She did as she was told, fighting against the intimacy that connected them. He withdrew again, and just as Cat’s breath hitched he pushed back in, harder, faster. She couldn’t tear her gaze away from his face. His jaw was set with tension, the hollows of his cheeks stood out. And the guttural grunts he released every time he bottomed out inside her had her tender muscles gripping his erection harder.

She was supposed to be in control here, setting the speed, demanding the wild. But she felt her tethers on him snapping, her control dissolving every time he slammed into her.

He pushed off with his feet, digging into the floor. She heard a crack, a thump, and couldn’t have cared less what had just smashed to the floor because Noah was fucking her hard enough that they were moving across the floor from kitchen to living room on the power of his thrusts alone.

“I want to feel you come on my cock, Cat,” he told her. “I want to feel every squeeze of your tight, hot pussy until you make me come inside you.”

Cat couldn’t answer him. Couldn’t process the filthy promises her mild-mannered, tightly wound Noah was making as he raked himself in and out of her. She was already near another release when he leaned down between their bodies and lapped at her breast.

She answered him the only way she could, by squeezing those secret muscles, clamping around him like a vise.

“Mmmm,” he rasped. “I knew I’d love fucking you, Cat.” Even as he spoke those harsh words, he threaded his fingers with hers and squeezed. Reassuring her, promising her they were in this together.

And it was that promise that triggered her building orgasm. In one glorious rush, Cat felt herself tense and close around him as Noah drove his cock into her and held. Her cry was muffled by his hand. Her fingers gripped his as he pulled out and rocked back into her, timing his thrusts with the powerful waves of her release.

“Oh my God,” she chanted against his hand as her body trembled and shivered and sparkled through every detonation. “Noah.” She repeated his name over and over again and with one more hungry squeeze, she felt him stiffen and jerk inside her.

He released her mouth and blindly reached for her wrist. Pulling it to his mouth, Noah laid his lips over her tattoo as he came, and Cat felt her heart explode into a thousand shards.

He groaned, a gravel-laden gasp from the gut. Cat watched him, felt him as he came deep inside her, branding her. Using her body to ride out every shuddering burst of his orgasm.