Fearless In Love(55)

“Yes.” She wriggled back against him, loving the way his muscles tightened against her. “Take me, Matt.”

“I will.” He pressed a hot kiss to her shoulder. “But I want you to close your eyes and feel first. Feel what you do to me, Ari.”

Nudging her legs farther apart, he slipped his rock-hard erection between them, stopping just short of entering her.

He was hard and pulsing against her sex, and with her eyes closed, her senses came totally alive. She was lightning ready to strike at any moment. When he slid a hand under her belly and found the center of her arousal, it was the ultimate—and the very best—shock to her system. She felt him everywhere, his fingers slip-sliding over her until she throbbed madly, his big muscular body blanketing her, his mouth on her neck, his kisses in her hair, his breath at her ear. There was delicious friction everywhere, beautiful sensation all over.

“Matt.” Everything he did made her body surge and crest. It was so good. Too good. Scary good. She wanted to be fearless, but she was in so deep now that it frightened her a little. “I don’t… I can’t…”

“You can. For me, Ari. Only for me.”

With his words, she shattered, his deep voice wrapping around her, his arms tight and possessive. She shuddered with a pleasure so intense that she lost all thought—there was only his heat surrounding her, taking her higher.

“I love how ready you are for anything,” he murmured. “For everything.”

She trembled with the sensuality of his touch. “Don’t stop.”

“I already told you,” he whispered as he hauled her back against his hard chest, her legs splayed open over his. “I can’t stop. Not when I’m with you.”

She couldn’t see his face, could only feel his heat between her legs, his breath in her hair. Instead of pushing into her, he simply held her against him as he ran his big, strong hands over her belly, her breasts, up to her throat. He nudged her head aside to give him access to her neck and caressed her with his tongue, licking in tantalizing paths.

“Put me inside you, Ari. Make us both feel good. So damned good.”

She loved that he knew so many different ways they could be together. Even slightly kinky ways. Especially those.

“You brought condoms,” she said as she reached back and realized he already wore protection.

“I didn’t plan this,” he whispered against her hair. “But I’m a man who’s learned to be ready for anything. And still, I wasn’t ready for you.” He buried his face against her neck. “You were standing in sunlight the first time I saw you…and you were perfect. I’ve been trying so hard to fight what’s between us.”

“The first time I looked at you—” She felt overfull with emotion, but it no longer frightened her. “I knew you were special. When we finally spoke, once I learned what a wonderful father you are, what an incredible man…” She covered his hands with hers and held them over her heart. “I started falling. And I can’t stop.”

“Ari—” She heard the groan of conflict in his voice. “I’m not a hero.”

“You are, and you don’t even know it.” She tipped her head back against his shoulder to look at him. “I’m not fighting what’s between us anymore. And I don’t want you to fight either.”

“How can I?” The words came out on a growl as he cupped her chin and kissed her. “How can I keep fighting when I see how good you are with my son? When having you in my arms is hotter than I’d ever thought possible. When I think about you all day—all night.”

His exquisite words pulled her closer, became a part of her, and now, finally, she needed to do what he’d commanded in that sexy voice. Shifting her hips back toward his, she slid onto his beautiful erection, one glorious inch at a time. They both held their breath until the moment of complete connection, his chest to her back. She felt stretched to her very limits. And filled all the way to her heart.

As he moved inside her, his hands roamed down her body, leaving fire in their wake. And when he slipped his fingers between her legs, stroking her most sensitive spot, she hovered right on the edge of total bliss.

“I can feel you everywhere.”

“I feel you, Ari.” Holding her tightly, he continued that intoxicatingly slow rock-and-roll of their bodies. “You’re so soft. And so strong at the same time. So sweet. So perfect.” Shifting his hips, he reached a spot inside that made her tremble and quake, and when her body involuntarily rose to a faster pace, he held her hips, forcing her to match his slow, erotic, mind-altering rhythm. “Slow, baby. Slow and wild.”