“Cheers, girlfriend!” shouted Alex over the noise of the crowded bar.
“Cheers!” Peyton shouted back, clinking her black-and-tan to Alex’s.
Kade had been gone two months, which meant he might be back any day. On the other hand, she hadn’t heard a word from him since he left. Not even an email, and that made her heart hurt.
When the bartender set a shot in front of her and Alex, Peyton threw it back and thanked her.
“That wasn’t from me,” Alex shouted back.
She waved at the bartender and mouthed thanks. When he pointed toward the end of the bar, Peyton turned around. There stood Kade and two of his brothers, Maddox and Naughton.
Tired of pretending she wasn’t thrilled to see him, Peyton got off her stool and weaved through the crowd in his direction. He met her halfway and wrapped his arms around her waist when she put hers around his neck. They kissed without speaking.
The noise of the bar fell away. All she could hear was the beating of her heart. Kade didn’t pull away and neither did she. As their kiss deepened, he lowered his hands, cupping the cheeks of her ass, grinding his hardness against her. She felt him start to release his hold and kissed him harder.
She turned in his arms, grabbed one of his hands, and pulled him out of the bar, not bothering to tell Alex she was leaving. Once outside, Kade kissed her again, lifting her up so her legs wrapped around his waist.
“Peyton.” When he growled her name and kissed her harder, she wanted him to take her right there on the front porch of Paddy’s Grill.
His truck was parked just down the block and he carried her there, never taking his lips from hers. She slid down his body and he unlocked the passenger door.
“Where?” he asked.
Her sex-addled brain was having a hard time processing the question. What were the choices? Didn’t he live in Paso Robles? There was no way she’d survive a thirty-minute car ride without climbing all over him. “My place?”
He drove straight there without directions, which should’ve bothered her, but it didn’t. He parked in the driveway but didn’t get out of the truck right away.
“You sure about this, Peyton?”
“It’s either in there or right here.”
Kade smiled, jumped out, and opened the door. He walked behind her with his hands on her hips. As soon as the front door was unlocked and they were inside, Petyon was back in his arms, legs around his waist, their mouths fused together in a kiss.
When he slid her down his body a second time, she pulled his shirt out from where it was tucked into his pants and unfastened the buttons. Kade dropped his hands to his sides and watched. Peyton did the same with the buttons on the sleeves and then pushed the shirt off his shoulders, laughing when it got “stuck” on his massive upper arms.
Next, she unbuckled his belt but when she tried to unfasten his pants, Kade stopped her. “Let me.” He grasped the hem of her sweater and pulled it over her head and then leaned forward to suck her nipple into his mouth through the lace of her bra. At the same time, he reached around her and released it. Peyton wiggled her arms and it fell to the floor while Kade resumed his assault on her hard nipples.
She reached between them and unfastened her own jeans, pushing them and her panties down her legs at the same time she toed off her shoes.
He released her nipple with a pop and she stepped away from her clothes, taking him by the hand and leading him down the hall to her bedroom.
She spun around so she could see his eyes as they took in her nakedness. The heat she saw in them burned away any insecurities about the state of her body after giving birth to two babies.
“I could spend hours looking at you,” he murmured, “but I’ve run out of patience. I need to touch you, Peyton.”
This time when she put her hands on the waist of his pants, he didn’t stop her. She carefully lowered the zipper when she realized underneath them, he was naked. She gasped when his cock sprung free. It had been a long time since she’d had sex. It was hard to believe he’d fit inside her, but that wouldn’t stop her from trying.
Kade grabbed his pants before they hit the floor and took a condom out of one of the pockets. He tore it open with his teeth and sheathed himself while she watched. “Get on the bed, Peyton.” He growled her name like he had before and she squeezed her legs together.
She scooted up the bed so her back rested on the pillows, taking in his body. It was even better than she’d imagined—like no other she’d ever seen. Kade was rock solid everywhere. His torso tapered from his chiseled pecs to a narrow waist. His thighs were huge, again like none she’d ever seen. It wasn’t just that they were defined, they were massive. “I could spend hours looking at you too,” she murmured. “But I need you to touch me, Kade.”
He knelt at the end of the bed and spread her legs. When he leaned in and licked her folds, Peyton almost flew off the mattress, but he held her in place, lavishing her with his skilled tongue.
“Be still for me, Peyton,” he demanded before diving back in for another taste of her. His hands moved from the inside of her thighs to her ass; he squeezed her cheeks and held her tight to his mouth.
“Kade, I’m going to…”
“Do it, Peyton,” he said, thrusting two fingers inside her aching sex and rubbing her bundle of a thousand nerves with the pad of his thumb. “Let me watch you.”
She couldn’t have stopped herself even if he’d demanded it. “Kade,” she cried out, gripping the comforter tightly in her hands. “Oh, God.”
Before she could catch her breath, he was
