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Staring at him for a moment, I tried to make sure I was understanding what he was saying. Did Joshua just invite me to stay in his cabin? Yes, yes he did. Even though he had mentioned me staying in another bed, he’d still invited me to come back to “his place” with him. How could I say no to that?

“Cool,” I said. “I think that would be great. Thank you.”

“Sure. I think I have an extra toothbrush, and you could borrow a T-shirt of mine to sleep in.” He was being so nonchalant about the whole thing, like Landon wouldn’t freak out if he knew that the idea had even been proposed.

But it wasn’t like he was asking me to sleep with him. Just to sleep in the same cabin with him. Because I had a problem. I had to keep that straight in my head.

Nevertheless, in the back of my mind, the running narrative suddenly became that I would be spending the night with Joshua—alone. That seemed like a win to me.

“Thank you, Joshua,” I said, placing my hand on his arm under the water. “I really appreciate it.”

“No problem. And maybe we can find you some earplugs. I bet the nurse probably has something like that.” He smiled reassuringly at me, and I realized that meant this was going to be a one-and-done. It wasn’t as if I could excuse myself from the cabin with the girls and just bunk with him for the rest of the time at camp.

I’d better make the most of the time we had together.

“It’s getting late,” Joshua said after a few more minutes of us floating around. “Maybe we should hit the showers and then go back to the cabin.”

He was right. As much as I would’ve liked to stay out there with him for the rest of the night, he had a lot of things to do the next day, and I needed to be there to take the photos.

We swam over to the shore and hauled ourselves out of the lake. Showers were located on the beach where we could rinse the lake water off. We made use of them, though neither of us had a towel. I’d never grabbed one after the pool, and Joshua had dropped his back at the cabin when I pulled him toward the lake.

We walked in near silence back to his cabin, our hands near one another but never really touching. When we got back to his cabin, he offered me a towel and a T-shirt with his favorite band from high school on the front. I thanked him and headed into the bathroom to put it on, noting I had no underwear. I wondered if that had occurred to him.

Walking back out in only the shirt that hit midthigh, I saw that Joshua was sitting on the edge of his bed in only his boxers. He’d pointed out the room that had the bunkbeds in it, and I was about to go there.

Our eyes met, and I found myself biting down on my bottom lip. This was it, wasn’t it? The opportunity I’d been waiting for my whole life. We were alone. My brother was a couple of hours away. No one was there to stop us except for ourselves. Sure, I might embarrass the hell out of myself if I tried something and Joshua rejected me, but he wanted me as badly as I wanted him—didn’t he?

It was fucking time to find out.

Rather than going to the bed he’d told me I should sleep in, I made my way across the cold tile floor to him, refusing to allow myself the opportunity to think. He looked up, surprised, his lips parting as he began to ask me what I was doing. I didn’t answer, though. Instead, I dropped down on top of him, my knees on either side of his hips, my tongue plunging between his parted lips as my arms wrapped around him.

Joshua gasped in surprise, but the moment my mouth was on his, that was it. There was no hesitation, no attempt to be reasonable. His hands slid up my back, pulling the T-shirt along with them so that my bare skin nestled against his rapidly growing cock. Only the thin fabric of his boxers separated us.

Everything unfolded in a blur. How many times had I dreamed of this moment? Had I fantasized about him taking me? In my imagination, it was never quite like this, but once the two of us began to move together, working to remove our clothing, I knew everything about this was going to be far better than my wildest dreams.

Joshua grabbed hold of the hem of the borrowed shirt, lifting it. I released his lips so he could pull it out of the way. I was completely bare to him and didn’t mind at all. His eyes roamed my body first before his hands settled beneath my breasts, his thumbs rubbing my aching nipples. I found his lips again, and then he flipped us over so that I was lying on my back on his bed with him over top of me. His warm lips singed my neck, moving down my body as wetness pooled between my thighs.

Whatever happened next, I was there for it. It was finally happening. Joshua was mine, and no one could take him away.

19

JOSHUA

My mind was in a haze as my mouth moved over Liberty’s body. Gone were all of our inhibitions, all of the worry that Landon might walk in and kill both of us—well, me anyway—at any moment.

As soon as she’d sat on my lap and kissed me, I knew what was going to unfold. I could no longer push her away—I didn’t want to.

Now, she was naked on my bed, her body glowing in the streams of moonlight filtering in through the high windows. I was lost to the world as I took a nipple in my mouth, sucking and running my tongue over the hardened peak. I couldn’t think about anything other than how much I wanted her. My cock twitched in my boxers, begging to be unleashed. I could no longer deny myself what I had been craving for more years than I could count.

Knowing that Liberty was on birth control and had been for years, I didn’t worry about any sort of protection. Instead, I slid my hand down her flat belly, my fingers drawn to the warmth between her legs like a magnet. Two fingers slid easily between her folds. She was dripping for me, clearly ready to take all that I had for her. A soft moan filled the air as I pushed inside of her, both of us beginning to pant with longing.

As difficult as it was to pull my fingers from her, I did so quickly and then removed my boxers. If even an inkling of rational thought seeped into my mind, I wouldn’t be able to go through with this. I needed to act now, or it was never going to happen.

With my cock lined up at her entryway, I looked down and met her eyes. With a pleading look on her face, Liberty wrapped her hands around my back, pressing down. She wanted me every bit as much as I wanted her, and I wasn’t going to disappoint her again. Leaning down, I brushed a kiss across her lips and then pushed inside her. She cried out, and an appreciative grunt rumbled in my chest.

She felt so good. In all the years I’d been thinking about what it would be like to finally make love to this woman, I’d never imagined she could feel so perfect. We began to move together in a perfect rhythm, as if our bodies had always known how to fit together.

I couldn’t get enough of how she felt, how her body glistened in the light of the moon, the soft noises she made, the movement of her hands sliding across my back. I took it all in, searing every touch into my memory. When we finally reached our climax, it was together. She wrapped her legs around my waist, and I sped up my thrusting, relishing the feel of her muscles as they spasmed around my shaft. Her moans became louder as I grunted and groaned, and then, I came undone inside her, losing all control of my body with the final burst.