“Mind if I spread my legs out onto your side?” he asked. “You can relax this direction and put your feet up by me.”
There was plenty of room in the oversized tub to spread out and probably never touch each other. Jenessa had never seen a bath so large. She wondered if Lynn had them specially made. She could have stood for it to be a bit tighter quarters. If Kole didn’t make a move, Jenessa wasn’t sure she’d be brave enough to do it herself. It would be an uncomfortable bath if she spent the whole time trying not to touch him.
“Go for it,” she said.
She was hyperaware of the contact when Kole’s hairy leg whispered across her smooth one. Maybe they didn’t have to touch, but Kole wasn’t trying to avoid her. That was encouraging. She stretched out, rubbing her foot against his hip.
“I’m going to turn the jets on for a bit.” Kole pushed a button on the side of the tub and the jets gurgled to life. Talking was impossible while the powerful jets pounded into their skin and the hum of the motor filled the room.
Since Jenessa didn’t feel like shouting, she laid her head back and relaxed. The jets hit into her sore muscles, pounding away her fatigue with the hot water.
She didn’t know how long she floated, soothed by both the water and the jets, but after a time Kole turned the jets off.
“Now for your prize,” he said, grabbing both her feet in his strong hands. He shifted their bodies around in the tub until his legs were on either side of her hips and he had her feet resting on top of his thighs. “I promise, you’ll ask me to do this all the time once you see how good it feels.”
He took her right foot in his hand, rubbing the bottom with his thumbs. Jenessa had feared she might be too ticklish to allow it, but Kole used the perfect amount of pressure to keep her tickle bone from getting overactive. It did indeed feel good. She could certainly put up with him giving her regular foot rubs. Another perk of starting a relationship.
“That feels good. We might have to bowl some more.”
He chuckled but kept massaging. “There’s so much I don’t know about you, Nessa. I’ve been wondering, just how did you get involved in the FBI?”
Jenessa choked back a startled laugh. People didn’t normally ask her that question, and she avoided it at all costs. Deciding honesty was the only way to move forward, she pulled his right foot up against her stomach and tried her own hand at massaging. “I hate to tell you this, Kole, but you’re bathing with a felon.”
“A felon, huh? That’s interesting. What did you do?”
She reached next to her for the bar of soap and lathered the top of Kole’s foot, going back to work and trying to emulate what she felt Kole doing to her own foot. “Robbed a bank.”
She’d tried to keep her voice nonchalant, but Kole gasped and looked up at her. “Seriously?”
“I would have gotten away with it,” she said, “but my stupid boyfriend wasn’t as skilled as I was at hacking. He left a calling card that led the police right to him when he didn’t cover his tracks well enough.”
“Calling card?” Kole asked.
“It’s a small signature program most hackers use to identify that they were the person who pulled off whatever was done.” She shrugged. “The job was his idea, but I was the one with the real hacking skills. He started dating me shortly after we’d met. At fifteen, I thought that was it. Story over. I was going to marry him, and we’d live happily ever after.”
“And then he asked you to rob a bank.”
She chuckled. “Pretty much that’s exactly how it went. I transferred one million dollars into an offshore account under an assumed name. He was supposed to be the lookout and run interference in case someone caught on that I was hacking the system. Basically, his job was to trick anyone who discovered us into looking the wrong place in the real world. He didn’t tell me he was incompetent.”
“What happened? Did the little punk turn you in?” Kole sounded angry, even though she had thought he wouldn’t be happy with her for breaking the law given his general policy on honesty.
“When the FBI came down on him, they realized he didn’t have the skills needed to pull off the major part of the job. For a deal, he told them who I was. They swarmed my house in minutes.” She shook her head, remembering the terror her fifteen-year-old self had felt in that moment. She hadn’t thought about the crime when they planned it, just the thrill of the hack and then having money to live with her boyfriend in style. “They locked down my computer systems and brought in experts to figure out what I had done.”
