Page 81 of Center Ice
I press forward into her, rolling her onto her back as I prop myself up on my elbow to deepen the kiss. She gives it right back to me, wrapping her leg around my hips and pulling herself onto her side, lining our lower bodies up so that her center is pressed right against the quickly hardening length of my cock.
Her sighs quickly transform into breathy moans, and her hand slips from my neck, trailing along the muscles of my chest and abdomen, until she’s dipping her fingers into my boxer briefs. She trails her fingertips along the inside of the waistband, where she runs them back and forth over the muscles of my lower abdomen, but she doesn’t explore farther as she continues to kiss me.
It turns out she doesn’t need to, because my cock springs to life, pushing up into her touch, and as soon as she feels the smooth head brush against her skin, she lets out a groan and slides her fingers down, gripping my shaft in her warm hand. The feel of her skin sliding against mine as she works her hand up and down has me reaching for my boxers and pushing themdown my legs. But of course, getting them over my thighs is a two-handed job, so Audrey pushes me back onto the mattress, saying, “Allow me.”
As she kneels on the bed in nothing but a t-shirt, her long brown hair messy from sleep, and my boxers now in her hands as she gazes down at me, I feel a tightening in my chest.
“I want you so badly?—”
Her lips turn up at the corners with a little smirk and she interrupts me to say, “I can see that.”
“I want all of you, Audrey. Not just your body. I want your days, and your nights. I want the good times and the messy, difficult bits too. I want to be the one to be there for you when you need a shoulder to lean on. I want to be there for Graham as he grows up. And I don’t want to wait any longer. I know it will take time for you to fully trust me”—I reach out, sweeping her hair off her shoulder and gripping the back of her neck—“but I’m not going anywhere. I’m always going to be here for you. We’re going to figure out how to make this work, forever.”
She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath, then opens them again. “I know.”
“What do you know?” I ask, searching those pretty blue eyes that light me up.
“I know that you’re in this for the long haul. I know you want to make the past right by being there for me and Graham in the future. And I know that I’m being difficult, needing time to adjust to the idea that your feelings for me are genuine and not just part of you trying to fix your mistakes from the past.”
“Is that what you think?” I ask, using my thumb to tilt her chin back up when she looks down. “Look at me, Audrey.”
Her eyes track back to my face. “I’m always going to be here for you. Not just because I think you’re unbelievably beautiful and because you’re the mother of my child and because I always want to get you naked. I’m here for you because Iwantto be partof your whole life. Because you’re the kindest, smartest woman I know. Because you make me want to be the kind of guy who deserves someone like you.”
There are tears in her eyes, but I hold her face steady, refusing to let her look away. She needs to know how serious I am about her. Most importantly, though, she needs to believe thatshe’sworth it. Because what I’m coming to realize is that, with the exception of her brother, every other man in her life has let her down, made her feel like she wasn’t worth staying for. Including me. But I’m not going to let her down again.
I sit up and pull her face to mine, kissing her lips gently. Then she pulls back, looking me straight in the eye, and admits, “I’m scared.”
“I know.”
“The last person I gave my heart to left me. He broke my heart, and he broke Graham’s too.”
“Audrey, your worth is not determined by his inability to value precious things. He was obviously an idiot. But you know what? I’m not. I see what I have here, and there’s no way I’m ever walking away. So, you’re stuck with me.”
She leans forward, resting her forehead against mine. “Good.”
I pull her onto my lap, her legs straddling me, so she’s sitting right on my cock. “I’m going to take care of you in every way I know how. Starting with satisfying all your needs in bed.”
Her chest shakes with inaudible laughter.
“Lose the shirt.”
Eyes widening, her voice gets a playful tone when she says, “Yes, sir.”
I don’t think she means it the way my dick wants to take that comment, but it has me pressing up into her so that I slide along her wet seam. “Careful princess, or I’m going to start getting a lot more demanding just to hear you say that again.”
She pulls the shirt off and leans back just enough that I can let my eyes roam over her breasts and down her stomach. This time, she doesn’t try to hide from me, and it feels like a million miles of progress have been made.
“God, Audrey, the things your body makes me want to do to you…”
“Tell me,” she says, and moves her hips forward so she’s sliding along my shaft.
I cup her full breasts in my hands and slide my thumbs over her nipples, watching the way her eyes close halfway as a result. She tilts her head back and presses her chest forward, bringing one of her nipples to my mouth and running it over my lips. I can’t help but open for her, and I trail my tongue around and then over the hard peak before I suck her fully into my mouth, holding her breast there as I tease her nipple with my tongue. Her hands grip my shoulders as her hips move in tempo with my tongue, and she hisses out a sound of pleasure that has the need coursing through my veins harder than before.
I let her breast go, resting my hands behind me so I’m leaning back slightly as I look up at her. “You want me to tell you what I want to do to you? Everything. Starting with, I want to slip inside you right now and watch you ride my cock while these perfect tits bounce in my face.”
She rises on her knees on either side of me, reaches between us to line me up with her entrance, and then slowly sinks down onto me, sighing as I slide into her. “So fucking full,” she whispers as she pauses.
“C’mon, baby,” I say, hoping to encourage her to keep going. “I know you can take all of me.”
