Fuck. “Ryder.” I shouted up to him. “Hold tight. I’m taking my shirt off.”
I wrapped Thalia’s arms around a root, then with great difficulty removed my shirt and left it on a higher root. I grabbed hold of Thalia again, and when she was in my arms I unzipped her dress, and managed to pull the bodice free, pushing it down past her hips. As soon as her legs were free of the confines, she wrapped her legs around me. I put my hands on her butt. Fuck. Very naked butt and hoisted her up.
“I’ve got you, but you need to grab the shirt and get it on.”
Once she had the shirt on, the guys pulled us up the bank. Donovan tried to pry her away from me, but I was having none of it.
“Jack. Let her go and unfasten the rope for fuck’s sake,” Donovan shouted.
“It’s okay Phoenix. Let me go. I’m not going anywhere without you. I promise.” Thalia gave me a quick kiss.
I reluctantly let Donovan take her from me, and glared at him while he held her in his arms with a large grin on his face. “Just remember whose girl she is.”
“How could I forget?”
I growled and quickly removed the rope, then grabbed my girl back into my arms.
Chapter 66
Thalia
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I was freezing in Phoenix’s arms, and my teeth wouldn’t stop chattering, but before I could tell him to get a move on, my legs and feet were covered with jackets the guys had obviously been wearing.
“I’m going back to the house; we both need a warm shower. I need to warm her up,” Phoenix told everyone so seriously.
The guys snickered and Callie grinned. “So we won’t be seeing you again today?” Ryder asked.
“No.”
If I hadn’t been so cold, I’d die of embarrassment.
“Let’s go.”
Phoenix squeezed me against him and held me close while he walked back to the house. He must be cold as well, because he’d been in the water with me. Not as long, but his pants would be clinging to him.
“Can you head over and let everyone know she’s all right, but we both need to get warm...and I don’t give a shit what Mom has to say about it, you keep her away for now.”
I heard mumbling, but I kept my face buried in Phoenix’s neck. As we approached the house I felt a spark of warmth flood through me. I sighed, relieved that I could feel this heat again and licked his neck up to his ear. I nibbled his ear lobe and felt a shudder work its way through him.
“Two minutes, babe,” he groaned out.
“Mmm. Were you hard when you had your hands on my ass in the river?”
“Fuck. Thalia. What kind of asshole do you think I am?” He climbed up the steps to the front porch.
“Not a tiny bit hard,” I whispered. “You had me naked, apart from my thong, in your arms. Are you sure? Because I imagined your cock, hard and pulsing, wanting inside me.”
I was getting to him. His breathing was uneven, and his hands shook slightly. I reached out and opened the front door for us. He took me straight to the stairs and started up them. At the top, I nibbled his lobe again.
“I remembered how hot it was to lie on the desk at Kix, watching you jerk off, and have you come all over my *. Mmm. I want your cock inside me right now Phoenix.”
He pushed his way into my room, kicked the door shut then slammed his lips to mine. He released my legs, letting them hit the floor, and then slid his hands underneath the shirt, ripped my thong, yanked his zipper down, peeled his soaked pants off, hoisted me up, and thrust inside me in one long groan.
God that was hot.
He paused, breathing heavily into my neck. “You needed taking care of. Not my cock buried deep inside you.” He groaned.
“You are taking care of me.” I squeezed the muscles of my sex, and held him tight.
“Christ.”
“Move. Fast.”
He lifted his head out of my neck and met my gaze before sealing his lips to mine. I opened my mouth and gave him access, our tongues slipping and sliding against the other as he started to rock his hips. I could feel every inch of him; long, thick and pierced.
He moved me further up the door and locked his mouth to my nipples, lavishing some attention on them. I felt my orgasm approach as he sucked my nipple into his mouth; it burst forth and went on and on, while I couldn’t stop grinding against him, with my sex contracting along his cock. He shuddered then I felt his cum splash against my walls while we both moaned into each other’s mouths, his being sealed to mine again.
“Are you all right?”
“I love you. Did you mean what you said in the river?” I asked.
His eyes lit up. “If you hadn’t ravished me at the door, I’d have been able to get a ring on your finger.”
“You already have a ring?”
He moved his hands to my ass, and grabbing hold, kept me attached to him while he walked to sit on the edge of the bed.
Phoenix smoothed my hair away from my face in a light caress. “I love you. I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me?”
“Yes.” I burst into tears. “I love you, so much.”
“Thank God,” he said, collapsing back on the bed.