All of it was worth it, because as soon as the girl was in Nassir’s hands, I was free. Well, as free as someone that was going to be spending the rest of their life in WITSEC and at Nassir’s beck and call could be. But I was free to introduce the me I was going to be from here on out to my girl and I couldn’t wait. I hoped she liked a guy in a snazzy suit, a guy that decided it was time to use his problem-solving skills for good instead of evil going forward.
I slid my hand up the back of her leg and pressed myself into her soft center. Her eyes widened at the feel of my thick flesh against her and her mouth dropped open in a little gasp. I rubbed my nose along the line of her jaw and worked my hands underneath the slouchy sweater she was wearing. Her curls were cut shorter than they had been up at the cabin and I could feel the points of her hip bones and the edge of her ribs as I uncovered her skin. Her bra was a pale pink, made of lace and silk. It was pretty, but not as pretty as the full mounds and pointed tips it was covering up. I dragged my tongue along the lacy edge and curled my fingers around her waist.
“I dreamed about you every night.” I slid a hand up her spine until my fingers touched the clasp on her bra. “I jerked off to memories of you in the shower every morning.” I popped the clasp open and sighed when I ended up with a handful of warm skin. The velvety point of her nipple stabbed eagerly into my palm and her eyes got heavy lidded and languid. “During the day, I would wonder what you were doing. I couldn’t stop worrying about you. Were you finally grieving for your sister? Did your shoulder heal right? Were you taking care of yourself? Were you waiting for me?” I bent my head and kissed the upper swell of each of her breasts, biting down on one so that my teeth left marks on her perfectly pale skin. I wanted to devour her. “I was consumed by you, obsessed. It made me feel crazy. I would’ve done anything to get back to you.” I licked up the line of her throat and stopped to nibble where her pulse was pounding under her skin. “When I was younger, all I wanted was power and respect. I wanted everyone to know I was someone, that I had made something of myself.”
I pulled back and trailed my fingers over her breastbone and straight down the center of her body until I reached her belly button. I dipped a finger inside, which made her giggle until I curled it under the waistband of her jeans. “I want you more than any of that, Echo. I don’t care if a single soul on this planet knows who I am or the things I’m capable of doing, as long as you know. All I want is you, Pop-Tart.”
She lifted her hips so I could get the denim down around her backside. I had to step back so I could pull the jeans down her long legs. My dick immediately missed the soft cradle it had been in and my blood went thick and hot at the sight of all her creamy skin. She really was the only thing I’d ever gotten exactly right in my life.
“Well, I want you too, Benny…but I’m going to be honest and tell you that I want more than that.” She blinked up at me as she reached for my tie so she could pull me back toward her. The silk tightened around my throat and made me swallow hard.
I put my hands on the counter next to her naked hips and leaned down so that my forehead touched hers. “If I can give it to you, I will.”
“Oh…you can give it to me, all right.” She snickered at me and wiggled her eyebrows up and down comically, which made me laugh, something I hadn’t done much of before her. “But first, I want you to promise me that if we’re in this, we are in it for real. No hiding all the ugly bits and pieces, no pretending things are working if they’re not. I’ve lost so much of myself trying to hide from things that hurt me, Benny. I don’t want to hide anymore. I want to be wide awake for every second of this. The good, the bad, and the ugly…I want all of it and I want to know you want all of it as well.”
I nudged her legs farther apart and slipped my thumb between her wet folds. She was slippery and all kinds of liquid heat against my fingertips.
“Well, you’ve got me, so the bad is covered.” I swirled my fingers around her stiff little clit and then pushed them into her warm channel. Her entire body spasmed around the invasion and all her muscles tightened. “I have you, so the good is more than covered.” I bent so I could kiss her, sweet and slow, which was the opposite of the way I was stroking my fingers in and out of her body. She shifted on the counter in front of me, hips lifting as her hand fisted my tie in a death grip. “Neither one of us has anything very nice to look at in our pasts, so I think we have the ugly nailed down as well. We have it all covered, Echo, and whatever else comes our way, we’ll handle that as well.”