“And could they? Figure it out, I mean?”
Jenessa still took perverse pleasure in the memory. The moment she’d realized master hackers on the FBI payroll couldn’t detect her work, except the end result, had been a high point in testing her skills. “They got the gist of it,” she said. “They were surprised at my skill though, especially with how young I was. They gave me two options. I could either return the money and dedicate myself to working for the FBI in their Cyber Crimes Division throughout high school and beyond, or I could be tried as an adult and spend ten to fifteen in prison.”
He nodded, switching the foot he massaged and forcing her to switch the one she worked on so they fit together comfortably. “You made the right decision.”
“Of course. It was never really about the money. I wanted to grow my skills and use them. Mentors at Cyber Crimes taught me things I never knew, and I use my hacking abilities almost daily. It was a win-win for me.”
“Sounds like you knew your calling early.” He grinned from his side of the tub. The humidity had curled his hair in half ringlets around his forehead, looking oddly charming. “Just so you know, Nessa, I love that you decided to give me a massage when I didn’t win the competition. That’s a perfect woman in my book.”
She laughed, tickling the bottom of his foot until he jerked it from her grasp. “I did think giving you a massage in return might be the sort of thing a girlfriend would do.”
He stopped laughing and his eyes grew wide. “You’re on board then? You want to make a real go of this relationship?”
She nodded, loving how happy that seemed to make him. She’d been burned before, but Kole showed her all sides of him. There was no back-end motive to trick her, and he certainly hadn’t tried to charm her from the beginning. She knew all sides of him. This was the right thing to do. “Sometimes fast can be good.”
That was all Kole had waited to hear. She was ready, ready for him, ready for a relationship... he hoped ready for sex.
“Are your feet feeling better?” he asked. “I think it’s time to move this massage to the bedroom.”
Her cheeks flushed even redder than they’d been from the heat, but she nodded. “Okay.”
Excitement pulsing through his veins, Kole pulled the drain for the tub and stood. His wet briefs clung to him, leaving nothing to Jenessa’s imagination. Feeling her eyes on him, he stepped out of the tub. Leaving his back turned to her, he slid out of the briefs.
“Oh, man,” she said in a breathy whisper. “I love that ass.”
He chuckled and grabbed a towel from the nearby hook. “Do I get to check yours out too?”
“Umm...”
He liked that she was a bit timid. He would bring out the wildcat in her, make her realize that she was a sexy woman who didn’t need to be afraid or ashamed of her sexual appetites.
“I’ll wait for you in the other room,” he said, snagging one of the fluffy robes and shrugging it on.
“You will?” she sounded surprised, perhaps even disappointed that he wasn’t staying to watch her dry off.
“I will,” he confirmed, “on one condition.”
The water splashed behind him as she moved around in what was left of it. “What condition?”
“You can’t come out of this room in anything more than the robe.” He pointed to the remaining one. “And I get to decide when you take it off.”
His cock throbbed to life, just thinking about that, and he hoped she didn�
�t back out now. He wanted her more than he’d ever wanted anyone before. Sex had been a game of manipulation with Clarissa. She’d used him to get whatever she wanted. Jenessa would be different. He’d use sex to give her what she wanted—complete and total satisfaction.
“Okay,” she finally replied.
“Can’t wait to see you out there.” He left the room, shutting the door behind him to give her privacy. With any luck, his little felon would be as horny as he was.
Lighting the candles near the bed and pushing the button to bring the gas fire to life, Kole quickly poured two glasses of cabernet and brought them to the bedside table. Roses would have been nice, but that would have to wait another day. The important part of tonight would be sharing it together, claiming Jenessa as his while she claimed him as hers.
The bathroom door cracked open and Kole turned around to watch as Jenessa stepped cautiously out into the candle-lit room.
“Setting a mood?” she asked, a smile twitching her mouth upward.
