Desert Alpha: A Lady Boss Press Navy SEAL Novella Bethany Lopez (brene brown rising strong TXT) 📖

nothing more than to kiss her since the moment she’d gotten out of the car, but was trying hard not to be presumptuous or make her feel like I only wanted her here so we could hook up.

“Why don’t we take our drinks outside,” I suggested, thinking I’d be less likely to jump her if we were sitting on the patio.

Once we were outside I turned on our outdoor Bluetooth speakers, which looked like rocks, and put on a random station from Apple Music. With music filling the air, I took a seat in one of the wicker chairs.

When, rather than sitting in the chair across from me, Cass pushed my arms aside and sat on my lap, I bit back a curse.

She isn’t going to make me keeping my hands to myself easy.

I shifted so she was sitting on my thighs with her legs thrown over one side and took a fortifying drink.

“Is this okay?” she asked, an innocent expression on her face.

I nodded and made a strangled sound.

Cass started talking about something, her friend Lori, maybe, but as she spoke her free hand found my shoulder and started massaging it, which made it very difficult for me to concentrate on her words.

For one thing, it felt awesome, but the real issue was that the feel of her hand on me coupled with her ass in my lap was making me hard.

And pretty soon she’s going to know it … intimately.

“Uh, you comfortable?” I asked, hoping she’d say no and get up before I did anything I’d regret.

“Yeah, totally,” Cass said with a sunny smile, and something about her expression had me furrowing my brow.

“You know exactly what you’re doing, don’t you?”

She let out a laugh and wiggled.

“If you mean to ask if I’m trying to turn you on so you’ll make a move, the answer is yes.”

I placed my hand on her waist to keep her still and asked, “Is that what you want?”

“Duh,” she joked. “Why wouldn’t I want to get my hands all over you again? And to have your hands all over me.”

“I didn’t want you to think that’s why I wanted you here. I’m excited to see you and spend time with you … to get to know you better.”

“Yeah, well, we can do all of that and have sex, right?” Cass put her glass on the table and then shifted so she could put her arms around my neck. “You’re very sweet and I appreciate everything you’re saying. I love the fact that you want to get to know me and don’t want me to feel pressured to have sex with you again. But, Rip, I have been thinking about having my way with you since I left my apartment. Seriously. If you had any idea the different scenarios I’d imagined during my drive, you would not be sitting here doing your best to keep yourself in check.”

Yup, there went my blood … And my ability to think.

“Why don’t you tell me about them,” I suggested, putting my glass down on the table next to me and surrendering. I wrapped my arms around her waist and pulled her closer, so she was straddling me in the chair.

Cass looked momentarily unsure, then put on a sly, confident grin and said, “Well, there was the shower, the ocean, your bedroom, the floor … I may have envisioned a fireplace with a fluffy rug.”

Her cheeks pinkened prettily as she laid out all of the places she’d imagined us together and my hips thrust up of their own accord.

“The ocean would be freezing, and I don’t have a fireplace, but the rest is definitely doable,” I said, moving my hands up and down over her sides.

Cass sighed and let her face drift closer to mine.

“Where do you want to start?” I whispered, and then her lips were on mine.

She shifted, rubbing against me as we explored each other’s mouths as if it had been years, rather than months since our last kiss.

After about ten minutes of heavy making out, Cass moved back slightly and answered my question. “Your bedroom.”

My response was to stand swiftly with her in my arms. She wrapped her legs around my waist and her arms around my neck tightened as I moved to the door to go inside. Her lips were on my neck as I walked as quickly though the house as I could without losing my hold.

Each nip and suck was like a direct line to my cock, so by the time we made it to my room and I kicked the door closed behind me, I was dying to be inside of her.

I crossed to the bed and laid her on it, following right behind so I was laid out on top of her while keeping my weight on my forearms so I wouldn’t crush her.

“Faster,” Cass cried, and I could feel her trying frantically to somehow get out of her clothes from beneath me.

“Shhh, we have time,” I said, talking more to myself than to her.

“Later … we can take our time later, in the shower. But I don’t want to wait anymore. Fuck me, Rip.”

That dirty word on her lips had my blood boiling and had me moving with urgency.

I quickly rid us both of our jeans and underwear and was positioned at her entrance.

The look on her face was pure unadulterated need and I wanted nothing more than to lose myself in her silky heat, so I teased her opening with my fingers before pushing one inside to find her hot, wet, and ready for me.

“God, you’re so fucking sexy,” I groaned when she arched into my touch.

I moved into position and then thrust inside of her, moaning and cursing as she tightened around me.

“Harder,” she ordered, and I moved to comply.

Getting up on my knees, I pulled her hips up and fucked her as hard and fast as I could. Her blissed-out expression paired with the way her tits bounced under her cotton shirt had me