I’m not normally shy or apprehensive, but the fact that he’s everything I’ve ever wanted in a man coupled with his unreadable expression makes this moment that much more risky, emotionally speaking.
I’m laying it all out there, essentially telling a stranger I have a crush on him. But the way I look at it, I have nothing more to lose at this point.
Gabriel’s golden gaze softens and his full lips pull up at the corners. A second later, his hand cups the side of my cheek. It’s the sweetest gesture from a man with such a serious, ironclad demeanor.
He’s a good person.
I know it.
I feel it.
He holds this pose for what feels like an eternity, though I’m sure it’s no more than a few seconds.
“You’re an amazing woman,” he tells me. “And I absolutely want to see you again after today. I might have saved you from a miserable future, but you did the same for me.”
“Everything happens for a reason …” I feed him back his own cliche line, and he grins. “Hey, can I ask you another question?”
“Of course.”
“When are you going to kiss me? Because I feel like I’ve been waiting a lifetime.”
Without so much as another single word, his soft lips come down on mine, crushing them with a claiming kiss. His breath is warm and sweet like syrup, and his hands circle my waist as he pulls me against him.
His tongue is velvet against mine and his hardness forms against my hips. A moment later, we stumble backwards, falling into the heart-shaped bed in the honeymoon suite of the Rain Drop Inn in some off-the-beaten-path township in upstate New York.
I straddle Gabriel as he gathers the hem of my t-shirt before lifting it over my head. His fingertips trail down my shoulders before veering to the small of my back. Sitting up, he buries his head into the bend of my shoulder, kissing my bare flesh before unfastening my bra.
He’s harder now, I can feel it between my thighs as I sit in his lap. Hooking my hands around the back of his neck, I lean closer, inhaling his masculine scent as I nibble his ear.
When he flips me to my back, I almost lose my breath. And when his hands slip beneath the waistband of my leggings and he tugs them down my hips, I know there’s no going back.
I want him in the worst way—and apparently the feeling is mutual.
I reach for Gabriel’s jeans, working the button and the fly until the warmth of his cock fills my palm. I stroke his length, and he moans before biting into his full bottom lip.
Every part of me is alive with want, humming with a kind of unrestrained desire I’ve never known in my life.
My hands travel to the small of his back, just above his hips, and I push him against me until we’re grinding. He’s not inside me, not yet, but he will be. Until then, I’ll enjoy the titillating torture mixed with unadulterated pleasure.
“I want you, Olivia,” he whispers into my ear as he grinds against me. “I’ve wanted you since the moment I walked into that bar Friday night.”
“Then I’m yours,” I tell him .”You can have me today. And if you play your cards right—and I have a feeling you will—you can have me the day after that … and the day after that …”
He peppers kisses down my neck, stopping at my collarbone between traveling between my breasts and down my stomach.
A moment later, he retrieves a condom from the wallet in his jeans pocket, tearing at the foil packet with his teeth before sheathing himself.
Already breathless and woefully impatient, I reach for him, pulling him onto me the instant he’s ready. He guides his length into me, inch by inch, taking his time. I exhale as he fills me, expanding everything I have with everything he has.
While this moment is certainly the last thing I expected to happen going into this weekend, everything about it feels right in a way I can’t quite explain.
Looking into Gabriel’s eyes, I find it hard to believe that I approached a random stranger in a hotel bar who ‘got’ me more than my fiancé ever did after years of knowing me. It’s like we both took one look and our souls knew something we didn’t.
“You’re amazing, you know that?” I ask him, a smile spreading on my lips as I play with his hair.
“How do you know that?”
“When you know, you know.”