At the faint rustle, Cody twisted toward me, his jaw slackening as he unhurriedly swept his gaze over me.
But then it flexed, his face all the more gorgeous for it.
“You’re wanting,” he rumbled as he stalked toward me. “Did you see what you needed?”
“Yes,” I answered. “And no. But it’ll do fo?—”
He cut me off with his lips, holding my face in both of his hands. I grabbed his wrists, taking my time to taste him, sweeping my tongue in and exploring his mouth for so long that my body went faint at the lack of oxygen.
I didn’t want my breaths anymore. I wanted him to take them.
Releasing his wrists, I turned my head so I could kiss his palm just as Cody pushed my hair behind my shoulder and kissed down the side of my neck. He stroked down my throat, his breath fanning my skin before he pushed his thumb over my throbbing pulse. His pupils were entirely blown when he looked at me, all black with only the faintest bronze around the edges.
And then he released me, only to grasp me by the back of the thighs and lift me into the air. This time, when my back hit the bed, he followed me. His gorgeous, bare body caged me in as he crawled on top of me, herding me to the top of the mattress. Our erections bumped against each other as we went, and I couldn’t help but buck my hips to chase the feeling.
“You’re ready again,” I panted through a grin, understanding what I was feeling.
“It’s become a condition when I’m near you, Ti Bet,” he all but growled, then pressed his hips forward deliberately. “I’m not sure I’ve been anything but hard or semihard since you cut my hair.”
“Hallelujah,” I breathed, but he likely didn’t hear it as he buried his face in my neck and took a huge breath.
“That was the first time you touched me.” Encircling my wrist, he guided my hand to the back of his neck, just like in the classroom. “You touched me here first.” He guided my fingers to brush along his skin, shuddering as he said, “And then you painted me there.”
Cody’s laugh wasn’t so much a sound of joy but of need as he rolled his hips, sliding us against each other.
My toes curled in pleasure, and my back arched even as I tried to process what he’d said, but the feel of his bare skin on mine overshadowed coherent thought.
“It’s true,” he said, picking up on my muddled thoughts. “I was gone from the moment I heard your sweet voice, Liem, but I was doomed the first time you touched me.”
He bucked, sliding against me again, and any remaining capacity for thought evaporated.
“I’m going to make you mine now, Liem. Has anything changed for you?”
“Everything,” I breathed, “And nothing.”
He studied me for a second and seemed to grasp my meaning, because he sat back on his heels and bit his lip as he looked at me.
“These fucking nipple rings,” he started, low and hushed as he brushed his thumbs over the metal. “They haunt me.”
My body bowed beneath him, my spine tingling.
“Good?” he asked as he tugged on the piercings experimentally.
“So good,” I agreed. “Again, please.”
He followed my instruction and brushed his fingertips over my nipples again, toying with the metal, and my body jerked.
Cody smiled in satisfaction and then leaned over me, reaching for the bedside table, his broad chest blocking out the light temporarily until he returned with a bottle of lubricant in his hand.
He didn’t open it, though, instead setting it beside us before leaning down and kissing me on the lips, soft and sweet. Reaching past my head, he dragged a pillow from the pile and, just as he broke our kiss, lifted my hips and eased it under me to prop up my bottom half. I pressed a hand over my chest, the rapid beats increasing and then briefly stuttering to a halt as Cody’s kisses did the same.
He grasped my inner thighs, the flow of our lovemaking almost turning toward unhurried as we looked at each other, another small ebb in the current of our desire. His gaze moved down the length of my body then, intensity and anticipation pulsing between us as he pushed my legs apart. The next wave crested, escalating in force and becoming almost a tangible thing as I opened to him.
Cody’s expression became absolutely ravenous as the wave crashed, and his head disappeared between my legs.
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Cody
