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  Jude’s long fingers wrapped around my wrists and he lifted them until I couldn’t reach any higher. Then he took both in one of his hands and pinned them there. His lips slammed back into mine and his free hand settled on my ribs.

  As it inched up toward my breast, I moaned into his mouth and arched my back to let him know what I wanted. Instead of giving it to me, though, he chuckled darkly against my mouth and shook his head.

  “Not here, Rose. Once I start touching you, I’m not fucking stopping. And I doubt you’re going to want an audience for that.” His voice was so rough and ragged that just the sound of it increased the severity of the ache between my legs.

  “Yeah, you’re right,” I whispered between pants of my own. “Let’s just get there fast, okay?”

  “Deal.”

  The doors opened several times, but Jude didn’t stop kissing me, and no one got in with us. His back was to the doors, so I doubted anyone had seen who he was.

  When we finally reached my floor, I brought my hands down to his chest to walk him out of the elevator, my fingers already working on the buttons of his shirt. His hands found the waistband of my jeans and I felt the button give as he deftly undid it.

  I dug my keycard out of my pocket and Jude took it from me, swiping it once before the light flashed green. We stumbled into my room, and he kicked the door shut behind us before flattening me against it.

  All the while, our lips hardly parted. When he molded his body to mine and I felt the length of him against my stomach, hot and so fucking hard it felt like he was hiding a steel rod in his jeans, I moaned again.

  He grinned, slowing his kisses as he ground his cock against me. I whimpered this time, tilting my pelvis in the hopes of getting him to rub me there.

  “Don’t worry, baby. I know what you want.” His voice was so filled with confidence that I didn’t bother to argue.

  “Give it to me, then,” I said instead, opening my eyes to glance down at his swollen lips. He growled when I swept my tongue across my own, slamming his mouth back down on mine.

  True to what he’d said, he did seem to know what I wanted, and he wasted no time in giving it to me. My clothes disappeared at a rate which should have been alarming but somehow only served to make things hotter between us.

  My nipples were so hard I was pretty sure they could poke someone’s eye out, but Jude didn’t seem worried about it as he sucked one into his hot mouth. He had my hands pinned again as soon as his were done ridding me of my pesky clothing, but he shouldn’t have bothered.

  “I’m not going anywhere,” I moaned into the stillness of the room.

  He smirked against me, glancing up with that same heat in his eyes. They were darker now, though, seemingly almost pine rather than their usual bright emerald.

  “I’d fucking hope not,” he bit out. “I think I’d die if you tried, not that I’m planning on letting you go.”

  I rolled my eyes at him just to see what his reaction would be. “You’d let me go in a heartbeat if I told you to.”

  “Are you telling me to?” he asked, flashing me a grin so wicked I swore he was Lucifer himself as he dragged a hand down the length of my thigh.

  My breathing sped up even more as my head rolled back against the door. “Nope. Definitely not. The opposite, in fact. Don’t you dare stop.”

  “I won’t,” he said, lowering himself down onto his knees. Considering that I was totally naked except for my skimpy black panties, he was pretty much face to face with my bits. If I smelled my own arousal up here, it should have been mortifying to think about what he was experiencing down there.

  He didn’t seem to be turned off, though. If anything, when he looked up at me, there was even more heat burning there now than there had been before.

  Groaning as he brought his fingers to my hips and flexed them, he bowed his head like he was in reverence of something. “God, I’ve wanted this for so long.”

  “Same here,” I managed to say as I tried to make sense of his pose. When he dragged in a deep breath, I frowned. “What are you doing?”

  “Savoring every part of this experience,” he replied without skipping a beat. “I’m going to fill my senses with you today, Rose—until you’re all I can smell, see, taste, feel, and hear. I hope you’re ready for it.”

  It was official. Being with Jude was not going to be like being with any of the—admittedly few—other guys I’d been with. I’d never been spoken to like that, and even the words made me want him that much more.

