Page 299 of Safe With You

She caught my hand.

“Come on.”

I let her lead me to the bedroom.

Her hand stayed wrapped around mine until we reached her bedroom, but the second she turned toward me, I caught her around the waist and pulled her back.

Luna laughed, the sound barely making it out before I kissed her.

There was no hesitation in the way she came against me. No space left for me to wonder whether she meant what she said in the kitchen.

I want you.

Her fingers slipped beneath my shirt, palms moving over my skin before she pushed it higher. I pulled back long enough to drag it over my head.

Luna watched me toss it aside.

Then kept watching.

I smiled. “What?”

“I’m looking.”

“I see that.”

“Then why’d you ask?”

I shook my head and reached for her.

My hands slipped beneath her shirt, moving over warm skin until her breath caught. I slowed, letting my thumbs retrace the same path along her sides.

Her body responded again.

I did it once more just because I could.

“Ellis.”

I pulled her shirt over her head.

For a second, I just looked at her.

She didn’t cover herself or turn away. She stood there and let me, and that got to me more than I expected.

“You’re beautiful.”

Something soft passed over her face.

“Thank you.”

I kissed her before I could smile at how easily she accepted it.

Her fingers found the button of my jeans as I walked her backward toward the bed, but I caught her hand before she could get any farther.

“Not yet.”

“Ellis—”

My mouth found her neck.