Gideon dipped his head to me. “We’ve ensured, thanks to the Nobles’ accounts, that you have the best room available in the hospital.”
“Thanks,” I said. “I appreciate that.”
“Come on,” Wylder said to the other guy, cuffing him lightly. “I think we should give these two a little time to ‘catch up’.” He winked at Mercy. “I’ll make sure no one interrupts you for a good long while.”
Mercy rolled her eyes at him and waved him off. They headed out, the door closing with a click behind them. Then it was just her and me in the small but private white-walled room.
Despite Mercy’s reaction to Wylder’s innuendo, I still wanted her as close to me as I could have her. With a wince I suppressed, I scooted over on the bed to make room for her to climb up beside me.
Mercy took the unspoken invitation and nestled against me. I wrapped my arm around her and kissed her forehead. Tension I hadn’t realized she was holding in loosened as her body relaxed against me.
“What did you mean, we’re almost there?” I asked quietly. “Today’s the last day, isn’t it? What’s going on?”
“I really don’t want you thinking about that,” Mercy said, tucking her head next to mine. “You need to focus on getting better.”
“I’m going to have trouble doing that if I have no idea what you all are facing out there.”
She sighed and hugged me tighter but still carefully. “The Storm pulled his men out. Most of them have left. So we won in that way. But Xavier is rampaging around Paradise City, and we haven’t figured out how to stop him yet.” She nuzzled my cheek. “But that’s really not for you to worry about right now. We’ll figure it out.”
I could hear the anxiety in her voice, and I didn’t want to add to it. “I know you will,” I said. “You and the guys have gotten through an awful lot.”
“And so have you.” Her breath grazed the side of my face, warm and sweet. “I’m so glad you’re back with us.”
“Me too.”
I turned my head and found her lips bare inches from mine. Nudging closer, I brushed my mouth to hers. She was too damn magnetic for me to resist, and I’d been without her touch for way too long.
Mercy kissed me slowly at first, almost leisurely. Her hand came up to caress my cheek. I teased my fingers into her hair as I kissed her back. It felt even better than the day when we’d finally come back to each other after so long apart and so much turmoil and misunderstanding. I knew exactly how much we meant to each other, how far I’d go for her and she for me.
For several minutes, we didn’t do more than kiss, until the press of her warm body against mine became too irresistible. With my cock hardening behind the hospital-issue gown, I skimmed my fingers down the side of her body. When I reached Mercy’s ass, I couldn’t help tugging her closer and kneading those taut curves. A pleased murmur escaped her.
When I tried to sit up more to catch her mouth at a deeper angle, Mercy pushed me back down on the bed. “Relax. Let me take care of you.”
I might have protested if her next move hadn’t been to peel off her T-shirt and her bra. My gaze drank in the creamy mounds of her breasts with unrestrained eagerness. Any pain I’d still been feeling had faded away.
This was my girl. My woman. The queen of the Bend. And even if she was trying to make this easy for me, I intended to show her just how glad I was to be back with her in every way she’d let me.
She leaned over me, and I reached up to cup her breasts. Her nipples pebbled at the swipe of my thumbs. My mouth watered, and my cock turned even harder. I hoped Wylder had done a good job of barricading this room, because once we got going, I didn’t know if I’d be able to stop, even if a doctor marched into the room. I needed her too damn much.
Mercy leaned even closer so one nipple hovered right over my mouth. I latched my mouth on it and sucked hard. A perfect little gasp escaped her lips. Her palm flattened against the wall for support as she kept most of the weight of her body off me, but she rocked with the movements of my tongue. The brush of her thigh against my hard cock brought me to even stiffer attention.
I meant to make good on my silent promise to give as much as I took, though. I sucked and pinched, alternating my attention between the two soft mounds. Above me, Mercy started to moan. With my free hand, I inched closer to her pussy and fumbled with the fly of her jeans. As soon as they were unzipped, I tucked my fingers right inside. I caressed her slit, moving my finger up and down the length of it before curling my forefinger against her clit.
She moaned again, louder this time. I spanked her ass. “Shh, be quiet. We don’t want anybody to hear us.”
She whimpered in answer. A wicked idea took over me. I moved the flat of my palm over the soft curve of her ass before slapping on it again. Mercy’s body jerked with a gush of wetness from her pussy. I spanked her lightly, careful not to be loud enough for the sound to echo around us while I continued to work at her pussy.
“Please,” she said as she sat back down, adjusting her legs on either side of my thighs. “I need you.”
I nodded, my own breath ragged with desire. She eased up the hospital gown and slid off her panties before bracing herself right over my throbbing cock. I gripped her hips, pulling her down over me.
Her slickness closing around me was absolute heaven. As she took me fully inside her, both of us groaned together. Mercy raised herself, squeezing my balls slightly as she went, before her greedy cunt swallowed my cock again.
She clutched my shoulders in an almost vice-like grip as she continued to pump over me, rotating her hips around my hard dick. “Fuck,” I whispered, and her eyes rolled up in her head in answer. Suddenly an impulse gripped me that had nothing to do with lust.
“Look at me,” I said softly.
Mercy lowered her gaze, her eyes dark with so much longing I almost came just seeing it. My cock pulsed with need, but I reined that urge in for now. I brushed her hair back from her forehead so I could have a better look at her, and said the words I’d said so many times before, but not recently enough. “I love you, Mercy.”