Say It's Forever (Redemption Hills #2)(72)

Obsidian eyes sparked. “Since the moment I found you, you’ve been the only thing I could see.”

Emotion gathered fast. Welled from the broken parts of me. It crested and overflowed. I could barely force out the words. “Don’t make me fall in love with you, Jud.”

A sad smile hitched the edge of his mouth, and he traced his thumb at the edge of mine, words tender misery. “Who said anything about love, darlin’?”

He watched down on me. A thousand questions and reservations flashed through his expression, or maybe I was only witnessing what was reflected in mine.

“What do you want, Salem?” Jud asked.

My chin trembled, though I lifted it. “I just want to feel real.”

Jud pressed up on both his hands.

Thunder rumbled.

Energy lashed.

Desire burned and blazed.

“What I want to do to this sweet little body.” It was a warning. He slipped a hand up my thigh, pressing the bunched fabric of my dress higher.

Without my permission, my hips bucked against the bulge in his jeans. “Please.”

The second I said it, Jud snapped and dove in.

Remnants of the aggression that blazed through his blood were dumped into that kiss.

This fierce, unrelenting kiss as Jud devoured my mouth.

It was possession.

A promise of protection.

All the things he couldn’t give.

But right then, it didn’t matter. Didn’t matter that neither of our hearts could stay.

His big hand wrapped around the back of my neck to draw me closer as he pressed harder against me.

Rocking.

Sliding.

Whipping my body into a frenzy of lust.

He dropped to an elbow, and his other hand spread over my shoulder. He drew the fabric of my dress down to expose my left breast.

I heaved a gasp.

The heavens rumbled and flashed.

Need streaked, and Jud kissed me deeper as he kneaded my breast. I whimpered when he pinched my hardened nipple.

Jud moaned as his tongue stroked deep into my mouth, his other hand fisted up in my hair as he demanded my kiss.

He tugged my head back, and he kissed along my jaw, my chin, my throat, right down to the hammer of my heart. Then his mouth was taking the place of his fingers, and he sucked my nipple into his hot mouth before he bit down with his teeth.

A groan bumbled in my throat, mixed with a desperate, “Yes.”

“I have you,” he grunted at the heated flesh. He eased back to blow on the sensitive skin then he edged back onto his knees and drove his hands under my dress.

It pushed the fabric the rest of the way around my waist.

He ripped my underwear down my legs.

Hot and cold clashed.

The cool of the wind that blustered through and the fire that burned my blood.

Heavy clouds enclosed and veiled the moon.

Darkness eclipsed.

Recklessness obliterated all reason.

The only thing in this moment that mattered was this man.

Jud jerked through the button and zipper on his jeans, and he shoved them around his thighs.

I gulped at the sight.

The man so big.

So massive.

So intimidating.

So right.

He climbed back over me.

I felt delirious.

Fevered.

Frantic, he drove two fingers deep inside me, murmured, “Magic.”

Dizziness barreled through, my lungs heaving to find air, but the only thing they found was the sanctuary of the man.

Citrus and spice. A warm fall night.

I lifted my hips, our movements frenzied and rushed as he situated himself between my thighs. Our bodies begged. Heaving and straining to reach the other.

He gathered me up, curled an arm under my back, and pulled my face closer to his.

He brought us nose to nose. “Tell me you want this, Salem.”

“If you don’t touch me, I’ll stab you.” I managed the choked, desperate tease.

Jud chuckled a low growl. “There’s my girl.”

My girl. My girl.

The softest smile curled my mouth as I watched him dig into his pocket then rush to cover himself with a condom.

Quick to come back to me.

While I wished this was more than a fantasy. More than a dream.

I could already feel my heart being crushed, knowing it couldn’t last.

I also knew the pain would be worth it to live here for a little while.

He smiled back.

So tender.

So sweet.

Then I whimpered when I felt the blunt head of him pushing at my center. As the man burned between my thighs, as he slowly, slowly, nudged himself deeper.

Thunder cracked.

The sky opened up and began to pour.

Tears filled my eyes again.

Pleasure and pain.

Pleasure and pain.

The man so big I felt him in a way I’d never felt another in my entire life.

As if I were whole. Real. This man a true part of me.

My legs dropped open wide to make room for him, and the air raked from my lungs as he filled me full.

Jud’s jaw clenched, and he dropped his forehead to mine and muttered, “Darlin’.”

He mumbled it like praise.

“Take me.” I demanded it.

He angled back and greed flashed in those dark, dark eyes.

He pulled out then slammed back home.