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be when pregnant and giving birth, but no one…no man…except that one male nurse…oh God, I’m not making any sense am I?”

Her gentleman cowboy was right in her face. A sexy menace. A man out of patience.

“Skylar.”

“What?”

“Shut up.”

And then he slammed his mouth down on hers and kissed her.

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Kade kissed her as thoroughly as he’d been dying to.

His hands were buried in her soft hair; his body was pressed tightly to hers until not a sliver of daylight remained between them. He ate at her deliciously sweet mouth, nibbling, licking, leaving tiny love bites on her lips. Sucking on her tongue. Drawing the scent and the taste of her down his throat and into his lungs like food and air.

Skylar opened her mouth wider, attempting to swallow him whole. Her tongue grew hotter, wetter, more insistent. She clutched his shoulders. Her nails dug through his T-shirt and gouged his skin. Whimpering noises vibrated from her throat into his mouth and traveled down his torso to settle in his already hard cock. His prick damn near saluted when she’d confessed to spying on him as he’d whacked off in the shower.

His hands untangled from her hair and Kade went straight for her tits. Still kissing her, he made short work of the buttons on her dress.

Kade trailed his lips down her flawless neck. “You taste as smooth here as I remember. Way better than chocolate cake. Remember what I said I’d like to do with the frosting? ”

“You always pick lousy times to have a conversation, McKay.”

He chuckled. Her abundant breasts were straining against the fabric and he couldn’t get them free. “Undo this damn bra for me, Sky, so I can put my mouth on you.”

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She batted away his fumbling fingers. Something snapped and those perfectly soft mounds fell into his waiting hands.

“Oh yeah. Gimme.” Kade swept his thumbs across her rosy nipples, placing open-mouthed kisses on the upper swells of her breasts. Rubbing his cheeks and lips and jaw against her bared flesh, feeling her whole body quiver in response. Watching her face, he closed his mouth over her left nipple and sucked. Hard.

Sky arched back and released a strangled moan.

He worshipped the tits he’d been fantasizing about for months. Teasing her, pleasing himself. He was in no mood to be rushed. He suckled her nipples softly, then with unrestrained zeal. Tweaked them with his fingertips. Nipped the tips with his teeth as he held the weight of them together. Squeezing and tonguing, imagining sliding his cock in the slippery valley of her cleavage. Kissing them, loving the fullness and her responsiveness to his every touch.

“Kade. Enough. I-I can’t think.”

“Good.” He scattered kisses up to her lips and stared into her eyes, letting her see the hunger raging inside him.

Don’t be a gentleman; be a real man. Tell her straight up.

“I wanna make love to you, Sky.”

Make love? What the hell happened to “I wanna fuck your brains out, baby” ?

“I want you too,” she whispered against his mouth. “In a bed this time. Do you have a condom?”

Kade tasted the smooth skin of her jawline. “I have a whole goddamn box. Let’s go.”

He guided her upstairs. They stopped in front of the door to the bedroom where Eliza was sleeping. Skylar’s nervousness was obvious and he softly touched her cheek. “How about we do this in the guest bedroom across the hall?”

She nodded.

“I’ll grab the condoms. And if you ain’t in there, make no mistake, I will rip this house apart lookin’ for you.” Kade sprinted to the bathroom. He dug through his shaving kit for the stash and was back at the door to heaven in under a minute.

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With the shades drawn and the hall light off, the room was completely dark when he stepped inside. “Where’s the light switch?”

“Doesn’t matter. The bulb is burned out.”

“Don’t you have a lamp in here or something?”

“Kade, I’m in the middle of the bed completely naked. Do you really want to talk about the lack of lighting?”

“Nope.” He stripped to skin. “But I’ll admit I’d hoped to see more of you this time than last time.”

“You can feel as much of me as you want.”

He walked in a straight line until his shins hit solid wood. “Fuck. That hurt.”

“Come up here and I’ll kiss it and make it better.”

“I’m holdin’ you to that.” He crawled on the bed to find Skylar was indeed, totally buck-ass bare and in her usual position—right smack dab in the center of the bed. “You do know you’re a bed hog, right?”

