Superb And Sexy

Chapter 15

At the sound of a cell phone somewhere far too close, Maddie stirred, then realized she was sprawled over the top of Brody’s hard, warm body.

Not a bad way to wake up, really, though she couldn’t believe she’d fallen asleep. Squinting through the room, dimly lit by the bathroom light that they’d never turned off, she read the clock. Two-thirty. She tried to shift away, but Brody’s arms tightened, holding her in place. “The phone-”

“I’ve got it.” Still holding her, he reached for his cell on the nightstand. “’Lo,” he said, his voice deep and gravelly and sexy with sleep.

Sexy. So damn sexy. She wanted to rewind and repeat. God, she really needed a grip. But outside, the storm still raged, which meant she didn’t have to get up yet…

“Yeah, I’ve still got her.” Brody’s eyes cut to hers as he listened. “What kind of question is that?” With a sigh, he scrubbed a hand over his face. “Yes, I’m taking good care of her.” He listened some more, then shook his head. “No, Noah, we are not eloping. What the hell is wrong with you?”

Pulling free, Maddie rolled to her back to stare at the ceiling, ignoring the slight twinge of regret at the horror in his voice. No, they weren’t eloping. They weren’t even particularly getting along, unless it was in bed.

Where they somehow managed to get along pretty damn fine.

“I already promised to call you if we need you,” he said. “Now go take a flight or a breath or something.” He shut the phone.

She could feel him looking at her, now on the far side of the bed.

And looking.

He wanted to talk. She did not. She lay there, very still, thinking if she only waited, he’d fall asleep again. Because hey, that’s what guys did after wild monkey sex-they slept.

After a moment, she slowly turned her head in his direction, and damn, didn’t he look mighty fine all rumpled, sleepy-eyed, and naked.

And very awake.

The sheet had slipped, affording her a very nice view from his Adam’s apple to his belly, which she wanted to lick like a lollipop.

And lower, too.

Being with him had been every bit as good as she had imagined. Fast, searing…perfect. When she’d come, she’d released all that terrible pent up tension. Now maybe she could use any lingering energy for something else entirely…

Like saving her sister’s ass.

“You’re going to fall off the bed,” he noted.

“I’m good.” She needed distance.

Lots of distance.

He was still just watching her with those mesmerizing eyes, scratching his jaw as if considering a particularly vexing puzzle, his fingers rasping against the growth of his unshaved jaw. Then he crooked a finger at her.

Come here.

No. No, no, no, that would be a bad idea.

Very bad.

But her brain apparently wasn’t in charge because her body obeyed, scooting close, and then his arms pulled her in, and then, oh, God, he pressed his face into her hair and inhaled deeply. “You smell good, Mad. You always smell good.”

“Stop.” Her voice was shockingly weak. Fall back to sleep.

He dipped his head down, pressing his mouth to her throat so that she could feel his lips move against her skin. “So damn good.”

“Seriously.” Why wasn’t he sleeping? Maybe the bigger question was, why wasn’t she shoving him away? Instead, she arched her neck to give him better access, loving how big and hard and warm he felt. After arriving here, she’d been cold, icy cold, but that had vanished lying next to him.

His hands swept down her body, urging her closer, then closer still so that she could feel that he was not sleepy, not even close. “We’re not doing it again.”

“Okay.” One hand squeezed her bottom, then slipped between her legs, and she realized.

They were doing it again. “Brody-”

She’d have sworn she had nothing left in the tank, and yet when his fingers stroked her, she shivered in need and let her legs fall open. “I mean it. We’re not-”

Another stroke, unerring and sure.

The man had talented fingers, and after yet another stroke, she admitted the truth.

She was going down with the ship. “Okay, maybe just one more time,” she whispered, breathless as he worked his magic. Her fingers dug into his biceps as she clung to him, her world spinning, the pinnacle centering between her legs. “But only once.”

He scraped his teeth over her shoulder, and she shuddered as his dark head made its way toward a breast.

“And it’s going to be my way this time,” she managed. “Fast.” She tried to tug him over her, where she would have pulled him deep inside and had a go at round two, but he resisted.

“Not fast. We just did fast. We’re going to take our time.” He punctured every few words with a kiss as he began to move down her body. Her neck, her shoulder, the scar where the bullet had shattered her collarbone. He spent a long moment there, then just below, where the curve of her breast began…“I want to taste you, Maddie. Every single inch of you.”

Oh, no. No way. If they weren’t going to jump each other’s bones and knock it out in a timely fashion, then-

He sucked a nipple into his hot, wet mouth, and she nearly arched right off the bed. In spite of herself, her body was responding. Her nipples were pebbled tight, and she was getting wet. Again. “Damn it, Brody.”

He let her nipple pop out of his mouth and went for her other one.

“Brody Allen West.”

“You’re middle naming me?” Sounding amused but undeterred, he began kissing his way down her belly, his mouth hot and wet, not moving fast at all, nothing so easy as that.

She fisted her hands in the sheets at her sides. “Yes, and I’ll do it again if you’re going to drag this out.”

Lifting his head, he smiled, pure wickedness in his gaze and voice. “My way,” he repeated firmly.

Her stomach quivered at all the wicked, naughty promise in his eyes. But she couldn’t go there emotionally. Couldn’t. She was tapped out. Fast was all she had, so she pushed him aside and then climbed on top.

