Hang Tough (20 page)

Ike said “yes” the same time Riss said “no,” and even Jade rolled her eyes.

Tobin led Jade through the crowd, forcing himself to take measured steps and not break into a sprint.

Once they were outside, he spun and hauled her against his body, tilting her head back to get at her mouth.

The tart and sweet taste of her exploded on his tongue. He kissed her with hunger, greedily swallowing her soft groans.

Jade broke the kiss first. “I want more than this.”

“So does that mean you won't be pissed that I rented a room for tonight before I walked into the bar?”

Those beautiful eyes locked onto his. “You did?”

Tobin swept her hair back from her face. “I didn't want you drinking and driving.”

“Is that the only reason? You were concerned for my safety?”

“No.” He laughed. “I'm a nice guy, but not
that
nice.”

“But you are prepared like any good Boy Scout would be.”

He got right in her face. “I'm no Boy Scout.”

“Prove it.”

His mind was a maze of lust as he towed her toward his truck. The two-block drive to the motel happened in the blink of an eye, and they stood outside room 118 as he jammed the keycard in the slot and the green light flashed.

Once they were inside the dark room, he realized they'd lost that urgency.

Leaving the lights off, he slipped her purse off her shoulder and tossed it aside. He pushed her up against the door, twining one hand in her hair and burying his face in her neck, letting the spicy floral scent of her skin take him back to that moment where desire overruled common sense.

Jade didn't wait for him to make the first move. Her mouth found his and she slipped her hands beneath his T-shirt, her cool fingers trailing up, over his abdomen, pausing at the top of his rib cage to stroke the cut of muscle that defined his pectorals.

Gooseflesh erupted from her erotic caress. He kissed her harder, absolutely on fire for this woman. His hand drifted down the center of her torso, gravitating toward the buttons that kept her bare curves beneath his greedy hands. “Jade,” he panted against her lips, “baby, we've gotta lose some clothes.”

“You first.”

He retreated only far enough to pull the T-shirt over his head. Then his mouth returned to hers and he fumbled to unbutton her blouse as she trailed her fingertips up and down his sides, from the base of his armpit to the waistband of his jeans.

That continual, sensual touch kept him on edge more than if she stroked his cock the same way.

Tobin tugged the tails of her shirt out of her jeans and pulled her away from the door to strip it off her completely, leaving her in just her bra. In the dark, he traced the satin straps down to the lace-edged cups. “I want to see you.” He blindly reached out to the wall until his hand connected with the light switch.

Fluorescent light flooded the room like they'd stepped into a grocery store at midnight. He quickly shut it off. “How about we go to plan B?”

“Does it involve us getting naked?”

“Uh-huh.” He peppered kisses along her collarbone. “And sweaty too.”

“I'm in.”

He smiled against her throat and wrapped his fingers around her upper arms. He shuffled backward—almost as if they were dancing. Once his calves hit the bed he sat on the edge. “Stay just like that for a second.” He reached the lamp on the nightstand. One quick twist and softer light illuminated the room. Then his hands were on her again. Jade was so compact he could almost span her waist with his big hands. “Kick your shoes off.”

After Jade took off her heels, her chest was nearly at his mouth level.

Tobin slid his hands around her sides and up her back to undo the clasp of her bra.

She shrugged her shoulders, letting the bra fall halfway down, but with the angle of her head, her hair covered her chest.

“Jade. Move your hair so I can see you.”

“There's not much to see,” she said softly.

He swept her hair over her shoulder. Her breasts were on the small side, but perfectly shaped. In the center of that gentle rise of smooth caramel-colored skin was a dark brown nipple. “Hell yeah, that's what I want.” He urged her forward and opened his mouth on her nipple, closed his lips around it and sucked.

“Oh my god.”

He used his mouth, his hands, his teeth on those sweet little tits, until she writhed and arched and whimpered.

Everything he did to her, she said, “Yes, more!” He thought she might've had a tiny O with the way she squeezed her thighs together.

Tobin dragged openmouthed kisses down her belly and unbuttoned her jeans. He murmured, “Off,” and helped her shove them down her legs to her ankles.

