“Someone like me?”
“Yes. Someone I can spend my days with. Someone who will love Nova just as much as I do. I want you with us for dinner not just occasionally, but all the time. I don’t want to hide you. You’re not a secret. If there’s a soccer game, I want you there—not as my neighbor, as my girlfriend.”
“You want a relationship.”
Noah meets my gaze. “I do. I’m ready. Whatever this is growing between us, I want it to keep growing. I want to watch it turn into something big and beautiful, and I don’t want to hide it.”
Needing to be closer to him, I roll on top of Noah. With my hair as a curtain, I look down at him. “I want that too,” I whisper, moved by his words.
“You do?” Noah asks, his eyes wide. When I nod, his body relaxes beneath me. “You’ve always been so open, and I love that about you, but you’ve never asked me to define us.”
“This has all happened so fast,” I say. His hands tighten around my hips, silently urging me to give him more. “When I moved here, I wasn’t looking for love. If anything, I was running from it…fast. You came out of nowhere and blindsided me.”
Noah laughs. “I think it was you who blindsided me.”
A smile tugs at the corner of my mouth. “Best damn day of my life.”
“I want us to tell Nova.”
Now it’s my turn to say, “You do?”
Noah runs a hand up my spine. He cups the back of my head and guides my mouth to his. “I want to tell the whole world.”
My emotions are all over the place, and right now I just need Noah. I need to feel him move inside of me.
Straddling his hips, I rub myself against his hard cock, sliding back and forth. “Let’s talk more later. Right now, I need you.”
“What do you need, baby?”
I grind my hips, applying more pressure and friction. “This. And I want you bare. I want to feel every glorious inch of you.”
“Fuck yes, I want that, too. I’m clean. So you don’t have to worry about that.”
“Me too. And I wasn’t worried. I know you wouldn’t do anything to put me at risk.”
I don’t know how I know, but I do. I feel it deep in my soul. This man would walk through fire before he’d hurt me, or anyone else for that matter.
Lifting my hips, Noah slides into me. His eyes widen at the connection, and I begin to move, showing Noah with my body what I failed to say.
Lacing our fingers together, Noah pulls me forward. He captures my mouth with his. “Nothing has ever felt as good as this, as good as you.”
With his words lingering in the air, Noah takes control of my body. Every stroke of his tongue, every touch of his hands—he makes love to me like no man ever has.
Our hips rock over and over again in a slow, sensual pace, our bodies forging a silent promise of a future. I came to Heaven to escape, but what happened is even better.
I’ve been found.
It’s so ironic and insane, and I know it’s crazy how fast we’re falling, but once you jump, there’s really no turning back.
A burn builds low in my belly, my impending orgasm resting on the brink.
“Noah.”
“I know, baby.” His thrusts get harder, deeper, and less controlled as we both slip into that wonderful oblivion we’re chasing.
Noah’s gaze is steadfast, his eyes refusing to leave mine as he brings both of us to climax. We lose ourselves at the same time, with moans of pleasure and promises of more.
And to think, this is only the beginning.