Total pages in book: 146
Estimated words: 143842 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 719(@200wpm)___ 575(@250wpm)___ 479(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 143842 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 719(@200wpm)___ 575(@250wpm)___ 479(@300wpm)
A whimper crawled up my throat as a flicker of pleasure sparked where we connected because he had me there, too.
On the edge.
Doing stupid, stupid things.
Cody grabbed me by the backs of the thighs, and he hiked me up like I weighed nothing.
My arms shot out to curl around his neck and my legs wrapped around his narrow waist.
There wasn’t anything I could do to stop myself from rubbing up and down the perfect shape of his chest and abdomen.
“Look at the way you fit in my arms, Hailey. Like you were meant to be there. Making me lose sight.”
I couldn’t find it in myself to care that I was making these embarrassing sounds, my need for him verging on manic. “It’s you who’s made me lose reason. You who’s making me need things I don’t understand.”
I kept kissing him without sense, and he stroked his tongue against mine as he carried me across my bedroom.
A gluttonous sound got free when he tossed me to my bed, and I bounced on the mattress, pressing my thighs together since I no longer had the stony planes of his abdomen to grind myself against.
From where he stood at the side of my bed, he smirked down at me. No doubt, he was reveling in the fact he had me spun up so fast that I was close to begging.
“Don’t worry, Shortcake. I understand exactly what you need.”
“Cocky Cowboy.” I wheezed it as my hips arched from the bed.
A rough chuckle skated the heated air, and those big hands came to take me by both knees.
Heat flash-fired, and Cody let that grin that was close to pain right then tweak higher as he slowly pried them apart, the expression on his face ravenous.
Eyes molten, burning me up.
“Have you been thinking about me, Hailey? The way I’ve been thinking about you?”
“Yes.” I saw no point in denying it any longer, even though I was sure it was going to crush me in the end.
“And what exactly have you been thinking?” His voice was a tease edged in possession.
God, I’d never met a man like him. One so easily arrogant who still oozed this power that made me weak in the knees.
One who made me both want to run because I was terrified of what he might come to mean all while knowing I would sell half my soul to stay in his space.
“I haven’t stopped thinking of you having me like this since you touched me last weekend.”
What I wouldn’t admit is I’d thought it for years.
Since that summer.
Fantasies of him that I’d kept like a dirty secret that had only piled on the shame.
“I don’t want to go to sleep tonight without you touching me. One more time. Show me what it would be like. If it was real.”
Each word was a ragged pant, and he kept taking me in from where he stood hovering at the edge of my bed.
So big in the night. A tower that shrouded.
“One more time, huh?” He prodded it, like he already knew no matter how many times I had him, I was going to want more.
“Yes. Once more.” It was the last defense I had. Because I was the foolish girl who already felt herself falling.
Falling for a man who was so out of reach I knew I could never really touch him.
“Don’t you fret, darlin’, I plan on taking care of you. I’m going to make you come so hard and so good that I’m going to have to gag you so Lolly doesn’t hear you screaming.”
There was that arrogance, but I couldn’t find it in me to be offended by it right then. Not when what he was suggesting sounded so damn nice.
“Please.”
Cody ran his hands up the inside of my thighs, spreading my legs wide as he went.
Flames ignited in their wake.
Shivers rolled.
Alive.
My heart a thunder in my chest.
His silhouette was massive where he hovered over me in the swirling dimness of my room.
Both hazard and asylum.
I whimpered a needy sound when he leaned all the way over me and ran his lips along my jaw, his short beard rough and sweet and probably leaving a mark.
Lolly was going to have a field day tomorrow.
But I couldn’t find it in myself to care. Not when those hands raked down my shoulders and over my breasts before he sat back enough so he could grab the hem of my tank. He slowly peeled it up.
I shivered as he went, and I angled up to make it easier for him.
My nipples pebbled into the hardest peaks when he pulled it all the way over my head.
I sank back to the mattress while Cody remained standing. Gaze afire and his teeth plucking at his bottom lip.
“Fuck me, darlin’.”
He dragged the knuckle of his index finger over my left nipple. Fire zipped through my middle and sent shockwaves shooting between my thighs.