“You feel amazing,” I tell her.
“You make me feel things I didn’t even know existed.” She pants underneath me, her skin glistening with sweat.
“I’m very pleased to hear that.”
She giggles in my ear, and I swear it’s the damned sweetest sound. I make her moan. Hard. I plunge into her faster, deeper, spreading her legs wider apart. I watch her unravel, fighting to keep my control, to last longer. Breathing through my mouth, I time my strokes, rocking in and out of her as she succumbs to her orgasm.
I spiral over the edge, coming hard, burying my head in her neck, screaming out her name at the same time she calls mine. Afterward, she cuddles against me, and I cradle her in my arms, kissing her forehead. This woman makes me want to have her and protect her. It’s the first time I want to give a woman everything.
As her breath falls into that peaceful pattern that indicates she’s asleep, I’m more certain than ever that I’ll never want another woman. She’s it for me. The one. I’ll be damned if I’ll let her slip away.
***
I can’t sleep. Not wanting to wake Ava, I’m leaving the bedroom when an idea strikes me. I open my laptop and start researching. One hour later, my master plan is done. I debate waiting until morning to tell her, and then decide not to.
Ava sleeps on one side, hugging a pillow. Her luscious hair is spread everywhere.
Sitting at t
he edge of the bed, I hover over her for a few seconds before whispering, “Ava.” No reaction. “Ava.”
“Mmm.” She hugs the pillow tighter, squishing her breasts against it. I’m tempted to push her on her back and suckle one of her nipples, but restrain myself. I’m on an important mission.
“I have an indecent proposal.”
“Can’t wait to hear it,” she says sleepily. “In the morning.”
“Nope, now.”
Lazily, she blinks her eyes open. “Is something wrong?”
“Nothing wrong, but if I tell you this when you’re up and buzzing, you’ll come up with a hundred reasons to say no.”
“No to what?” She closes her eyes again.
“Don’t fall asleep.”
“Then talk.”
“You said Dirk didn’t assign you to a new project right after you finish here.”
“Not yet, but I bet he’ll come up with something.”
“Tell him you want two weeks off. Let’s go somewhere, just the two of us.”
She opens her eyes again, and this time there’s no sleepiness in them. A smile playing on her lips, she pushes herself up on an elbow.
“Mr. I-didn’t-take-a-day-off-in-five-years wants to take two entire weeks off?”
“You make me do things I didn’t even contemplate before. You make me want those things.” I lean in to her, kissing her cheek.
“I’ll go with you, Sebastian.”
On that vacation, I will ask her to stay here in San Francisco with me.
Chapter Thirty-One
Ava