“What are you talking about?”

“You. See, a week or so back, you started snugglin’ into me in the dead of the night.

At first I thought it was because you liked bein’ close to me.” Kade’s fingers circled her ankle and he slid her right leg aside to crawl between her thighs. “I hoped that was your way of sayin’ you wanted me.” He kissed the top of her foot, jangling the bells on her ankle bracelet. “Then I realized you were used to havin’ the bed to yourself and didn’t wanna share. Snugglin’ into me was your way of pushin’ me out of your space.”

The mattress shifted and Skylar sat up. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

“Because I liked havin’ you next to me, no matter what your motives were. Don’t matter right now.” He fluttered his fingertips up the inside of her thighs. “Spread your legs wider for me, sweetheart.”

Kade caught a whiff of her arousal. Thick. Sweet. Warm. He wanted to taste her so damn bad his mouth was watering. Keeping his hands gripping her thighs, he leaned over and put his mouth on her belly button.

Her stomach muscles rippled beneath his lips.

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He dipped his tongue into the indentation, then dragged it down to the top of her pubic bone. He blew softly across her damp curls.

Goose flesh broke out across her legs and she softly gasped.

“Any objections about me kissin’ you down here?”

“Ah. No. Please.”

Kade chuckled at her polite eagerness. After a couple of gentlemanly licks, he buried his face in her pussy, found her pulse with his tongue and began to suck her clit.

She moaned his name.
His
. Kade.

Oh yeah. This is what he wanted. Needed. Just Sky. Just like this. Pliant. Eager, and his.

Skylar’s hands stripped the sheet from the mattress. She ground her wet sex into his face as she started to come, gasping, thrashing against him and the bed, trying to suppress the sounds of her orgasm. He kept sucking her sweet pussy until she sighed contentment and her legs stopped twitching.

“God, Kade, you make me crazy when you do that.”

“I know.” Grinning, Kade rose to his knees. He reached for the condoms, ripped open the box and tore a package free.

“Let me.”

“I remember how to do this part, although Eliza’s existence might convince you otherwise.”

“I don’t regret anything about her, Kade. Not a single thing.”

That shocked him into stillness.

“I didn’t get to touch you anywhere last time. Let me. Please.”

Couldn’t say no to that. He admired her silhouette as she opened the package with her teeth. Sky smoothed her left hand up his thigh and he withheld a shiver at her tender touch. Placing the latex over the head of his cock, she rolled it down to the root. She curled her hand around the girth and stroked.

His cock jerked hopefully in her hand.

“You were pulling pretty hard and fast in the shower. Doesn’t that hurt?”

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“No. Another time I’ll teach you the secret to a great handjob. Right now, lay back.”

As soon as she was horizontal, Kade levered himself over her—his legs brushing inside hers, his palms flat by her shoulders, matched pelvis to pelvis.

Sky touched his face with the tips of her cool fingers and passed her palms over his chest like she was sculpting him from memory. “You have such an amazingly hard body.”

“Some places are harder than others.”

“Show me.”

“It’s been awhile. This probably ain’t gonna last long.”

“Been awhile for me too, cowboy.” She whispered, “Kiss me. I love the way you kiss me. Like I’m the only thing in the world.”

“When I’m kissin’ you, sweetheart, you
are
the only thing in my world.”

Poised at the entrance to her body, he eased in as he took her mouth. He lost his mind in the glove-tight feeling of her pussy closing around his cock from tip to root.

He broke the kiss. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah.”

“That wasn’t very convincin’.” Kade noticed she wore a strange expression. “What?

Am I hurtin’ you?”

“No.”

“Skylar, what’s wrong?”

“This is going to sound so stupid. Embarrassing.” In a rush, she said, “Does it feel different for you?”

“Different how?”

“You know. Looser?”

“Looser?”

