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wanted a woman. Yes, of course, Rafe wanted her but what comes after?

Ivy hated doubt, especially in herself, in her heart. She knew that she was

inextricably drawn toward Rafe and could not fight it. It was the
after
that

worried her. Would her heart be broken again if the fire between them

ever went out?

After dinner and an hour of watching cartoons, Ivy helped him put

Bonnie to bed. She watched the baby sleep under the pink velvet blanket

that had become her favorite. The pacifier had fallen from her mouth as

sleep took her deeper and her tiny hands spread flat against the soft sheets.

Ivy felt as though she could watch the baby sleep forever but she went

back into the living room where Rafe waited. He handed her a glass of

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wine and sat down with a loud sigh.

“Being a single parent is hard work,” he said.

“There are tons of mothers who do it every day,” Ivy pointed out.

“I admire them and now that I’m part of their ranks, I wouldn’t change

a thing. It’s very fulfilling,” Rafe said. “Can I kiss you, Ivy?”

She couldn’t help but laugh out loud. “That was a complete one

eighty.”

He shrugged. “I figured I’d put it out there since it’s not far from my

mind.”

“Only a kiss,” she teased.

“Oh, but there is so much more I want to do, yet I don’t want to make

you run away,” Rafe said and took a sip of his wine.

“Is it so awful that I’d run?”

“No, it’s so good.”

Ivy put her glass down and without thinking, moved across the sofa

and straddled his waist. They’d been on the sofa once before like this, but

this time she had no intention of stopping. She watched his blue-green

eyes darken with desire and she could feel his cock hardening where their

bodies were pressed together.

“Then show me,” she whispered and bent her head to nip at his lips.

“Show me how good you can make me feel.”

He groaned and said huskily against her lips, “I was planning to take it

slow and give you as much time as you needed.”

Ivy gave a soft laugh. “Yes, but now that I’m here, I don’t want to

take it slow. I want you inside me so deep that I won’t remember us being

apart. I want to scream your name as I shatter in your arms. Can you do

that, Rafe? Can you make me feel like that?”

“Fuck yes,” Rafe said as he got off the sofa with his arms wrapped

around her. She locked her legs around his waist as he carried her up the

stairs. His eyes found hers as he put her down on her feet in his bedroom

and then he swooped down and she was lost in his kiss. Tonight she

would feel passion so hot it would burn her to the core. Ivy gave in with a

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soft moan as his hands roamed down her body. Oh, yes, this was what she

wanted.

“God, Ivy, I dreamt of you being with me like this,” he whispered as

he lifted the edge of her shirt. Ivy lifted her arms and he stripped it off her

body and he chuckled softly. “Maybe I’m still dreaming.”

Ivy cupped his cheeks in her hands and kissed him gently. “No, you’re

not.”

Their lips met with growing passion. His fingers were strong at the

base of her neck and she moaned as his fingers massaged her scalp. The

man had a touch that made her purr like a kitten. Ivy’s fingers nimbly

unbuttoned his short-sleeved white cotton shirt before she smoothed her

hands over his hard muscled chest.
He feels so
good, so damn good
. She

worked at his pants until she was able to push them down over his hips,

and his erection tented his boxers. Rafe slid her hips up and brought her

body hard against his. He ground his hips against hers, alluding to the

pleasure that was to come. Ivy gasped as he, in one deft movement, took

off her bra and cupped her breasts while playing with her hardening

nipples. An ache shot to her core and she felt her pussy throb at the

sensations that filled her. Ivy arched, pressing herself more firmly into

strong fingers and moaned softly against his lips. She grabbed his boxers

and pulled them down, revealing a long, thick cock.

“No more teasing,” she demanded, pushing away and working the

snap of her shorts before pushing them and her panties down her legs.

“Take me hard.”

Rafe growled, a low predatory sound that stripped her just as quickly

as she had stripped herself. He tackled her and took her off her feet before

they landed on the bed. Lips touched and hands roamed each other’s skin.

Not an inch of her skin didn’t feel his lips and she burned hotter because

of it. He rolled quickly until she was on top of him and she felt his

hardness between them. Ivy shifted so she could take him inside her, but

Rafe stopped her.

“No, I want more than just to be inside you. I need to feel you.” He

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looked at her with a deep longing in his eyes and practically lifted her

until she was sitting on his chest and her legs straddled his head. “I need

to taste you.”

The first touch of his hot lips against her pussy had her clutching the

dark cherry wood headboard. Ivy whimpered as he sucked her clit and she

spread her thighs wider. Rafe speared her with his tongue and she threw

her head back in pleasure as his tongue fucked her. A guttural moan

escaped him and he pulled her harder against his seeking mouth. Unable

to help herself, Ivy began grinding against the source of her pleasure. His

tongue seemed to be everywhere. Her body was infused with such heat

she never thought possible. He then moved her so that she straddled his

face and her knees were on each side of his head and she was facing his

feet.

Ivy moved on instinct and grasped his hard cock and wrapped her

mouth around the hard steel in her hands. His hips jerked as she ran her

tongue around his shaft. Ivy removed her mouth and stroked him firmly,

watching his pre-come pearl at the head and she licked it in delight. She

cried out around his cock when she felt his fingers slip into her and begin

an assault on her senses by fucking her hard and deep, while still feeling

his tongue lathe her clit and lips. Ivy came hard, so hard she forgot to

breathe and just strained against the source of her pleasure until she felt

limp against his body. Rafe took control and moved her to rest on the soft

sheets and she watched as he stood and walked away.

