My chest is filled with thunder as Will kisses me and I kiss him back.
Our tongues play, our lips soft and slick as we devour one another. He slides his thigh between my legs, his hands lifting my dress so he can feel my skin and the lacy underwear beneath. I cup his face and lose myself in his smoldering glare one more time before I lick his lips, inviting him to take things further. He’s hungry and passionate, his breath ragged as our clothes come off.
My dress hits the floor, and he takes a minute to just… look at me, analyzing every part of me with glittering arousal. “You’re incredible,” he says. “It’s like you were made for me, Olivia.”
That just gets my motor running even harder. I kiss him again, fumbling over his shirt buttons until he decides to put me out of my misery and helps me undress him. We laugh as we reach the bed, and he takes his sweet time peeling the black lace from my body. First, his mouth makes love to my breasts, his fingers always exploring, feeling, touching my very soul. Then he moves his focus onto my burning core, and I find myself quivering in a first-of-many and damn near devastating climax.
He knows how to push every button right. I give myself unto him wholly, and he fills me to the brim as we sink into the soft mattress. We lose all sense of time, gasping for air and thrusting and pulling and tasting everything we have to give to each other. It’s been a long time coming, and our stairway to heaven is narrow but certain.
I look into his eyes as we dissolve into the night and I cry out his name. He says mine in perfect harmony as he reaches the peak of bliss, and we collapse into one another like exploding stars, our bodies and our souls perfectly bound, impossible to ever break apart again.
“Will…” I whisper as we come down from the clouds, melting into the sheets as he pins me down with his full weight. “Oh, Will…”
“We’re going to regret this in the morning, all right,” he murmurs. But then he rolls us over in the bed, and I end up sprawled over him, glimmering from the afterglow, skin on skin, heart on heart.
“Morning is still far away,” I reply.
We can count the hours to it. We could sleep through them.
Instead, we start again, hungry for more and downright insatiable. It’s the longest and sweetest night I’ve ever had, and I don’t want it to end. Someone please… hit the pause button. Let us stay here forever.
CHAPTER16
WILL
This was a mistake.
I don’t regret a single goddamn second of it. No, in fact, I want more.
Even now, as the dawn breaks over the redwoods outside, and as the first beams of sunrise slice through my window and flood the room with light… I want more of her, more ofus. She’s finally asleep, though I am impressed with her stamina. The wine should’ve mellowed us both, but all it did was make us even hotter for one another.
Snippets of last night flood my brain while I hold her in my arms, her flesh soft against me.
Her skin is perfect.
I’m never going to forget the raspy groan that escaped her throat when I took her to the sweet peak of orgasmic delight. She just… unraveled into me, and I could only welcome her tremors and gasps of raw pleasure. Nothing could make me happier than giving her this kind of pleasure. Not my company. Not the past fifteen years of my life. Not my successes. Just Olivia’s joy… it’s my new drug.
And the worst part is I have to get off it, right now.
My heart is screaming at me. My body is throwing one hell of a tantrum. Every inch of me wants to wake her up and take her through another mad tumble until we collapse again, breathless. But as the morning settles over the resort, I end up getting out of bed and into the shower. It’s cold without her next to me. I even torture myself with a quick cold shower, hoping it will get some of these thoughts and desires out of my head. Nope. Still into her. Still madly into her.
No one can find out. No one can know she was here.
The slightest speculation on the market could lose me a fortune. Granted, it’s a fortune in stock that I didn’t exactly work for, but it’s the fortune I need to improve lives in parts of this country that everyone else seems to have forgotten about. I haven’t. I’ve spent years planning for this moment. It has been my life’s mission to make my mark on the world, and not just in tech.
This is it.
I repeat that to myself, over and over, as I stare at my reflection in the mirror. I can’t do this to her. I have to stop it here before we allow ourselves to sink even deeper into this sweet madness that has us so perfectly aligned, so brilliantly matched. It’s like the universe designed us specifically for each other. Her body sings to mine. My heart drums to her beat. I was right. This is dangerous…
All those nights I’ve slept alone, not wanting anyone with me, not even the women who willingly gave themselves to me. I’m gonna go back to that, even though I can no longer imagine loneliness again, not after Olivia. I haven’t slept yet because I’m terrified that time will roll faster, and then she’ll be gone. Maybe I deserve to be alone. I have a mission. I have something important to do. She cannot jeopardize any of it, no matter how much I want her.
“Oh, sorry,” Olivia murmurs as she comes into the bathroom, naked and groggy from sleep. “I thought you were in the… in bed… Wow, I didn’t even realize you were gone.”
“You’re a deep sleeper,” I reply with a smile. “Are you awake now, or is this you sleepwalking?”
She looks down at herself, her gorgeous naked self, then gives me a playful grin that does all kinds of things to me. “Oh, I’m definitely awake. And so are you, by the looks of it…”
“Olivia…”