“What the hell?” she asked, trying to figure out his technique. “How are you …” Her voice trailed off as she felt the promise of an orgasm flourish between her legs, the heat pooling in her abdomen astonishing. “I’ve never … ,” she said between gasps. “This is …new.”
He released her nipple only to transfer his scorching mouth to the other. It was like an invisible thread had been pulled taut between her nipples and her clit, and every time he sucked—so softly she ached—and flicked his tongue—so sweetly she writhed—it strummed and vibrated, drawing the orgasm closer and closer.
She parted her legs involuntarily. He took that as a cue to unfasten her jeans and send his hand down the front of them. Still sucking, he dipped two fingers inside her, causing her to clench around them, then pulled out and circled her clit, her own wetness slickening his fingertips.
He worked hard, bringing her to the brink then pulling her back, for several long minutes.
“Levi, please,” she begged, parting her legs further.
After climbing onto his knees, he peeled off first her jeans, then her panties. He slid them down her legs with meticulous care, caressing each inch of her skin as he did so.
She threw back her head and reveled in his touch. His kisses between her knees. His tongue sliding up her thighs.
She heard the sound of foil tearing and lifted her head to watch like a voyeur. She bit her bottom lip as he rolled the condom onto his hard cock. He was sculpted to absolute perfection, the hills and valleys creating the most alluring play of shadow and light all over his lean body. His large hand finished the task, and then he stroked himself. Once. Twice.
Blood rushed into her clit. It swelled and pulsed and pleaded for release. He could have taken her sweetly. He could have covered her body with his and placed tiny, hot kisses on the corners of her mouth as he slid gently inside her.
But he was done with sweetly, apparently. He grabbed her hips and pulled her ass onto him, guiding her cunt onto his cock. He slid in with ease and she arched her back to draw him deeper, the sensations swirling inside her like blistering molten lava. She took every inch of him over and over as he milked the orgasm. His strokes grew shorter and faster, coaxing the sweet sting closer.
And then it happened. Pleasure spiked inside her, surging deep and hot and sharp. It spilled out and flooded every cell in her body. She clamped down on him and he came with a guttural growl, his chest heaving, his muscles contracting as he slammed into her.
After a moment, he collapsed and rolled to the side, but her orgasm was still there, on the edge of the precipice. The wave still rocking her, it had never fully subsided.
She grabbed his hand and pushed it between her legs. She had no idea what his reaction was, because her body was too busy trying to come again.
He pressed his fingers inside her and scraped a palm over her clit. His mouth was at her ear, his warm breath “Come on,” he said. “One more.”
Then he drew a nipple into his mouth as his fingers pumped in and out of her. The wave swelled, built momentum a second time, but when he shoved her legs apart and drew her clit into his mouth, sucking softly, it exploded inside her. She grabbed handfuls of hair as he circled his tongue around her clit. Helping her ride the wave. Easing her back to Earth.
“Oh, my God,” she said when she could talk again. “That has never happened to me.”
He kissed her clitoris and took up a position next to her again, the length of his body pressed against hers the very definition of heaven. “Which part?” he asked.
“All of the parts. I’ve never … I haven’t experienced an orgasm from a man. And so far, you are two for two.”
“Are you kidding?” he asked, surprised.
“Not at all.”
“What did you do? You know, when you were with someone?”
“It’s called faking it. I took a class,” she said, teasing.
“Hell, if you faked it this time, you deserve an Academy Award. You’re good.”
She grinned at him. “Nobody’s that good. I’m sorry, I’m just … shocked. I didn’t know it could be like that.”
“You know sex is all in the mind.”
“Maybe so, but it felt much closer to my clit.”
“Holy fuck, you’re sexy.” He buried his face in her hair.
She was sexy? Had he looked in the mirror? Like ever?
The fact that she’d just had sex with Levi Ravinder was not lost on her. It was like a dam inside her had broken and elation spilled out, flooding every cell in her body. She would wonder about what this meant long-term later. For now, she only had one question: when would they get to do it again?
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Free belly rubs with exam!
(Sorry, pets only. And Levi Ravinder.)
—SIGN AT DEL SOL VETERINARY CLINIC
A little while later, Sun lay in his arms. Levi Ravinder’s arms. “What is this?” he asked, lifting up the key she had on a chain necklace around her neck.
“Oh.” She took it and tried to tuck it under the sheets. “It’s nothing.”
He propped himself up on an elbow and brought it out again. Held it between his fingers. Flipped it over and over. “Is this what I think it is?”
When they were kids, the Ravinders had been harassing her one summer afternoon. Hailey, who back then hated Sun with the fiery passion of, well, the sun, ripped off the chain she’d had around her neck, the one with the key to her house, and tossed it down Levi’s shorts.
It was the day everything was truly solidified for her. She fell in love. Because while the Ravinder cousins were hooting and hollering, Levi took out the key himself, fixed the chain, and put it back around her neck.
She learned that day what Levi was really made of, despite his crude upbringing.
“It’s just a key,” she said, trying to take it from him.
He took a closer look at the smiley face she’d engraved into it as a kid. “Is this the key from—”
“That day? Yes.” She snatched it back. “It’s my good luck charm. Everyone needs a good luck charm.”
“You’re right.” He bent and brushed his mouth over her jaw and down her neck.
“Do you have one?”
“Yes,” he said, absently, focused on more productive things.
“Really? What is it?”
He leaned back, the whiskey in his irises glistening, and said, “You, Shine. It’s always been you.”
Her heart swelled. Why had it taken them so long? She had so many questions. So many doubts, but she’d never doubted her feelings for him.
“Now, hush.” He bent again and made his way to a breast. A breast that betrayed her instantly by tightening under his touch. Then he started doing that thing with his tongue again, and her fingers clenched in his hair.
By the time he rolled on top and slid inside her, the pleasure in her core peaked almost instantly. He sucked a breath in through his teeth, then covered her mouth with his as though staking his claim. It was a claim she gladly relinquished.
Perhaps it was the angle of the light.
Levi had stood and was wrapping the towel around his waist again when she noticed them. His skin was so tight against his flesh, they were hard to see, but there on the left side of his lower abdomen were three indents. Three distinct scars. Three straight lines, each one about an inch in length.