Page 44 of Forbidden Sins

“You can stay here. I can take care of you,” he told her.

“What? You want to cancel the annulment, have me here as your happy housewife, making sure I meet you every day at the door with a martini and a pot roast in the oven?”

Gabe didn’t think that would be so bad, but he didn’t push it.

“I’ve worked too hard to get where I am. I want to keep the job. Even though my father paid for my education, I’ll never say I wished he didn’t. I’ve got a promising career. I can’t turn my back on that. You know that. It’s the same reason you won’t leave it either.”

Gabe had no response to that, so all he could do was wrap his arms around her. And he held her close, neither of them talking, until the water cooled.

In the silence, with his eyes closed, Gabe felt himself begin to drift off into sleep. He shifted, needing to get them out of the chilled water before he fell asleep. “Ready to get out?” he asked her.

“Yeah, I was waiting for you to wake up,” she told him with a laugh.

“I wasn’t asleep,” he told her. He was sure he’d only drifted off for a minute—tops.

“Oh really? You normally snore when you’re awake?” She stood and he watched the rivulets of water roll down her body. Maybe she was right, and he had napped. He was reinvigorated, his energy rising, along with his dick as he watched her step gingerly from the tub.

He followed her out and grabbed a fluffy towel. He stood behind her and drew the towel over her body, soaking up the water, following it with his lips. Her warm, damp skin was smooth under his mouth, and he kissed, licked, tasted his way across her shoulder blades. She turned in his arms and encircled his neck with her own. She kissed his mouth, and as he kissed her back, he could feel himself, naked chest to naked chest, melt into her. Kissing had always felt like a precursor to the more fun elements of sex, but kissing Ellie was different. He’d never felt anything so good or pure. He could have stood there kissing her all night.

Her body shifted, reminding him of his hard cock that stood straight up between them. Keeping his mouth fastened on hers, his tongue entwined with hers, Gabe lifted Ellie, and she wrapped her legs tightly around his middle. He made the short trip to his bed and lowered her into the center of his king-size mattress.

He followed her down and settled on top of her, between her knees. But soon, Ellie took over, and pushed him over to lie on the bed. On top, with her thighs straddling his hips, she stroked him, gripped him.

Gabe groaned his approval and let himself relax and enjoy her touch. But when she rose above him and slid her sweet, hot pussy against his dick, he thought he might explode.

“Fuck, Ell,” he muttered through clenched teeth.

“You like that?” she asked. He saw the wicked smile that played on her lips. She was enjoying torturing him.

“I’d like it a lot better if you would just lie back and let me do my job.”

“Your job is to just lie there,” she told him. “Tonight, you’re mine.” She continued grinding on his dick. Her moans and quick breath told him that she was enjoying herself.

“I’m always yours,” he whispered.

She stopped moving at his declaration. He opened his eyes and saw her watching him. He didn’t know if he’d scared her. He regretted saying anything. He cursed his own stupidity and lack of control where she was involved.

She didn’t say anything, but she raised up above him, took him in her hand, and lined him up with her opening. She started to lower herself. He was already inside of her, albeit just an inch, when he put his hands on her hips, stilling her movement.

“Ellie, wait.”

“What?”

“A condom,” he told her, nodding to the top drawer in the bedside table.

“No,” she whispered back.

“What?”

“I don’t want one. I want to feel you.”

Gabe’s restraint was razor-thin. He’d never had sex without protection, and as a sexually active young man, he underwent testing every few months. “Are you sure?”

“I’m on birth control, but besides that, I was tested a short time ago. I’m clean. Unless you have something to tell me.”

“Not a thing,” he assured her.

As Ellie lowered herself onto him, he arched his back off the mattress at the feeling of filling her with nothing between them.