Page 154 of Protective Heroes

“This time, no brakes, baby. It’s full throttle from here on out, and you’re not leaving me tonight. And hopefully, if I’m lucky, tomorrow you’ll let me convince you somehow to stay forever.”

A forever with Nathan? She liked that.

Maybe, if he continued working her clit like it was his personal mission in life to make her the happiest woman on the planet, she would stay.

Then again, his heart of gold was good enough for her.

Five

“I’ve wanted you since I turned seventeen and you marched through the front door in your dress blues. Your eyes were shadowed under your hat, but I didn’t need to see them to know something happened between us when we first touched. Like Greek fire meeting water. An inferno that can’t be stopped.”

He dipped his head as she talked, but her words hit a loud gasp when the heat of his tongue touched the slick wetness of her center.

She arched and panted when he did it again.

“Fuck, the sweetness, baby.” She could hear the strain in his voice. The control it took for him to not ravish her quickly and instead take his time devouring her from head to toe. She knew because she was right there with him.

“I’ve wanted your taste on my tongue longer than I can remember.”

“What made you so sure?”

There went that Marine Corps cockiness again. He wouldn’t be Nathan without it.

“Your stance. You stood in front of me as my brother introduced us just like you are now. Well, not like now, with my wet pussy in your face.”

“And want a sight.”

Even now her heart raced at the memory.

Holy hell he looked hot that day.

She quivered and shuddered as he pinned her legs higher and dipped his tongue lower until his tongue stroked over her ass. He nibbled on each cheek before laving a slow burn from hole to hole and not stopping until he wrapped his warm lips around her clit.

She cried out, digging her heels into his bare back, her nails into the flesh of his hard shoulders.

She panted her next words. “You stood…all…all…attention on me. Your gaze locked on mine, seeing all the way through to me it seemed. Like you knew I would belong to you.” She eased her hand over his heart before adding, “As if seeing your soulmate for the first time.” His silence said everything she wanted to hear. Kind of funny how at that moment the man’s strong suit for being silent gave his emotions away.

“I might not have understood all the whys behind what made me crazy for you, but there’s no denying everything about you called to me. Still does,” she added with a sigh as he slipped a finger into her drenched opening. All the hurt and fear of rejection now replaced with acceptance. She loved him, too. No amount of time or distance would change the fact.

This close, he couldn’t hide behind the wall he kept around his emotions. His pupils dilated, and the tic in his jaw kicked up a notch from the normal rhythm he kept when something bothered him.

Amazed she managed to crack his hard exterior to expose the softer inside, Willa pushed her luck further. “You felt it then, too, didn’t you, Nathan? We connected that day in a way neither of us expected. And my brother stepped in, as always.”

“Your brother meant well. Don’t blame the man for caring for his only sister.” He pinned her in place with a hand to her stomach, his shoulders pushing her legs wider.

He dragged his tongue over her, kissed and sucked her pouty pussy lips until all thought nearly left her.

She thrashed her head from side to side to clear the lust-filled haze that swarmed her thoughts. “You have to listen, Nathan. You need to know why. You stepped in and made sure I was safe in a world where I would have been completely alone. You made sure I had a place here with your father’s company. And don’t think I don’t know about your phone calls with him every week or so. You looked after me. Now it’s time to listen to your heart and do what will make you happy. I want you. I want that family you talked about and I want you to fuck me. Hard. Right now.”

There. She said what she had to say.

Her heart pounded.

She’d given up on controlling her stomach a long time ago.

Words. Gah, what was she saying?

She clutched a handful of his hair and gasped as he nibbled the soft lips of her pussy. She had more but the rest could wait. Before she gave herself over to him, he had to know how much he meant to her.