NOLAN
When the bedroom door closed behind Val, I deflated onto the couch.
I wanted her. Badly. But it wasn’t that simple. Revealing another secret to Val had taken a weight off my shoulders, but I still had a duty to Cressida.What a huge fucking mess I’ve made.But I didn’t regret any of it.
After my confession, Val’s face had wiped blank, and I knew she was drowning in an internal monologue of recalculating everything she’d ever thought about me. I’d give her time, and then we’d talk in the morning. If she was even interested in talking to me anymore.At the very least, it was time to hash things out and figure out where we stood.Maybe this is too much for her.
From the bedroom, my phone rang.Shit. Must have left it on the dresser when I was changing earlier.The shower was still running, so I ducked inside to grab it.
“Nolan?” Val’s small voice behind me. I turned, phone call forgotten. Steam poured out of the bathroom door and only her head poked out, her wet hair dripping on the floor. “I, ah, left my clothes out here by mistake.” She worried at her lower lip, and I wanted to charge across the room and bite into that lip, swallow her gasps, lose myself in her taste. “Could you…turn around?”
I clenched my teeth and turned to face the wall as she rummaged around for a few moments. But then I had a thought. A really dangerous thought.
Ah, fuck it.
“Wait,” I said. The sounds stopped. Val had said no touching, but for what I had in mind, I didn’t need to touch her. “You think you can walk out here in nothing but a towel and there won’t be consequences? I’m turning around.” She knelt on the floor by her clothes, one hand clutching the towel closed at her chest, her pulse thundering at the base of her throat.Fuck, she had to be on her knees already?“Get on the bed.”
She froze, her wide eyes looking up at me in surprise. Desire coursed through me, an insatiable fire.
“I won’t touch you. I’ll stay right here,” I said, my gaze roaming over her. “If you don’t want this to continue, we can stop.”
After a brief pause, she rose and crawled to the middle of the bed.What a good girl.
“I’ve…never done anything like this before,” she said. The vulnerability in her tone had my protective nature roaring to life. And, knowing this would be a first for her had me all too eager to begin.
“I’ll talk you through it,” I promised. When she nodded, I said, “Towel off.”
Her eyes latched on to mine as she slowly dropped the towel and I drank her in. Her regal chin flowing into an elegant neck, then to the swell of her full breasts and the peaks of her brown nipples, begging for my touch. They hardened under my gaze and a shot of need went straight to my cock. A bead of water rolled down the center of her chest to the smooth skin of her belly, drawing my eye to the cleft of her pussy before I returned my eyes to hers. Her lips parted, her chest rising and falling.
“Perfect,” I said.
At my words, her breaths quickened and her hands fisted the sheets.
Fuck me, a praise kink too? Jesus.“Lay back and spread your legs for me.”
She obeyed, positioning so she was propped up and I could see all of her. When she opened her legs, I groaned. “Such a pretty pussy,” I said. “Show me how you touch yourself when you think of me.”
Her pupils flared. “Who says I think of you?”
I pointedly looked between her legs at the evidence of her arousal. “Are you wet for somebody else? Do it. Now.”
Defiance flickered in her eyes before she closed them and did what I asked, teasing her nipples and rubbing in slow circles, pinching until she gasped.Fuck.She’d barely begun and my cock was already straining as she writhed in a way that made me want to pin her down and fuck her until my name was the only sound on her lips. As she trailed her nails lightly up and down her body, goose bumps erupted in their wake.
“That’s it,” I said, struggling to keep my voice even. “Just like that.”
Spurred on by my encouragement, she slid one hand between her legs to stroke the wetness there, and she sighed.It took all my self-control to stay rooted to the spot. I nearly broke when she thrust two fingers inside herself, pumping in and out, while her other hand teased circles around her swollen clit. A moan escaped her lips, and I thought my dick was going to spring out of my pants.
In a surprisingly bold move, Val opened her eyes to peek at me as she continued working herself. Noticing my tense posture—I thought the bed frame might crack under my grip—she asked, “Something on your mind?”
“Little tease,” I chastised, using all of my willpower to remain in place and not launch across the bed at her. But yeah, since she’d asked, I did have something on my mind. “I’m thinking of that day in my office, andhow I would have finished it. How I’d push your underwear aside, bend you over my desk, and fuck that sweet pussy until you beg me to let you fall apart on my cock.”
“I’m not one to beg, Nolan.” But her breathy voice told me otherwise.
“You will.” I gave her a lazy smile. “Get the vibrator.”
She stopped, sitting up with a frown.
“There’s one in the bedside drawer—standard for the ‘honeymoon’ suite. Get it.” When Cressida had told me about that little addition, I’d scoffed, but now I sang her fucking praises.
