Long Time Gone (Rough Riders #16.5)(36)
Author: Lorelei James

“Good. Because I was getting ready to launch myself into a hair-pulling fight for you.”

Cal traced the line of her jaw with the backs of his fingers. “While the thought of you in a girl fight over me turns me on, there’s no need to get into a titty slappin’ match to prove anything. You own me.”

She kissed the dimple in his chin. “Prove it.”

He draped his arm over her shoulder and steered her through the crowd and out the door.

In the middle of the parking lot, he stopped and pulled her against him, clamping one hand on her ass and the other around her jaw. “Why didn’t you tell me you were comin’?”

“I wanted to surprise you.”

“Did you really think after I sent you the wire demanding you get back here that I’d be out with another woman?”

She twisted her head out of his hold. “You were sitting with a woman, Cal.”

“I explained her.”

That was all the explanation he gave—and all she really needed.

“We’re leavin’.” Then Cal grabbed her hand and led her across the parking lot almost at a run. Her shorter legs had a hard time keeping up with his longer strides. But the man was on a mission and he didn’t stop until he reached his pickup.

He pushed her against it and kissed her like she was everything in the world he needed to survive. When he finally released her mouth, they were both breathing hard. Kimi was surprised they weren’t already naked.

“Get in the truck or I’m going to fuck you right here, in the parking lot, Kimi. Where anyone can see just what you do to me.” He nuzzled her ear. “And how goddamn much I missed you.”

“That sounds like a threat, cowboy.”

“No, sweet darlin’ mine. It’s a promise.”

Kimi loved that Cal was so forthright in what he wanted. She knew the instant he put those big hands on her, she’d be putty. So she needed to remind him that she could make him weak-kneed too. “Cal.”

“God, you smell so good.” He kissed the hollow below her ear. “I didn’t change the sheets on my bed for a solid month after you left until they lost the scent of you. Of us.”

His sweet talking—how she’d missed it.

“Over the past five years, I started a list of the things I’d do to you when I saw you again.” Cal’s lips teased hers with barely there kisses. “For the longest time the top fantasy was your legs spread, that hot pussy bared to me as you sat on the tailgate of my truck.” He moved his lips across her jawline to her other ear. “I’d be on my knees, eating my fill of your wet cunt, feeling your sweet little clit pulsing beneath my tongue as I made you come again. And again. And again.”

Kimi trembled when his hot breath drifted across her neck.

“The goddamn taste of you,” he growled, “was so vivid in my mind that just thinkin’ about swallowing your sweet juices made my cock so fuckin’ hard that I shot my load without even touchin’ myself.” He rested his forehead in the crook of her neck. “That’s what you do to me.”

If she liked his sweet talking, then she flat-out loved the way the man dirty talked. Her head was awash in the sexy images he’d painted, but this one time, she wanted to lead the charge instead of following his. She turned her head until her lips connected with his ear. “If you’re tryin’ to get me hot and bothered, Cal McKay, it’s workin’. But I’ve been that way since the moment I saw you tonight.”

“Jesus. Can we stop talkin’ and start doin’?”

She laughed. “I had my own list of what I wanted to do to you when I saw you again.”

“Yeah?”

“Oh yeah.” She blew in his ear and smiled when he shuddered. “Wanna know my top fantasy?”

“You’re killin’ me here.”

Kimi reached down and undid his belt buckle. “I’d rather show you.” She dropped to her knees and scraped her fingernails down his erection as she unzipped his jeans. After she yanked the tight denim down his muscular thighs, she slid her hand into the opening of his boxers and pulled out his cock.

“Brace your hands on the truck, Cal.”

He hissed out a breath and said, “Fuck, woman,” but he did what she asked.

The man wasn’t an idiot.

She didn’t see a reason to tease him—this time. She craved his surrender and she needed to know if the passion between them was as overwhelming as she’d remembered.

The moment she pulled his rigid shaft into her mouth, all the way to the root, Cal’s taste and scent consumed her. That’s all it took. She knew she hadn’t imagined the explosive need. She wanted to give him everything of herself and to be everything that he needed.