He shrugged. “How hard can it be?”
She smiled and grabbed her boots. Slipping them on, she took a scarf from the hook off the door and wound it around her neck. “If you’d ever tasted Lyra’s cooking you wouldn’t be asking that.”
“I look forward to meeting her.”
Another smile. “We’ll see you later then.”
“Rachel—” Penny said, holding out a hand to her sister.
“Never gonna happen, huh?” Rachel whispered. “Have fun.” And then she was out the door, shutting it behind her, leaving just the two of them standing in the tiny living area.
“Sebastian—”
He did not allow her to start or to finish. He strode forward and did what he’d wanted to do for the last month, what he’d been aching to do. He took Penny in his arms, wrapping them tight around her waist, dragging her body as close to his as he could imagine. And then he kissed her and it was a kiss filled with longing and hunger and a million other things.
She stiffened for just a moment and Sebastian felt his heart stop. Had he waited too long? But then her arms were snaking around his neck and she was kissing him back. Their mouths moved together, their tongues dancing, and blood rushed to his head, his heart, his cock.
It was like coming home. Like he was exactly where he was supposed to be. A nasty little flat in one of the most dangerous areas of the city with his thief in his arms. His woman. “Missed you,” he whispered against her lips. “Missed you so fucking much.”
A pause, everything hanging in the balance, and then, “I missed you.”
His heart soared, everything clarified. He lifted her into his arms, sighing in satisfaction as she wrapped her legs around him. He pushed her against the door, lowered his hands, and fumbled with his zipper. It took a moment, maybe two, and then he pushed her shorts aside and buried himself in her.
He was not wearing a condom. He had no intention of doing so. Penny was his. “Ohhh,” she sighed. “I’ve missed that so much.”
“Just that?” he demanded. “Just this?” Slowly he filled her, watching as her eyes widened and she sighed.
“No,” she whispered and the words were wrenched from her. “Not just this. All of it, everything. You. Us.”
“You will never lie to me again,” he said, burying his head in her long, black locks. “Never. No more defenses. No more barriers.”
“No.”
“Because you did,” he said, kissing along her neck. “All lies. It was never just about the money.”
“No,” she whispered. “Not from the moment we kissed.”
And he kissed her again, holding her close as his cock filled her, their bodies moving as one, driving each other toward an orgasm both needed and both had missed for far too long. From the moment they kissed.
It had happened then he realized as he teased her tight walls. In that very first moment in the lobby. Her with her cat’s eyes spitting fire, him more aroused than he’d been in his entire life. He’d fallen for her then, as it had been so would it be.
Penny was his and that was simply that.
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Sebastian was inside of her and it felt so right. Like the last month was already bleeding away and leaving nothing but this. Their bodies as close as possible together, breathing in tandem, hearts pumping as one.
He pushed in, pulled out, his cock teasing her walls, dragging on her clit and she groaned. It felt so good, the pleasure so intense. She clenched around him as he kissed her. Dizziness assailed her, her heart racing frantically.
“Missed you, missed you,” he whispered and Penny’s chest tightened as the love filled her. Pure and simple. Exact. She felt it and though her impulse was to deny it, with Sebastian buried inside of her it was impossible. So she let it fill her, just as he was and it felt like coming home.
“Missed you so much, Bastian,” she whispered back. “So much.”
“I was a fool,” Sebastian said as he pulled out. “A fucking fool.”
And back in and she gasped. “No, I should have been honest. I was not. It was never just the money.”
His hands gripped her ass cheeks, lifting her slightly to change the angle and she moaned. “You were scared.”
She nodded, the action pushing him in deeper. “It never seemed real and Rachel needed me.”
“It was always going to be real. Neither of us ever had a damn choice.”
He plunger harder, the need spurring them both on. His words held a promise and Penny met him thrust for thrust. It was fast and frantic but even then it held the tenderness, as if their worlds had collided at last.