So, once I was steady on my own two legs, I turned around and rested my elbows on the table before looking as coquettishly as I could over my shoulder.
I didn’t say anything, but I didn’t have to. Paul licked his lips as he looked me over, and that made me feel like the sexiest woman in existence.
“Are you sure?” he asked, sounding barely contained. Fuck, I loved how punch-drunk his voice was. I loved thatIdid that to him. And I also loved how, no matter how deep in it he was, he always triple-checked that I was fully on board.
But right now, I mostly wanted him deep inme, so I nodded before facing forward again. It made the anticipation that muchmore intense, so that when he finally lined himself up with me and started to push in, all the breath was driven from my body.
“Fuck!” I cried, not feeling one ounce of shame at how loud I was being. And judging from the throb that channeled through Paul’s cock and then me, he quite liked how loud I was.
Inch by inch, he filled me, sending conflicting sensations oftoo muchandnot enough. It was the perfect blend of ecstasy, and with that, I let myself succumb fully to our passions.
But as I did, I couldn’t help but think that if our first real date was already this good, then our second one was going to be a realkiller.
Chapter 26
Paul
The Future Together
When I had first arrivedat Cherry’s home to pick her up for our date, I had been a bundle of nerves. But now that I was buried inside of her, it was a struggle to remember what I had been so worried about.
Even without the threat of death, we were still a great match for each other. She made me laugh, she made me feel seen, and she made me appreciate all the things in life that I had disregarded in my pursuit of being the perfect middle son. Never too much trouble, never fighting for the spotlight. Just always calm and level-headed.
Fuck that.
It wasn’t that I was abandoning my ways of peace, serenity, and control. It was more that I was finally giving myself permission to be a whole person. Not to be constrained about what IthoughtI had to be in order to win the favor of my somewhat distant father and maintain the reputation of my family, and to accept myself for all my flaws, all my skills, and all my frivolities.
“Right there,” Cherry panted in that way of hers that never failed to drive me wild. “Oh my god, right there!”
I paused in my persistent slide into her, pulsing my hips slightly to rub at the spot that made her push back against me. Although none of our couplings had exactly been tame, there was something so completely feral and free about it now.
I liked to think it was because it was our first time where neither of us were denying the romance. I had spent so much of my energy adamantly pretending the chemistry and connection between us didn’t exist, using my logic as a shield against what I felt, that it had added a layer of complication we hadn’t needed.
Maybe we wouldn’t work out in the end. Maybe she was too wild and I was too stuffy. But really, that wasn’t important right now. Despite the lie that she had first told me, neither of us could tell the future. So, all we could do was live in the now, and my now was filling Cherry as deeply as I could and making her come on my cock.
Truly a noble venture.
I rocked against that spot, enjoying how Cherry squeezed me, until it got to be too much, and I thrust deeper into her. But, as usual, the empath was all too eager to accept me, her walls just as warm and slick and hot as ever.
I was in heaven, that was the only word for it. And it was mind-boggling to think that the two of us could have this whenever we wanted if we ended up working out. I was committed to making sure that happened. My life had been turned upside down and inside out when I had stumbled across the grizzly scene of my father’s demise in the manor, but somehow Cherry had righted it again into something so muchbetter.
And I wasn’t the only one whose life she had improved. Although all of us VanMarches were in therapy to help with our grief and process everything we’d internalized, we were more bonded than ever. We’d realized how close we’d come to losingeach other and how foolish we’d been to let the distance between us grow so wide.
However, thinking about my siblings wasn’t really something I was keen to do while my cock was buried in the woman I was rapidly falling in love with, so I tucked that thought away and let myself enjoy the grip of her as I sank in all the way to my base.
“That’s it, Cherry. You take me so well. Like you were meant for it.”
“I was,” she panted back, and God, if that didn’t stroke my ego. I’d seen the empath do some insane things. Conquer any obstacle in her path. Make friends at the drop of a hat and improve people’s lives without even thinking twice. “I was meant to take you.”
That was my undoing, and we got lost in our passion and pleasure as I thrust into her. The push and pull was electric, and not for the first time, I wished I could see as she did. But I couldn’t, so I had to satisfy myself with listening to her cries and feeling how her body reacted to me. That was one hell of a consolation prize.
My knot came in hot and heavy, but I gritted my teeth and forced myself to hold back. It was always easier for Cherry to take me after her first orgasm, and so far, I was sorely lacking in that mission.
So, I bent over her, kissing my way up her back before going to the other side of her neck, where I had already marked her with my bite. She was a gorgeous woman, but she was even more stunning with my teeth marks on her, and my wolf fully agreed.
I put my arm around her, my fingers finding her swollen clit, flicking over it in the way she liked.
I had already learned so much about her body, and I couldn’t help but think about all the amazing things we would continue to discover together. Cherry really brought a fullnessand completeness to my life that I had been a fool for neglecting for so many years.