by Susan Stoker
“In case I haven’t told you already, you’re amazing,”
Julie turned in Patrick’s grasp, happy he kept his arms around her, and looked up. “It feels good to help people, rather than belittle them or make fun of them for what they don’t have. It’s what I’ve done in the past, and I’m ashamed of it.”
Instead of responding to her words, Patrick said, “You’re coming over tonight, right?”
Julie thought the change of subject was a bit bizarre, but she answered affirmatively anyway.
“Good. I enjoyed holding you in my arms last night. But I think it’s time to move our relationship to the next level…if you’re ready.”
Julie knew exactly what Patrick was saying. She grinned up at him. “I’m definitely ready, and I’d like that.”
“I have a meeting at four today, but I’m headed home right after. When can you get there?”
“Anxious, are you?” Julie teased.
“Hell yes. You have no idea what’s in store for you tonight, sweetheart. I’ve dreamed about your body under mine. I’ve thought about how you’ll sound when you come apart for me. All of it. I can’t wait. And, as you heard me tell Cookie, I have PT in the morning, so you need to get to my place as soon as possible. I’m not planning on either of us getting much sleep.”
Julie knew she had a stupid grin on her face, but she couldn’t help it. “I’ll make sure I’m there by five. That work?”
“Perfectly. And as much as I want to kiss the hell out of you right now, it’s not exactly appropriate for the Commander of a Navy SEAL team to be sucking face at work. So for my professional reputation’s sake, get going. I’ll see you tonight.”
Julie nodded and pulled back reluctantly. “Thank you for being you, Patrick.”
He nodded. “Go on. Be safe.”
Julie smiled at him and walked backward to the door, not turning around until she’d exited and couldn’t see him anymore. The goofy grin on her face stayed there for most of the day.
Chapter Thirteen
Dinner was delicious. The dishes were in the dishwasher and Julie was drying her hands on the dishtowel hanging off of the handle on the refrigerator. She’d turned to ask Patrick what else she could do when she found herself being lifted through the air. She screeched and grabbed on to Patrick’s shoulders as she was spun around and her butt landed on the table they’d finished eating their meal on not ten minutes earlier.
“Patrick, what the—”
Her words were cut off when his mouth came down on hers and his tongue swept inside, making her lose whatever it was she was saying. She wrapped her legs around his hips and her hands went to his shoulders as she hung on for the ride.
Patrick couldn’t wait anymore. He’d controlled himself throughout their pre-dinner small-talk and as they’d eaten. But watching her chew, and laugh, and generally just be the wonderful person she was, had pushed him over the edge.
When he’d watched Julie in his kitchen, happily helping him clean up the mess he’d made preparing the lasagna they’d eaten, something snapped inside.
He needed her. Now.
His hands wandered up her sides, wondering anew about how delicate she seemed. She was tiny compared to him, but her personality more than made up for her small stature. She felt as if she was made to be in his arms. Patrick picked his head up to look her in the eyes. “You ready for this? For me?” He wanted her to be one hundred percent sure. He knew what she’d been through, and they’d had a talk about this once. She’d reassured him that she didn’t have any hang-ups about sex, but he needed to be certain. The last thing he wanted to do was traumatize her any more than she’d already been.
“Take me, Patrick. I want you.”
It was all he needed to hear. His hands went to the bottom of the shirt she was wearing. It had buttons down the front, but they would take too long to bother with. He drew it upward and Julie lifted her arms to assist him as he pulled it over her head. Patrick threw it behind him without looking. He’d had his lips on her tits in the past, and couldn’t wait to suck on them again, but for now he needed more. He needed to be inside her.
His hands went to the button on her pants, but her hands were already there.
“I’ll get this. You do yours.” Julie’s voice was breathy and urgent.
Patrick liked the way she thought. He grabbed his wallet out of his pocket and quickly pulled the condom out. He’d put it there earlier, so it was handy. Holding the packet between his teeth, he quickly undid the button on his jeans and lowered the zipper, never taking his eyes off of Julie’s fingers as she did the same to her own pants.
Patrick quickly rolled the condom over his erection and helped Julie pull one leg out of her jeans and panties. He didn’t give her a chance to remove them completely. He put his hand over her folds and sighed at the wetness he found there. He put his other hand on her belly, amazed how his entire hand could almost span her from hip bone to hip bone.
“God, you’re small,” he said, for the first time worrying about her size compared to his.
“You’ll fit, Patrick,” Julie reassured him, putting her hands over her head and arched her back.
Her wanton pose made him groan. He held her still as his fingers caressed and teased her bundle of nerves and her soaking-wet folds. Never giving her what she was so greedily asking for. “All I could think of while you were eating tonight was laying you out on this table and fucking you so hard you’d feel me for days.”
“Then what are you waiting for? Do it!” Julie demanded in exasperation.
“Because now that I have you right here where I’d fantasized about, I’ve decided I want to go slow, to take my time. I realize I should carry you into my bedroom and take you on my bed, you deserve that and more. But if I have to wait another second to make you mine, I don’t know what I’ll do.”
“Fuck me, Patrick,” Julie moaned. “Please, for the love of God, stop teasing me and take me.”
Before the last word was out of her mouth, Patrick put one hand next to her hip on the table and guided the tip of his condom-covered cock to her opening with the other.
They both groaned as he entered her for the first time.
“Oh lord, Julie. You’re so hot and slick.”
“More, give me more!”
Patrick pulled back then pushed in a little farther than he’d been in before. “Slowly, Julie. I want this to be slow. I don’t want to hurt you, but I also want to savor it.” He put one hand on the back of her neck, making sure she was looking at him. Both of her hands latched on to his waist and she whimpered passionately under him, gazing up at him and breathing hard.
