“You wouldn’t call me angel if you really knew me,” Erika said, half smiling through her irritation. Although, Jace’s hands all over her were heaven. There was no doubt he had the skills to rocket her there and back a thousand times. His hands might be those of a killer, but they were also those of an experienced lover. His other parts seemed to be working just fine, too. The way his lips skimmed her neck while his hands worked her breasts, torturing her with the promise of the best sex she’d ever had told her the man knew exactly what he was doing.
Did he realize he was baiting a bull?
“Don’t look so offended. It’s a compliment.” He captured her nipple in between his forefinger and thumb, tugging and rolling it.
“You’re a smart guy. You can come up with a better excuse than that.” She tried to control the heat building between her thighs.
“Fine. You got me. There’s a reason I call you that and I’m sure as hell not telling.”
“Mystery man.”
“You have no fucking idea.” He dipped his head low enough for his mouth to take in one of her breasts.
Whatever that thing he was doing with his tongue, he could keep doing it, because the slick heat it caused swirling around her nipple set off a series of seismic shifts.
He tilted his head just enough until those blues were on her. They were darkened by hunger. “Last chance. Say the word and I’ll stop. But we go any further and it’s out of the question.”
“I don’t want you to stop until you’ve exploded inside me and all you can think about is me on top of you, squeezing out every last drop of juice from your balls.” She tunneled her fingers into his thick, dirty-blond hair.
“That right?” His tenor slid around her like the heat rocketing through her.
“Uh-huh.” She reached down and unzipped his jeans, freeing his thick, rigid stalk. “But here’s the deal. We do this my way.”
“Okay, baby, you win. Fuck me.” He unleashed a grin so sexy heat pooled between her thighs. All she could think about was the silky skin of his cock and how it would feel as his engorged head slid inside her and she rocked her hips until he filled her and she begged for more.
Not yet…
First, she needed to bring him to the brink and force him to wobble, ecstasy within reach but just out of his grasp. There had never been a time when she’d needed a man in the way she needed Jace right now. But then, she’d never met her match before, either. He was street-smart, cunning and an absolutely lethal weapon. Something she needed to remind herself of when she closed her eyes and soared toward the skies in a little while. He could pull a knife and slice her throat before her feet settled on the floor again.
A moment of hesitation struck. Erika knew this decision could come back to bite her in the ass.
Jace’s fingers looped around the heart-shaped locket hanging from her neck. Her hand shot up to protect it.
“What did I do?”
“Nothing. It’s me. My mom gave me this. It’s special.” She never took it off, not even in the shower. And she sure as hell didn’t let anyone look at the picture inside.
“So are you, angel.”
Her gaze locked onto his and her heart sighed. Leaving, letting go of Jace was going to hurt more than she wanted to think about later. But, for now, she wanted this man.
She leaned forward and kissed him.
“You had fair warning,” he said against her lips. His body trembled, his tight-gripped control obviously faltering as he put his hands down at his sides and leaned back. “Either you get this going or I will.”
If she were going to do this, and God how she wanted to, she needed to stay in control because when it was over she had to find her bearings again. She grabbed the waistband of his jeans and he lifted his hips for her. She tugged them down and pulled them off. His boxers quickly followed.
Erika shimmied out of her black denims, and then her black silk panties.
“Jesus, you’re gonna end this before it gets started with that rockin’ bod of yours, angel.”
“I already told you I’m not an angel.”
“Yes, you are. You saved me.”
Well, damn, that was the sexiest thing any man had said to her. Did he need saving? Was he lost? That why he’d double-crossed the agency and hit the pavement? She’d worry about that later. Right now, there was a naked man in front of her, cock pulsing with the rapid beat of his heart, and she needed to know what he tasted like.
She dropped to her knees and stretched her body over him, her breasts grazing his thighs as she settled in between his legs. Contact made her skin tingle, like a thousand tiny pins applying gentle pressure, skittering across her flesh.
Her grip tightened around his thighs and then moved north until his rigid shaft was firmly in her hand.
