Fire & Ice (The Locklaine Boys #1) (23 page)

I’D BEEN DEAD ON
my feet for the last four hours, but walking in the door of my house to the sounds of Pepper was like a shot of adrenaline to my system. I’d half expected my stubborn girl to disobey. She was nothing if not hard-headed, and I’d seen the way her eyes flashed whenever challenged. She got off on it. I had no doubt my earlier text had her head spinning around all the scenarios that could have possibly played out had she not followed my demand.

I was more than a little shocked to arrive home and find she’d actually listened to me… for
once
. The image of her using the key I’d given her just days before, for instances just like this, being in my space, in my home, just felt right. It was then that I realized just how much I wanted her to fit into every single aspect of my life. All thoughts of my shitty day and the knowledge of this
Chance
douche were blown away at the sound of her sweet, melodic voice as it talked to that goddamned devil cat.

“Who’s a good kitty?” Pepper cooed at PJ, who was curled up on her lap, purring contentedly. “That’s right, you’re a good kitty. Mean ‘ole Griffin doesn’t know what he’s talking about, does he? No, he doesn’t.”

I didn’t even want to think about how twisted it was that Pepper baby-talking to a cat made my dick hard as steel.

I tossed my keys onto the granite top of the counter that separated the kitchen from the living room, the loud clatter alerting Pepper to my arrival. I made sure to wipe my expression blank as I watched her give a little jump in surprise before spinning to look in my direction. “Hi,” she offered somewhat timidly as she placed PJ on the ground and stood from the couch.

That bashfulness was something I’d never seen on my fiery redhead before. I thought there wasn’t anything in the world sexier than my girl when she was fired up… I was wrong. Seeing that shy expression on her face was enough to make me lose control completely. I felt like an animal that had been caged for far too long before finally being set free as I stalked toward her. With every step I took she countered with one away from me. “I wasn’t going to answer him,” she sputtered nervously. “I swear, Griffin. I’d completely forgotten about Chance until he texted me today.” I didn’t say a word in response as I grew closer. “You have to believe me, I didn’t—” She let out a startled yelp as her foot caught on the coffee table behind her. Before she had a chance to hit the floor, I grabbed hold of her arm and pulled her into me, sealing our lips together in a hard, wet kiss that mimicked the desperation that coursed through my blood every time she was around.

My fingers clenched and pressed to almost a bruising level, but I couldn’t stop. I pulled her impossibly closer. It was as though I was trying to absorb her into me. I wanted to consume her, mark every square inch of her body as mine forever. I wanted to make her scream and moan and cry out my name as I made her mine over and over again. How could I have ever thought I’d get her out of my system? She’d burrowed under my skin in a way no one had before. I never wanted to dig her out.

I just needed to find a way to make her feel the same.

I’D NEVER BEEN KISSED
by Griffin like this before… and considering the level of intensity I felt with him on a regular basis, that was
really
saying something. This wasn’t passionate or hungry. It wasn’t brutal. It felt like he was trying to… own me. My nails dug into the fabric on his shoulders, holding on for dear life as he fed from my mouth, never once breaking our kiss. Not even when my knees grew so weak I could no longer stand on my own.

On instinct, I wrapped my legs around him as he lifted me from the ground, so lost in the taste of Griffin that I hadn’t realized we were moving until my back hit the smooth, cool wall, the force of which, expelled what little breath I had left from my lungs.

“Never,” Griffin growled as his lips pulled away from mine, blazing a trail down my neck to my collarbone. “You’re never gonna talk to that guy again.” If I hadn’t been too busy sucking in air to respond to his caveman demands, the feel of his hard cock pressing against me in just the right way, sending sparks of electricity throughout my body would have rendered me speechless. “That guy isn’t going to fucking
touch
you, let alone take you on a date. Is that clear?”

“Griffin,” I pleaded, rocking my hips against his urgently, chasing after the climax building inside of me, just out of reach.

“Answer me,” he commanded, his voice, although low, contained so much power it sent tremors through my body. His normally crystal clear eyes were dark with desire and something else I couldn’t quite put my finger on. The ferocity in his face as he moved against me caused my heart to beat even fast than it already was. Everything about the way he was touching me, speaking to me, looking at me, spoke to the tectonic shift that had just taken place between us. The intensity rolling off of him in waves stole my voice, leaving me capable of only a nod.

