Her climax burst through her with a force that was almost painful, every muscle in her body drawing into a tightly coiled spring before releasing, launching her into a bliss filled hurricane that battered every single defense she had. “Jacob!” she screamed as she heard his own long, low grunt of fulfillment, his cock spurting thick jets of creamy essence over their hands.
She struggled to breathe, panting and gasping as she felt her body float back to Earth. Smiling as she felt his whiskered jaw slide over her heaving breasts, she hummed contentedly as he dropped a slow kiss against the throbbing pulse in her neck and pulled his fingers from her still pulsing pussy.
“You’re gorgeous when you burn bright, Harmony. Fuckin’ beautiful,” he rumbled against her cheek, groaning as he collapsed by her side, careful to keep his weight from crushing her. “You nearly killed me, darlin’,” he chuckled, fitting the front of his body to her back, cradling her against him.
“I don’t think I can move.” She arched her back against the warm wall of his chest. Sated and lethargic, she smiled as he cuddled her to him, his hands moving up and down her side from her breast to her hip then back again.
“Let me catch my breath and I’ll clean us both up,” Jacob mumbled into the back of Harmony’s head as his hand drifted over her hip. “For now, I just wanna hold you and enjoy the afterburn.”
“Afterburn,” Harmony echoed on a sigh. “I like that. It fits, but I need to go home, Jake.” She lifted her head from the pillow and squinted at the dials of his alarm clock on the nightstand. “It’s already after midnight. Honor will be standin’ on her head, worryin’ about me.”
Jake gathered some of her loose hair and tugged gently until she turned to look at him over her shoulder. “Your sister is fine. I’m sure she knows that you’re an adult who would have called if you needed her,”
“But Heaven….”
“You’ve got my word that I’ll have you home before the sun comes up and Heaven knows you’ve been gone, but don’t ask me to let you go just yet. I’ve waited too long to have you just like this.”
“Like this?” she questioned, lifting an eyebrow at him.
“Naked, satisfied, and still wet with my cum on your skin,” he answered plainly, not bothering to mince words.
Harmony’s jaw dropped as she yanked one of the pillows from behind her head to smack him with it. “Jacob!”
Catching her missile mid-air, he laughed and tightened the arm around her waist, pulling her flush to him. “Warned you I was a blunt bastard.”
“You can be blunt without being nasty,” she chastised smartly.
“What kind of fun would that be?” he chuckled, liking this side of her – the side that wasn’t afraid to take him on and argue with him
Rolling her eyes, she shook her head at him. “I still need to go,” she maintained, rolling to face him in the bed.
“In a while,” he countered, tenderly brushing her hair behind her ear as he met her eyes. “You know,” he said after a moment of stillness, “This is our beginning, darlin’. I won’t back off. Getting dressed and leaving isn’t gonna change the fact that you gave me something tonight that I’ll always treasure. I loved having your body, but your trust… that’s the real prize here. I’m a smart enough man to realize that you don’t give that out easily.”
Unable to hold his gaze, Harmony looked away from him. “Trust has to be earned. Based on that tattoo you have, it’s not something you’re real free with either,” she pointed out as she traced her fingers over his tattoo that said ‘Trust No One’. She lifted her eyes back to his. “What’s the story with this?”
Jacob’s hand dropped involuntarily to the ink he carried on his side. “Got that as a reminder a long time ago. Never found a woman that I thought I could trust. Hell, never found much of anybody that I thought I could trust. Until now.”
Harmony’s gaze flew back to his. “Well, I guess we’re both gonna be learning some new things, huh?”
“I guess we are,” he agreed softly, trailing a finger down the line of her jaw. “A word to the wise, though, darlin’, cause I can see behind those pretty eyes that you’re still fightin’ a war over believin’ in me. I don’t expect you to change overnight, and I know I gotta lot of work to put in before you can believe that I’m not just feedin’ you some line to get between your thighs, but you don’t hide from me, Harmony. And you sure as hell don’t run from this. You run from me, I’ll chase you. I chase you, I’ll catch you.”