Total pages in book: 80
Estimated words: 77730 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 389(@200wpm)___ 311(@250wpm)___ 259(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 77730 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 389(@200wpm)___ 311(@250wpm)___ 259(@300wpm)
“I’ve heard that about him.”
“One time he broke his arm, and he was so close to being in first place and winning half-a-million dollars that he had them wrap it up and he switched hands and rode with this left.”
“No shit?”
“No shit. When he wants something, he fights like hell for it.”
“And being the champion of Monopoly is no exception, huh?”
Lily giggled. “No exception.”
I framed her face in my hands, and when she looked up at me with those eyes of hers, I felt my heart trip over itself.
“What are you thinking about right this second?” I asked.
Closing her eyes for a moment, she opened them again and our gaze caught once. “I’m thinking about how wonderful it’s going to be to wake up tomorrow in your arms.”
I raised my brows in surprise. “Really?”
“Really-really. What are you thinking about?”
“Mmm, that’s easy. I’m thinking you’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever laid eyes on.”
Reaching up onto her toes, she kissed me softly on the lips. “Do you know what I want?”
“I hope it’s this,” I said, moving her hand down to feel the bulge in my pants.
She smirked. “Yes, I for sure want that. But I’d love to go for a ride in the morning before it gets too hot. If you’re in the mood for riding. It’s been a crazy-hot July, and August is starting just as bad.”
“I’d love to do that.”
Placing her hand over my bulge once again, she gave me a wickedly sexy grin. “Right now, I want this.”
I picked her up and tossed her over my shoulder and she let out a yelp of surprise. “That I can give you right now.”
Once we got to the bedroom, we slowly undressed one another, neither in a rush. Lily lay on the bed, and I took my time running my hands and lips over her body. Moving down toward heaven in a slow progression. When she couldn’t take it any longer, she reached down and unsuccessfully tried to pull me up.
“Please, Maverick. I want you so badly.”
“I want you, too, baby. All the damn time. I can’t get enough of you.”
When I blew on her clit, she arched her back and moaned.
“Please!”
Giving her what she wanted, I watched her wind up, then fall over the edge. The sound of my name falling off her lips nearly had me coming. As I slowly kissed my way up her body, she spread her legs wider for me.
Lacing my fingers with hers, I pinned her hands over her head as I slowly pushed inside her.
“Oh…oh, Maverick!”
I nuzzled my face in her neck and circled my hips. The words were on the tip of my tongue, and I wanted desperately to say them, but I couldn’t make them come. So I showed her instead, making love to her slowly and passionately.
She wrapped her legs around me and dug her heels into my back. “Don’t stop, it feels so good.”
Kissing along her jaw, I moved my mouth to her ear and whispered, “Tesoro.”
Opening her eyes, she whispered, “Treasure.”
“That’s what you are to me, Lily. My treasure.”
Tears welled in her eyes, and I knew what she was about to say before she spoke the words.
“I’m falling in love with you, Maverick.”
I stilled, and she tugged her hands free and cupped my face. “You don’t have to say it back. But I need you to know that I’m falling. I might have already fallen.”
“Lily…” I whispered, before I crashed my mouth to hers.
She moved her hips faster as she dragged her mouth from mine and demanded, “Faster. Harder!”
The battle to go slow was lost at those two words. I closed my eyes and drowned myself in the one woman I knew with all my heart that I loved more than life itself.
Chapter Fifteen
LILY
I lay in the dark up against Maverick’s body and listened to his deep, slow breathing. I’d dozed off to sleep after we made love, only to be woken up around four in the morning to Maverick moving his mouth over my body. It had been my turn to take charge, and I pushed him onto his back and climbed on top. It hadn’t taken long for me to come, and for Maverick to fall right after me.
Now I was snuggled up next to him in a spooning position, his arm holding onto me as if I might flee in the night.
I sighed and thought about earlier, when I’d told him I was falling in love with him.
I’d seen it in his eyes. He loved me, too, but he couldn’t say it. It broke my heart knowing that he was scared to trust me with his love. But I couldn’t blame him. He’d been alone his entire life, abandoned by the one person who should have loved and protected him. My mind wondered what Maverick’s mother was like. Had she been young and scared? Was she in an abusive relationship, or had she simply not wanted a child? I wanted answers, but it wasn’t my place to look for them.