her arousal. The sensation was torturous in its undiluted pleasure. Each flick of his cockhead over her clit made her pussy spasm, her nipples tighten.
‘Ready?’
She nodded into his shoulder, clinging to him. He thrust home, filling her with such exquisite perfection she cried out.
‘Damn you.’ She dug her fingers into his skin, holding him tight. Each undulation made her vision blur, each withdrawal had her whimpering for more. She didn’t want to need him. To love him. Yet the adoration from her past overwhelmed her. He was the man for her. Always would be.
He clutched her hips, holding her immobile, as he plunged into her, growling her name and muttering sweet endearments. There was a commitment in his words. An affection that didn’t suit a casual fling. It made her fall again, tangling into the web of hope.
‘Lean back. I want to see your breasts in the moonlight and your fingers on your clit.’
Her nipples tingled with the demand, pulsing to the point of pain. She complied, resting back on one hand while the other slid over her abdomen to the bundle of nerves throbbing for attention.
‘I want to see you come.’
His wish was spoken gently, but the heat in his eyes was undeniable. She touched herself, rubbing her middle finger back and forth, as his length continue to drive inside her.
‘It won’t take long.’ She was close. On the precipice.
He leaned into her, holding her gaze, kissing her between panted breaths. ‘I love you, Brooke.’
He did not just say that.
‘Shhh.’ She bucked her hips in warning, not willing to believe him. Not prepared to reciprocate and expose her vulnerability, no matter how true the declaration.
He chuckled. ‘Again, I’ll prove it in time.’
She shook her head, fighting away the vision of happiness. Instead, she focused on the throb between her thighs, the pulsing in her belly that announced her impending climax. ‘I’m going to come.’
The catalyst was his eyes and the future she glimpsed within them. It was too much to bear, and she looked away. She panted as pleasure suffused her, pulsing from her abdomen, to every limb, through every nerve. He clutched the back of her neck as she whimpered, plastering his lips over hers, tangling their tongues as his undulations became forceful, announcing his release.
Time slowed, along with the beat of her pulse. She was with Heath. Naked. Returning from the height of climax, in the arms of her childhood sweetheart. It was a fantasy. It wasn’t real.
She straightened, finally able to meet his gaze, and almost burst into tears. ‘This can’t be happening.’
‘It is.’ His lips quirked yet his eyes turned solemn. ‘But there’s something I need to tell you that may burst the bubble.’
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‘There’s a reason I waited a month to see you.’ He guided her to the passenger door and held it open as she climbed in.
He had a girlfriend. A wife. A child or maybe two. What else could shatter the dreamy cocoon he’d had her in? ‘Tell me.’
He released a deep breath and raked a hand through his hair. ‘I’ll show you instead.’
He closed her door, skirted the bonnet, and took his place in the driver’s side, all with the sombre expression still plastered over his face. He drove toward her property, bypassing the front gates and continuing further on.
‘Where are we going?’
‘Be patient.’
‘Have you ever known me to have that quality?’
He chuckled. ‘You haven’t changed much over the years.’
She lowered her gaze, smiling to herself, trying to supress her apprehension. No, not much had changed. He was still the Heath she’d known all her childhood. No matter how many years had brought distance between them, they were still the same people. With the same affection for one another.
‘Are we almost there?’ she whispered.
He didn’t answer, didn’t pull his focus from the dirt road. The car slowed at the cattle grid leading onto his family land, but instead of driving toward the
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