Unravel(71)

I lifted my hips. His dick brushed against my thigh.

That wicked smile faded.

He pushed himself inside me slowly. Making me feel every single inch. My mouth parted. My eyelids fluttered shut. This felt too good.

I waited for him to move, but he stopped. His hand curved around my jaw, forcing me to look at him. And I realized he wanted to watch me. He wanted to watch my reaction as he moved inside me for the first time.

“Move,” I panted. “You have to move.”

I thought he was going to make me beg. And, honestly, I knew I would. Lachlan could get me to do just about anything.

“Lachlan,” I gasped. “Move.”

He finally gave me what I wanted. I felt relief, only for a second. He started to slide in and out of me faster. Just when I would start to find his rhythm, he would move his hips and my mind would black out.

He kissed me hard on the mouth in a kiss that wasn’t meant to be sweet, but a kiss that was meant to brand me forever.

I was his.

The tree bark dug into my skin and it fueled me to arch my back, and tighten my legs.

My head turned. I saw our shadows slanted across the grass. I blinked a few times, finding it impossible to accept that this was us. The man’s hands were above her head, leaning against the tree for leverage. His knees were slightly bent as he rocked into her. They found a rhythm. Her head tipped back and she tightened her body around him like a second skin. Her hand curved around his neck before they drifted over broad shoulders and to his back. Her fingers sank into his soft skin and when he withdrew she dragged them across his skin, knowing that there would be claw marks left behind. Their bodies never broke contact.

The scent of sweat lingered in the air. That didn’t stop them. Nothing would stop them. They would keep moving, keep finding new places to touch each other just as long as this feeling never faded away. “God, I love you,” he said in a low voice.

His words slipped past my skin, ran through my veins and went straight to my heart.

My skin started to tingle, until it felt alive. Tears welled up in my eyes. Stay, stay, stay, I thought to myself frantically. I didn’t want this feeling to leave me. I tried to pace myself, but it was futile. I was past that mark. My muscles tightened and my eyes shot open and above me the sky blurred into a gray mist. My body felt incredible, almost weightless.

The sensations started to ebb, making me feel boneless.

My head dropped to his shoulders and I held on as Lachlan moved inside me with frantic thrusts before the heels of his feet lifted off the ground and held his body in place for a second. His head was back, giving me a view of his jaw and neck. He shouted incoherently, his body shuddered. I smiled faintly and kissed his shoulder.

I felt his heart beating violently.

His head dropped onto my shoulder. I heard him say again against my skin, “God, I love you.” I curled my fingers into his hair.

He held me because I couldn’t move. I felt like a rag doll. My legs and arms still dangling around him.

When my heartbeat started to slow, he finally released me. My feet touched the ground. I stumbled a few steps away, like I had forgotten how to walk.

I fixed my clothes and the whole time Lachlan stood perfectly still. His chest heaved and his head rested against the tree.

I slid the last button in place and swallowed. “Please don’t tell me you regret it,” I said tentatively.

His eyes closed as if he was in pain. He straightened and tossed the condom off and buttoned up his pants. He finally saw his wallet on the ground. He frowned at it like he had no idea how it got there.

“I probably should, shouldn’t I? But I can’t.” He pointed to where the two of us had been entwined. “I’ll never regret that.”

“Then why do you look like that?”

He grabbed his shirt and put it on with quick, angry jerks. It slid in place and he stared at me with shock.

“I’m not finished!” He exploded.

I stopped in my tracks, my eyes wide.

“You’re leaving here and I’m so f*cking proud of you,” he whispered. “But if tonight showed me anything, it’s that I love you and I’m never going to get you out of my system.”

My lips parted but I didn’t say a thing. I was still reeling from his words. I love you coming from Lachlan would never get old. Those three words sent a jolt through my body.

He laughed humorlessly. “I don’t want to let you go.”

I didn’t want him to let me go. I wanted to stay beside him for the rest of my life. I didn’t tell him how I felt though. That small voice in my head whispered to me, telling me that the minute I said what I wanted, it would never come true.

I walked over to him, my arms wrapping around his waist. My face was bent, looking up at him. He leaned down, his lips moving slowly over mine. Everything I didn’t say, I poured into that kiss. Lachlan responded back, holding me so tightly I could barely breathe.

I pulled back first.

“We should get back,” I said with regret.

I held out my hand. He grabbed it, swallowing it within his own. I always had to keep up with his long strides, but tonight he walked slowly. The grass crunched underneath our feet.

“I’m nervous,” I said.

“About leaving McLean?”

“About leaving you. McLean. Everything I know,” I admitted.

He squeezed my hand. “Don’t worry, you’re gonna be fine.”