She looked a touch more confident than she had in the bathtub, reassuring Kole that she wanted him to take her despite her nervousness.
Stepping across the thick carpet, Kole swept her up into his arms, staring into her eyes as she squealed and clutched his shoulders.
“What are you doing?”
He chuckled, carrying her toward the bed. “You took too long walking over here, and I got lonely.”
He set her in the king-sized bed, then climbed in on top of her, sliding his body along hers until reaching her face and giving her a long, deep kiss. When they both needed air, he pulled away slightly, wowed by her unorthodox beauty and how he’d almost ruined his chances with her by not seeing it sooner.
“You’re so amazing.” He pressed a kiss against her forehead, pulse racing with excitement. “I’ve been thinking about this moment all day, Nessa. I want you so damn bad.”
“I want you, too. Let’s not wait any longer. This feels right.”
That was all he needed to hear. Kole pressed his mouth against hers, running his hand between the bed and the back of her neck to pull her closer. She gasped and wrapped her arms around him, licking at the seam of his lips.
Kole opened his mouth and together they licked, nibbled, and explored each other. She tasted so damn good, just like he knew she would. Shifting his weight to the side of her body, he ran his hand along the cotton robe covering her curves. It had fallen open on top to partially reveal her breasts. Kole stroked her skin with a light touch, only allowing a whisper of sensation against her. She trembled and her hips rocked, telling him just how hot he made her.
“You’re already getting wet for me, aren’t you, my felon?” He kissed her neck, knowing that would send her pulse racing as high as his own.
“Yes, Kole,” she moaned, running her hands through his hair. “You make me so damn wet.”
He moved his hand to her legs, tucking it beneath the flap of the robe to caress her inner thigh.
She gasped and spread her legs, obviously wanting him to move his fingers upward.
Kole wasn’t ready to go for the kill. He wanted her in a frenzy before slaking her need. He tickled her inner thighs, moving a bit higher every time but never going high enough to give her what she wanted.
“Please, Kole,” she begged, rocking her pelvis in a more exaggerated fashion. “Please.”
He liked how sweet his name sounded in her breathy voice. As much as he wanted to prolong this moment, her obvious need spurred him to move more quickly than he’d planned. He untied the cloth belt holding her robe in place and spread it open on either side of her.
She stopped moving her hips, seeming hardly to breathe.
With a smile, Kole moved lower on the bed, kissing her flat stomach. He glanced up to see her watching him, hunger in her eyes. He kissed her belly button, then made eye contact again. “You’re beautiful. How did I get so lucky?”
She reached for him, smoothing back his eyebrow with a gentle touch. “I’m the lucky one.”
He grinned. “You’re about to be.”
He ran his hand through the small patch of hair that guarded his true objective, trending downward to slip his fingers where she so obviously wanted them. He purposely missed the hot nub that demanded his attention, prolonging the teasing.
She moaned once more and squirmed against his hand. “Are you trying to drive me insane?”
“Just to the very edge of insanity.” Her wetness coated his fingers, reaffirming how much she desired him. Kole didn’t think his cock could get any harder, but the evidence of her passion made him twitch with need. “I’m going to make you come so hard.”
Kole buried his face between her legs, the smell and taste of her overwhelming him. She was so hot, everything he’d never known a woman could be. He wanted to be inside her so badly but not until she was completely ready. Instead, he went to work with his tongue, gratified at the mewls and squeals coming from above him, telling him she loved what he did to her. It was beyond wonderful. No worries about her being cold or whether she was faking it. She was having a good time and wanted him to know it.
“Please, Kole,” she begged again. “I want you inside me. I need it, need you. Please, please, please.”
He sat up kneeling over her and undoing his robe so she could see his arousal. “There are condoms on the nightstand by your head.”
She reached blindly, knocking over one of the glasses of wine. Neither of them cared as the red wine dripped down to the carpet. She snagged a foil package and tossed it to him. “Hurry, hurry.”
