There With You by Samantha Young
Regan
Ilaid there, panting, so excited I trembled with it. The ache between my legs was hot and almost painful. Months of longing had culminated to this point, and all I could think about was having Thane inside me.
I was almost mad with the need of him.
His orders had been a shock, but to my surprise, one my body reacted to. My instinct was to buck against a man’s command, and if it had been anyone but Thane, I would have. But as it turned out, his bossiness made me exceptionally hot.
Lying in my underwear, I felt a little shy, a little weird at first, but as soon as Thane stepped into the annex, everything disappeared but my need for him. He was right. This thing between us was almost a madness.
Nostrils flaring as his eyes devoured me on my bed, Thane walked toward me slowly, his arousal obvious through the pajama bottoms he’d changed into.
“Look at you,” he said gruffly, running a hand down his beard. His expression was a little dazed, as if he wasn’t sure I was real.
“I want to look at you,” I replied softly.
In answer, Thane tugged off his T-shirt and dropped it on the floor by the bed. Then his bottoms followed, and I sucked in a breath. I’d forgotten how much I liked his body. All that natural power, not overly muscled, but strong and so goddamn masculine my body reacted everywhere. His fiery gaze, the way his features had hardened with lust, made me tingle hotly between my legs. My breasts were heavy, my nipples tight.
Jutting proudly between his muscled thighs was an impressive, pulsing erection.
All for me.
Thane produced a condom as if out of nowhere, opened it with his teeth, and rolled it on. But I’d barely had time to ogle him when he crawled over me, bracing himself above me in the bed, falling between my already open thighs.
He stared into my eyes, studying me intently, and I marveled at how weird this didn’t feel. Shouldn’t it feel weird, lying in my lingerie beneath my naked boss?
The first time with someone new was always strange. Vulnerable was probably a better word. I’d felt vulnerable, except for my drunken one-night stand with Austin, which I barely remembered. This … this with Thane, though, I’d remember forever. I wasn’t vulnerable at all. I was relieved. That I’d found him.
This beautiful, kind, funny, sexy, sometimes irritating, emotionally suppressed Scotsman whose love for his children only made me adore him more.
I loved him, I admitted to myself as he stroked my cheek with his thumb.
And if all he wanted from me was this, then I’d take it. I’d take these memories we were about to make, and they’d just have to last me a lifetime.
Emotion choked me, and I could feel the tickle of oncoming tears, so I reached up and kissed him hard before I fell apart in his arms. Thane groaned and pressed me back down onto the mattress to take control of the kiss, and I happily allowed it. I loved the taste of him on my tongue, loved the way his beard was soft, not scratchy, and the feel on my skin was sexual and arousing. I hoped I’d get to feel it between my thighs.
As if Thane heard the thought, his lips broke away from my mouth to kiss a path down my body. When he reached the rise of my breasts and discovered I’d put on a bra that clipped open in the front, he looked up at me with amusement glittering in those beautiful, desire-filled eyes.
I bit my lip to stop a stupid, goofy grin, and suddenly Thane was over me again, crushing my mouth beneath his as he stole hungry, deep kisses. I was a little dizzy and breathless as he released my mouth to return to my bra. He removed it with quick efficiency, and I pulled the straps down my arms. The inexpensive but sexy, lacy number flew across the room. Then his hot mouth covered my right nipple and he sucked.
My back bowed as I cried out at the sharp pleasure that echoed between my thighs. Lost in his loving, I could only writhe beneath him as he moved between each breast, sucking, laving, until I was swollen and aching. And then his lips followed that invisible path down my stomach, while his big hands stayed at my breasts, caressing and squeezing until I thought I’d go mad with the need to release.
Finally, Thane reached the apex of my thighs, and his hands left my breasts, but only to push my legs open wider. He looked up at me, his features taut with hunger. And as he stared into my eyes, his thumbs met in the middle over the lace of my underwear. I gasped as he pressed down.
My hips arched off the bed into his touch, but he only rubbed his thumbs over me once more before he stopped. I lifted my head to complain, but the feral look on Thane’s face as he gazed up my body halted me. No man had ever looked at me like that. Like he’d lose his mind if he didn’t have me. I experienced a squeeze deep in my lower belly, and my stomach shook with it.
Thane’s eyes dropped, catching the movement. Something snapped inside him. His fingers brushed my lower belly, curling into my underwear. He wrenched them down my legs, and I whimpered with excitement.
I heard Thane’s grunt of satisfaction seconds before the tickle of his beard on my inner thighs and the touch of his tongue at my apex.
Need slammed through me, and my hips pushed into his mouth. Thane gripped them, pressing them back to the mattress and then he devastated me in the best way possible.
Oh my God, so this is what it feels like—I arched into him—when a man knows what he’s doing.
He studied my body, my reactions, and just when I was about to reach blinding satisfaction, he’d pull back a little, torturing me. “Thane,” I pleaded, reaching for him. My fingers slid through his thick hair and tightened. Thane grunted at the slight pull, and then his tongue returned. I shuddered, but it still wasn’t enough. Again, the damn mind reader sensed it, and two thick fingers pushed gently into me.