  “I’m ready,” I whispered, not that I thought he was really expecting a response.

  Apparently, he had been. Because as soon as I gave it, he hooked his thumbs into my panties and ripped them off. Wait? That can really happen?

  When Jude smirked up at me, I realized I’d asked the question out loud. He brought both of his hands to the apex of my thighs and spread them apart but kept his eyes on mine for now.

  “Yeah, that can really happen. Do you have any other questions, or can I make you come now?”

  My eyes opened as wide as they could go, but I nodded wildly. “Go ahead. Don’t let me stop you.”

  He chuckled again as he ran his tongue a fraction of an inch away from my throbbing clit. “Thanks for the confirmation, baby. I think I will. Hang onto my shoulders, okay? I won’t let you fall.”

  The sweetness of those words contrasted to the very alpha way he was acting, but that just made this even hotter. “I know you won’t.”

  Not physically anyway. Emotionally? Well, that was a whole different story, but it was also going to have to wait for another day.

  Chapter 28

  JUDE

  Every sound Roselyn made drove me closer to the edge. I’d been dangling off it since she’d caught my arm back at the restaurant, but now that I had her right here naked, glistening, and panting, I was one wrong move away from losing it.

  As it was, I could hardly breathe from wanting her so badly, but if I took her the way I wanted to right now, if I marked her skin and fucked her so hard she couldn’t breathe either, I wasn’t sure I would get another shot with her.

  It already felt like I was on borrowed time, like she might withdraw from me again and run away without looking back. I didn’t know what I’d do if that happened. I wouldn’t be able to endure more months like the past couple had been.

  Unfortunately, dragging in a deep breath to try to calm myself down only resulted in wanting her even more. Her musky scent enveloped me, grabbed me by the cock in a lubed-up fist, and pumped.

  I moaned, my hips jerking of their own accord. I dug my fingers into the fleshy part of her hip and licked my lips. Right. It’s go time.

  I’d meant it when I’d said I wouldn’t let her fall, but I was lucky as fuck I was already on my knees. As I spread her wide open, so pretty and pink and inviting, I knew I’d have hit the floor if I hadn’t already been on it.

  I couldn’t wait to taste her, so I didn’t. I tucked into her like she was my favorite dessert, which I was pretty sure she’d just become anyway.

  Rose wasn’t quiet or shy, or maybe she was just as far gone as I was. She buried her fingers in my hair and tugged at the strands, rolling her hips and murmuring my name.

  Her thighs started shaking and her grip on my hair tightened, letting me know she was close. I pushed two fingers into her slick channel, sucking her hard clit between my teeth and biting down gently.

  She flew over the edge with a loud cry, her muscles clamping around my fingers as heat gushed around them. My cock throbbed, begging for even the slightest friction that would let me find my own release.

  My moans mingled with hers until I felt her slumping, her knees buckling against me. I used the hand on her hip to catch her, sliding my arm around her and holding her steady.

  Without giving her time to catch her breath or recover, I stood and claimed her mouth once more. If she had any problem with kissing me while her juices were still on my lips, she didn’t tell me.

  Instead,
she kissed me back and desperately clawed at my half-open shirt. I closed my fingers over hers, stilling them before I took over and got it off by yanking it over my head.

  With her hard nipples against my chest and her soft skin against mine, my cock strained against my zipper, aching with the need to be inside her. I picked her up against the door and guided her legs around my hips.

  She soaked the front of my jeans, but I didn’t give a damn. Breaking off our kisses, I pulled my head back to look into her eyes.

  They were glassy, but I didn’t see a single ounce of regret in them. I ran my nose along the length of hers, our ragged breaths mingling. “Hold on to me, okay? I’m going to carry you to the bed.”

  She nodded, pressing kisses to my brow, my forehead, and my jaw as I walked us over to the bed I’d wanted to throw her down on the very first morning I’d been in here. If I’d known then that she tasted as sweet as candy and made sounds that could make me come without her even touching me, I might not have held back.

