious enough.
“I want some dessert before bed. Bri baby, spread your legs for me.”
My body obeys instantly, my knees bent as Asher’s shoulders lower between them.
I can’t help the moan that slips out the moment his tongue massages my clit. Instantly, my nipples are hard and my body tense. With a hand in his hair, I arch my back and groan his name.
“Mmm,” he hums into my pussy. “That’s my good girl.” His voice is throaty and cloaked with desire as he pushes two fingers into me.
My hips buck but he keeps me down with his other hand. He offers me no mercy, no slow buildup. He handles my body like he can do whatever he’d like to it. Stroking my front wall and sucking my clit at the same time lights every nerve ending on fire. A cold sweat comes first and my toes curl as the pleasure builds.
The sweet luxury stirs in the pit of my stomach until all at once, it crashes through my body. All the way down to my toes and up to my lust-filled head.
I don’t even realize I’m breathless until Asher’s on top of me, kissing me ravenously and I do everything I can to kiss him back just as passionately.
Gripping my inner thigh, he brings my right leg up and without warning, slams inside of me to the hilt. “Fuck!” I cry out, my bottom lip dropping and the painful sting of pleasure crashing down over the former waves. Heightening it, prolonging it as he rides through my orgasm, pushing for more and taking all that he’d like.
Epilogue
Brianna
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“So you two are together, together?” My lips quirk up at the way Renee said the second “together.” Broadening my smile, I peer up at her from where I’m perched on my stool at the bar.
“Together together,” I answer giddily.
“How did I hear that through a rumor rather than through you?”
“Griffin’s as bad as the women at the beauty parlor,” I say under my breath, staring across the bar at the back of his head.
I shrug and tell her, “I just didn’t want to say it out loud and jinx it, you know?”
“Pretty sure Asher sent out a memo in all caps and screamed it at Town Hall,” Renee jokes and I laugh into my Pepsi.
It’s been two solid weeks of every night with Asher, every day getting better and better even though each has its own challenges. We’re getting there, though, not back to where we once were, but closer than we ever thought we could be.
Everything else in the town is the same as it’s always been, or so it seems. If there’s a moment of quiet in conversation it’s filled with a gentle, if you need anything, you let me know. Asher’s always been there with a kind smile and a toolbelt fixing everything for everyone, and to see them gather around him right now, even if he doesn’t want to accept any help but mine, means the world to me.
“So now what?” Renee asks and brings me back to the present.