One of his hands drifted from where he was holding me up along my thigh, pushing my skirt up with it as he went higher and higher. “No one else can make you feel like I do,” he breathed against my lips as his fingertips trailed along the edge of my panties until he was between my thighs. The pressure of his touch grew more determined with each swipe of his fingers against the damp material, driving me crazy with need. “No one can make you as wet as I can.” He bared his teeth and bit down on my bottom lip just as he pushed at the barrier between us, plunging two long, thick fingers inside of me.

“
Griffin
!” I cried out as I began riding his hand. He pumped in and out at a relentless pace, his eyes locked firmly on mine.

“No one can make you come as hard as I can, Pepper.” As though to prove his point, his thumb began rubbing tight, hard circles against my swollen clit, pushing me further and further into oblivion. “This is mine,” he grunted, moving harder, faster. “Every fucking thing about you is
mine
.”

“Oh, God. Griffin, baby, don’t stop,” I begged. “I’m so close.” I rode his hand harder, scratching and digging at his back as my climax began to peak.

“No one else can make you feel like this, Pepper. Admit it. Only me.”

“Only you,” I said as a wave of pleasure pulled me under and I came all over his hand with a long moan. My orgasm hadn’t even begun to abate when his hand suddenly disappeared. Before I could utter a single sound of displeasure at the loss, my feet were being placed on the hardwood floor just long enough for my dress to be whipped over my head and my underwear unceremoniously ripped from my body.

Griffin had us both naked and on the living room rug in a matter of seconds, his rock hard cock stretching me full in one quick snap of his hips as his massive body loomed over mine. And just like that, my waning release began to build once again.

“Whose body is this?” he demanded to know as he fucked me mercilessly.

“Yours,” I breathed as my eyes grew wide.

His movements grew faster and I found myself lifting my hips to meet his, thrust for thrust. “Who’s this pussy belong to?”

“
You
!” I shouted as a second orgasm washed over me, this one so much stronger than the last that all I could do was cry out nonsensically.

“Fuck!
Fuck me
! That’s right, baby. This pussy’s all mine.” Griffin shouted as he plunged into me over and over. I couldn’t think about anything other than how good, how fucking
perfect
he felt inside of me.

Pushing to his haunches, Griffin wrapped his hands behind my knees and spread my legs even wider as he stared down at me, naked and completely bared to him. “You’re tight, wet cunt’s mine to fuck whenever I want, sweetness.” His words alone were going to kill me. I didn’t know how much more I could handle.

“Griffin, please,” I panted. “It’s too much. I can’t…”

“You can, Pepper. I can feel you getting tight again.” Releasing one of my legs, his thumb came back to my sensitive clit as his thrusts threatened to drive me through the floor. “Want to feel you come on my dick again. Give it to me, Pepper. One more time.”

The pressure was so severe, so extreme, that I felt tears begin to prick the backs of my eyes as I felt it build for the third time. “I can’t. It’s too much,” I whimpered, unable to differentiate pleasure from pain. I’d never come twice during sex before him; I’d always thought it was a myth until Griffin showed me the beauty of multiple orgasms. But
three
was just too much. My entire body was overstimulated, the sensation between my legs too heightened. I was afraid of just how powerful coming for a third time would be.

Beads of sweat had broken out across our bodies as we exerted every ounce of energy we had. “You will,” he insisted, “And you’re gonna scream my name until you’re hoarse while I fuckin’ fill you up.”

That was all it took. Just as he’d commanded, I yelled his name as I was, once again, yanked down into oblivion. I squeezed my eyes shut as my walls clamped around his driving cock. Stars burst behind my eyelids and my throat grew raw as the sounds of Griffin’s strangled roar mingled with my blissful screams. True to his word, he poured every ounce of himself inside of me until there was nothing left of his spent erection but a few twitches.

Griffin’s strength gave way and he collapsed to the floor, half on top of me, half to the side, neither of us able to form words as we fought to regulate our breathing. My mind hadn’t even had a chance to reboot before the exhaustion in my body overpowered me and lulled me into a heavy sleep.

I LOST ALL SENSE
of time as we lay there on the living room floor, our naked limbs curled together on the rug. It wasn’t until I felt her breathing slow and her arms grow heavy around me that I realized she was asleep. A slow smile stretched across my face at the realization that I’d worn her out to the point of literally passing out on the floor.

Not wanting her to wake up uncomfortable from sleeping on the hard floor, I scooped Pepper’s body up in my arms and carefully carried her into my bedroom and tucked her in next to me, wrapping my arms tightly around her body.

“Mmm,” she mumbled in her sleep as her tiny frame wiggled even closer. “Love you.”