Jade smoothed her hands over his hair and tipped his head back to look into his eyes. “Tobin. Why are you shaking?”

“Tryin' to keep myself from tossing you on the bed and fucking you hard enough to break the bedframe.”

“I'd like to see you try.” She bent down and kissed him. Hungrily. Greedily.

When he was out of breath and filled with the taste of her, she backed off.

Keeping her eyes on his, she reached between them and flicked open the button on his jeans. “Off.” She immediately sidestepped him as soon as he stood.

Tobin watched as she pulled the bedcovers back and stretched out on the white sheets, clearly waiting for him. First he took out his wallet, removed a condom and flicked it at her.

She caught it, held it between her teeth and waggled her eyebrows.

Crazy woman. He grinned and shed his pants.

Jade's eyes zeroed in on his dick. Her mouth dropped open and the condom fell out. “Tobin. Is that what women mean when they say, ‘He's hung like a horse'?”

Jesus. He blushed. Then he felt stupid for it and crawled across the mattress above her. “I haven't had any complaints. But how about we go to plan C?” He rolled onto his back and brought her on top of him, body to body with his cock pressed between them. He curled one hand around the back of her head and squeezed her ass with the other as he kissed her.

Jade's stiff posture relaxed as he fed her slow, drugging kisses. She lowered her knees to the mattress, creating space between them so she could get to his cock.

He silently breathed a sigh of relief that she wasn't shy. But if she kept stroking him like that, they'd have a repeat of the hallway incident. Trailing his lips to her ear, he rasped, “Put the condom on me.”

She pushed upright, ripped the package open and rolled the latex down. She checked out the wrapper and mouthed “Magnum” before tossing it aside. Flattening her palms by his head, she smiled shyly. “Got any ridin' tips, cowboy? Because I've never done it this way.”

Sweet baby Jesus she was killing him. “Do what feels good. And I'm very good at takin' direction, so don't hesitate to tell me exactly what you need.”

“Same goes.” Jade scooted back and took him in, inch by inch.

Tobin kept his hands on her hips, letting his thumbs track across her hip bones as that wet heat enveloped him. He gritted his teeth when she stopped a couple of times and pulled back, because she was really fucking tight. And, well, he wasn't small.

The look of concentration on her face? Seriously beyond adorable. When she'd finally worked him all the way in, she did a fist pump and slumped across his chest with a sigh.

“You okay?”

“I think so. I like how it feels. I just need a moment.”

He lifted her head off his chest so he could kiss her. The kiss began with just a pass of his lips over hers. A side-to-side glide that he mimicked where they were joined. Nothing overt, just subtle movement.

Jade whispered, “Yes,” against his mouth and the kiss got a little hotter. More tongue, more panting breaths.

Then his fingers drifted up and down her spine, stopping to squeeze her ass or caress the dimples in the small of her back.

She rolled her body up over his and kissed him harder. Opening her mouth fully, her body started to set a rhythm. Once the pace increased,
she moved her hands to his chest for leverage as she pushed back onto his dick.

That's it, baby. You got this.

Tobin closed his eyes. Fuck. That felt good. Especially when she added a clenching grind on the downstroke. All the tightness increased around his cock and he could feel her getting wetter and his balls drew up in response.

Whoa. Not yet. It'd been a while for him but he wasn't gonna blow this fast.

Sweat dotted his body, and he'd run through the periodic table of elements when Jade stopped moving completely.

Softly, she said, “Tobin?”

He looked at her. “You okay?”

“Help me. It feels good, but awkward. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.”

“Hey, tiger. You're not doin' anything wrong, let's just fine-tune it a little, okay?”

“Thank you.”

She kissed him so sweetly that when she started to retreat, he growled and clamped his hand onto her head to keep her in place. Using that kiss to crank the heat back up between them so they were both panting when he said, “Scoot back some and push up.”

She batted her hair out of her face. “Like this?”

“Yep.” Tobin rose up far enough to latch onto her nipples, one with his mouth, the other he twisted and pulled with his fingers.

