Alex hung his head. “Yes.”
He heard her intake of breath and for a terrifying moment, thought she was about to hang up. Gripping the phone, he waited, his heart painfully pounding.
“This isn’t a good time for me to talk,” Nora said.
“No, Nora, please don’t hang up. Give me a chance to explain. I just want to make things right. It’s not.”
“Maybe I could stop by at lunch,” Nora said. “If we’re going to work together there are a few things that need to be resolved. My career is important to me ... but so are you.”
Now it was Alex’s turn to fall into silence. “Whatever it takes, Nora,” he said, feeling a tiny ray of hope in his heart. “I never want to go through this, to feel like this again.”
“Okay,” she said. “I won’t say anything to your father. I’ll stop by, we’ll talk ... and then we’ll see what happens from there.”
*
Alex had barely emerged from the bathroom, his hair still damp from his shower, when he heard the doorbell softly chime. Dressed in the first clean T-shirt and jeans he could find, he raced downstairs, both eager and nervous to see Nora.
When he opened the door and saw her beautiful face framed by a casual cascade of curls, his anxiety vanished. His eyes took in the lovely black dress she wore that framed her like an ethereal Monet painting. Gazing at her veiled eyes, he couldn’t quite make out the emotions playing behind them, but at least the anger he expected was not among them.
Their eyes held each and once she stepped inside, they fell into the embrace of two hearts in search of solace. She nearly collapsed in his arms, and for several minutes he simply held her, feeling her soft breath against his neck.
“I love you, Nora,” Alex whispered against her ear. “I’m not proud of what I’ve done.” He pulled back. “But that’s not going to stop me from trying to make things right. I just ... I just want another chance.”
“I love you, too, Alex,” she said softly, “but you’ll have to earn my forgiveness ... and those of everyone you’ve hurt. It’s not going to be an easy task. Can you make such a promise?”
Gazing into her eyes, Alex nodded and caressed her face. “Starting today, starting at this very moment, I’ll do whatever I have to.”
He brushed his lips against hers and felt a moment of hesitation before she responded. Their kiss was tentative at first, almost awkward as they attempted to navigate past the desperate desire they felt for one another. Then, heated passion roused itself, waking from its slumber and engulfing them in a tidal surge of arousal that became the ravenous fencing of tongues, lips and hands.
Locked together, they moved into the den and onto the leather sofa, eagerly stripping off their clothes to explore each other’s bodies as if for the first time. Gripping Nora’s hips, Alex rolled her on top of him, his rigid cock impatiently springing toward her. Panting, her skin flushed, Nora straddled him, her spread thighs eagerly gripping his, hovering above his hardening cock.
Feeling the heat of her delectable pussy radiating against him, Alex marveled at Nora through half-closed eyes. With her mussed hair and glowing cheeks, she resembled an angel. He reached to fondle the perfect orbs of her breasts and tweaked her button-hard nipples.
“I’ve dreamt about you every night since I left,” Nora whispered, looking away as her cheeks flamed.
“You have?” He turned her face back to his, his gaze stormy and intense.
“Yes, but I’m not going to tell you what they were about,” she insisted stubbornly, teasingly, but he simply drew her close and kissed her neck, his hands wrapped around her waist.
“You don’t have to,” he told her. “I think I can make a good guess what those dreams were about.”
He entered her then, and her entire body sighed in relief as he finally gave her a taste of what she’d been craving. Kissing her passionately, his lips were firm but sensual as they moved against her own, and she kissed him back, melting against his body. His arms tightened around her like bands as he traced the seam of her lips with his tongue, coaxing her open like a blooming flower and sliding his tongue against hers to taste her, as his cock slid deeper inside of her tight, wet pussy.
“Did I taste as good in your dreams?” he asked, pulling back so that his mouth hovered only an inch from hers. She could feel his warm breath against her cheek as he spoke, laced with just a hint of the mint she’d tasted on his tongue.
“I—no… I mean, yes…” she murmured, lost in the mixture of tenderness and lust in his eyes.
He pressed his lips against her again, and this time slid his tongue straight inside to mate with hers, stroking and sucking. A little whimper tried to escape, but he swallowed it as she clutched his shoulders for support.
“Alex,” she gasped when he pulled away again. “I’ve missed you so much…” she whimpered again when he returned his mouth to hers.
Nora poised herself above his cock and gazed at him with glittering eyes before she once again impaled herself on his steely shaft, eliciting a guttural cry from them both. Feeling her tight wetness engulf him inch by inch like a clinging mouth, Alex writhed and moaned with such intense pleasure he had to force himself not to come.
Now he felt her spread lips brush his balls as she leaned forward and began to pump him, slowly at first, then with increasing speed until she moved like a piston above him. Alex cried out and pulled her onto him, crushing her breasts against his chest. His hands kneaded and caressed every inch of her body, then lingered to spread and slap the glorious mounds of her ass cheeks until they sprang against his hands.