His guttural groan was all the encouragement she needed to take the pink tip of his engorged head in her mouth, and then slide down his shaft.
The second her tongue licked from his base to his tip, his entire body tensed. She drove him deep inside her mouth, and then did it again as his breath quickened and muscles tensed. His body trembled, needing release, and she enjoyed the power she had over him.
To be honest, she’d wanted this and so much more from the moment she first laid eyes on Jace.
Droplets of his cream swirled on his tip. She lapped them up with her tongue.
“Fuck’s sake, angel—” He sat up straight. “You’re going to destroy me.”
In one motion, he lifted her as he stood. Her legs wrapped around his midsection, gripping him tightly, his lips had found hers and he didn’t break the connection as he moved toward the wall where his bed was tucked. “Now it’s your turn.”
Her arms around his neck, her fingernails dug into his shoulders for support as he unlocked the bed. It tumbled down next to them.
“You’re so fuckin’ hot.”
With his hands all over her, she felt like she might combust. Need surged through her like a thousand joules of electricity, a lightning bolt exciting her nervous system.
Before she could think about anything else, his weight was pressed onto her and his lips were all over hers as his tongue delved deep inside her mouth, licking, swirling.
* * *
Jace thrust his thick and heavy cock into the damp cradle of Erika’s pussy, figuring he was about the luckiest idiot on earth about now with her soft-as-silk legs wrapped around him. He ran his finger along the inside of her calf, up her thigh, and couldn’t hold back a grin as goose bumps rose across her skin under his touch.
Her sharp intake of air vibrated against his lips. Her breath was ragged as he captured her nipple in between his thumb and forefinger, using his left arm to hold most of his weight so he wouldn’t crush her into the mattress.
Those lethal lips of hers had almost made him explode when they’d closed around his cock, but he couldn’t think about himself. He needed to make sure she came first. Maybe it was selfish. Hell, he needed to hear her shout his name as he rode her over the edge, into the abyss and beyond.
She’d taken him there, to the edge, and it was all he could do to hold back. Now, it was her turn.
There was a better way to make her squirm. He pushed up on his knees, placed his hands on the insides of her thighs, and pushed them apart. He licked his lips at the sight of the dark curls positioned above her damp pussy. Christ, she was perfection. “Relax and enjoy.”
“Relax?” She eased out a breath as he leaned his face over her pussy and drew circles in those dark curls with his thumb.
Whatever the hell was going on between him and Erika was more than just physical. Although he’d taken matters into his own hands and drained himself in the shower plenty of times over the past few weeks thinking about that hot body of hers. Jace’s hesitation about fucking her had been because of his conscience, not because he doubted the sex would blow their minds. It bothered him that she had no idea who he really was, that he’d been lying to her since day one, and he had no idea where the out-of-the-blue wave of guilt had come from. All he knew was that shit had careened out of control between them fast and with his past he was sure to disappoint her if he allowed this attraction to go any further.
Gripping both sides of her sweet ass, he leaned forward and laved his tongue on her clit and then delved inside her. His balls tightened when her fingers tunneled in his hair and dug into his scalp.
He sucked and licked her tiny bud as her body clenched and she moaned his name.
She was on the tip when she said, “I want you inside me. Now.”
“That an order?” She squirmed again when he dipped his tongue inside her. If heaven had a taste, it was the sweet honey of Erika’s pussy.
His cock was already so hard, he was afraid he’d blow it the second his tip entered her.
Moving up her body, licking her belly button, her stomach, her fuckin’ pert breasts, Jace battled to control his own body. He didn’t want to come so fast. “Baby-doll, you’re so fuckin’ sexy. But we gotta slow down. I want this to last.”
Her answer came in the form of her fingers wrapping around his cock.
He was way beyond thinking rationally at this point, but they needed protection. He pushed up and snatched a condom from the night stand, which doubled as a side table when the bed was put away. He tucked the corner of the package in between his teeth and ripped it open. His hands were shaky so the condom spilled out.
Erika snatched the rubber before it hit the bed. What was that about?
“Damn fast reflexes, angel.”