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He didn’t say anything else, just started walking in the direction of the bedroo me to match him step for step as he waltzed me backward The bluesy and folksy sound of Old Crow Medicine Shoafted out of the bedrooht direction

"I stink" His voice was gruff and sent chills racing up and down my spine as we backed into the darkened bedroo across the floor None of it slowed his hit the edge of ers around each of his tattooed wrists and gazed up at hiroaned

"I kind of like it"

"Shit" It wasn’t really a word, more just an exhalation of sound, and then hiselsemore than the way he made me feel and the way that all the wildness and restlessness that always hounded me seemed to fade away under his lips and at his touch

He kissedHe kissed ain froood that I didn’t notice the fact that his hands had found their way to the he inched up the outside of ue twisted around asped loudly in the quiet when his big hands closed over either side of , but putting anything on under my dress after my shower had see it off for hi but appreciation in his tone and his breathing kicked up a notch as his bare chest ainst mine

He released one side of my ass and ran his hand upzipper that held the cute frock closed I h and the next I was nad in front of hiain and reached out a fingertip to touch one of the small silver hoops that decorated both of littered with a ruby jewel that o of my rear end co lotus flower thatcherry blossom that decorated the other They were both delicately done and popped brightly against my dark skin

"Beauty against all odds and the fragility of life" His voice was hushed as he bent down and dropped a kiss onnad with a tattoo artist--it cuts down on the show-and-tell"

He laughed a little and I felt it all the way tome over one of his ar my new arched position to circle each pierced nipple with his tongue I was pretty sure nothing in my entire life had ever felt that awesome Each peak puckered and pulled at the attention, and when he used his teeth and sucked the littleinto his ainstto die fro at his shoulders to try and stay soet lost in the pleasure when he le step closer and I losttheoverbut wicked

He kissed ht between the full swell of each breast and drew a moist line all the way down the center ofto dip it inlittle kisses on each of my tattoos that framed the very exposed, very sensitive part oftoward

"Rowdy" It was part question, part demand because I was ready for hi for this, for him to put his hands on h it had only been a handful of weeks

He blew out a breath that made ainst the soft skin of my stomach

"I’ve heard you sayyou say it in bed when I’m about to eat you up is probably o to hell but lost the ability to think, to speak, ithout any warning he dropped to his knees at the edge of the bed and pulled me to his face It was too much Too inti ever The boy really was beyond good with hisHe put rippedand spas inside with his mouth I squirmed on the bed, the pleasure ale of his teeth onI had and I couldn’t breathe past everything I was feeling

I got a handful of his hair to keep iven it a harder yank than I intended because he hissed out a breath that I felt on every das Hedark and sexy that I couldn’t make out and snaked one of his hands from my rear to the front, and just as he trapped that little tiny bud of desire between his teeth and sucked--hard--heand seeking tongue and I lost my mind

The double stiers combined with the relentless suction of his hot mouth, was too much to take There was no buildup, no steady clias rush that sweptpleasure and release It ratification chasing the sound along all the sensitive flesh he was still asood that I felt it in every cell, in every breath, in every blink as I peeled my eyes open and tried to remember where I ho I was, and who I ith

I still had ahold of his hair, so I gave it a tug to get his slide limply off his shoulders and crawled up the bed so that he was hovering over me He braced himself over me with his hands on either side of my head as he smirked down at me He looked entirely too pleased with hih and bent to kissto rown up"

That was the sweet, flirty side of him he usually reserved for everyone else but me I knew it for exactly what it was A way to keep this on a light and playful level A way to keep it in perspective, because even though I had been the one on the receiving end of his attentions while he teased and played with me, I knew he had felt the deeper connection we had, too There was doubt that so between us that had shades of the past and flavors of the future all iant ball of emotion and experience