As though it hadn’t been five years since he last did so, Kole rolled it on and then slid between her legs. He bumped against her swollen clit with the tip of his cock, wanting her to heat back up from the brief pause in sensation.
She sat partially up, reaching between their bodies to grip him lightly. “Now, Kole, now!” She guided him inward, not needing any more time.
Kole braced himself on either side of her shoulders, slowly lowering into her tight channel. The walls of her body surrounded his shaft as he entered, like she wanted to milk him of everything he had.
“Oh, God,” he panted, sweating with the effort to keep going slowly and not ram her. “You feel so good. So damn good!”
She wrapped her legs around his waist and reached for his face, kissing him deeply. “Come on,” she urged. “Do me hard and rough, please. Fuck me, Kole!”
He was done. There was no way he could resist that. Kole slammed completely inside her with a grunt, backing out and entering her again and again, as quickly as he could.
“Yes,” she cried, moving in sync with him. “Oh, yes.” She grabbed at his face again, bringing him in for another kiss.
Kole rolled them over as they kissed, putting her on top.
Jenessa didn’t hesitate, riding him hard and dirty, taking her pleasure on her terms.
It was such a damn turn on. He grabbed her large tits, tweaking the budded nipples and holding back his urge for completion.
“It’s time,” she gasped, body going rigid and face tightening into a mask of pleasure.
Kole flipped them again, hiking one of her legs over his shoulder. She liked it hard and dirty, and that’s what he’d give her until he could no longer hold out. He pounded in and out, feeling her pleasure building as high as his as she dug her fingernails into his back and her body convulsed.
She squealed and turned her head to the pillow next to her, covering her face and moaning into it.
It only took one more stroke until Kole joined her, grunting as overwhelming pleasure took over and he was unable to have a coherent thought.
Jenessa threw the pillow away from her face and clutched Kole’s sweaty body. She kissed his forehead, stroking his damp hair while they both cooled from their exertion. “That was so good,” she whispered. “I never knew it could be so good.”
Kole lifted his head, eyes sleepy and face more relaxed than she’d ever seen him. “You’re amazing, Nessa. That’s what
made it so great.”
He was the amazing one, but Jenessa merely smiled and enjoyed the compliment.
He slid away from her, and a chill rushed up where his hot skin had been. “I’m going to clean myself up,” he said. “Then I’ll pour some more wine while you do the same.”
She blushed, looking at the nightstand and seeing the puddle of dark wine. “I didn’t mean to make a mess. I was too excited to be patient.”
He chuckled, not bothering to retie his open robe. “So was I. We were supposed to drink the wine before I took you to bed, but I couldn’t stop myself.”
It felt good, knowing he’d wanted her so badly that he hadn’t been able to wait.
He returned from the bathroom in moments, and Jenessa went to attend to her own mess. His hand stroked across her ass when she passed him, making her smile.
By the time she made it back to the bedroom, Kole sat on the loveseat next to the fire, two fresh glasses of wine on the coffee table in front of him. She made her way to him. Unfortunately, he’d tied his robe while she was gone, so she’d have no more peeks at his magnificent body. At least, not right now. If she had anything to say about it, she’d see it again real soon.
Kole handed her a glass of wine, taking the other for himself and then pulling her down next to him with his free arm.
She turned to press her back against his chest and pulled her feet up onto the couch, enjoying the way he held her and made her feel safe and cherished. She twined her fingers through his and took a sip of the wine. “This is the life.”
“It really is,” he agreed. “Part of me feels guilty, finding so much happiness at a moment when my brother is about to be destroyed. I guess we don’t get to pick when we meet the right person.”
There he went again, saying sweet things. He thought she was the right person. Could she fall in love with this man, or would she end up hurting him once the job ended? Jenessa liked Kole an awful lot, and he was fantastic in bed. She just hoped she could give him what he wanted as time went on.
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