The tension building in her lower belly increased until she couldn’t hold on any longer. It exploded outward into a wave of pleasure that had her scream echoing off the floor and walls.
Raising his knees, he angled Nora forward so he could further explore her body. Trailing his fingers along her moist crevice, he paused to touch the base of his cock pummeled by Nora’s silky pussy before teasing the tight ring of her ass with two fingers as she writhed beneath his touch.
Nora tensed, her pace briefly distracted by his playful touch, until Alex penetrated her with one finger, then two, and she cried out at the sheer pleasure of it. She bucked wildly and groaned with desire as he plunged them knuckle deep inside her and felt the pressure of his cock spearing Nora’s pussy. Double penetrated, she thrust even more ferociously, their sweat-slickened bodies slapping rhythmically against each other.
Suddenly, Alex stopped thrusting into her, pinning her in place with his hands placed firmly on her shoulders. She slid off of him as he guided her down the hall to his bedroom…their bedroom, and over to the large glass windows with the breathtaking view of the city below, that had served as the backdrop of their first night together. He pushed her up against the glass, and she gasped at the stark cold of the pane against her achingly hot flesh, then moaned as he lifted one of her legs around his waist and slid back into her.
“Oh God,” she moaned, leaning her head back against the window, her ass pressed up against the thick glass. Her entire body screamed in jubilation at having him back inside of her. “God yes, please,” she whimpered as he began thrusting at a focused, measured pace.
“You are so beautiful, Nora,” he growled, leaning in to take her mouth again. He sucked her tongue as he made love to her, filling her in more ways than one—she couldn’t think past the way he made her feel when he was inside her, as though she was a creature of need, writhing and gasping and reveling in it. His hands gripped her ass, squeezing hard as he slammed her hips into his.
“Do you need me?” he panted, tearing his mouth from hers to breathe into her ear.
“Oh God…yes,” she groaned, digging her nails into his shoulders as she held on for dear life. She let out a little cry when he bit down on her earlobe, and then screamed his name when another orgasm crashed through her quivering body.
He nibbled on her ear, his hot breath washing over her neck. “Good,” he replied, his voice a dangerous grown. “Because I n
eed you, too. Forever.”
Aroused to a heightened frenzy, Nora twisted, her curvy body sliding away from Alex. He groaned, the cresting wave of his impending orgasm abruptly interrupted until she pulled him toward the bed, curling up onto his lap, her back etched tightly against his belly. He felt her grip his shaft and slide his juice-slickened cock into her blistering hot pussy. She cried out as she worked it into her tight hole and slowly lowered herself until she engulfed his entire shaft, riding him in reverse position…slowly…deliberately, the new position giving him full access to her breasts.
Delirious with pleasure, Alex felt like he was having an out of body experience. Every sound, every touch, and even the salty taste of Nora’s hot, sweaty flesh, was amplified. Now he felt the agonizing buildup of his orgasm explode from his core with such intensity that raw pleasure blotted out everything else except his guttural cries.
Through his sweat-stung eyes he glimpsed Nora’s fingers furiously working her clit a moment before she jerked and wailed against him. The walls of her pussy clenched tightly as she violently came, her spasms alternately gripping and releasing his cock. Reaching for Alex’s hands that were holding onto her breasts tightly, the fullness cupped squarely in his palms, they held onto each other tightly before collapsing on top of each other in a panting heap.
Entwined, they lay together, hands clasped, their lips touching. There was work to be done, but for now, time had to wait for them.
Stretching languorously, Nora smiled and kissed Alex on the chin before moving up to his lips. “Your father will be wondering where I am,” she said.
“I spoke to Dad earlier,” Alex said. “He’s expecting me later today. I apologized ... for a lot of things. I promised him the Langley campaign will be finished.”
“He’ll be happy to hear that,” she said. “He and your mother have been worried about you.”
Alex felt a pang of remorse. He hadn’t even considered how his behavior affected his family. “I know,” he said, twirling his finger around a stray, dampened curl. “There’s so much I have to tell you. I don’t even know where to begin.”
Nora gazed at him. “We start with the truth,” she said. “Then we take it one step at a time.”
“One step at a time sounds good to me,” Alex whispered, gathering Nora in his arms. “As long as we can take those steps together.”
* * * THE END (for now) * * *
About Aspen Hayes
Aspen Hayes wrote her very first romance novel at only thirteen years old, by hand, in an old lined scribbler and she hasn't stopped since. Writing what she loves to read, Aspen writes both contemporary and paranormal erotic romance which almost always features an irresistibly sexy Alpha Male with a happily ever after.
Aspen lives on a beautiful island in Canada where she is currently hard at work on the next book in her latest series. Aspen also writes under the pen name Adriana Hunter.
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Rock Hard Complete Series
Wild Obsession Series
Better Mate Than Never
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