Working with her brother, my best fucking friend, all day and not telling him, not begging for his permission, has been eating at me.
For the sake of my sanity, I need to get Ember out of my system and move on. Allow her to move on. She deserves someone who can give her the world. Not someone who’s tainted. Who doesn’t believe in love and happily ever afters.
“Noah?” Her soft voice draws me out of my inner turmoil, and I look up to see her standing inside the screen door in nothing but a tank top and tiny fucking panties.
“What the hell, Em?” I snap. Immediately pissed someone could see her.
“You rang my doorbell, Noah, not the other way around,” she huffs. She’s probably pissed I left without saying goodbye this morning.
“I shouldn’t be here,” I say, rubbing a rough hand down my face.
A flash of her, lying on her bed, legs spread, plays behind my eyes and I’m hard pressed not to drag her off like a fucking caveman right now.
“So why are you?” Her head cocks to the side and I take a step forward, pulling open the screen door, she doesn’t retreat.
“I have no fucking clue.” My honesty has hurt flashes in her light eyes.
“You said one night.” It was a fucking lie.
“I know what I said, Ember.” My hot temper flashes.
“You don’t get to play with my emotions, Noah. It’s not fair,” she whispers.
“Neither is what you do to me.”
“And what’s that?”
“You’re fucking crack, Ember, and I’m your goddamned junkie.” I prowl forward and don’t allow her to say anything as I pick her up and slam her back against the wall.
Her hands go to my hair and tug, but I can’t let her go. I don’t want to. I want her lips on mine for the rest of my fucking life and I can’t have that and it fucking pisses me the hell off.
Wrapping her legs around my hips, I work quickly to undo my pants. I’m desperate to be buried in her heat, to mark her as mine, even if I shouldn’t.
“Noah,” she exhales harshly. “Noah, wait.” I stop and look at her. “What is this? What are we doing?”
“This…” I stall, unsure, but take a chance, “is us.” It’s complicated and simple all at once. But I don’t know what else to say.
With a slow nod, she smiles, and I take that as my cue to continue. Pushing her top up her body, I don’t hesitate to remove it, tossing it behind me. Gliding my hands down her frame, I stop at her little panties and with one sharp tug they fly off her body like a slow breeze.
For the first time in my life, I take a woman without protection and I can’t bring myself to regret it or even think about it too hard.
Rubbing my cock along her wet core, I sav
or the searing heat as she sucks me into her tight channel. “Holy fuck,” I groan, watching as she takes me to the hilt.
Her head hits the wall and she moans out, “Yesss, Noah.”
Slowly thrusting in and out of her core, I take my time driving us toward ecstasy because even though I’ve made the decision to push our relationship further than what I’d been expecting, I want to devour every moment with Ember like treasure.
Just because I have her, doesn’t mean I can’t take my time. Learn where she likes to be touched, what makes her sigh louder. How she likes me to fuck her.
“More,” she whines in my ear, biting down on the lobe and scratching her nails into my hair.
“Feisty,” I tease her and she nods eagerly.
With a lifetime to learn more about her, us, I look forward to all her quirks, her kinks, and if I’m lucky enough, her love.
Ember