That was it.
It was all I needed.
I cried out his name as I came, wonder flooding through me as the powerful release swept over my body.
Shaking my head on the pillow, I couldn’t believe it.
“Never,” I whispered, touching a hand to my forehead. “Never, ever,” had it been so good.
Suddenly I felt the heat of Thane’s body, the hair on his legs tickling mine, his stomach brushing across my belly as he moved upward. His harsh need made the pulsing inside me quicken again as he wrapped his hands around my wrists to pin my arms above my head. When I tried to move them, I couldn’t. He held me captive.
I gasped, my breasts tightening, tension coiling deep in my belly. I hadn’t expected to enjoy the sensation of being held down.
But with Thane … everything was different.
His lips brushed mine, softly, sweetly, surprising me considering how hungry he seemed, and then he was there, throbbing hot between my thighs. Leaning all of his weight on my wrists to hold me down, he pushed into me.
I gasped his name in pleasured pain at the burn of him stretching me.
Our eyes held, my breath scattered as he moved inside me, the feel of him so perfect it electrified my lower spine.
And he began to thrust.
Hard.
His expression turned even darker with want and after only a few drives inside me, he released his hold on my wrists, slipped out, and got on his knees. Thane reached for the back of my thighs, gripping them in his hold so my hips and ass came up off the bed.
And then he powered into me.
My hoarse shout echoed around the annex, and Thane grunted in satisfaction as he fucked me.
There was no other word for it.
And it was glorious.
I didn’t know what to do with my hands. I wanted to touch him but I couldn’t reach. I couldn’t do anything. He was so strong, so determined, so … primal.
Watching him, watching him watch me as he drove into me, was the sexiest thing I’d ever seen in my life. I gripped the sheets as he pounded into me, hitting this place inside no man had. And in that moment, I was nothing but hot skin and sex. I wasn’t cognizant of anything but the intensity of his body inside mine and the coiling bliss building within.
I exploded.
After years of reading romance novels, I finally understood what that meant.
“Thane!” I cried, shuddering and shaking against his thrusts. The sensation was so sexy, so raw, I never wanted it to end. It was like it would never end.
“Regan, fuck!” Thane growled, and I watched him bare his teeth like an animal as his hips stilled against mine. He throbbed in me, bowing into the release in hard, jerking shudders.
As if he couldn’t hold himself up any longer, Thane rested his cheek on my stomach and tried to catch his breath.
He still pulsed inside me.
Possessiveness and satisfaction mingled as I stroked his back, his skin damp from our exertions.
I wanted to tell him it was the best sex I’d ever had, but even that didn’t sound perfect enough for what I’d just experienced.
After a while, he pressed a sweet kiss near my belly button. Thane lifted onto his hands to look down at me. His face was relaxed, sated, but I could see his busy brain working behind those soulful eyes. Before I could say a word, he kissed me. Not a chaste, sweet thank-you, but a deep, possessive kiss that promised we weren’t done.
However, apparently we were. Thane retreated to watch my face as he eased out of me, something masculine and smug in his expression as I moaned.
He got out of the bed and stood in the bright lights of the room. As he strode unashamed of his nakedness to the bathroom, most likely to deal with the condom, I squirmed on the sheets, wanting him back inside me.
Jesus, I was addicted.
When he came back out, his attention returned to me. His eyes flickered over my body, and his jaw clenched.
He wanted me again too.
Thane walked around the bed and said, his voice gruff, “I have to get back to the kids.”
God, of course. I touched my forehead, feeling stupid and irresponsible for forgetting Eilidh and Lewis. My desire for him made me a selfish, sex-mad woman.
I sat up as he dressed, pulling the sheet over me, that vulnerability I hadn’t felt the entire time now sliding over my skin.
Was that it? Had Thane scratched his itch and now we were done?
My only answer was a non-answer. He bent over me, kissed me softly, almost chastely, then kissed the tip of my nose before hurrying away.
“Lights off,” he commanded, and the annex turned dark seconds before he slipped back out into the night.
That was it?
Stupid tears pricked my eyes as I pulled my knees to my chest. I ached between my legs from where he’d been moments ago.
For me, it had been earth-shattering. Enlightening. A stupendous awakening.
Sex had been good for me before, but I hadn’t known it could be like what I’d read about.
Mind-blowing.
But maybe it hadn’t been for Thane. Maybe what he had in the past with Fran, a woman he’d loved, meant what he’d just had with me was the equivalent of a jerk in the shower.
I winced at the thought and shook my head. No, I was being silly.
Yet I despised Thane’s ability to make me doubt myself, to feel insecure. I’d never really overanalyzed if a guy I was with had enjoyed sex. The mere act of them coming suggested they had. But it wasn’t just about Thane enjoying sex with me.
I wanted him to have experienced what I just experienced.
Something beyond an orgasm.
Love. The word whispered in my mind, and I swiped angrily at a tear. Determined not to let his abrupt departure twist up my head beyond anything but the need to return to his children, I pushed out of bed and found my way to the shower in the dark.