From flat on his back, he grinned up in pleasure at her and cupped her breasts.

She lifted up her hips to draw his most impressive erection inside her, but he pulled back and shook his head. “I’m not ready yet.”

Arching a brow, she looked down at what was currently filling both hands. Impressive and quite ready.

“Yeah, that’s because with you, I’m always hard as a damn rock.” Then, just as she had, he rolled her beneath him and held her there.

“Okay, listen.” She tried a smile. “Maybe we should just go to sleep. I’m going to need to get a few hours before I stop Leena-”

“From what exactly?” He slid a finger into her, groaned at the heat and slickness he found, and licked her nipple. “That meeting, yes. But what’s on Stone Cay?”

“The compound-” Her impending orgasm, the one barreling down on her like a freight train without brakes, was currently curling her toes and evidently, also loosening her damn tongue.

Not that Brody seemed to notice. He simply worked his unhurried way to her other breast, his fingers still driving her directly to bliss without passing Go.

“Compound?” he murmured against her skin, making his way south, leaving a hot, wet trail over her torso with his tongue. “Like a family compound?”

“Yes. Sort of. Brody-”

“So this Rick is…”

God, his fingers. He was in charge, controlling her like a puppet, and desperate to gain some of that control back, she gave as good as she got, stroking him, eliciting a rough, husky breath from him. In the interest of speeding this along, she did it again.

“Rick,” he managed with what sounded like some difficulty. “He’s…”

“Our uncle.”

“A real asshole?”

“A real asshole,” she agreed, arching up into his touch. His mouth was gentle, so damn gentle, as he ran it over her body.

“Did he ever hurt you?”

“No, he never dirties his hands himself.”

He kissed a rib, and then another. “What does that mean?”

“He has his men do everything for him.”

“I have to tell you, Mad. I don’t think I’m going to like your family.”

That tore a laugh out of her. “No. You won’t. Now are you taking this somewhere or what?”

“Or what.” He kissed her belly, then lifted his head and looked at her a long moment, his gaze softening. “Why would Rick threaten your safety?”

“It’s complicated. Brody, we’re in the middle of something here. In case you’ve forgotten.”

“I haven’t.” His fingers proved that by dragging another soft gasp from her. “So what’s your plan for after you get Leena?”

“Brody-”

“I know. I’m multitasking. Humor me.” He settled a big, warm hand on her inner thigh and nudged it over as if she wasn’t opened enough to him already. “God, look at you,” he murmured. “So pretty.”

She closed her eyes. “Stop with the sweet talk; you’ve got me. Now do me.”

His thumb slid over her heated flesh, spreading her just a little. “You’re all pink and glistening. And wet.”

Words failed her as he played in all that wetness.

“Is it for me, Maddie? Are you this excited for me?”

His voice was low and thick and not just a little heavy with male satisfaction, which was both sexy and irritating. “Well, who else?” she asked.

“Maybe I want to hear you say it.”

“Are you kidding me? I just said you’ve got me.”

“Maybe a guy likes to know when a woman is hot for him.”

She came up on her elbows to see him. He was all tousled and rumpled and damn it, sexy as hell. “Maybe a guy should just get on with it before she changes her mind!”

“Come on.” He had the balls to smile. “You’re not going to change your mind.” With that, he leaned in and put his mouth where his fingers had been.

She managed some inarticulate response and gripped the sheets beneath her, her hips arching right up into his mouth in shocked pleasure. Slipping his hands beneath her, he cupped her butt and in less than two minutes, had whipped her blood back into a frenzy. She was panting, gasping, an inch from meltdown when he pulled back. “You never answered my question.”

Her heart was drumming so loudly she could hardly hear him. “I don’t remember your question.”

That earned her a cocky grin. “What does Rick have on Leena?”

He hadn’t asked that one, she knew that much, but she wanted him to finish! “She works for him.”

“Ah.” Another slow, sure stroke of his tongue. “What does she do?”

“She’s a jewelry designer for his gem company. Damn it, Brody!”

A soft huff of laughter brushed over her sensitized flesh. “Love the sound of my name on your lips. All hot and bothered and frustrated.” Still between her legs, he kissed one inner thigh, then the other. “You should know, slow is really my thing.”

“Your window of opportunity is closing down, big guy. I need my beauty sleep.”

“Are you telling me you could actually go to sleep right now?”

“Like a baby.”

“Really.” His thumb lazily stroked over her, ripping a gasp of pleasure from her. His gaze met hers. “Tell you what, Mad. You go to sleep.” And with a soft kiss to her hip, he went to roll away.

“Oh, no.” Pulling him back, she let out a low laugh. “Finish what you started.”

“Luckily for you, I always finish what I start.” He gave another pass of his thumb. “Including in a few hours when we go find your sister.”

“There’s no we.”

“Face it, babe.” Bending his dark head, he went back to work, making her gasp again. “There’s a we.”

Damn the man. He could take her outside of herself like no one else ever had. “Brody, I need-”

“Me. You need me.”

He was so damn sure of himself. And so damn right. “I’m going to-”

“Come,” he whispered thrillingly, sucking her into his mouth. “You’re going to come.”

Yeah. Always right. With little to no effort, she burst, and then he was inside her once again, and she was pulling him down so that she could feel his heat, his strength, feel him nuzzling at her neck as she changed his slow, lazy pace to supersonic so that this time they both lost it together.

Lost…

Even as together, they were found.