Sophie was still gasping for breath and pushing her damp hair back from her face, when he pulled away and knelt between her thighs, spreading them wider with his hands, his chest heaving as he stared hard at her sex. She braced herself on her elbows and looked down, seeing what he did: a thick drop of his cum spilling from her swollen, gleaming entrance. As they both watched, it started to drip lower, heading toward her bottom.
“Chris,” she breathed, when he used his thumb to catch that thick drop and push it back inside her. She was drenched from both his cum and her own, her puffy vaginal lips shiny and pink, and she gasped at how sensitive she was as he pushed more of his thick release back into her opening, the sight so erotic she could have come again just from watching it. Then he came down over her, bracing himself on his forearms, and claimed her mouth like he was claiming something precious.
Eventually, they snuggled together in her soft sheets, needing to take a moment to catch their breaths before getting lost in the heady desire that burned between them all over again. She held his battered hand to her lips, kissing the knuckles he’d confessed he’d hurt when he’d punched a wall after realizing she’d left him. They lay on their sides, his larger body spooning hers as they watched the sky through her blinds shift from the purple of twilight to the indigo of nightfall. Marveling at how happy and wonderful she was feeling, Sophie realized she needed to call Nat to let her know that she was okay, after sobbing into the phone all day while her best friend had tried to calm her down. Nat had told her she needed to talk to Chris and let him explain, and she should have listened to her. If she had, she wouldn’t have spent the day pacing her apartment, feeling like her heart had been ripped out, stomped on, and then torn into tiny little pieces.
Trying to remember where she’d left her cell phone, and hating the idea of having to leave his arms, Sophie jumped when her phone started vibrating in the pocket of her shorts that Chris had tossed to the foot of the bed. Guessing it was Nat checking in on her, she sat up and reached for the phone, her eyes widening with surprise when she read the message from her best friend.
I told you, girl! That boy is too smart not to hold on to you as tight as he can!
Wondering what was going on, she set the phone on the bed and turned her head, looking over her shoulder at the sexy stud lying back on her pillows. “Chris, did you talk to my friend Nat today?”
A grin kicked up the corner of his sexy mouth as he reached for her, pulling her across his chest, his touch exquisitely gentle as he curved his big hand against the side of her throat. Eyes heavy and dark with desire, he said, “I might have stopped by the restaurant where you’ve mentioned she works, hoping she’d have a shift tonight. And then I might have begged her to tell me where you live. How else do you think I found you?”
She shook her head, realizing she’d never gotten around to asking him that, after he’d admitted to looking into her employment file, which still listed her old address.
Clearly worried that her silence meant she was upset, he said, “Hey, don’t be mad at her. It’s not like she handed it over without making me work for it. She bitched me out in front of the entire restaurant before I could explain what happened with Erin. And then she still threatened to unman me if I ever hurt you, before telling me your new address.”
Sophie laughed, knowing exactly how fierce Nat could be when it came to the people she cared about. Sliding him a hot look from under her lashes, she said, “I’m not mad at her. She already knows how crazy I am about you.”
He grinned a little, but there was a new, molten look of emotion in his gaze that made her breath catch. “That’s good to hear,” he told her in a rough, husky rumble, “because I’m already falling in deep with you, Soph. So fucking deep.”
Oh...Oh, God. Heat shot through her body like a storm, sweet and intense and incredibly powerful. He hadn’t actually come out and said the L-word — but there was no mistaking that breathtaking look in his eyes. And while it might be crazy, and they might not have known each other for all that long, Sophie believed him. Believed in him...and in the way he felt about her. It was right there, burning in those dark, beautiful eyes, every single time he looked at her.
This new direction in their friendship might have started out with that fateful fortune cookie, but they were making this fantasy a reality. One that was going to last, she was sure of it.
Sometimes...sometimes you just needed a little faith. To believe, even when your logic said things didn’t make a lot of sense. That was the amazing thing about relationships. They didn’t have to make sense to work, and she knew she’d be the biggest fool alive if she let this man slip away from her.
And while she might not always have the level of courage she aspired to, Sophie wasn’t a fool.
“Me too, Chris. It’s the same for me.”
“My brave, beautiful girl,” he rasped, pulling her close so that he could kiss her lips. “You’re not going to regret this, Soph.”
“I know,” she breathed, pushing her hands into his thick hair as she settled her body over his. “I believe you. God, I believe you so much.”
That fortune cookie had told Sophie to take what she wanted... and she had. Yeah, she’d made her own fortune, but the push had been nice. And in some cases, that was all a person needed to do the thing they’d wanted to do all along.
With a smile touching her lips as she lost herself in Chris’s devastating kisses and touch, Sophie decided that she knew exactly who she could pay her good fortune forward to.
On Monday, she and Chris were going to give one of those lucky cookies to Nat.
Coming Soon
KEEPING HIS PROMISE
(Natalie’s story!)
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