“Well, I did push an eight pound baby out of there. And I’ve heard the vaginal walls loosen and it doesn’t feel as tight for men afterward—”

“You are a fuckin’ perfect fit.” He pulled out and pushed back in. Three, four, five hard, deep thrusts that bumped her cervix and made her bow into him with absolute 80

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abandon. “Perfect in every way.” He shortened his strokes. “Jesus. You feel so goddamn good.”

“Not half as good as you feel to me.”

“You pick lousy times to have a conversation, Sky,” he teased.

She groaned, “I deserved that.” Then she bit his earlobe.

A shudder worked through him. “I don’t know if I can go slow.”

Pressing her lips to the hollow of his throat, she said, “So don’t. It’s not like we haven’t done this before.”

“Not like this we haven’t.” Something akin to a snarl burst from his mouth as he hammered into her. Pounding hips, flesh pounding flesh, his heart matched the rhythm of it all.

Sky arched her back, tilting her pelvis, allowing him a deeper angle. “Yes. Like that.”

With her nails digging into his ass and her mouth sucking at his neck, Kade shoved hard, stayed buried balls deep and came with a long groan, sending her into another orgasm.

Still breathing with difficulty, he lifted his head and reconnected their mouths for another slow kiss. Then he whispered in her hair, “Marry me, Skylar.”

She whispered back, “No.”

“It was worth a shot.”

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Somehow in the following week Eliza settled into a routine, which made Kade happy. He and Skylar settling into a routine didn’t make Kade happy. Not one iota.

Wasn’t that why he’d moved in? What he’d wanted?

No. Not like this. Every night was the same. They’d put Eliza down. Skylar would sneak into the guest bedroom, strip, and wait for him. They’d make careful love, only face to face, only in the absolute darkness, only on the bed.

While they were in the moment, it was damn good. But, afterward, when Skylar immediately got up and dressed, he questioned why she bothered with a sexual relationship with him. After they both got off, she’d disappear, leaving him…lonely. At bedtime she’d curl up on her side of the bed and he on his. They’d take turns getting up with Eliza. Business as usual. Sky probably saw nothing wrong with the way things were going between them.

As the week progressed Kade became frustrated with the situation with Skylar and his incompetence in changing it. Or in his ability to be completely honest with what he needed from her. He’d had enough empty sex in his life…well, to last a lifetime. He wanted more with her…for both of them.

For years, Kade had acted in the same manner as Sky did, confusing sex with intimacy. Now that he’d learned there was a difference, he’d hoped to take their relationship to the next level, beyond parenting partners and mattress monkeys.

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So what was the problem?

From what he could tell, Skylar wasn’t interested in them becoming more intimate on any level.

Had they taken advantage of Eliza’s sleeping hours by spending time talking, beyond the basic chitchat? No. Had they cuddled up on the front porch swing to gaze at the stars and moon? No. Had they plopped on the sofa to watch TV? No. Hell, he’d’ve been happy as a pig in shit cleaning the damn house and folding laundry.

They did none of the normal couple things. She’d allow him to touch her body within certain parameters, but it never ventured beyond the surface.

At some point, Kade realized his brother hit the nail on the head with his observation about Skylar’s behavior. He’d swallowed his embarrassment and asked to borrow the pop psychology book Buck had spoken of and it just confirmed his suspicions.

It was all about Sky’s need for control. When it came to their relationship, she controlled the where, the when, and how much time they spent in the bedroom. And, she controlled the amount of time they spent
out
of the bedroom. She controlled…everything.

That didn’t surprise him so much because as a successful businesswoman everything in her life was laid out. Scheduled. He’d be damned if they’d schedule sex. If he was just another thing she’d mark off on her “to do” list.

In her tidy world was Eliza a constant reminder of the consequences of Sky throwing caution to the wind?

Maybe Kade could use that mindset to his advantage.

Eliza squeaked. She studied him somberly with those big blue eyes. His heart was a pile of mush when she looked at him like that. “You got me wrapped around your little finger, girlie, and you know it.”

She blinked.

“Like mother, like daughter, eh?”

She appeared to be listening, so he kept talking.

“I won you over, and I’m gonna win over your mama too. It may take some doin’.

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