When she didn’t respond, I prompted, “You said something?”
“You have too many clothes on,” she announced.
Her tone was bossy, but also husky and so damn sexy, the sound of it alone was a light lash of the whip driving my desire.
I chuckled, squeezing her nipple once more before releasing it reluctantly. “Well, that’s something we can agree on.”
Jade’s throaty laugh nearly snatched back what little control I’d gained in the last few moments.
“I’m sure we can agree on a lot more than that.” She put her palm on my bare chest and pushed me away from her. I had two warring impulses. I didn’t want to move away from her delectable body, and yet I wanted more, so much more.
Although my body was restless and impatient for everything, for all of Jade, I wanted to savor this. Of late, sex had been mostly a practical matter for me. My mind flashed to Dave’s reminder about what he said about love to me. Although I believed Dave loved Jenny, I wasn’t quite sure I believed in the possibility of love for myself. I kept things practical. I was all about casual friends with benefits. It worked for me.
I shied away from contemplating where Jade fit in. The ferocity of how much I wanted her was downright shocking. And yet, I wanted to enjoy it, to take it for what it was.
A distant corner of my mind called out a warning shout. There was something else here, something shimmering under the surface of the potent and fiery desire between us.
I ignored it for now. Because Jade was moving, calling over her shoulder, “Come ’ere.”
I didn’t usually prefer to take orders, but when they were coming from Jade in her breathy, sexy voice, I would do anything she asked. Anything at all. She might as well have had a leash attached to me. I turned and followed her across the room. She stopped at the foot of the bed to kick off her low-heeled sandals.
“Need a little help?” I asked from behind her, lifting her hair and pushing it over her shoulder.
“Please.” She bowed her head, and I caught the tab of the zipper. The soft sound it made as I drew it down spun into the vibration humming in the air around us.
The fabric fell open, and I released her hair to slide my hands up and curl them over her shoulders. She started to turn around.
“Not yet.” My words were a soft command, and she obeyed, holding still as I dipped my head and dropped hot, openmouthed kisses along the back of her neck.
Her skin rose in goose bumps under my lips. I slid a hand down her spine, satisfaction rolling through me when she trembled slightly under my touch.
Jade was a controlled, guarded woman, and most definitely on the prickly, standoffish side. She didn’t give off any vibe of innocence. It was more than clear to me that the honor of touching her was something I had to earn.
Her dress fell in a rumple around her waist, and I stroked my hands around her waist from behind, my arousal pressed between the cheeks of her bottom through the fabric. Her breath came in rapid, shallow pants. All the while, need clawed at me. It was almost painful to keep myself in check. That was how fiercely I wanted her.
Her skin was silky soft. I groaned at the feel of her nipples pebbling under my touch and let my teeth graze lightly on her neck, just a little nip. She trembled again and cried my name on the heels of a ragged gasp.
“Sugar, you’re fucking killin’ me.”
Jade suddenly turned in my arms, her eyes wide and dark. “I need you,” she murmured as her hand slid around my nape. She yanked me down for a messy kiss, and we fell on the bed in a tangle. Jade kicked her dress free, greeting me with the sight of a pair of bright purple cotton panties, so incongruous in contrast to the silky confection of her dress. I almost laughed.
Pushing away, I stood quickly and toed my shoes off while she shoved my shirt off my shoulders. I didn’t bother with my slacks yet. I sensed if I stripped down right away, this would be over in a matter of minutes.
Jade caught my eyes as she leaned back on her elbows on the mattress. “Do you like my panties?” she teased.
I arched a brow and cocked my head to the side, letting my eyes lazily trail up from her bright purple toenails to her matching cotton panties before making my way to her face. “Very practical.”
“You didn’t answer my question.”
“So I didn’t. Yes, I love them.”
I stretched out beside her, leaning around to catch her nipple in my mouth and giving it a quick suck. Lifting my head, I said, “Now, be quiet. I’m not in the mood to chat.”
“I can’t talk at all?” she murmured, gasping when I swirled my tongue around her other nipple.
“You can talk all you want, just no quizzes.”
Jade, typically so guarded and prickly, released a low chuckle. Something about her letting go, even if not completely, spurred on the intense drive to claim her, to make her mine. That desire should’ve given me pause. I’d never wanted to claim any woman in my life, much less considered any woman in a possessive manner. And yet, Jade had that effect on me. She was a challenge, and I’d never backed down from a challenge. Teasing her nipples, I barely kept my own need in check as she writhed under my attentions.
Lifting my head after a last swirl of my tongue around one of her tight, dark pink nipples, I was gratified to see her dragging her eyes open to half mast and her breath coming in ragged gasps. With her skin flushed pink, her lips slightly parted, and her dark tresses spread out against the pillows, she was a sight to behold.
“So fucking sexy,” I whispered as I leaned up and lightly nipped at the soft skin just behind her ear.
Goose bumps broke out over her skin and her hips arched against me where I was half lying over her. I kept moving, blazing a damp trail down the valley between her breasts while I teased one nipple with my thumb. I dropped hot kisses over her belly, and she trembled under my touch. She was restless, her strong, lush body shifting as I made my way down.
I trailed my fingers over the damp folds between her thighs, prompting her to cry out. “Walker!”
“Mmmhmm?” My lips moved against her skin with my murmured query.
I hooked a finger over the edge of that purple cotton. Pushing it to the side, I almost groaned out loud at the feel of her slick, wet heat.
Whatever she meant to say was lost in a sharp gasp followed by a moan. While there were many things I wanted to savor, wasting time getting Jade completely naked wasn’t something I cared to bother with. I yanked her panties roughly down her legs. She helpfully kicked them free of her ankles as I shifted farther down on the mattress.
I was greeted with another breathy gasp when I teased her folds, the juice of her arousal coating my fingers.
“Walker, please…”
Her words were lost in another moan as I finally, finally, gave in to the urge to taste her. Her scent and flavor assailed me, salty sweet, somehow exactly like her personality. As I explored her folds with my tongue, barely glancing over the hot button of need at her core, I sank one finger and then another inside of her.
Her channel rippled around me as I set myself to the task to drive her wild. She flexed under my touch with each rock of her hips. Little sounds came from her throat, swelling my cock to the point I thought I might explode from the pressure.
On the heels of a deep drive of my fingers stretching into her channel, I dragged my tongue over her clit, and she cried out sharply. Her entire body rippled and her channel clenched around my fingers.