Love Restored (Gallagher Brothers #1)

Not anymore.

Graham stood then, moving around the table so he was right in front of her. He took her by her chin, grabbed her fingers with his other hand, and forced her to stand. She might have protested, but she couldn’t, not with Graham, not right then.

“I like control in bed, Blake,” Graham growled. “I need it. I’m not talking dominant and submissive, but I need to be the one showing you where I need you so I can make you feel, make you come, make you forget to think. Do you think you can do that? Do you think you can let me have the reins if only for the night? And maybe for more nights afterward? I’ll never tell you what to do out of bed. But in bed? In bed, I want you to give yourself to me.”

She let out a shaky breath. “That’s not me, Graham.” She met his gaze, saw the heat in his eyes. “You’re going to have to work for it. I’ll…let you in, but you have to know I’m not easy.”

“Good,” he growled. “I didn’t think you were the first time I saw you, and I like the fact that you’re going to make this fun and so fucking amazing.” He cupped her face and leaned closer. “I want you, Blake. Can I have you?”

“If you have to ask, then who is in control?”

He kissed her then, hard. “Because no matter how much I want it, without it freely given, it’s not control at all.” He closed his eyes, leaning his forehead against hers. Her heart beat quickly, her breaths coming in pants from just his mere presence. Of course, there was nothing ‘mere’ about him. “I’m going to fuck you, Blake. And you better fuck me back just as hard.”

“You got it, Gallagher,” she said on a laugh, then gasped as he slid his hand behind the waistband of her leggings and under her panties.

“So fucking wet,” he growled. “I’m going to fuck you with my fingers in my kitchen then take you to my bed so I can eat you out. I want to lick every inch of you while you ride my face. Then I want to fuck you from behind, my hands digging into your hips as I go so deep, neither of us can catch our breath. And when I come, I want you to come, too, your pussy clenching my cock until I’m spent and you’re a pile of limbs on the bed. What do you say to that, Blake? Can you come for me?” He growled the last words again as he speared her with his fingers, his thumb pressing hard against her clit.

She came for him, instantly, her body shaking. She’d have come from his words alone, the feeling of his growl along her skin. Add in his fingers, his touch, and she was a goner. She dug her nails into his biceps, her head thrown back as she tried to catch her breath. Graham latched on to her neck, licking, sucking, biting.

“You’re fucking beautiful when you come,” he said softly before sliding his hand out of her pants. He cupped the back of her neck with his free hand, forcing his gaze to hers. “Part those pretty lips for me.” When she parted her mouth on a breath, he slid his wet finger along her lips before pulling away to suck her juices off each finger. Throughout it all, his gaze never left hers.

Damn it. Graham Gallagher licking himself clean after fingering her was the hottest thing she’d ever seen in her life.

And they were both still clothed.

“Fucking sweet.” He crushed his mouth to hers before gripping her ass in his large hands and lifting her off the floor. She wrapped herself around him, tangling her hand in his hair as she kissed him back.

“I need you,” she panted. She may have just come, but she needed more than a light touch. She needed his body, his mouth, his cock. She needed it all.

He carried her to the bedroom and set her on her feet before quickly stripping her. She tossed her shoes as soon as he let her down and then helped him with her leggings, but he had her bra undone and her panties off in a blink.

The fact that she stood naked in front of him, stretch marks and signs of bearing a child on full display, all while he was fully dressed shouldn’t have been a turn on, but it was. She pushed thoughts of what she wasn’t revealing to him out of her mind and tried to live in the moment.

She’d deal with the consequences later.

“Get naked,” she rasped. “I need you naked.”

He chuckled even as he reached out and cupped her breast in one large, calloused hand. She gasped as he slid his thumb over her nipple. “We can do that. Yeah, we can do that. And, baby? I think these pierced would have been hot as fuck. They’re hot as fuck now, too.”

She nipped at his jaw, needing more. “Thank you. Now take off your fucking clothes.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“Now who’s in charge?” she teased.

He reached around and smacked her ass. Hard. “If me getting naked gets me in that cunt of yours quickly, then yeah, I’ll do what you want.”

She rolled her eyes, then moaned as he slid his hand between the crease of her ass, dipping inside to probe her. She licked her lips. “Not that kind of play on the first date, Gallagher.”