His other hand glided down her belly then …

“Oh, God, yes.” Her voice cracked as his fingers slid over her folds, grazing them lightly, then stroking more thoroughly.

When two fingers slid inside her, she moaned softly. His thumb found her clit as his fingers explored her inner passage. She leaned back against his big body, helpless against the onslaught of pleasure. Afraid her knees would buckle and she’d crumple to the floor.

“Turn around,” he murmured in her ear.

She obeyed, rotating within his arms until she faced him. The heat in his dark brown eyes took her breath away. He slid his hand under her knee and lifted, easing her back until her ass perched on the back of the couch.

When she felt his blunt tip brush her sensitive flesh, she held her breath.

“I’m going to enter you now. My cock is going to slide deep inside you.”

She just stared at him, her eyes wide, and nodded.

“Do you want that?” he asked.

“Oh, yes, please.” The need in her voice shocked her, and brought a smile to his face.

“Good.”

Then the pressure of his cockhead against her opening increased. Her soft flesh resisted at first, then as he pushed forward, it opened, gliding around him, welcoming him inside. The feel of his shaft gliding into her, the thickness opening her wide, sent a thrill through her.

This was Adam. His big body possessing hers. As she’d dreamed of for so long.

She moaned as he pushed deeper, stroking her aching passage with every inch. Driving her need higher.

“Do you like that, Ash?”

“Oh, God, yes. I love you inside me.”

He laughed out loud, the rumbling in his chest vibrating through her. His cock still filling her. She squeezed him and he groaned, then surged the rest of the way in.

He held her tight to him, their bodies joined, and they both sucked in air.

“Fuck, I can’t believe I’m finally inside you. You’re so soft and warm around me.”

“And you are so hard and thick.”

He tipped her head up and covered her mouth with his. It was a gentle kiss, but then his tongue pulsed into her mouth and she suckled it, trying to pull it deeper.

His cock twitched inside her and he tore his mouth away.

“Fuck, Ash, you’re going to end this too soon.” He stroked her cheek, his gaze solemn. “I want this to be perfect. For both of us.”

She gazed into his gleaming eyes. “It is perfect.”

He smiled. “No, I’ll show you perfect.”

He drew back, his hard cock stroking her on its journey out, then just as it seemed he would drop from her body, he surged forward again.

She clung to him. “Oh, yes.”

Then he drew back and glided deep again.

Pleasure washed through her, rippling along her nerve endings.

He drew her knee higher and pulsed into her again. She quivered at the feel of his iron-hard flesh filling her.

He filled her again. And again. His strokes became thrusts and she moaned at the building bliss.

He nibbled her neck, his lips playing over her sensitive flesh.

She moaned, feeling the building heat inside her. Knowing an orgasm was only a breath away.

“Are you close, baby?” he murmured against her ear, his soft breath almost enough to drive her over the edge.

“Oh, yes. Make me come.”

“Not yet.” He slowed his strokes, to her whimper. “Don’t come until I tell you.”

His cock slid deep, sending her dangerously close to the precipice.

But she would heed his command.

“Wrap your legs around me.”

As she opened her legs wider, his thick, hard cock burrowed deeper inside her and she groaned. She shuddered in his arms as he carried her across the apartment.

“Don’t come, baby,” he murmured against her ear, but the feel of his thick shaft jostling inside her as he walked made it almost impossible to obey his request.

Almost. But she gritted her teeth and breathed deeply.

Finally, he set her on her bed, then leaned her back.

He smiled, a devilish glint in his brown eyes. “You can barely hold it back,” he said with smug satisfaction in his voice. Then he nuzzled her ear, sending waves of sensation rippling through her. Every nerve ending was on alert, quivering with need.

“Don’t worry. I’ll make sure it’s worth it.”

Then he drew back and thrust forward. At the feel of his thick cock dragging along her inner passage, then driving deep again, she groaned, her body shuddering with need. Then he did it again.

She clung to him, her head rolling back on the bed, her eyelids closing as she lost herself in the heady sensations.

“Open your eyes, baby. I want to watch you when you come.”

Her eyelids flickered open and she found herself gazing into his intense dark chocolate eyes. Their gazes locked and she felt like they were bonded together. Body. Mind. And soul. She could no more look away than she could stop her heart from beating.

He thrust into her again and she shuddered. Pleasure blossomed inside her, deep in her core, then rippled across every nerve ending. His next thrust released the tightly coiled need inside her, and joy exploded inside her in an earth-shattering, mind-numbing orgasm.

He cupped her head and held her gaze. “Say my name.”

“Adam…” She moaned as the orgasm battered through her in a rush of pleasure. She clung to him, their gazes still locked together. “Oh, God, yes. Adam.”

At the sound of his name on a long moan, he groaned, then drove deep into her, pinning her to the bed with his body … and she felt it. His cock pulsed inside her, then hot liquid filled her, flooding her insides.

She held him tight as the two of them gasped for air.

“Oh, God, that was incredible.”

He chuckled. “And, baby, it’s not over yet.”

He slid down her body then to his knees beside the bed. Then he licked her, oblivious of their shared fluids dripping from her body and she trembled at the exquisite pleasure of his tongue dragging over her sensitive clit. She arched, her body sensitized and quivering at the edge of another orgasm. Then she felt it. A surge of pleasure from deep inside her rising, shuddering through her body, then blasting through her in a heated wave of blissful sensations. She clung to him as she seemed to shatter into a million pieces.

*   *   *

Ashley sipped her coffee as she stared at the Sunday crossword puzzle. Adam had spent all day Saturday with her … and Saturday night. He had taken her fast and hard against the wall, then later made tender, passionate love to her in bed. She smiled at the memory. Then they’d gone for a run this morning and he’d headed home.

She had all day Sunday to get a few chores done, then just relax and forget about everything stressful until she returned to work tomorrow.

Then she’d have to continue working on her article. The one Dare had been helping her with.

Unsettling feelings stirred inside her at thoughts of Dare. She sipped her steaming coffee again. She had started a relationship with Adam now. One she knew she’d be happy in. He was perfect for her.

Why then did thoughts of Dare still make her ache inside? She’d always known there was no future there. Even though she’d kidded herself for a while that maybe it could happen.

But that hope had been shattered by him. He’d never wanted any more from her than a few weeks of fucking. She was probably just an amusing distraction, but then she’d become inconvenient when Helen had shown up.

Bitter, spiteful Helen.

She was his ex-stepdaughter, and clearly he still thought of her as family and his responsibility.

Which was commendable, she had to admit.

Her buzzer sounded and she hopped up, wondering if it was Adam. Maybe he hadn’t been able to get enough of her and had come back to spend the afternoon. She grinned broadly. She was definitely up for some afternoon delight.

“Yes?” she said into the speaker.