  But the holding back was over now. Thank every deity everywhere.

  When I set her down on the mattress, I was surprised when she didn’t lie back. She stayed sitting on the edge, her gaze smoldering when it met mine.

  “Come here,” she said, licking her lips as she beckoned to me with her index finger. Her hair was a mess from having my hands in it, and she looked almost exactly like I’d pictured her in so many of my solo sessions over the last six weeks.

  The only difference was that the reality was so much better. I cocked an eyebrow at her but took a step closer to stand between her knees. “What are you going to do with me now that you have me here?”

  “Whatever I want,” she said, bringing her hands up to my waistband. They were steadier now than they had been just a minute ago, and she wasted no time undoing my button before slowly sliding down my zipper.

  She kept her eyes on mine as she ran her fingers along the elastic of my boxer-briefs, and I nearly lost it again when her teeth sank into that plump, swollen lip. “You’re playing with fire, Rose.”

  “Maybe, but I like heat.” She shot me a coy smile before lifting the elastic clear over the shiny tip of my cock, then finally broke eye contact to glance down at it.

  Both of us moaned when she did. I was harder than I’d ever been, wet and ready, but I wasn’t rushing this. “See anything you like?”

  “Yes,” she breathed, lifting her hand to run her fingers along the rigid length of my shaft. The featherweight touch of her fingertips was almost all that it took.

  I sucked in a shallow breath and saw as she noticed the way my stomach dipped when I did. A self-satisfied smirk tugged at one corner of her lips. “Close, huh?”

  “I can handle it.” So what if that came out in a hiss? “Do whatever you want, but know that I’m not leaving here until I’ve fucked that pretty pussy raw.”

  “Raw?” She shook her head, her smirk still in place. “That’s quite a challenge considering you’d need friction for that. Pretty sure I’m way too ready for you to find that kind of friction anywhere near me.”

  “You’ve got a smart mouth, Oxford.”

  “You’ve got a dirty one, boss man. Didn’t think I could keep up?” Something more than heat passed between us as she brought her gaze back to mine.

  A deep groan rumbled in my chest. “No, I knew you could.”

  Because she was perfect for me in every other way. Why wouldn’t she be everything I’d ever wanted in a sexual partner, too?

  Rose’s fingers opened up to wrap around my girth, stroking as she leaned forward to run her tongue all the way around the head. My hips jerked and that familiar pressure started at the base of my spine.

  Dear God, that felt good.

  “More,” I commanded, only vaguely aware that I was losing control. I respected this woman, and I’d never hurt anyone intentionally, but I was so fucking on edge and getting so much closer to it that I had a feeling this fuck would be harder than any other before it.

  Rose obeyed me without question, wrapping her lips around me and sucking me in as deep as she could go. I let out a string of curses, my fingers winding into her hair as I started fucking her mouth.

  It was so damn hot, so wet and fucking perfect. The slight roughness of her tongue found that sensitive spot underneath my tip and I lost it. Just lost it.

  She took me without so much as gagging once, letting me set a punishing pace until I was so close to exploding that I had to take a step back. No way was I coming in her mouth our first time together.

  “Grab my wallet,” I said as I stepped back, my breaths coming out hard and fast and my voice hoarse. “Back pocket. There’s a condom.”

  “You brought a condom to lunch?” she asked teasingly but did as I’d asked. Once she had the foil packet, she handed it over and pulled out two more before dropping my wallet back to the floor. “Never mind. You brought three condoms to lunch. Do you really think you’ll need all three?”

  “I might need more than that.” I ripped the package open and unrolled the latex before crawling over her onto the bed.

  Our eyes caught for a beat before I kissed her again, holding her as I lined myself up and settled with my hips between her legs. I slid into her heat easily, intent on stopping as soon as I was buried to the hilt to give her a chance to adjust.

  But I didn’t stop.

  Once I started, I couldn’t stop. My body took over and smashed itself into hers over and over again.

