The After Dark Collection: Books 1-3 in the Gift Series by Lauren Blakely

Author:Lauren Blakely [Blakely, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lauren Blakely Books

20

ADAM

I’d like to say that was unexpected.

The intensity. The passion. The soul-shattering intimacy.

But that’d be a lie.

I knew when I walked in here tonight that sex with Nina would be the most spectacular thing I’d ever experienced, and the hardest too.

Because how was I supposed to return to the way we were?

My chest ached for her. My mind wanted to engage with hers all the time. My arms longed to pull her into an embrace, and my mouth yearned to pepper sweet kisses over her cheeks, her eyelids, her hair.

That was the risk.

The risk we were supposed to avoid.

Hell, a mere twenty-four hours ago, we’d established the rules of engagement. They were crystal clear. The list. Os. Friendship.

Done.

That was it. That was all. We’d mutually agreed on the endpoint, and now we’d arrived at the moment when we were supposed to walk away.

In two nights, we’d worked through her whole list. My God, we were voracious, and the thought made me laugh unexpectedly.

“What’s so funny?” she asked, and it occurred to me this was the first thing either one of us had said post-sex.

And I was still inside her.

Yeah. Time to deal with that issue.

“I’ll tell you in a minute,” I said, easing out of her, then heading to her bathroom for a washcloth. After warming it up under the water, I returned and cleaned her up, then myself. I set the cloth in the hamper and returned to my gorgeous beauty, who radiated bliss.

She glowed from head to toe, and I wanted to kiss her all over, from her toes with their emerald-green polish to her thighs, all smooth and lovely, to the hollow of her throat.

I ran my fingers over that spot, the divot in her neck. Such a vulnerable place on the body. Pressing a gentle kiss there, I answered her, “What made me laugh is how big our appetites are.”

She chuckled beneath me. “Come to think of it, I haven’t had dinner.”

I raised my face, set a hand on her stomach. “My fault. I’ll need to rectify that soon with paninis, melting cheese, and fresh mushrooms.”

She let her tongue loll out like a dog.

“But what I meant was—we raced through your list, Nina.”

“My God, we were ravenous creatures, weren’t we?” she asked, and seemed to fix on a smile, her voice turning more chipper than I’d expected in this moment. “I was just thinking about the list too. How we plowed through it.”

“We get gold stars for speed of execution,” I said, wishing we weren’t talking about the list but rather what comes after it. Or what could come after.

She tapped my nose. “No, Adam. I should give you gold stars all around. You made my dirty dreams come true.”

The moment turned surreal.

Seconds ago, she’d been keening beneath me, breaking apart, calling my name.

And now that was all it had been.

A dirty dream.

A filthy fantasy.

Her list was a bucket list, a project to shed her virginity so she could focus again.

And here on the other side of her innocence, we’d resorted to what we’d always been.

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