Tipping his head, he made her shiver with the light brush of his lips on her neck. “We are. Eventually. I need you so bad. So fucking bad. You have no idea. And not just like this.” He squeezed her ass for emphasis. “Everywhere. All the time. I need you.”

“Alex,” she said on a sigh. “You have me. I’m right here, and I’m all yours.”

“Yes, you’re mine.” He tugged on the ties to her bikini bottoms, and the fabric dropped between her feet. His fingers caressed her sex, sliding through the dampness, teasing and tormenting as his mouth came down on hers, hard and demanding.

In no time at all, he had her clinging to the edge of sanity as he completely dominated her senses. When he removed his fingers, she cried out from the loss until he freed himself from the board shorts he’d worn for the beach and lifted her onto his erection.

Jenny slid down on him, taking him in one deep thrust that made her head fall back and her mouth open in a silent scream. The pleasure was nearly unbearable. And then he leaned her against the wall and began to thrust into her.

“I was with someone,” he said against her ear without missing a beat on the pace of his possession. “For two years. She had guy friends. Lots of them, and I didn’t give a shit. I was never jealous, because I didn’t love her. I know that now. I didn’t love her.”

His words and actions made for a powerful combination.

“I love you,” he whispered.

Overcome with the emotion and swept away by desire, Jenny could barely think, let alone speak. But she knew he needed the words from her. “I love you, too.”

He pushed hard into her, coaxing her with his fingers. “Come with me.”

Jenny was so close that all he had to do was touch her once. She held on tight to him as he rode wave after wave of her release and then let himself go, too. It went on forever, or so it seemed.

“I’m sorry for being an ass.” His lips and whiskers rubbing on her collarbone ignited her all over again.

“I forgive you.”

“It’s your fault anyway.”

“How do you figure?”

“I was never this way until I met you.”

Laughing, Jenny tightened her arms around him, wanting to hold on to him forever. Was he perfect? Far from it, but it seemed he might be perfect for her. “How about this surfing you promised me?”

He withdrew from her slowly and settled her on her feet. Cupping her face in his big hands, he kissed her and gazed into her eyes for a long moment, seeming as dazed as she felt. “Let’s go.”

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