by Ivy James
She gasped when he kissed her there, moaned because he stroked and laved, and pleasure overtook her until she couldn’t think at all. Her hips lifted into the strokes, her lips parted to take in more air, and slowly, so slowly, her body began to tighten. Garret’s excitement was tangible as he watched her responding to him, and she embraced the moment. Another stroke, two. Slow, decadent drags of his tongue in just the right spot that sent her skyward with a broken cry.
Time passed, she wasn’t sure if it was seconds or minutes, but she slowly became aware of Garret’s words of praise as he kissed his way back up her body.
“Beautiful. So beautiful.”
She was vaguely aware of Garret moving onto the bed, using the bottle of lubricant generously to better ease his way. She caught her breath at the feel of him, the ridge of him inside her, a bit more, then tightness.
His breath rushed out of his chest. “Are you okay?”
She nodded, eyes closed due to the sensations bombarding her. He felt so good. So right. Like two halves of a whole. Tears stung, and she blinked rapidly.
“Darcy—Sweetheart.”
“Don’t stop.”
“I don’t want to hur—”
“You’re not. I’m just…happy.” She managed a watery smile. “I’m happy,” she repeated with a laugh. “I never thought I’d have this. You. I love you.”
She caught her breath when she saw the sheen of tears in his eyes before he closed them, felt the trembling inside him that revealed so much. He took her mouth in a powerful kiss, his hips moving in rocking motions, back and forth, until she slowly eased him all the way inside. They both groaned at the pressure, the sensation of him buried deep for the first time.
Garret kissed her, then set about pleasuring her all over again. She was amazed by the depth and breadth of this experience versus those of her past, relished the awareness because she knew she’d never treat Garret’s love lightly having craved this for so long.
“Sweetheart, please. Ahh, you’re killing me.”
She smiled, lifted her knees around his hips and drove him deeper, tightened around him and pushed him over the edge. She savored his groans and the heat of his breath, the way he clutched her to him and held her like she was the most beautiful woman on earth—and she climaxed again.
Amazing.
She smiled up at the ceiling, her fingers in his hair, her mouth against his skin. Amazing. But then with Garret she’d come to expect nothing less. Garret and Elizabeth, her new family; they just proved that fairy tales could come true.
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“We need to talk to you about the tutoring thing.”
“Okay.” His gaze shifted to Suzanne’s friend. Surprisingly, he’d been thinking about her ever since he’d seen her leave in such a rush. He hadn’t been able to get her pretty gray eyes out of his head, and he’d felt compelled to find out what happened to send her off in tears. Tuck had filled him in on all the gory details of her divorce and the scene at the door. “Just to warn you, your ex is still here.”
“Doesn’t matter,” Suzanne stated bluntly. “We’re not going to worry about him. Nick, Jenn has a proposition for you.”
He waited, watching as Suzanne elbowed her friend in the side when she didn’t immediately speak up. “What’s that?”
Jennifer Rose fiddled with the strap of her purse and nibbled her lips, distracting him in a way the perky twenty-something with the belly ring hadn’t been able to do.
“I wanted to ask you…Suzanne mentioned…Um, you know, I think I’d like that rum and Coke now.”
He caught the alcohol on her breath when she exhaled and wondered what had happened between her and Dixon. He’d overheard enough of her conversation with Suzanne to know that drinking wasn’t the norm. “Sorry. I can’t serve you that.”
“Why not?”
She sounded so indignant, he smiled. “Because I’ve decided you’re not really a rum-and-Coke kind of woman.”
Her head lowered once more. “Figures. I’m not a lot of things.”
What did that mean? He shook his head and added a teasing grin. “Don’t take it so hard. I’ve been tending bar since I came of age and I can usually tell a person’s drink within a few minutes of talking to him.”
“Oh?” She perked up a bit. “So what do you think I’d like?”
Enjoying himself, he looked her over. Her dark brown hair curled around her face and neck in thick waves, the tips ending where her cleavage began. She was what some people would consider full-figured, but he was a man who appreciated a woman’s curves. “I think you’d like…A Kiss on the Lips.”
“I—I don’t…I mean, um…”
Nick glanced discreetly over at her ex-husband and found the guy still glaring at them. Todd Dixon had always been a loud-mouthed idiot, way too full of himself. Back in school, Dixon had called Nick stupid, snickered at his D’s and F’s, and laughed and made fun of him because he’d been held back to repeat a year.
The way Nick looked at it, he and Jennifer Rose were on the same side. Payback wasn’t out of line, not in this case. Especially after hearing what the guy had done to her.
“Come here.” Nick smiled at her look of shock and was glad her ex couldn’t see it from where he was. But without more than a gulping swallow, she leaned toward him. “Your jerk of an ex-husband is watching you as if he owns you. Wanna have a little fun with him?”
Her eyes flared wide, leading him to believe she wasn’t used to being flirted with. Knowing that made him want to do it more.
“What k-kind of fun?”
Nick nuzzled his nose against hers, heard her sharply indrawn breath and caught sight of Suzanne’s delirious grin with his peripheral vision. But he didn’t stop. He felt compelled to help this woman out, even if he wasn’t sure why. Was it because of what Todd had done to him in school? Because she was a friend of Suzanne and Tucker’s? Or because there was something about her pretty face and sad eyes that told him she was a nice person whose confidence needed a boost?
When Jenn didn’t protest or pull away, he brushed the corner of her mouth with his lips, giving her a slow, sweet kiss that held more heart-thumping heat than anything he’d experienced in quite a while.
She smelled like heaven. The scent of her skin was earthy from the muggy night outside and whatever perfume she’d put on that morning was just strong enough to be intriguing. When he drew away, she sat there, face beet-red and looking more than a bit dazed. “Nice to officially meet you, Jennifer Rose. I’m Nick Tulane.”
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A HERO IN HIDING
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Ivy James is the alter-ego of Kay Lyons, who now focuses on sweet/clean and wholesome contemporary romance and romantic suspense. For more information about Ivy’s slightly sexier novels (or to find Kay’s clean and wholesome versions of them as well as more new titles), please go to Ivy James Author/Kay Lyons Author. Or, find her at one of the following:
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