She's down the hall. I can hear her music and her muffled voice as she sings. My hard cock hears her too, and I'm suddenly angry about having more space. I want her with me, wrapped in my blankets, shifting restlessly as I watch her and make her wait for me to climb on top of her soft body. Fuck. I rub myself painfully against the zipper of my jeans. I huff through my frustration and get in the shower that I turn cold to appease my aching dick. It does little to ease the tension in my balls so I take matters into my own hand and beat off to images of her tits that I conjure in my mind. Even as I groan out my release, I know it's not good enough.
I need Piper. God, I'll beg. I will. I'm not above it.
Now that we're settled in a new place, I can't wait to make her mine. I promised slow, but my pulse speeds while I towel off and throw on a pair of pajama pants, eager yet unsure of what I'll say when I'm there. My palms sweat. Goddamn, I'm nervous. I stop dead in the hallway, three feet from her room. For Christ's sake, you'd think I'd never approached a woman for sex. But this isn't just that. I want to be careful with Piper. Correction-I want hard, primal fucking with Piper, but there's time for soft and slow, too. I want it all. I want all of her, all of the time.
I exhale and ease my heart into a steady beat, one that mimics the low bass notes coming from her room, throbbing out the beginnings of the stalker anthem "Every Breath You Take." Well, okay. Maybe I need to lay off and refrain from begging. I laugh and rub my chest as I step into her doorway.
Fuck. Me. This roomie shit is hard, and now so am I-again. Twelve months of no pussy zeros in on Piper in a tank and the female version of plaid boxers, short enough to show cheek as she bends to put a sweater in the bottom drawer of her dresser. She stands, throwing her head back on a high note. I can't help but smile as she hits Sting's pitch to perfection and then twists to gather the last garment from the laundry basket.
Piper's engrossed in her music and doesn't notice me leaning against the doorframe, so I cross my arms and watch the show as it moves into "I need a Hero".
"Nice moves, sunshine," I murmur when she turns, and her tits bounce through the dance. This is good shit.
Her head snaps up, and she stumbles to the nightstand to switch off her Blu-ray speaker.
"Don't stop on my account. That was better than a lap dance."
"Oh, my God. Don't you know how to knock?" She grabs a pillow from her bed, hugging it to her torso.
My grin grows. "I've seen your tits before. You think hiding them from me will dissuade my imagination?"
Her gaze narrows in on mine, but then it flicks down to my abs and lowers to my stiff cock. No shower in the world could kill that boner. She closes her eyes, but her accelerated breath moves the pillow up and down. Good. I like the direction she's headed.
"Caden?"
"Piper?"
"How long . . . You're trying . . ." She bites her bottom lip.
I nod. "Like so irritating you could tie me up? Because I might like that with you. Or we can role play? I've got this fantasy . . ."
Her mouth falls open, and then she swings the pillow and clocks me in the ear, a sneak attack that takes me off-guard. I don't know if I should be pissed at the assault or thrilled as my predatory nature wakes from sleep. The second hit lands on my hip. I snarl and size up my prey, at the same time stealing her weapon. She pants, and the tits I dream about heave, drawing my attention to the hard knots of her nipples straining against the fabric.
I stalk toward her. "You sure about this, sunshine?"
"I've got a good arm, Popeye. You scared?"
I stop and glare at her. "What did you call me?"
She laughs and chucks a pillow at my head. "Popeye the sailor . . ." she croons.
Oh, fuck no.
I advance. She retreats-singing. God, is she hot, toned muscles, tanned skin, curves in every goddamn right place. And it hits me like a ton of feather pillows. I'm falling in love with Piper Stevens. The desperate ache in my cock is a pressing issue, but so is hearing her laugh and seeing her teasing smile every day. I want her voice to fill these walls until they crumble, even when the song is about me eating my spinach. This has moved beyond possession and into a dark cavern I have yet to explore. By the heavy lurch of my heart, I'm not sure it's ready to let her in. But I'm pretty sure that's what happens. I'm going to share this piece of me, and she'll do the same with hers. Together, we'll steady our pulse. Goddamn, the thought unleashes a primal instinct to claim her, take her, make it so no other man will ever have her again.