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Her pulse quickened even more and her lips parted as she struggled to breathe. She wanted that now-to be in bed with him.
“I’m sorry,” she murmured.
“What? It’s not your fault,” he said. “It’s not your fault that I couldn’t stay focused on my job. Honestly, I’m glad I didn’t and I don’t regret any moment I spent with you. It was all worth it.”
Bonnie smiled, then for some reason probably just to tease him, she used her hands on his knees to lever herself to her feet. Then she turned to walk away from him, but he stood and reached out.
Catching her wrist, he whirled her around to face him. “Oh, hell,” he muttered before he lowered his mouth to hers.
David kissed her hungrily-like he had earlier. His lips nipped and nibbled at hers, tugging until she parted them. Then he slid his tongue inside where it tangled with hers. She gasped and panted for breath as passion overwhelmed her.
“Were you really going to walk away from me?” he asked as he withdrew, breathing deeply.
“Nah, I just wanted you to chase me a little,” Bonnie replied.
He smiled, then kissed her again. Bonnie’s legs trembled and she might have stumbled had he not lifted her then. She swung an arm around his shoulders before remembering his gunshot wound. “Put me down,” she said. “You’re hurt.”
“I’m hurting,” he agreed. “But it has nothing to do with my shoulder and everything to do with you.”
He carried her from the living room down the hall to her bedroom. He pushed open the door with that wounded shoulder but didn’t so much as flinch. “You know, now that I think of it, it is your fault that I couldn’t focus on anything else,” he said as he carried her to the bed.
She didn’t apologize again. She just pulled him down onto the bed with her. The passion between them was even hotter now, more overwhelming. Bonnie wanted him even more at this moment than she had before. Maybe because she’d thought she’d lost him. For those days she had to spend without him and those few horrifying minutes in the car when he passed out and she’d thought he was dead.
She clutched at him now, kissing him deeply. And as she kissed him, she pushed his jacket from his shoulders and moved her fingers to the buttons of his shirt. She needed that off him. She needed everything off him.
But before she could undress him, he pulled away from her. And he finished the job himself-until he wore nothing but the bandage on his shoulder. She stared at it as that horrific thought rushed through her mind again-that he might have died-that he could have died while protecting her.
“Bonnie,” he murmured. He used his fingers on her chin to tip her face up to his. “Stop staring at it. It’s not really your fault.”
No. It was the shooter’s fault for pulling that trigger. Still, he’d been protecting her. And he was trying to do that now, trying to assuage her guilt to protect her feelings. It was all he’d been trying to do ever since… even though his methods had been brutal and hurtful too.
She quickly stripped off her clothes, needing her skin against his. Needing nothing between them… He kissed her and touched her like he had earlier, driving her out of her mind with desire. Building that tension inside her to the breaking point. She’d never felt passion like this-not even the first time with him.
Because now she knew that she loved him, and that he loved her too. She wanted to show him just how much, so she pushed him onto his back and kissed and touched him everywhere. He tore his mouth from hers, dragged kisses from her jaw to her ear and just beneath, where the sensitized pulse point made her whimper and writhe.
He pulled her back down, then he focused on her. Bonnie watched enraptured as he wet his bottom lip, the glimpse of tongue making her stomach clench, and he bowed his head, his breath sweeping over the sensitized nipple, his tongue following… She gripped his shoulders, her nails clawing into his shirt as she arched into the caress, his name a moan on her lips. He cupped her breast, held her steady to his attention, his teeth grazing, his tongue flicking, his mouth sucking her in deep.
Pleasure surged fast and furious within her, her toes curling into the bed sheets as she grasped him like some form of anchor, fearing its intensity and reveling in it all the same. She pressed her head back into the pillow, clamped her eyes shut as she panted for air, cried out for more.
David moved his mouth lower. Then he made love to her with his lips and his tongue. She wriggled against the mattress and cried out as pleasure rushed through her. He was such an amazing lover.
David licked from the top of her pussy lips all the way to the bottom. Bonnie froze and held her breath. He came back up, did it again, and she shuddered. He reached up, pulled her lips apart, and stuck his tongue right on her clit before he licked it again. That brought a gasp from her.
“You like that?” David asked as he raised his head a little with a cocky grin on his face.
Bonnie was too stunned to speak. When he got no response, he bent and licked her clit again, then he told her that he wasn’t going to let her finish if she didn’t answer him.
Bonnie replied with a loud moan. He started licking her clit again, this time hard and fast. She ground her hips against David’s face, and started moaning. He stuck his finger into her pussy, and Bonnie almost jumped out of the bed. David didn’t stop. He could tell that she was close, but so was he even if he hadn’t made love to her yet.
Bonnie started breathing harder and harder. Her legs started closing down on his head. He kept licking…. flattened his tongue to try to cover as much area as possible. As soon as he could feel her orgasm approaching, he stopped and joined their bodies, sliding inside her-filling her. She’d never felt as complete as she did with him. Then he began to move. And that tension built inside her again, winding tightly with each stroke of his body.
He lowered his head and kissed her, staring into her eyes as he did. He watched her as she came, screaming his name. He closed his eyes as his body tensed then shuddered as he joined her while a deep, guttural groan broke from his lips.