An awkward laugh escaped her lips, and she stepped back. “Convenient or not, it would be risky.”
“I think it’s less risky. We could have good sex all the time and raise a family.”
“And what if we stop liking each other?” she asked. “Then we have kids, and we can’t see other people…sounds like a nightmare.”
“Not if we always stay friends and talk to each other.”
She looked at the ground and chewed her bottom lip. She seemed to be seriously considering it.
Would she actually say yes?
“Thorn, I don’t want that either. If I marry someone, I guess I want to marry for love. Call me old-fashioned.”
“But love is the reason people get divorced. Once the passion and lust die down, what’s left?”
“And that’s all we have, Thorn,” she countered. “Passion and lust.”
“I don’t agree with that.” I’d wanted to fuck her the first time I saw her, but I also cared about her. I confided things to her just like a friend. “I think we have more than that. We’re friends.”
“Friendship isn’t enough either.”
“You shouldn’t dismiss the power of it. A real bond can be deeper than blood.” Titan was the closest person in my life, and we didn’t share genetics.
She shifted her weight to the side then tucked her hair behind her ear. “My ex left me for someone else. He fell in love and knew he wanted to be with her. There wasn’t a doubt in his mind. That’s what I want…to meet a man who knows I’m the one.”
My eyes softened.
“Maybe that’s stupid and unrealistic…but it’s what I want. I want to protect my happiness as much as I can, but I also don’t want to settle for something that will hurt me. So I should get out of this situation now because it drowns me.”
She’d rejected my offer, and now she was leaving me. She wanted me, but she refused to have me unless I offered her more. She never asked me if I’d be willing to have a deeper relationship, one full of feelings and a connection.
Because she knew I’d say no.
She knew I wouldn’t change my mind.
I was a confirmed bachelor, going from woman to woman with meaningless experiences. It was good sex, but it was also easy sex. I was incapable of feeling anything more than that. I did have stronger feelings for Autumn than I did for anyone else, but that was the extent of it. “I understand.”
She looked away, unable to mask her disappointment. She couldn’t hide her anguish.
Maybe she did hope I’d change my mind.
She cleared her throat slightly then plastered on a look of indifference. “I hope we can part of good terms.”
“Of course.”
“Great. I guess I should get going…” She turned toward the elevator.
I snatched her by the elbow then backed her up into the wall. I cornered her with my body, my face pressed to hers. “Not tonight.” I rubbed my nose against hers then kissed the corner of her mouth. “Not until morning.”
Her beautiful eyes looked into mine, the sorrow and the longing evident. Her hands moved up my bare chest, and her warm breaths fell on my face. She’d given me that look dozens of times, and I knew exactly what it meant. She wanted me. She wanted me deep, hard, and long. “Until morning.”
Since it was my final night with this incredible woman, I could have done something more erotic and scandalous, like tying her to my headboard and fucking her from behind. I could have blindfolded her and forced her to rely on her other senses to enjoy me.
But I didn’t.
I had her on her back, her legs spread for me. Her head lay on my pillow with her hair fanned out across the crumpled sheets. Her tits were firm and her nipples were peaked. Her mouth was constantly open from the all the moaning she did. She took in my length like a pro, making my dick glide through her slickness.
My wrists were locked behind her knees, keeping her wide open for me. I fucked her at a rhythmic pace, going neither slow or fast. All I wanted to do was make it last. I wanted to stay just like this, as long as she could handle me without getting sore.
“Thorn…I love it when you fuck me.”
I paused as I was buried deep inside her, forcing my dick to behave itself. “Baby, I do too.” I moved my mouth to hers to kiss her, keeping myself distracted so I wouldn’t blow my load sooner than I wanted to. I’d already come in her once and got hard again almost instantly, but it was unlikely I could spring back so quickly.
But the kiss just made me harder.
I loved her small tongue, the way her mouth breathed into mine when she kissed me. Her mouth quivered as it danced with mine. She panted and moaned directly into my mouth, writhing underneath me like this was the very first time.
Her nails cut into my back as she held on to me. Her pussy tightened around me as she slid into another orgasm. She clenched me with bruising force and locked her ankles around my waist. Then she came loudly, sheathing my cock with all her cream. “Thorn…”
I pounded into her viciously, unable to control my thrusts. I wanted to drive my dick deep inside and give her even more of my come. She wouldn’t be able to walk out of there without feeling my come sitting at her entrance, no matter how many times she showered.
She pushed her palm against the headboard so she could thrust back at me with the same force. Sweat dripped, and our moans collided. “Come inside me…” She looked beautiful just like
