Grae’s chest rose and fell with each word, but I was frozen to the spot. All I could hear was“broke my damn heart”over and over in my head.
My body reacted before my brain. I moved so fast I couldn’t have stopped myself if I’d tried. I was steps away, and then I was on Grae. My hands tangled in her hair as I pulled her face to mine.
The moment my lips met hers with crushing hunger, every wall I’d tried so desperately to keep up crumbled to dust. There was no doubt in my mind now. I knew I was ruined. But I didn’t give a damn.
25
GRAE
Caden tookmy mouth with a feral need that had heat licking through my veins. It burned. But that pain only stoked the pleasure coursing through me.
His tongue stroked mine in demanding bursts, and I gave as good as I got. I nipped his bottom lip, silently asking for more. For all of him.
Caden growled into my mouth as he lifted me, and I wrapped my legs around his waist. Then he was moving, striding out of the kitchen and down the hallway. I couldn’t be bothered to try to see where he was headed; I just hoped it was toward a bed.
Each step ignited delicious friction against my core. I deepened the kiss, needing to drown in the heady warmth that was Caden.
He shoved open a door, and it hit the wall. A second later, he was lowering me to the floor.
The scent of him surrounded me as my feet hit the hardwood. I’d never been able to pin down exactly what it consisted of, just that it had always felt like home. Smelling it now, after so long, had a burn flaring in the back of my throat.
Caden pulled back, his eyes locking with mine. I saw gold fire in those depths. I didn’t know how he’d kept that need hidden for all these years.
“Tell me I can have you.”
My heart thudded against my ribs. “Yes.”
Caden’s fingers were on the hem of my tank, pulling it up and over my head. Then he stilled, his gaze tracking over my skin, the swell of my breasts in my bra, my bare stomach. His hand went to my pump. “I don’t want to hurt you.”
My fingers moved to the port site, unclipping the pump tube and capping it. “You won’t.”
Caden dropped to his knees then, and his lips skimmed across my belly, making me shiver. He trailed kisses around my port. “So strong.”
That burn in my throat was back.
Caden’s fingers hooked into my shorts and underwear, pulling them down in one swift motion. A startled gasp escaped my lips as he stared at the apex of my thighs. “So damn pretty.”
He ran his thumb down my center, and my legs trembled.
He lifted one leg out of my shorts, taking my sock off at the same time, then removed the other.
“Spread your legs.”
I squirmed in place. “Caden…”
That gold fire flashed as he looked up at me. “Don’t hide from me. I want all of you.”
I swallowed hard, moving my legs farther apart.
Caden’s tongue flicked out, parting my core, and I gasped. There was no easing into things with Caden; he simply took. Each swipe of his tongue drove me higher. Two fingers slid inside me as his tongue circled my clit.
My fingers dug into his shoulders, and I worried I’d collapse. Caden’s fingers curled, pressing against a spot that had my walls clamping down around him.
“Uh-uh-uh. Not yet.” The words sent phantom vibrations across that bundle of nerves. Caden’s hand pumped in and out of me in a rhythm that had me skirting around the edges of where I wanted to be.
“Please,” I breathed.
“What do you need, Gigi?”