“Where are you going?” she asked breathlessly.

He looked at her and chuckled. “I’ll be back, don’t worry I’m not done

with you yet.”

She lay there as her body hummed with pleasure. He was back with

the bottle of wine and he held it up. “Never let a good bottle of wine go to

waste.”

“We’re having wine now?” she asked with a laugh.

“Lay back,” he ordered. Rafe poured a glass of the white wine and

swirled his finger in the glass. “I was thinking about this from the first sip

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I took tonight—how would it taste on your skin.”

He dripped the wine on her breast and he sucked her nipple deep into

his mouth. Ivy cried out and Rafe moved on to the next breast and gave it

the same ministrations. She got exactly what she wanted—his hot mouth

against her skin. Ivy clutched at the sheets as pleasure again swept

through her body. He worked his way down, cool drops of wine against

heated skin. His mouth was drinking the wine, but tasting her at the same

time. When he poured some in her navel and sucked it out, she drew in

her breath. When he dribbled it between the lips of her sex and licked it

up, Ivy begged for release, to feel his mouth and tongue on her pussy

again. Rafe gave her what she desired and she muffled her scream with a

pillow. He moved and this time positioned himself over her, lifting her leg

over his shoulder before he penetrated her. Her pussy swallowed him to

the hilt and Ivy arched into his thrusts and watched as his muscles tensed

and rippled.

“Oh, God, oh, Jesus, you feel so damn good, Ivy,” Rafe muttered.

“More. Please more, Rafe.” Ivy begged as she pulled his head down to

kiss him.

The movement sent him deeper inside her and he clutched the pillows

on either side of her head and pistoned in and out of her. She didn’t know

she could feel like the world was falling off its axis. She had never felt

such pleasure before in her life or such heat that she felt as if she was

melting from the inside out. Each thrust rubbed against nerve endings she

didn’t know she had. Her pleasure spiraled higher and higher until she

couldn’t help but call out his name over and over again. His body was

damp with sweat, but Rafe didn’t stop. He moved and in one smooth

motion she was on top of him, riding his cock. His neck was arched and

his abdominal muscles were tight and tense. He was the most beautiful

sight she’d ever seen and Ivy let go and rode him with abandon.

“Let go, Rafe. Fall with me. I need you to come with me!” she cried

out.

He grabbed her hips and pumped into her fiercely. “Yes, yes,” he

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growled loudly.

She gave in to the pleasure and fell over the precipice while his hot

come filled her. His warmth inside her felt so good it made her pussy

throb hard and tightly clench his cock, making her come again. Ivy fell

and they rolled until she was lying next to him. Their bodies heaved as

they tried to catch their breath.

“Damn, woman, you are amazing.” Rafe turned and kissed her gently.

“I can definitely say the same about you.” Ivy laughed softly. “I feel

like you melted all of my bones.”

“That’s just the beginning. You’re mine now, Ivy. I’m not planning on

letting you go,” Rafe murmured. “You tell that cop that you’re spoken for.”

“You don’t have to worry about Reese. We would never have worked

out. I was doing my best not to think about you,” she admitted. “Besides, I

think his heart was elsewhere. We could never have made it work if both

of us had other people on our minds.”

“You were thinking about me, huh?” Rafe pulled her close. “I’m glad

to hear it.”

“Do you want me to go?” Ivy asked. “I know you probably get up

with Bonnie—”

He cupped her face and kissed her hard. “First, you’re not leaving this

bed and second, Bonnie usually sleeps through the night and if she wakes

up, the baby monitor will let me know.” Rafe’s tone got serious. “I don’t

want to sleep another night without you in my arms.”

“I have to eventually go home. Plus, I have work,” Ivy teased. “But I

can see myself sleeping with you as long as you promise to hold me all

night.”

“Like it was going to happen any other way.” Rafe snuggled her close

to him.

Ivy loved the feel of him. His big frame surrounded her and made her

feel so secure. This felt so right. She was glad she gave in to temptation.

This was what it felt like to be wanted, cherished and needed. Ivy closed

her eyes and let his scent carry her off to sleep.

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Chapter Seven

It’s amazing how things change so quickly. Ivy found herself spending

more time at Rafe’s house rather than her own, and now her schedule

blended with Rafe’s and Bonnie’s. He was back on base and each

morning he left with his daughter strapped into the car seat to head to

Quantico for the day while she went farther into D.C. to Walter Reed.

She’d been moved for a few weeks from her usual job in the hospital to

working on the fifth floor. Those were the cases of severe injuries, both

physical and mental. Two nurses had quit because they were unable to

handle the stress of dealing with soldiers who not only had been seriously

injured while deployed but came back with PTSD and traumatic brain

injuries, which then made them even more difficult to handle.

Walter Reed was about healing the entire body before they sent brave

men and women back out into the world. The suicide rate for soldiers who

didn’t have the right mental care was high. Everyone wanted to see this

decrease and all Veterans hospitals as well as Walter Reed had excellent

mental care doctors striving to minimize the problem. Jon had started out

in the very same ward but they were able to move him from the high