  “Jude,” she gasped at some point. “I’m going to—I need—”

  She never finished either thought, but she didn’t need to. Instead of reaching between us, I grabbed a pillow from behind her head and shoved it under her ass, using my pelvis to give her what I knew she needed.

  It didn’t take a minute before her nails raked up my back and her muscles milked my cock to give it up. I still didn’t, though.

  I needed more of this, more of her, and the single-minded focus wouldn’t let me give up just yet. As soon as I felt her body relaxing beneath mine, I pulled out of her and positioned her on all fours.

  She looked at me over her shoulder, spreading her legs as she gave me the smallest nod. Her hand went to her clit and the sight of it there sent me spiraling even further. I lined my hips up again and got back inside her as fast as I could.

  “Jude,” she moaned as I picked up my pace again. I saw flashes of her hand moving fast and groaned when I felt her fluttering around me again. “Come with me, baby. Please. I want my senses to be filled with you, too.”

  There was a hitch in her voice when she said it, and when I looked at her again, she had her lip between her teeth and her eyes were screwed shut. “Okay, Rose. I’m with you. Come for me. Let me feel you again.”

  She did, and this time, so did I. When I finally found my release, I let out a roar and bent over at the waist to wrap my arm around her and press my chest against her back.

  We stayed like that for a long time before either of us was able to move. Her heart pounded right along with mine, her hand on mine until she collapsed to the bed.

  I took that as my cue, rolling off her and taking care of the condom before collapsing too.

  My back hit the mattress so hard I bounced a little, but I almost didn’t even notice.

  “Holy fuck.” That had to have been the best fucking sex I’d ever had. I’d always been a bit more dominant in the bedroom than I’d been led to believe most other men were, but it had never been quite like that.

  I’d been wanting her for so long that I’d lost control for a little while there.

  “You can say that again.” Rose giggled at my side, her hands in her hair and her eyes closed. I didn’t think I’d ever heard her giggle, but I liked the sound almost as much as I liked her laugh.

  It was soft and feminine and made me want to do more nasty things to her.

  “Holy fuck,” I repeated, my vision still a little hazy from having come so hard that I thought I might go blind. “Are you okay?”r />
  “Define okay,” she said, lazily stretching out like a sexy, tempting cat.

  I rolled my head to the side and faced her, my gaze tracking every inch of her delicious body. The flush on her chest, her nipples that were still red and puckered, her swollen lips and the luscious curve from her breasts, to her waist, to her hips.

  I swallowed when I started getting hard again. Already. How is that even possible?

  It shouldn’t have been, but it seemed like, with her, nothing was impossible.

  But first, I needed to make sure she was really okay. “I didn’t hurt you, did I?”

  “Nope.” She popped her lips, a slow smile spreading on them as she opened her eyes and blinked like her vision was blurry, too. “Well, I mean, you did, but not in any way I didn’t like. I’m definitely going to feel it tomorrow.”

  I smirked. I couldn’t help it. I loved the thought of her walking around my office, reminded of what we’d just done with every step she took. “That was pretty fucking incredible.”

  “Yeah.” She sighed and rolled onto her side to face me, her big brown eyes suddenly shining with vulnerability. “But it wasn’t very professional.”

  I propped myself up on my elbows and stared down at her, my heart suddenly hammering for an entirely different reason than before. “Don’t tell me this was a mistake and we can’t do it again.”

  “I won’t.” Another giggle escaped her as she glanced up and saw the expression on my face, all traces of anything other than playfulness and humor vanishing from hers. “I promise I’m not going to run again or tell you we can’t do it. I should never have said it.”

  “Good,” I said, rolling over and pinning her down again. “Because I’m not done with you.”

  The way I felt at that moment, I wasn’t sure I ever would be.

  Chapter 29

  ROSE

  Almost a month after that day in my hotel room, Jude and I were still going strong. It had been a little over three weeks that I’d been having a passionate secret love affair with my boss, and I was loving every minute of it.