She looked over her shoulder, twisting to see the bruises he’d found. “I don’t know, what are you looking at?”
Garrett shifted behind her, while desolation sank into his bones, to look at her other hip. “Jesus,” he exclaimed, finding matching marks on that side as well.
“What?” she asked, twisting the other way to look at her other side.
“I did this to you.”
“What did you do?”
“I left bruises on you.”
“Really? I don’t feel them.”
Garrett put his fingers in the same place as when he’d been fucking her from behind the day before. The individual places he touched must have been tender because she tensed up. “Okay, now I feel them.”
He wrapped his arms around her, hugging her tight from behind in a bear hug of an embrace. “I’m so sorry. I didn’t realize how hard I was gripping you.” He buried his face at her neck, feeling much like a rapacious sex fiend.
“Too bad, because I’m not sorry.” She elbowed him in the ribs. “Besides, what else could I expect from a rogue? Or were you the desperado last night? I forget.” She laughed and squeezed his arms with her hands in a comforting gesture. “You gave me exactly what I wanted and more. Trust me, I’ll never be sorry. You shouldn’t be either. You did warm me about your intensity level.”
He grunted and smiled into her skin. She smelled amazing, and he wanted her desperately.
She grabbed his hands, put them slightly forward of the marks and said, “If it bothers you so much, hold on here this time. I promise not to be a sissy, girly girl.”
“Are you certain?” Garrett hadn’t been with a woman more than one night in so long, there was quite possibly a whole series of women with his punishing hand prints branded temporarily on their flesh. No one had ever said a word to him.
“Yes. I’m sure.” She pushed away from his embrace, turned quickly in his arms, and reattached herself, slinging her arms around his neck. “You didn’t do anything to me that I didn’t want or thoroughly enjoy. In fact, I loved what you did to me. Repeatedly. I always want you to have free reign. Please don’t hold back because of a few insignificant marks.”
“I don’t want to hurt you.”
“Trust me. You won’t. If you do something I don’t like, I promise to tell you.”
“Swear it.”
“I swear it.” She kissed him hard on the mouth. He reciprocated, but his mind flooded with not only gratitude, but also warmth and desire.
Garrett had never been so fucking turned on in his life. But he wasn’t going to fuck her from behind this afternoon.
Instead, he wanted to watch her face as he entered her. He wanted to watch her come as his cock filled her pussy to the hilt. He wanted to feel her inner muscles squeezing him as he made love to her slowly, completely, and until they were both satisfied.
He wanted to love her. He wanted her to love him in return. He wanted the three of them to love each other.
For a man who hadn’t entertained even the idea of a woman in his life for literally years, Garrett was falling hard for Jessica. Not to mention that he hadn’t thought about even the word “love” in forever.
From the first moment he’d laid eyes on Jessica in the parking lot, he’d known she was special. He felt instantly different in her presence. More like he wanted to take chances with his heart again. Like if he didn’t try to win her, he’d regret it for the rest of his life. Odd, since he’d known her for such a short amount of time.
Then again, the length of their acquaintance didn’t matter. She mattered.
He released her only long enough to undress himself, pull back the sheets of the bed, and to secure a condom on his pulsing cock.
Once they were snuggled between the sheets, his hips settled comfortably between her thighs, Garrett simply held her in his arms. They stared into each other’s eyes for a number of minutes as he stroked his fingertips lightly along the sleek side of her perfect body.
He dipped his head to taste her lips. She kissed back with an urgency he found utterly charming. Her hips pushed against him, stirring his cock to a bloodlust.
Garrett ignored his cock’s desire to fuck mindlessly and simply took his time. He responded to her by sliding his cock repeatedly along her slick pussy opening without entering her. He moved slowly, carefully, without urgency. Until she curled her hips and apparently her clit got a buzz against his cock.