there, running her fingertips down his stomach, turning his breath thready.
And then, suddenly, there was no more fight in her. No more reasoning. Only the realization that she was trying way too hard to keep this from feeling too good—and that she no longer possessed the power to keep her instincts from taking over.
“I want to make you come, baby,” he rasped as a warm sea breeze wafted over them.
She said nothing in reply, only knew that she wanted that now, too.
As she resumed moving on him, the primal instincts of her body taking over, she found herself wishing she were naked like him, naked and natural and free on the beach, like when they were young. And yet it was wiser to keep her dress on given where they were, and the knowledge reminded her they were doing something forbidden, fucking where anyone could come upon them at any time, and that was exciting in a whole different way. Still, she reached down and pulled up the skirt of her dress, lifted it to her waist in front, so that both of them could see where their bodies connected. Languid sighs of pleasure left her as she gyrated on him in a hot, slow grind.
His hands molded her ass now, stimulating her further, and she no longer even tried to resist peering into his eyes. It was harder to see here beneath the tent than it had been out in the moonlight, but she still found his eyes sparkling on her with dark lust. “Ride me, Holly,” he told her. “Fuck me with that hot little pussy.”
The words fueled her. There hadn’t been much dirty talk when they were young, but she liked knowing that apparently they’d both changed in certain ways.
Soon, though, her eyes were dropping shut and her head falling back, and the pleasure mounted, climbing higher, higher—until the orgasm came breaking over her like an ocean wave. She started to cry out, then bit her lip trying to be quiet even as the surging pulses swept through her with wild disregard for where she was. The climax was amazing and intense, longer than most, somehow better than most. But she chose not to examine that last part too closely, not to ask herself why.
“Oh God,” she breathed, leaning over on him again, feeling the warmth of his arms closing around her, the warmth of…shared pleasure, intimacy. And one last small urge to fight her emotions rose within her, but she was just too tired now. Quit. Give in to it. Just for a little while. It doesn’t mean anything. You’ll get your control back when you need it. You will.
Only…would she? Really?
As emotion raced through her, just as potent as the orgasm she’d just experienced, she began to fear she’d made a very big mistake by fucking Trey Kennedy.
Chapter Five
“Kiss me, Holly,” he said deeply, and she didn’t hesitate to lift her head from where it rested on his chest and deliver a warm, deep tongue kiss that she felt all the way to her toes.
“God, that was good,” she murmured breathlessly. And yet she’d chosen her words deliberately. Not you were good , but that was good . Because she didn’t want to panic. This didn’t have to be a mistake. As long as she maintained some boundaries here, she could keep it all under control; she could still make this what she wanted it to be.
And what was that again? Her head swam from all she’d just experienced—was still experiencing.
Catharsis—you want catharsis. Oh yeah, that was it.
You want to get him out of your system once and for all by fucking him and being done with it. You want to show him how strong and resilient you are. And you want to make sure he knows he was an idiot to ever let you go.
And okay, at the moment that was beginning to seem like a bit of a tall order, but as she snuggled against him, she worked very hard to come back to herself, to center herself, to remember that she was strong and resilient. He’d made her that way. And she did think he was an idiot—any man would be lucky to have her, then and now.
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