I shook my head between her thighs and continued to lick her glossy folds. Her musky apple taste tantalized me, and I inhaled, savoring the smell as well as the flavor. My God, she was amazing. Her sighs drifted to my ears, and I couldn’t help myself. One arm wandered upward, and I pinched a nipple.

She jerked beneath me. Another soft moan escaped her lips.

I continued to eat her, sucking out her sweet cream. Her juices gushed over my chin.

When she was good and swollen and I could feel her on the edge, I shoved two fingers inside her heat. She climaxed around me. Every one of her contractions convulsed through me, taking me to the highest peak in Colorado. Each tremor, each quake—I felt them as if they were my own, my pulse racing, my cock throbbing.

When her release subsided, she pulled me to her and kissed me hard. The mingling of our saliva and her juices intoxicated me. I swirled my tongue around hers, taking the flavor, the passion…until I remembered I wanted only to give.

She broke the kiss, pushing me away slightly. “Please, Talon, take off your shirt, take off your pants. I want to suck that gorgeous cock of yours.”

How could I turn that down? I moved slightly, planning to stand, when again I remembered. This is about her. Only her. I want to give. “No, baby. This is about you.”

She let out a giggle. “That’s sweet, really, but believe me, sucking you is about me. I’m dying to do it right now.”

My name notwithstanding, I wasn’t made of steel. I’d take her word that she wanted this, because damn, I sure did. I was harder than I’d ever been. I stood and slowly disrobed, her fiery light-blue gaze never wandering from me. When my cock sprang free of its confinement, she dropped to her knees and licked the bobbing head.

Fuck… I gathered every last shred of willpower I possessed. I longed to explode down her throat, but I also wanted this amazing sensation to last. She took such care, raining tiny kisses along the underside and then twirling her tongue over my balls while working me with her fist. Shudders raced through me, boiling my blood in my veins. When she returned her mouth to my cock and plunged onto me, I nearly lost it.

But no, I wanted to come inside that sweet pussy of hers. My heart stampeding, I pulled her off my cock, turned her around, bent her over the bed, and plunged inside her wet heat.

And again that soft sigh—the gentle caress of her vocal cords that I loved—escaped her lips as I entered her. With that sigh she became mine.

Or at least I imagined that she could be mine.

Her walls clenched around me, fitting my cock as though the universe had cast her to be my perfect match. As if she had been created for me. Only me.

I thrust and I thrust and I thrust and I thrust and I thrust—trembling, quivering—until I withdrew and flipped her over so her beautiful face was visible to me. Her gaze caught mine, and God, I could drown in those shining eyes. I sat up on the bed, she still lying down, and stuffed my cock inside her again. I held one leg of hers up over my shoulder, opening her to take me fully.

She closed her eyes and moaned. “God, Talon, that’s so good. I’ve missed you.”

She’d missed me? I grabbed both of her beautiful tits and squeezed, her nipples hard. I pinched them the way she liked.

Words strained at my lips. How I wanted to say I’d missed her, too. That my life had been empty for the three days without her. Instead I leaned down and kissed her softly, tugging on one of her nipples.

She jolted against me. “Talon, I’m coming again. Oh my God, I’m coming.”

She convulsed around my shaft, and I cried out. I was on the edge of the precipice, looking down into nirvana, but I wasn’t ready to come. I slowed my thrusts a little, willing myself to wait. But it was too late.

One more plunge, and I erupted inside her, giving her everything that I was. Through each spasm that sent me farther and farther into heaven, I gave. And I gave. And I gave her some more. When my climax ebbed, I pulled her up to me, wrapped her legs around me, and kissed her softly, as we had at the beginning of this lovemaking. I looked deeply into those steely blue eyes, aching to give her even more—all that was my heart, my soul.

Could I?

The question was moot. I had already given it to her. I only prayed that she would keep it safe.

Chapter Six

Jade

So tenderly, he kissed me.

How had I let this happen? I had so wanted to be strong, but any fortitude I possessed was useless where Talon Steel was concerned. I would always surrender to him. My only escape would be to leave Colorado altogether and get as far away from him as I could.

But I wouldn’t do that. Colorado was my home. I’d lived here all my life. I could go back to Denver, but he would find me.

I wanted him to find me.

I love you. Those words sat on the edge of my lips, hungering to spew forth. I clamped my mouth shut. He wasn’t ready to hear those words.

And I wasn’t ready to say them.

He pulled away from the kiss and gazed into my eyes, his own burning black. I waited for him to speak, but he did not.

“Talon.”

He arched his eyebrows.

“That shouldn’t have happened.”

I expected him to agree with me. He always agreed with me about that. Had always been the one to say he would never fall in love with me, that this would not happen again.

But instead, he said, “That needed to happen, Jade.”

I had no idea what he meant, and asking him to explain it would do no good. Talon didn’t explain things.

“I’m glad it happened,” I said, my voice low.

His dark eyes smoldered. “I’m glad you came back.”

My eyebrows shot up. Had I heard him correctly? “You are? You kicked me out, remember?”

“I was wrong to do that.”

“You were?”

“Yes. You’re Marj’s best friend. She wants you here. She needs you here.”

My heart fell. The barriers had risen once more. He was glad I was back for Marj’s sake, not his own.

I knew better than to try to get through to Talon when he was walled off. I didn’t believe him for a minute, but pressuring him would do no good. When the blockade went up, it became impenetrable.

“Well, I didn’t want to leave Marj either.” I looked away. I couldn’t stare into his beautiful eyes when he was barricaded. It was too painful, like a blade slicing my heart in two.