He pulled out and eased inside her a bit farther and held still. “I love you, Julie Lytle. I want to be the only man you let in here for the rest of your life. I want to protect you from anyone who tries to hurt you and be there when you need me. I want to fuck you on my table, on the couch, on the counter, in my shower and in my bed. I don’t think I’ll ever get enough of you.”
Without giving her time to respond, Patrick pushed the rest of the way inside. He ground his hips against hers, loving how she immediately lifted her legs and wrapped them around him, her actions showing him more than words ever could that she was over what had happened to her all those months ago. He could feel her jeans dangling off of one of her legs and his own pants were hanging off his ass. He hadn’t even taken the time to take off his shirt.
But even with both of them still half-dressed, Patrick still felt more naked than he had in his entire life as he waited for Julie’s reaction to his words.
“Yes, Patrick. I love you too. I have no idea how I got lucky enough to be here, with you, with everything I’ve done and who I’ve been in the past, but I’ll fight and die to keep it now. To keep you.”
Patrick groaned, pulled back and thrust back inside Julie, hard. His hands slapped on the table next to her, balancing him over her. He’d wanted to keep this soft and light. To slowly bring them both to an orgasm, but i
t didn’t look as if that was going to happen. Oh, the orgasm would happen, but instead of being a gentle, loving thing, it was going to be hard and explosive. Patrick could already feel the stirrings of it moving over him.
He stood upright abruptly, holding onto Julie’s hips and pulling her into him, angling her so that her hips were tilted upward to take his cock but her back was still on the table. He slammed into her once, then twice.
“Oh yeah, that feels amazing,” Julie moaned, grabbing hold of both sides of the small square table with her hands, bracing herself for his thrusts. “Again, do it again, Patrick.”
Patrick shifted one hand so his thumb could press against her clit as he pistoned in and out of her small body. He felt her body grip him harder as he drew back, as if she didn’t want to let him go. Then he pushed through her quaking muscles back inside to heaven.
He’d had plenty of sex in his life, but Patrick didn’t remember any of those encounters being like this. He flicked his thumb faster over Julie’s bundle of nerves. “Come on, sweetheart. I wanna see you explode for me. That’s it…right there. Oh yeah.”
Patrick watched as Julie’s back arched off the table, her mouth opened with only a groan escaping, and she jerked in his grasp. She humped her hips against his own as her orgasm washed over her. He felt her muscles fluttering around his cock and the rush of wetness against his balls as she thrashed in ecstasy.
He waited until she pulled away from his thumb, which he’d kept on her clit, prolonging her orgasm. She’d reached the point where it wasn’t pleasurable anymore because of how sensitive her clit was. Patrick put both hands on the table and leaned over her.
“That was beautiful. Abso-fucking-lutely beautiful. Hold on to me. Watch as you take me over too.”
Patrick felt Julie’s hands slide under his shirt and latch onto his hips.
“I’m gonna take you hard. You ready?”
“Oh yeah. Do it. Fuck me, Patrick.”
It was if her words flicked a switch inside of him. He couldn’t hold back any longer. He looked down and watched as his cock disappeared into her body, then reappeared, then disappeared again as he sank into her warm body. “I’m coming…oh God, Julie!” Patrick thrust two more times, hard, and held himself deep as he came. The world narrowed to Julie and the feel of her under him as he emptied himself deep inside her.
He came back to himself and opened his eyes, not realizing at some point he’d closed them, to see Julie smiling up at him. She was running her hands over his sides soothingly, patiently waiting for him to come back to his senses.
“Holy shit,” Patrick whispered reverently.
“I think that’s my line,” Julie teased.
Patrick leaned over and grabbed Julie with one hand around her waist and the other behind her back. She squealed in surprise as he once again easily picked her up.
“Hold on tight.”
She did as he asked and Patrick shuffled through his house to his bedroom, trying not to trip over his pants, which had slid down to his knees. He heard Julie giggle as he almost tripped. He made it to his bedroom and stopped by the bed.
“Drop your legs, sweetheart.”
“I don’t want to lose you.”
Her words made his heart swell. “Unfortunately, as much as I might want it, I can’t spend the rest of our lives with my cock inside you, as good as it feels. I have to deal with this condom and we have to get these fucking clothes off. I promise, Julie, as soon as I’m up and ready again, I’ll be right back in there. But in the meantime, I have time to learn every inch of your body, to taste you, to lick you, to make you mine.”
“I am yours, Patrick. As long as you want me.”
“That’s good then, because I want you forever.”
She eased her grip on his hips and he pulled back, allowing her to drop her legs to the ground. “Strip.”
Within minutes, he’d taken care of the used condom, removed his clothes, and joined Julie in his bed, both of them naked.
“I’m sorry our first time wasn’t romantic,” Patrick apologized ruefully. “I meant for it to be, but as I told you out there—”
Julie cut off his words. “It was perfect. I rather like that you wanted me so badly you couldn’t wait.”
“It’s a good thing. I have a feeling it’s going to be that way a lot.”
Julie only grinned up at him and said, “Now…about those other things you said you were going to do…you better get to work…five o’clock is going to come awfully early in the morning.”
Patrick mock saluted her and scooted down her body, easing her legs apart and settling in. “Yes, ma’am. Anything you say.”
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New York Times, USA Today, & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Susan Stoker has a heart as big as the state of Texas where she lives, but this all American girl has also spent the last fourteen years living in Missouri, California, Colorado, and Indiana. She’s married to a retired Army man who now gets to follow her around the country.
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