“Oh, I like that.”

“I can tell.” Jade had started moving faster, creating more friction, driving his cock deeper.

Did she have any idea how sexy she looked? With her hair swirling around them, her teeth digging into her bottom lip, her eyes closed, one hand clutching his head as he alternated between sucking on her neck and her tit.

“Tobin. I'm . . .” Her expression changed and she rocked her hips with shallow strokes, again and again until her body shook and she shouted, “Yes, yes, yes, yes, that feels so good, don't stop, oh please . . .”

Tobin couldn't hide his grin. So Jade was loud in bed. He kept kissing her neck, nuzzling her and caressing her as she came down.

Then she pushed him flat to the mattress and devoured him with hot, wet kisses. Her lips migrated to his ear. “Tell me what'll get you there.”

Immediately, he rolled her beneath him.

She blinked those golden eyes and smiled. “Agile
and
hung. I like that.”

He pecked her on the mouth and rested his forehead to hers. “Are you sore?”

“Not yet, I'm still delightfully tingly. Why?”

“I need it hard and fast.”

“Tobin, I'm not fragile.”

“Guess we'll test that, won't we?”

Jade hooked her legs around his hips and nipped his neck. “Come apart for me, cowboy.”

Tobin took some of his weight off her as he began sliding in and out. It also allowed him to watch his cock disappearing into that tight pussy.

Fuck yeah. He liked that.

He picked up speed, bottoming out on every thrust.

She used that sassy little tongue on his neck, and her hands were on his chest, thumbing his nipples.

That combination sent gooseflesh straight to his balls.

Despite the cool air blowing in the room, sweat escaped from his hairline and ran down his spine.

He plowed into her harder, not as close to the edge as he thought he was. But it felt too damn good to stop.

Jade's lips brushed his ear. “Yes. Like that. You're going to make me come again.”

When her body tightened around his, he let go, pumping into her
with enough force to rattle the bedframe. So lost in the rush of release, he barely heard her cry out before she muffled the sound in his chest.

After he'd stopped shuddering in pleasure above her, her mouth reconnected with his. Between sweet and teasing kisses, Tobin managed to roll to his side so he didn't crush her.

“Okay, that was awesome.”

Tobin laughed. “Yeah it was.”

“But we'll probably have to invest in some lube from here on out.”

He nuzzled her temple. “This wasn't a onetime thing for you? Crossing ‘banging a cowboy' off your list on your Wild West adventure?”

Jade scooted up and got in his face. “It's not a onetime thing for me, any more than it is for you. We can at least be honest that neither of us is into casual one-offs. Or at least not very often.”

“More often than I'd like in my younger years.”

“Recently?”

He shook his head. Then he curled his hand around her jaw. “This didn't happen because you were convenient. This didn't happen because I'm tryin' to manipulate you around to my way of thinking with Miz G. This happened because you've fired my blood since the moment I set eyes on you. And I like you.” He stroked the corner of her mouth with his thumb. “We clear on that?”

“Yes.”

“Good.” He pressed his mouth to hers. “Be right back.”

In the bathroom Tobin ditched the condom. He took a leak. He washed his hands and face and wet a washcloth with cold water. Exiting the bathroom, he found Jade beneath the sheet.

She eyed the washcloth suspiciously. “What's that?”

“How sore are you now?”

“A little.”

Which probably meant a lot. “This will help.” Tobin pulled back the sheet and said, “Spread 'em.”

“You're joking.”

“Nope.” He waited.

Finally she slid her heels out and said, “Whatever.”

He placed the cloth between her legs and muffled her shriek with his mouth. When he was relatively sure she wouldn't take a swing at him, he ended the kiss and looked into her eyes. “Better?”

“Yes, but it's cold.”

Tobin crawled in bed, gathering her into his arms. It surprised him how quickly and easily she snuggled into him. “If it gets too cold, I'd be more than happy to warm you up with my mouth.”

“I'll keep that in mind.” Jade drew circles on his chest. “How many condoms did you bring tonight?”