Shut Out (Bayard Hockey #1)(29)

I shift so I’m facing her too. “Are your roommates all out?”

“Yes.” She traces an index finger down my chest. “I don’t know if making out is such a good idea.”

“Yeah.” I think I know where she’s coming from. “But we both want to do it.”

“Yes.”

I lean in and touch my mouth to hers in a soft kiss. Her breathing hitches and her eyelids droop. I draw back and wait, studying her. Pink washes into her smooth skin and her soft lips are parted.

“Kiss me,” she whispers.

There we go. I reach for her and pull her closer, tilting my head and finding her mouth with mine. She makes a low noise that sounds like relief or pleasure or maybe both, and that’s exactly how I feel too.

With one hand on her hip, I tangle the other into her hair. Tingles work down the back of my neck and my spine, centering in my balls. Need for her burns over my skin. I use my grip on her hair to gently adjust the angle of her head and I feast on her soft mouth, licking inside, biting at her lips.

She opens to me, so sweet and lush, her body melts against me, and I know I’m in big trouble. One of her hands slides into my hair and pulls my head to her, even though we can’t get any closer. Our mouths are fused together. Her other hand is on my back, pressing, like she’s afraid I’m going to get away, and holy hell that makes me so hot. My dick is throbbing.

She makes a soft sound full of desire and I’m dizzy with lust for her. She tastes sweet, her tongue is small but strong against mine. I suck on her top lip, then her bottom lip, gliding my hand up her side, letting my thumb brush against the outer curve of her breast.

I keep kissing her and kissing her, sliding my tongue around hers, sucking on it. Then our mouths part and we both gasp for air. My heart is thudding so hard I can hear it in my ears, my chest rising and falling with rapid respirations.

“Wow, Jacob.” She rubs up and down my back, over my sweater. “You’re such a good kisser.”

I focus on her mouth, my vision a little blurry. Her lips are puffy and wet, and Jesus, my dick leaps. Lust is rampaging through me, shorting out my brain and making me stupid. All I can think is how much I want her.

“You are too,” I manage to utter before going back in for more kisses. “Want your mouth again. Give me your mouth.”

I get my arm around her slender torso and maneuver her beneath me so we’re lying on the couch now, me half on top of her, my thigh between her legs. Her hair is spread out all around her head, so gorgeous. I kiss her lips, then run my open mouth along her jaw, suck gently on the skin beneath her ear, then lick it.

A moan leaks from her lips and her hips lift against my thigh. I meet her there because I know she needs that pressure. It’s making me nuts. “Want to make you feel good, baby. So good.”

She makes an unintelligible sound and runs her hands up and down my back and over my shoulders. Then she finds skin. Her hands slip under my sweater and T-shirt and clutch my bare back.

“Damn, baby. I love how hot you are for me.”

“I am.” She seeks my mouth with hers again, sounding almost like she’s surprised. “I am hot for you.”

Nobody’s home. We can do whatever we want. That stupid voice of reason is speaking in my head again though, reminding me that I’m supposed to be avoiding situations like this.

But I don’t want to stop.





Chapter 11


Skylar


“Chemistry,” I gasp. “If Organic Chem was this fun, I’d be a scientist for sure.”

Jacob leans his forehead on mine, both of us panting. My body is hot and pulsing everywhere, but especially between my legs, where I’m aching with ferocious need.

“Hell yeah, we’ve got chemistry. But I don’t think it’s something you can put together in a lab.” He brushes his mouth over mine again. “There’s no formula for this. This is f*cking magic.”

My heart trips at that. I inhale a long, shaky breath and swallow.

I set a hand flat on his chest to hold him away from me, much as I want him to keep kissing me, to move his big body right over top of me and press me down into the couch cushions. The weight and heat of his body delight me and I crave more of it. And yet…“We need to slow down.”

He closes his eyes and looks pained. “Okay.”

Tension vibrates in him, his hot skin damp beneath his clothes, the enormous bulge behind his fly pressing into me. I know how hard this is for him, and it’s hard for me too. This feeling…It’s what makes people lose their minds and do stupid things. I don’t want to be stupid. But damn, it’s impossible to resist.

The weird thing is, I want to have sex. I want it so bad. This is the first time since…I squeeze my eyes shut, blocking out the memory. I never thought I’d want to have sex again, but Jacob has made me want it, so much I’m desperate and shaky and aching for it.

This is a good thing.

I go still, as that thought enters my head and circles around. This is a very good thing. It’s good to feel like this again, to want this so much. So why am I hesitating?

“I’m sorry,” I pant. “I’m just…this is…oh God.” I’m terrified of how much I’m feeling when I haven’t felt anything like this for nearly a year.

“It’s okay.” He strokes my hair off my face in a tender gesture that makes me want to jump him. “It’s okay, Skylar. You know what? I want to make you feel good, but there are lots of ways we can do that.”