As I surrounded them with my arms, I felt contentment. Peace. True joy.
And tomorrow, when Thunder arrived, I’d feel complete.
“THEY’RE FINALLY ASLEEP,” Gina announced, leaning against the wall in the living room where Christmas had been ruined by a worthless piece of shit only twenty-four hours earlier. The entire place had been transformed and was decorated as shiny and pretty as a new penny.
“That’s good. Both of them were exhausted,” I murmured as I rose and sauntered my way across the room, stopping only a few inches away in front of her.
“Ruthless Bastard. Protective Bastard. Sneaky Bastard. Red eyes Bastard.” Gina shook her head lightly and gestured to the room. “You really are a complicated man, Diablo. I don’t know what to say about such generosity or all you’ve done for us.”
“I told you I was,” I teased, loving the look that entered her eyes—an intriguing cocktail of adoration, gratitude, and desire.
“Thank you for doing all of this. There aren’t enough words to describe how much this means to me.”
I was just enough of an asshole to take advantage of her words. “Then show me with a kiss.” Pointing above our heads, I grinned stupidly at the mistletoe hanging between us.
Her full, sensual lips twitched with humor before I closed the distance that remained and placed one hand on the wall beside her head. The other lifted as my knuckles brushed the smooth, silky skin of her cheek.
“You’re goddamn gorgeous, babe.”
“You say that to all the girls?”
“Nope. Just the one I’m plannin’ to make mine.”
A flush of pleasure stained her cheeks pink. “Kiss me, Diablo, if you dare, but you better be ready,” she warned.
“Oh?” I asked, my gaze locked on her mouth.
“I’m not going to be able to stop with just a kiss. I want your hands on my body. Your lips on my skin. I need you inside me and to feel this connection between us so deep inside it’s anchored in my soul.”
My nostrils flared as my eyes snapped up to hers, and I caught the lust, affection, and deeply rooted need she didn’t try to hide. “Fuck, baby. I want to hear that again.”
“Which part?” she asked huskily. “That I want you? That I need to come on your cock? Or that I want you in my life because you’re already finding a home in my heart?”
“All of it. I’m a greedy bastard too.”
My head lowered, and I pressed my lips to hers. It wasn’t a rough kiss at all, but there wasn’t a doubt I was claiming Gina for my own. My mouth molded to hers and seared my brain with a longing that I didn’t realize I’d been trying to hide.
Her lips parted, and my tongue plunged inside, delving into the sweetness of her mouth. Passion exploded between us as I groaned, sliding my hands around her waist and then over the luscious, round globes of her ass.
In one swift motion, I lifted Gina, and her legs wrapped around my waist. We walked down the hall to her bedroom, clinging to one another as I kept nibbling on her lips.
Her back met the mattress after I kicked the door shut with a click. We were both far too impatient to bother seducing one another. Our clothing hit the floor fast as she scooted up farther on the bed, and her legs opened wide to receive me. Fuck, if that wasn’t the sexiest thing I’d ever seen.
“You sure you want this?” I checked, barely restraining my Reaper. He wanted to fuck her hard and prove no man could ever please her as well as I could.
“I’m wet and aching. Don’t drag this out.”
“Damn, woman. You just made my dick throb.”
“Make me come, Diablo,” she begged.
There was no need to ask twice.
I settled between those divine thighs, and she welcomed me home as I lined up my dick and pushed inside her. That sweet, tight, heavenly pussy gripped my cock, and I was a goner. A guttural moan escaped my lips as I withdrew slowly and then rammed back in. Her nails dug into my arms as her head tilted back, and she made the sexiest noises of approval as I hammered into her without reprieve.
“Oh, shit,” Gina cursed with a gasp, trying to keep her cries at bay. The pleasure colored her skin a rosy pink, and my Reaper fucking devoured the sight. Perky, perfectly round tits bounced up and down as I lowered my head and sucked one of her nipples into my mouth. My tongue teased the nub into a tight little point as she wriggled beneath me and then matched my thrusts with the wild undulation of her hips.
“You’re gonna be the death of me, woman.”