“Wow. You’re pretty good at this wardrobe director stuff,” she quavered. “I’ll be the best, uh, undressed woman at the party.”
“Everyone will want to know what you’re not wearing,” he agreed modestly. “It’s true.”
Chuckling, he moved around in front of her and tipped her chin up to gaze down into her eyes. “So beautiful,” he whispered before brushing the softest of kisses over her lips. Holding on to her hand, he helped her step out of the dress and bra now pooled around her ankles. Then he knelt in front of her and hooked his fingers in the sides of her delicate lace panties.
As he eased them down her legs, Lani stroked his hair, her hand shaking with so much tenderness she felt choked with it. Geo glanced up at her, then leaned forward to nuzzle the swell of her belly, his arms wrapping around her hips.
“Oh, how I wish...” Lani mouthed the words as he drifted his lips slowly, almost worshipfully, up her body until he was standing again, his breathing slightly ragged.
“Is it time to go to the party?” she croaked. “’Cause I’m ready.”
“Yeah? Me, too.” Geo yanked his T-shirt over his head and shucked his jeans. Her eyes dropped helplessly to his cock, which bobbed in between them, the swollen tip already slick with excitement.
“Oh, my.” She gave him a few strokes, which made him hiss. “Lovin’ this party favor.”
He pulled her close, letting out a sigh as her breasts flattened against his chest. “I’m thinking—” Geo bent to kiss her “—that we skip the party—”
“What?” Her eyes widened. “No!”
“—to go to a better one.” Swinging her up in his arms, he carried her to the bed.
“Ohh.” She cupped his cheek and drifted her thumb over his lips. “I do like the way you think.”
Bracing one knee on the mattress, he laid her gently in the middle of it, then eased over top of her, his kiss warm and coaxing. He licked, nipped, and tasted, as if savoring her, his hands gently arousing, until Lani arched up against him with a breathless moan. “Please.”
“Mmm.” He trailed his open mouth between her breasts and nuzzled his nose against the curves. “Please what, darlin’?”
She writhed when he sucked each nipple in turn, teeth gently scraping the pebbled flesh. As she lifted and spread her knees, he let out a soft hiss. “Tell me what you need, sweetheart.”
She was already beyond words, so Lani yanked on his hair and showed him. The first touch of his lips on her clit had her crying out, hips moving restlessly. Geo didn’t tease her, didn’t make her wait, just opened her wide, the hot swirls of his tongue driving her out of her mind.
Yet all too soon it wasn’t enough. “Please,” she gasped. “Need you inside me.”
He thrust one finger deep, then two. “Fuck, baby, you’re so wet,” he growled, the tip of his tongue rasping across her clit. The hoarse note of satisfaction and possessiveness in his voice sent Lani careening over the edge, her orgasm sweeping through her in a sweet rush.
He took her through it, easing her back to earth with soft licks and gentle sucks, at last brushing a kiss along the inside of one inner thigh before leaning over to the bedside table for a condom.
Her blood still surging through her veins, she stopped him with a trembling hand on his shoulder. “I had a full testing panel at my OB’s when I found out I was pregnant. Everything’s negative.”
Geo froze for the briefest of seconds, then straightened and sat back on his heels. “Negative at my last physical three months ago.”
Her eyes dropped to his cock. Even as she watched, he wrapped his fingers around it and gave it a few rough strokes. She licked her lips and relaxed fully back into the mattress. “Then no condom.”
A flush staining his cheekbones, Geo came down over top of her, his palms flat on the bed next to her shoulders. Slowly, deliberately, he circled his hips, dragging himself against her from base to tip. “This what you want?”
The hard, thick column sliding over her hypersensitive flesh made her gasp. “Geo!”
“Is it?”
Reaching up behind herself, Lani grabbed onto her pillow and wound her legs around his waist. “Yes, it’s what I want,” she panted. “Please. I need you inside me.”
Flush deepening, teeth bared, Geo notched the broad head against her entrance and started a slow, insistent rock. “Oh, God,” he ground out. “Fuck, you feel so good.”
His head tipped back almost helplessly, eyes sliding closed. Planting his knees wide on the bed, he started to move, his thrusts starting out slow, but getting longer and harder as his need grew.
Lani wrapped her arms around his neck and held on to him with all her strength, reveling in his pleasure, his low moans. She arched up into him, the hair on his chest teasing her swollen nipples, his cock driving deep, stretching her wide.
As her second orgasm built, she squeezed her own eyes shut, not wanting it to end, but he cupped her chin in his hand and kissed her with such tenderness that she was lost. She spiraled into bliss as he stiffened, his body throbbing inside hers, the words he breathed into her mouth sounding very much like, “I love you.”
Love won’t be enough, Geo. It’s not going to be enough.
She clutched onto him and buried her face in his neck.
But God help me, I love you, too.
* * *
“Will you go somewhere with me tomorrow?”
Anywhere. Lani turned onto her side to face him. “Where?”
Haltingly, Geo told her about a plan to get together with some team guys and work on Renae’s yard. “I guess that can be part of my—what did Maura call it?—living amends to Cade. Being there for his family.”
“Yes.” Reaching up, she stroked his cheek. “Of course I’ll come.”
“I want to surround her with the community, show her that—” he took a deep breath “—that she’s not been completely abandoned.”
Her heart aching, she thought again about her friend Suzette, and how hard it’d be for her to see Cade’s death in the same light as Harry’s.
“I’m happy to go.” Pulling his head down, she kissed him softly. “Thank you for asking me.”
A relieved sigh escaped him, and he pressed their foreheads together. “You are, hands down, the most incredible person I’ve ever met. I wish...”
When his jaw tightened, she smoothed her thumb along it, tears pricking the backs of her eyes. “I wish, too,” she managed.