Page 30 of By The Book

His mouth trailed along the inside of her thighs first. With his hands under her knees, and pulled until half of her body was hanging off the bed. He pushed her legs apart to receive him and Tara couldn’t help but watch the way his mouth captured herfolds.

But that didn’t last long. Tara threw her head back as a fresh wave of mounting pleasure tightened her core until she thought she couldn’t hold it in anymore. But hold it she did. Because she wanted thistolast.

Just as his tongue had toyed with her nipples, so did it tease her clit and slip in to lap up the moisture that practically dripped from her. Her fingers had nothing to grip as she continued to moan and cry out forrelease.

Who knew that Beau could be so powerful, and yet so tender inlovemaking?

When the moment came, her breath hitched and she whimpered even louder as the pressure reached its breaking point. She came and Beau was there to taste the fruits of his labor. Her back arched as the orgasm crested, leaving her body racked with little spasms as he continued to torment her with more flicks of his tongue and grazing of his lips along her tender,throbbingskin.

Tara closed her eyes and was only vaguely aware of Beau tearing open the condom package. She hastily tried to recover so she could do the honors herself, but she was far too weak to move much less return the favor he had bestowedtoher.

She had never known such world-spinning, amazing sex could exist, but here Beau was, proving her wrongoncemore.

He scooted her back onto the mattress, grabbed her by the ass as his leverage. She could feel the head of his cock play between the folds, gliding up and down to tease her further. Tara’s body responded in kind and she hooked her legs around him as more heat pulledbetweenthem.

It shouldn’t have been possible that she wanted another, not after experiencing the best orgasm she had ever had. But when he played with her breasts again, gearing her up for another round, she almost couldn’t containherself.

Her body received him, slow at first. Beau only ventured in a little bit, but it was enough to make her gasp and dig her nails into his broad shoulders. She tried to rock against him to force him inside, but heresistedher.

“Slow,” he whispered, as if that was supposed to make her want itanyless.

Tara groaned inprotest. “Now.”

Beau eased in further, filling the core of her desire until Tara shuddered in ecstasy. With aching slowness, he pulled out and pushed back in, thrusting into her with climbing urgency. Tara held him close, savoring this feeling for as long as her body wouldallow.

It was hard just to think straight as he pounded into her, his face buried into her neck as they moaned and gasped with every thrust. Tara felt her whole universe spin out of focus and the only thing that existed in perfect clarity was Beau and her feelings for him. There was no way the book could have predicted this because no mind on earth could fully comprehend the kind of utter bliss she experienced when they came togetherasone.

She could feel her climax coming a second time and she wasn’t too shy to let Beau know through her screams. He pumped faster until they orgasmed in unison. Intertwined, they spiral down from theirerotichigh.

Tara shuddered and felt the aftershocks course through her nerves as his cock pulsated within her. They sighed together and rolled to the side. It was a wonder he had any strength at all to pull her up onto the bed, so they could lay beside oneanother.

A light sheen of sweat dotted her forehead as she tried to catch her breath. Sex took the wind out of her even more than linedancing.

Beau’s arm encircled her waist, a gentle reminder that he was still there and still completely real. He wasn’t some fictional character from one of her books that left her as soon as she slipped it back on her shelf. He wasn’t going to disappear again like he did after graduation. And she sure as hell wasn’t going to ignore himanymore.

He had a good soul and a tender heart. The body, the arresting blue eyes, it was all icing to sweeten this already yummy dessert she had been gifted. She reached out to stroke the stubble on his cheek. With his face half-buried in the pillow at the head of her bed, he opened his free eye and smiledtoher.

“Why couldn’t I have found you sooner?” she wonderedaloud.

Beau reached up and took her hand in his to kiss the back of her fingers. “Doesn’t matter,” he replied. “I’mherenow.”

Tara edged closer. “You were always there and I never saw it. IknowI-”

He wouldn’t let her continue and captured her mouth in a silencing kiss. Apparently he didn’t want to hear all of her regrets and her apologies. She had so much to atone for, so much she felt like she had to make right by him. One evening of outstanding sex wasn’t going todoit.

She grabbed him and pulled him closer, deepening their kiss until he finally pulled away tospeak.

“I love you,” he whispered. “I always have.” So out of the blue, but so right for themoment.

Tara could only grin. “I love you too. And Ialwayswill.”

Maybe she didn’t have to make up for so much. If he loved her anyway, she didn’t need to prove her newfound devotion to earn back his trust. And with just a few simple words, she made her own declaration that she’d want to spend a lifetime getting to know him and catching up on all theirlosttime.