Jake was practically naked in my bed.
With me.
I blushed. Everywhere. “And the underwear?”
He batted his eyelashes in mock innocence. “Yours were cold, so I grabbed another pair from your drawer. Part of making sure you were warm and dry. I was just providing my complete medical services.”
“Let me get this straight. You replaced my boring white briefs with a pair of fancy ones for the sake of my health?”
His teasing turned heated. “Baby, there was nothing boring about those white briefs you had on.”
Fire coiled in my gut as his intense gaze speared into me. I swallowed around a lump in my throat.
“Oh,” I croaked, feeling my morning wood jump a bit in the tiny-as-fuck briefs.
Jake’s hand came up to brush the hair back from my face. I realized the hand had been nestled in Boo’s mane before that, and something about that made my heart kick up.
“How are you feeling?” he murmured in the still-groggy voice of just waking up.
“Wiped out. But finally nice and warm. Thank you.”
His fingers traced the edges of my hairline and the shell of my ear before smoothing across my jawline to my lower lip. I felt goose bumps break out across my body that had nothing to do with the cold.
“You scared me to death, Oz,” he whispered. “I was worried I wouldn’t be able to find you or I’d find you seriously injured or I wouldn’t be able to—”
I interrupted him with a kiss. In my mind, it was to stop him from tumbling himself down a worry well that wouldn’t do either one of us any good, but in reality, maybe I was looking for any excuse to taste him again.
The brush of our lips was light at first, but the minute I teased the seam of his lips with my tongue, it seemed to light him on fire. His large hand grasped the side of my head as he suddenly rolled me onto my back. Boo jumped off the bed with a yip, but I hardly cared.
I was kissing Jake.
Jake was on top of me, his hard, delicious length pressed against mine.
“Oh god,” I cried into his mouth at the sheer pleasure firing through my skin. Everything tingled in a way that felt like the glorious moment between wakefulness and sleep. Like I was on the cusp of something overwhelming and all-consuming. A tiny voice of sanity tried to remind me Jake was leaving town, but I told the voice to mind its own fucking business until after the kissing.
I wanted to be touched. I wanted to feel his hands on me and his warmth against my skin, even if only for this one time. Was it stupid for me to ignore reality? Maybe.
Did I care?
No.
Jake’s lips devoured mine before moving under my chin and down my neck to my collarbone.
The man had a magical way of knowing where my erogenous zones were.
“Mpfh, right there,” I murmured. “Mm-hm.”
“You like that?” he mumbled against the cord of my neck before grazing his teeth up its length to nip at my earlobe. His hand came down to press against the front of my briefs, down along my shaft to cup the balls below. I felt myself begin to shake.
“Fuck.”
His deep hum of satisfaction rumbled against my chest as he ran sure hands over my shoulders and down my arms before lifting them above my head and pinning both wrists together with one of his hands.
I arched up into him with my hips before settling back down and wrapping my legs around his waist instead. Jake’s own hips rocked into me, pressing his dick against mine until we were both hard and straining.
“Want to be inside you,” he said in a gruff voice that made me even dizzier than I already was. “Need you.”
“Oh fuck, yes,” I breathed into the damp skin of his neck. I realized he’d been hot in our furnace-like blanket and must have withstood the heat for my sake.
He supported his weight on his knees and kept my hands pinned in his grip while reaching his other hand down to snake inside my underwear and grab my cock.
“Oh god, oh god,” I chanted, pushing up into his grip and feeling my blood pound against his hand. “Just like that.”
Jake’s eyes roved over my torso with a wild hunger I’d never seen in anyone before.
“Stop wiggling,” he said with furrowed brows before hovering over one of my nipples with his plump lips. “Or I might hurt you by accident.”
Hurt me. Dear god, hurt me.
“Ffft,” I said with a nod.
His eyes met mine as his tongue came out in goddamned slow motion and toyed with my nipple. My hips arched up into him again and I threw my head back with an agonized groan.
“Mm,” he hummed as he sucked at the nipple and tugged on it a little.