Page 71 of When the Time Is Right
A different man had told me that once. He wasn’t a liar, but he was gone all the same.
I didn’t care anymore if I sounded desperate; I was. “What if you don’t have a choice?”
Painful understanding flooded his features. “Oh, God. No, Alexis. Don’t do that to yourself. Come here.”
I clung to him, searching for the relief to my long-aching heart. “I won’t survive it again. Please. Don’t. Don’t go.”
“I swear. I won’t. Never. Shhh. It’s me and you now. Okay?” His blue eyes seemed to glow in the darkness, and thunder shook the walls.
I willed our words to be true by saying them back like a vow. “Okay. Me and you.”
“That’s right. There’s my girl.” He kissed my forehead, my nose, and my leaky eyes, repeating, “Never. I’m never gonna leave.”
I started to believe him, and with every press of his lips against my fevered skin, I believed him more.
“I need you so much, Hudson.” Not just for another night or another week. I needed him forever.
With a firm hand, he guided my gaze back to his. The intensity in his face nearly crippled me. “Alexis, don’t you get it? I need you more.”
Hudson needed me? This strong man who had the world by the tail needed me?
Then I said four words I never in my wildest dreams imagined coming out of my mouth. “Make love to me.” And I meant them.
I wanted Hudson in so many different ways, but there on the floor, in the middle of a summer thunderstorm, I wanted his body to convince my heart that it was finally safe.
Drawing my shaking hands above my head, he sank inside me with no resistance. The initial sensation of our connection caused both of us to moan into the other’s open mouth. I arched my back and then pressed up against him, taking him deeper than he’d ever been before.
It still wasn’t enough.
I wanted all of him. The stubborn man who had little to no regard for my personal space. The gentleman who tried to open car doors for me. The best friend who never let me walk through Hell alone, and the powerful lover who drove into me now as if Heaven were on our horizon.
But more than all that, I wanted to belong to him. Wanted him to own my pleasure and spend it at his leisure. Wanted him to confide in when the world rattled at my feet. Wanted to show him how much love there was left inside me and prove to him there was enough for him and his son. Wanted to be the woman who was blessed with making him happy.
That night, I worshipped him with my mouth and my hands and my body. I gave him everything I had and more. Sometime in the early hours of the morning, I shouted his name and he roared as we found paradise together.
Spent and panting, I collapsed onto his heaving chest.
“Oh my God.” I kissed his neck and worked my hungry mouth up to his. “I could do this all night.”
His boisterous chuckle shook us both. “I could too, but we have to be at your parents’ house at ten.”
My head jerked up and I lifted up onto my palms to stare down at him. “What the hell are you talking about?”
Guilty and handsome as ever, he grinned. “Don’t kill me, but I sort of called your mom on my way over and told her I was coming over for breakfast because you were going to drop in on them with your new boyfriend.”
So he did tell everyone. Maybe I was maturing, or maybe I was just tired and surrendered to him being a giant horse’s ass, but I didn’t argue. What was the point?
Then again, I was no saint, either, because once we’d made our way to my bed on shaky legs, wrapped in wrinkled sheets, I didn’t even try to save him from the viscous onslaught of the kitty brigade.
My girls had my back.“Whatcha doing over there?” Lex asked as we drove to her parents’ house. With the Chevelle back in its storage locker/tomb, we were in Lex’s SUV, and in a very unprecedented deal from me, which might or might not have included her bending me to her will while her mouth was around my cock, she was behind the wheel.
I looked up from my phone. “Emailing the measurements for the cat condo to my custom cabinet guy.”
Always cautious, she kept her eyes on the road, but her eyebrows shot up. “What for?”
“Because, after looking at your plans, I think the base would be easier to clean and safer in case of a cat emergency if we put the front on hinges. Easy access to the entire unit. I saw you have a few open areas marked off as storage space. It won’t cost but a few dollars more to put a drawer there, and the hinged front would hide it until it’s ready to be used.”
