Leaning down, she kissed his lips and then the cleft on his chin. Her hands skimmed over the hard, tight flesh of his shoulders and chest. Through the hair there and over the coppery ni**les, his gasp of pleasure bringing her a smile.

“I like that you have hair on your chest. It makes you even more masculine. And my goodness are you masculine. It makes me all shivery.”

His hands slid up her thighs and came to rest at her waist. “I’m glad. I like that I’m not the only one shivery all the time.”

She brought her lips to the hollow of his throat and swirled her tongue there, tasting the salt of his skin. Over his collarbone and down, teeth grazing over each nipple. Scooting back, her ass rested on his thighs as her hands traveled over the flat muscle of his belly until she finally reached his cock.

“I like this too.”

“I’m really glad. It likes you as well.” His voice was strangled. “We can get to the making love stage soon, right? Because I really need to be inside you.”

“In due time, Sheriff.” With that, she bent down and took him into her mouth, bringing him off the bed with a hiss of pleasure.

She explored him slowly with her mouth, with lips and tongue. Around the head, tasting him, and then slowly taking him as far as she could before nearly pulling off him.

His hands gripped the sheets so tight she was surprised he didn’t rip them. But his control, all for her, to make sure he didn’t spook her, touched her. And she yearned for a time when he’d take her wild and hot, when she could be taken without fear. A time she felt would come someday.

Shane looked down his body at Cassie. Her dark hair, slowly drying, played peek-a-boo with her face so he got carnal glimpses of her sucking his cock. What he didn’t see was just as hot as what he did see. One of her hands wrapped around the base of his c**k and the other did something naughty and really good with his balls.

The hot, wet of her mouth surrounded him and he was awash in pleasure. He knew he had to stop her soon or he’d come and he’d already discovered just how much he liked being inside her when that happened.

“Baby? Cassie, honey? Stop now, I’m getting close.”

She pulled off him with a slight pop and looked up. She looked so wicked and sexy at that moment his c**k jumped in response. Her lips were wet and swollen, eyes half lidded, hair tousled.

“That’s the point, Shane.”

He laughed. “Ride me, Cassie. I’ll come, but I want to be deep inside you when I do.”

Pouting, she took the condom from him and rolled it on. He was fairly sure he’d never want to put his own condom on again, the way she did it, slow and precise, was damned sexy.

Crawling forward, she reached around her body to open herself and guide him to her gate. He took it all in as she slowly sank back onto his cock.

Hot. Fuck, she was hot and tight as her pu**y took him in. Welcomed him. Each time she pulled her body up, he watched the flex of her thighs and her br**sts swayed forward.

“You’re amazing, Cassie. So pretty up there I don’t have words. I could look at you for days.”

A crooked smile slid over her mouth and she rolled her eyes. “I love that you’re so full of shit.”

“You know, you’re snarky when you get warmed up.”

“Ha! You should see me when I’ve known you a while.”

And that little comeback settled around his heart. “Yeah.” He smiled a moment, drawing a fingertip around her nipple, delighting in her pause and the way her lip caught between her teeth. “I can’t wait.”

She took a deep breath and added a swivel when she came back down on him. “That was very nice,” he said, voice strained.

“I got the mad skills. I haven’t used them in a few years, but I got ‘em.” She tapped her temple and he laughed.

It was important to her that he realize she was more than the sum of those years with Terry. There was a time when she’d loved sex and she was quickly back there. Something about the way he looked at her, touched her, made her whole, enabled her to think about a future.

“You got ‘em all right.” He continued to circle her nipple with one finger and drew another down her stomach, finding her clit. Gasping, she rolled her hips forward. At first it was a slow stroke, building the fire of her pleasure.

“Cassie, give it to me. Let me feel you come around my cock.”

She shivered at his words and arched, putting her hands on his thighs.

“Oh that’s a sight. I love the way that looks. Almost as good as how it feels.”

His voice was strained as the new angle of entry dragged the head of his c**k over her sweet spot. That, along with his finger slowly sliding back and forth over her clit, brought orgasm over her with a sharp shock.

Shane looked up at her, watched the arch of her beautiful body. As her pu**y clutched and clasped around his cock, he pulled her down on him and came, her name a hoarse whisper on his lips.

Boneless, she fell to a sated heap on the bed. He murmured that he’d be right back, checked the house to be sure it was locked up and lay beside her, his arms around her body, until she was deeply asleep.

Tucking blankets around her body, he set the air conditioner to keep the room nice and cool and grabbed some shorts before heading downstairs.

In his weight room, he worked out for well over an hour, hitting the bag, imagining it was Cassie’s ex. He pushed every last bit of his anger and grief for her through his fists until he was so exhausted he trembled.