Free Wild: Wildfire by Cheyenne McCray Page B

coaxed her, urging her toward completion.
    When Dee tensed in his arms and Jake knew she was going to climax, he lifted his head and watched her face. Her lips were parted, her lids lowered, her gaze fixed on him. With a shudder and a soft cry, she came. He continued stroking her, not letting up until she cried out that she couldn’t take anymore.
     
     
    When the last golden wave of Dee’s orgasm subsided, she realized that Jake was watching her and smiling, resting his palm on her belly, but making no move to go any further.
    It felt incredibly erotic with his jeans against her naked backside, her underwear around her thighs and her T-shirt up over her breasts. Her lips tingled from his kisses, and every part of her body shivered with awareness.
    Jake looked so good, so sexy with his hair ruffled from her fingers, his gray eyes smoldering. Her nipples puckered as his gaze swept over her semi-naked body and back to her face.
    Dee caressed his cheek, his stubble rough against her palm. “Aren’t you going to show me the bedroom in this snazzy place?”
    “Mmmm.” Jake kissed her, soft and sweet this time, his mouth gentle and loving, his earthy smell surrounding her.
    His lips traveled to her sensitive breasts and she moaned as his warm breath fanned over them. But instead of devouring her again, he pulled her T-shirt down.
    She moved her hands to Jake’s shirt, struggling to pull the rest of the snaps apart.
    He put his palm over her hands, trapping them against his chest. “No, sweetheart.”
    “What?” She was still dazed from her orgasm and wasn’t sure she’d heard right.
    “Your ankle. It’s real bad and there’s no way that I wouldn’t end up hurting you. If you remember, we were always a little, ah, gymnastic together.”
    Dee frowned. She’d actually forgotten about her injury. The intensity of her desire for Jake had all but blotted out the throbbing. As if to remind her, pain stabbed through her ankle, and she grimaced.
    She wanted his cock inside her pussy so bad—the touch of his hands and mouth on her, and that incredible orgasm had only whet her desire. For a moment she tried to think of how they could manage it. But with what she wanted to do to his body, and wanted him to do to her, it wasn’t physically possible without taking the chance of wrenching her ankle again.
    Dammit.
    Jake pulled her underwear over her thighs, his touch sending shivers through her. She lifted her hips as he did the same with her shorts, then he brought the zipper up but didn’t button them.
    When she tried to sit, he only cradled her closer to his chest.
    She frowned. “Let me up, already.”
    Jake’s expression became serious. “First, I need to know we’re going somewhere with this. That you’re not going to keep pushing me away.”
    Dee’s stomach did a strange flip-flop and her hand moved to her neck. “Are you talking about a relationship, like we had before?”
    “Yes.” He eased his fingers into the hair at her temple and stroked it away from her face. “Only this time I’m not leaving.”
    Jake’s goodbye rang in her head… for the best … not ready for commitment …
    She swallowed past the ache in her throat. “How do I know that?”
    “You’ll have to trust me.”
    That was asking too much. People she loved, including Jake had let her down too many times. She couldn’t afford to care about him that way again. If she did and then he decided he couldn’t handle a commitment, her heart wouldn’t be able to take it.
    Dee sighed. “You really have no idea how much you hurt me, do you?”
    Jake’s lips tightened. “I know I hurt you. But we were both young. We didn’t know what we really wanted—”
    “I knew what I wanted. You were the one who left me. ” Damn but it was hard trying to talk to him when she was practically flat on her back in his lap.
    “We were both just kids, Dee.” He released his grip on her hair and ran his hand the scar on his cheek. “I wasn’t real good