“I’m frustrated too,” he says.
“I can help with that.” I reach down for his jeans but he takes my hands and pins them to the bed at my hips.
“Not that.”
I glare at him, not enjoying this game anymore. “I don’t want to tell you this, Mark. Just leave it be and fuck me.”
His eyes flare in anger. “No. It’s a simple question.”
“Not for me.”
He peels my jeans down my hips and legs then tosses them over his shoulder.
“Did you like it when I told you to take your panties off at the restaurant?”
“Yeah, it was fun.”
He kisses my belly, just below my belly button and takes a deep breath.
“You smell like you need to be fucked.”
His words make my entire body clench in anticipation. “I do.”
“God, you’re so fucking sexy, Meredith.” He’s panting now, watching me with molten blue eyes. “I’ll never get enough of you.”
He parts my thighs and gently spreads my lips with his thumbs.
“Your * is amazing. Small and pink.” He nudges my clit with his nose, making me gasp. His tongue swirls around my opening before he sinks a finger inside.
“Oh God.”
“Why don’t you want me to sell this house, Meredith?”
“I don’t know.” I bite my lip and then cry out when he backs away from me completely. “Hey!”
“Anticipation,” he reminds me as he kisses my inner thigh. I glare down at him and he laughs, the jerk.
“I’m so glad I’m entertaining you while I need you inside me,” I reply angrily. Suddenly, his face changes. He’s no longer amused. He’s… I don’t know.
For the first time ever, I can’t fucking read him.
“Mark?”
He lays his forehead on my belly, grips my hips in his hands and holds on to me for a moment before looking up at me again with love and fear and… hope?
I sit up, cup his face in my hands and kiss him passionately, breathing him in. God, he always smells so good. His arms wrap around my waist, lifting me against him. I wrap my legs around his hips and press my center against his denim-covered cock, kissing him with everything I have.
I hate that I saw fear in his eyes. What could he possibly be afraid of?
“I don’t want you to sell the house,” I whisper as I place soft kisses over his cheeks, “because I love this house. I could see us living here, having kids here. This is a family house, but the family I see in it is ours. That’s why I don’t want you to sell it.” I press my face to his neck, unable to look him in the eye. “I didn’t want to say that because this is still so new, and kind of scary, but I couldn’t read you just now and I can’t stand that.”
He’s hugging me fiercely. I expect him to make me look him in the face, but he doesn’t, which is very un-Mark. Instead, he cradles my head gently; brushes my hair with his fingers and rocks us soothingly. Finally, he lays me on my back, shucks out of his jeans and covers me completely, resting his pelvis against my own.
His heavy cock pulses against my core, the tip tickling my clit and I can’t help but circle my hips in invitation. Mark’s eyes are intense, hot, and I can’t look away from them. Finally, he pulls his hips back and slides inside me, infinitely slowly and reverently, making tears form in my eyes.
“Don’t cry, sweetheart.”
“You feel so good,” I whisper roughly.
He hasn’t said anything in response to me spilling my guts, which worries me. Maybe he’s not ready to hear about my clingy need to someday live with him? Maybe this is just sex for him and I’m jumping to conclusions?
Maybe I’m an idiot.
He begins to move, rhythmically making love to me. One large hand glides up my side to cup my breast, his thumb tweaks over my tender nipple, making me bite my lip. His lips turn up in a half smile as he watches my body’s reaction to his touch.
“Do you have any idea,” he whispers and brushes his cheek against mine, barely touching me. His stubble tickles me, but makes my body clench even more. “Any idea how often I’ve wondered what it would sound like to hear those words come from you?”
He shudders and closes his eyes and I brush my fingertips up and down his back. A light sheen of sweat covers his strong body as he begins to move, his pubis pumping against my clit, sending electricity zinging through my body, all the way to my fingertips.
“Oh my God,” I whisper and close my eyes as he makes love to me, pounding into me while whispering words of love and forever and I can’t take it. It’s just too much. I erupt beneath him, crying out his name as I see stars explode around us.
“That’s right, baby,” he whispers. He reaches over me and grips his headboard as he thrusts into me harder, his mouth forming an O as he comes hard, jerking over me and watching me with wonder.
Finally, he scoops me into his arms and rolls us to the other side of the bed, cradling me in his arms.
“I’ll keep the house and we’ll take it one day at a time. Is that okay?”
“Yes. Thank you.”
He kisses my forehead and suddenly grins. “I guess you’ll have to help me shop for furniture.”
“I will?”
He nods and gives me that naughty smile again. “Now that I’ve finally got you to admit that you’ll want to live with me one day, you should have a say in how your house is furnished.”
“It’s not my house,” I insist quickly with a shake of my head, pushing against his chest.
He rolls his eyes and pulls me back in his arms effortlessly. “Will you make up your mind? It either is or it isn’t.”
It so is.
“It’s your house that I don’t want you to sell.”
“We’ll work on it.”
Chapter Ten
For the first time in as long as I can remember, I don’t want to go to work. I want to stay here, in my bed with my man still sleeping and wrapped around me and pull the covers over our heads and pretend that the rest of the world doesn’t matter.
But I have a plane to catch and I don’t think Jax ever came home last night.