She tightened her arms around his neck and brushed his words off. “The future’s not certain for anyone. We don’t get to choose what happens next. Only what happens right now.” He didn’t answer, and she knew she’d stumbled on whatever it was he’d been keeping from her. She hoped he was ready to open up and tell her but he didn’t elaborate. That was okay. He’d tell her when he was ready. “What do you choose tonight, Jake?” she asked softly.
Jake’s lids lowered until he stared down at her with hooded eyes. With slow, lazy movements, he coaxed her up and drew her shirt over her head, his fingertips trailing over her bared skin as he peeled it off. Then her shorts and last, her panties, drawing them down her legs and tossing them onto the floor.
When her body was bared to him, he raked his eyes down the length of her. She felt the weight of his perusal like a touch. Never had someone’s stare felt this erotic before. “You’re so beautiful,” he murmured.
He rolled on top of her, his elbows propping him up so that his skin only brushed lightly over hers. Even with the barely-there contact, her nipples hardened into tight beads. Her thighs instantly ached for him and she inhaled deeply against the need pulling below her stomach.
“I chose you the minute I saw you,” he said, lowering himself inch by delicious inch over her until their bodies were aligned. His gaze didn’t waver from hers and she shuddered at the intensity. The way he looked at her, like she was his whole world, overwhelmed her. “I want you tonight. Let me have all of you, just for tonight,” he whispered. “No rules.”
Delilah held tight and nodded. “Have me, Jake. Right now. Tonight,” she whispered, already arching for him. Pulsing for him.
A low growl sounded deep in his chest, a rumble that vibrated against her just as Jake dipped low to take her mouth with his. She kissed him back eagerly, already wanting more of him. Wanting to give him more of her. Just like he’d asked.
She’d never had someone ask her like that before. Jake, so strong and dominant and hard to reach, had asked her to give all of herself. He could’ve taken it. She wouldn’t have stopped him. In fact, she’d been on edge with the waiting and would’ve skipped happily to the part where he took what he wanted from her. But instead, he’d asked. Seeing this caring, sensitive side of him just made her want him even more.
His free hand roamed over her. First, just his fingertips brushing her cheek and jawline but then lower. His palm brushed her already hardened nipple and she squirmed, tingling and desperate for more.
She sighed audibly against his mouth, arching into his hand, and Jake growled softly, kissing her harder now. She rolled her hips against the erection swelling against her stomach. Just like she’d suspected earlier, he wasn’t holding back anymore. And she didn’t plan to either.