Gray Back Alpha Bear(26)

“It’s just you and me, Creed, and I’d never hurt you. Never.”

“I haven’t been with a woman since you,” he gritted out. “Haven’t wanted to. Only want you.”

“Wait, really?”

“Gia! Step back.”

Right. Focus. She stepped back, the water lapping her ankles now. “I cheated off Willa’s homework all through middle school and half of high school, so my parents got really confused when I barely graduated college with a C average.”

“Ha,” Creed huffed out. “C team, C team,” he chanted breathily as he dragged his feet another step in. His abs flexed with every panicked breath, but when he looked up at her, he flashed her a brief, proud smile. “Last night, I couldn’t sleep, so I snuck into Matt’s trailer and snuggled you to try and feel the baby move, and then I went back to my place before you woke up.”

“Creed,” she said, laughing. “That’s naughty!”

“I’ll probably do it again tonight,” he admitted through a grin. “Step back.”

She shook her head slow. “I think we’ve gone far enough for tonight.”

Confusion rippled through his silver eyes until she sank down in the cold water, leaned back on her elbows and spread her legs wide. “Come here.”

Creed swayed on his feet, eyes riveted between her legs. He looked back at the beach, then back at her.

“Make me come, and you can sleep by me all night,” she whispered.

Creed padded through the shallow waves, eyes round as the moon above them. He fell to his knees between her legs in the surf. His giant hand palmed her slightly rounded belly, and he rubbed it, looking at her with such tenderness. “I won’t hurt the baby?”

With a smile, she shook her head. She was so fucking proud of him. He was on his knees in the water, waves lapping at his legs, but he wasn’t focused on that. He was focused on the safety of their child.

His erection was long and thick, jutting out from between his legs, and the sight of him like this—masculine, lithe muscles, ready immediately for her—pooled warmth through her middle that spread down between her legs.

He sat back and pulled her until she straddled his lap, the shallow water still surrounding them. Eyes locked on hers, Creed rolled his hips, pressing his dick between her slick folds.

Gia released the shuddering breath she’d been holding and closed her eyes to focus on the building pleasure between her legs. When she opened them again, Creed was smiling.

“You’re so fucking beautiful,” he whispered, then nipped her lip.

She loved the way he had said it with such conviction. She hadn’t felt beautiful lately. She’d felt bloated and swollen and restless, but here, naked in the moonlight, in the waves of Bear Trap Falls with the man who held her heart, she felt like a goddess.

His reward was one of those biting kisses that seemed to rile up his bear. A growl rattled through his chest, and he rolled against her again, this time gripping her ass and pulling her tight against his shaft.

“It’ll be hard to stay gentle,” he said in a gravelly voice.

He was hiding his eyes now, so she lifted his chin until he looked at her. “Why?” She rocked against him again, and a helpless sound came from his throat.

“Because,” he whispered, gripping her hair until her neck arched back for him to kiss the sensitive flesh there. “I’ve wanted to be with you since you left Saratoga.”

There he was again, putting all her insecurities at ease. He’d thought of her, as she’d thought of him all these months. She hadn’t been just a one night stand for him. She’d been more. Gia lifted off his lap and pulled a slow stroke of his shaft before she angled it at the mouth of her entrance. She slid down an inch, teasing.

Creed’s kisses trailed across her collar bone, then down until he pulled one of her nipples into his mouth. He sucked hard and brought a cry from her lips. Fuck, he remembered what she liked. His tongue laved against her oversensitive bud rhythmically, slowly, drawing each shaky breath from her. She slid down another inch and reveled in the feel of her man inside of her again. She never thought she would have another shot at this, but Creed was giving it to her.

He moved to her other nipple, trailing biting kisses as he went, his hands gentle as he ran his palm up her spine and gripped the back of her neck. Enough. She wanted it all. No more playing or teasing, she wanted all of Creed. He sucked her bud hard and released it to the cold air. Angling his head, he kissed her, lips crashing against hers like waves breaking the shore beneath them. He plunged his tongue into her mouth as she settled over him, taking all of him. A growl rippled through him, and he gripped her neck harder. Holy shit, Creed was hot like this. The layers of his carefully maintained control were slipping away to reveal the beast inside of him, snarling and feral, hungry with lust that only she could sate.