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“I don’t have a list. I have one thing.” “One thing?” I frown. “What is it?” “Let’s be good to each other.”
“That’s everything because that means I’m good to you and you’re good to me. Being good to you means wanting what’s best for you. If there is an upper hand, baby, I don’t want it. I know I’m asking you to take a big risk, but all I can do is promise that I’ll never try to hurt you and I’ll do everything to protect you. I’ll do everything in my power to make sure you don’t regret choosing me and I’ll protect your dreams as fiercely as I chase my own.”
He used the word “worship,” and that’s exactly how it feels when he comes inside, like my body is a tabernacle and he’s awed by the privilege of entering.
Maverick tunnels through my defenses and excuses, clearing a passageway to my heart with every kiss and each touch.
want to make love to you as many times as humanly possible. I only want to do it with you and I would appreciate it if you would consider only doing it with me.”
Black surfer boy may be our new kink.”
Like when you realize the woman walking toward you, covered in sand and soaked by sun, wearing a smile more breathtaking than the horizon—that woman, her you’d probably do anything to keep.
Elixir kisses laced with stardust.
“It’s Miles Davis’s ‘Blue in Green.’ It’s one of Pop’s favorites songs. I love it, too.”
She takes me inside of her again, and I don’t know if I’m losing myself or growing into something more, someone better because she chooses me. Because we have each other.
love you. I love you. I love you.
It’s an unforgiving pace that moves the desk a few inches, the legs scaping across the floor, but I don’t stop. Can’t. It’s too good. It’d be like calling an astronaut back from the moon. I’m in another galaxy, lost in her stars.
“You know you’re mine, right?” she asks in a sex-scraped rasp. I nod because who the hell else would I want to belong to? “And you?” I cup her cheek, grip her chin, trap her gaze. “Can you say the same?”
That I feel safer with him than any man I’ve ever been with. That when I’m in his arms, even though it’s soon and fast, choosing him feels like choosing me because sometimes I’m not sure where he ends and I begin.
but Maverick makes me want to give him so much because it’s clear how much he wants to give to me. There is a reciprocity to us that’s been missing before. Maybe when this man says let’s be good to each other, he really means it.
Had no idea emotion could overtake reason and wisdom and have you risking it all in a public place with a party just beyond an unlocked door, or leave you surrendering everything when it feels like you are the only two people on Earth. I didn’t know it could be this good, but as I shout her name, release all the love I haven’t yet put into words, into her beautiful body, now I know.
Love. Love. Love.
He dips and captures my mouth in a kiss that searches my soul and squeezes my heart. Makes
“But that’s what I want you to know. And I don’t just mean jewelry or gifts. I’m giving you my whole heart, Hendrix.”
“I want my love to be the most extravagant gift I ever give you,” he whispers, his voice deep and reverent. “I want it to be outrageously unconditional. I want it to overflow and spill into every crevice of your life, every corner of your heart because that’s what you do for me. You overwhelm me, Hendrix.”
