The fingers in my hair drew tight, stinging ever so slightly. But it was fine. It was all good. I f**king loved being able to do this to him.
I drew him in deep and sucked hard, working him. He came with a shout, pumping into my mouth as far as my hand would let him. I swallowed.
And they said romance was dead.
He stood, panting, arms hanging slack and eyes closed. Fuck, he was perfect. I slowly stood, my numb knees shaky. After oral, there always seemed to be this moment of shyness. Maybe I should have been smug, thrown in some swagger. There wasn’t really the space for it in the shower, however.
Mal opened his eyes and stared at me, his arms going around my shoulders. He drew me in, placing soft kisses on my face.
“Thanks,” he said, the word muffled against my skin.
“You’re welcome.”
“I’m sorry about your parents, pumpkin. So f**king sorry.”
My fingers tightened on his hips, involuntarily. One day, I’d stop reacting like that and I’d let it go. “I’m sorry about your mom.”
“Yeah.” He rubbed my arms briskly, smooched the top of my head. “We need to think happy thoughts. And order a shitload of bacon and eggs. And waffles too. You like waffles?”
“Who doesn’t like waffles?”
“Exactly. Anyone who doesn’t like waffles should be put in the f**king penal system. Lock ’em up and throw away the key.”
“Absolutely.”
“No more sad stuff today,” he said, voice gruff.
He picked up the soap and started washing me, paying particular attention to my br**sts.
“There’s just one more thing I think we should talk about,” I said, as he worked hard at rubbing some imaginary spot from my left nipple. It felt rather nice, truth be told.
“What’s that?” he asked.
“Well, about what you said last night when we got back here. About starting a family.”
His hand paused, covering my right breast. “Starting a family?”
“Yes. You said you were really serious about it. You even threw all the condoms out the window and flushed my pill down the toilet.”
“That’s pretty damn serious. Did we f**k?”
I batted my eyelashes at him and gave him an innocent, if somewhat evil, look. “No. Of course not.”
The whites of his eyes blazed bright. “God … you nearly gave me a heart attack.”
“Sorry.” I kissed his chest. “You did throw all of your condoms out the window. You couldn’t find where I kept my pills, though. Then you lay down and proceeded to name all of our children.”
“All of them?”
“I take it we’re no longer having a brood of lucky thirteen?”
His brows arched up. “Shit. Um, maybe not, huh?”
“Probably for the best. You were going to name three of them David. It would’ve gotten confusing.”
“How much crap did I speak last night, just out of interest?”
“Not too much. You fell off the bed a couple of times, trying to lick my toes, and then you went to sleep.”
He washed the soap off his hands and reached for the shampoo, massaging it into my hair.
“Ouch,” I gasped. “Gentle.”
“What’s wrong?”
“You don’t remember?”
He turned his face slightly and gave me side eyes. “What now?”
“You might’ve accidentally kicked me in the head ever so slightly when you fell off your drumming stool.”
“Oh, no. Fuck. Anne …”
“You didn’t hurt me. It’s just a little bump.”
Face drawn, he carefully washed the shampoo from my hair, starting in on the conditioner. He kept shaking his head, frowning hard.
“Hey,” I said, grabbing his chin. “It’s okay. Really.”
“I’ll make it up to you.”
“You already did.” I placed my hand over his heart, feeling it beat against my palm. “You listened to my story without judging me. You told me what was up with you. Those two things are huge, Mal. They really are. We’re good.”
“I’ll make it up to you more. That won’t f**king happen again.”
“Okay.”
“I mean it.”
“I know you do.”
He gave me cranky eyes and then suddenly smiled. “I know what I’ll get you. Been thinking about it for a while now.”
“You don’t need to get me anything. Though waffles really would be good, I’m starving.” I finished washing off my hair, ready to get out.
“You’re getting more than waffles.” His arms came around me from behind, a hand sliding down between my legs. Lightly, he started stroking his fingers back and forth along the lips of my sex. “First, you need to come too.”
“Okay.”
He chuckled in my ear. “So obliging about your orgasms. I like that.”
I wound my arms up around his neck and held on tight. He raised his hand to his mouth, wetting some fingers. Then one finger slipped through the seam of my sex, tantalizing me. I tingled from top to toe. Slowly he pressed a little inside, then drew back to trace my entrance, spreading the wetness around. He worked me up in no time, my breathing coming fast and shallow. I writhed against his hand.
“You have to stand still, Anne,” he chided me, laying a hand flat against my stomach. Two fingers slid up into me, rubbing at something that felt amazing inside. “C’mon, you’re not even trying.”
“I can’t.”
“You have to. I can’t do this right if you don’t stay still.”
“Oh,” I gasped as his thumb slid over my clit, sending lightning up my spine.
“See? You made me slip.”
The way he loved to tease me was both a blessing and a curse. Fingers drew out, leaving me empty, and all of his attention turned to my clit. He rubbed both sides at once, making me moan.
“Stay still.”
“I’m trying.”
“Try harder.” Lightly, he slapped the top of my sex. The reaction was immediate, my h*ps kicking forward. No one had ever done that before. Every nerve ending in me felt about ready to explode.
“Like that percussion?” he asked.
“Fuck.” It was the only word I had.
He hummed in my ear and went back to working my cl*t even faster. The pressure just kept building. So close.
“Mal. Please.”
He slapped me again and I broke. I cried out, my body caving in. If he hadn’t been there to hold me up I’d have hit the floor. The man probably needed to be locked away for the safety of women everywhere.