Desert Alpha: A Lady Boss Press Navy SEAL Novella, Bethany Lopez [readict books .txt] 📗

sync or something. And although your job means you’re gone a lot, in dangerous places, and we’re stationed five hours apart from each other even when you are home, I’d love to see where this thing goes.”

I took a deep breath and paused. When he didn’t immediately reply, I bit my lip and muttered, “Oh God, you think I’m a psycho.”

Chapter 10

Rip

God, she’s fucking adorable.

I fought not to laugh as she covered her face with her hands in embarrassment.

“I don’t think you’re psycho,” I assured her. “Although you did just lay out a lot of words. But, if I get the gist, you want to have a lot of sex with me, you think I’m hot, and you want to see where all this mad chemistry between us may lead, even after we’re out of this desert.”

Cass dropped her hands and let out a strangled laugh.

“Uh, that about sums it up, yeah.”

“Sounds good to me,” I said, taking her hands in mine and pulling her close. “I think we should get started.”

“Really?” she asked, tilting her head back and searching my face. “Not about the getting started, but about wanting more than just sex until you leave?”

“Yes. I like you, Cass, more than anyone I’ve met in a while. So, yeah, let’s see what happens.”

I leaned down to kiss her, but she pulled her head back and asked, “Like … exclusively?”

“There’s no one else I’m interested in, okay. And if you want to slap a label on it, that works for me.”

I saw her smile light up her face before she tip-toed up and met my lips with hers.

Finally.

I put my arms around her, pulling her body flush against mine as I deepened the kiss. Just like last time, Cass participated with enthusiasm, her tongue tangling with mine as her hands began an exploration of their own.

When she slipped them under my shirt and her fingertips touched my skin, I moaned and had a sudden, deep-seated urge to feel her bare flesh as well.

Turning us quickly, I maneuvered toward the bed, never breaking our kiss as the need to get horizontal hit me. Once our legs hit the side, I paused to reach behind me and pull my shirt off. Cass emitted a sound of protest at the loss, before she realized what I was doing and moved to match my movements, her gaze never leaving the sight of my now naked chest.

We moved quickly, eager to get our hands back on each other. Once she was wearing only her bra and panties, Cass placed her hands on the bed and lifted herself onto it. She was all tanned skin over lean muscles and I wanted nothing more than to tear those scraps of lace off of her body and sink myself into her.

Instead, I left my boxer briefs on and stepped between her legs.

Her hands found my hips and my cock hardened and jumped as her thighs brushed against mine. I urged her head to the side with my palm before tracing the curve of her neck and then her shoulder as I eased the strap of her bra down.

Cass’s breath hitched as I found the swell of her breasts with the back of my knuckles and teased her gently, moving over the lace to brush across the sensitive tip.

Everything inside of me screamed to go faster, but I kept the pace slow, loving the torturous build of anticipation as I learned her body and found the sweet spots that made her moan.

The apex of her neck, the underside of her breasts, and the soft expanse of her stomach trembled beneath my touch, but when I urged her back onto the bed and moved my hand to the material covering her core, Cass began to writhe for me.

“Rip,” she whispered on a sigh, and I’d never heard a more erotic sound.

Needing to please her, I dropped to my knees before her and urged her hips down until she was right on the edge of the bed.

No longer able to go slow, I pulled her panties over her hips and down her legs, not bothering to see where they landed before I opened her legs farther and buried my face in her pussy.

Her hand flew to my head and she gripped me by the hair as I fused my mouth to her and began to feast.

I worked her with my tongue, plunging it inside of her as she arched her back and pushed herself closer, searching for release. I savored the sweet heat before licking up her seam to reach the tight little nub that would give her what she craved.

Wanting more, I shifted until I had both of her legs thrown over my shoulders and my hands grasped the fleshy cheeks of her ass so I could lift her to me and position her exactly how I wanted.

Within seconds, her hand in my hair fisted and I shifted my eyes so I could watch as her free hand grasped the comforter and her head fell back and to the side. Her mouth opened slightly, and her eyes drifted shut as she came beneath my lips. Cass convulsed and her thighs tightened somewhat painfully around my head, and then her entire body went lax.

I moved up onto the bed and gathered her close, kissing her softly on the forehead as she gave a satisfied sigh and relaxed into me.

“Smazging,” she muttered.

My chest shook as I laughed.

“What was that?” I asked.

Rather than reply, Cass burrowed in closer, so I tightened my arms around her.

Within seconds, her breath evened out and I knew she was asleep. Careful not to wake her, I reached down and grasped the corner of the blanket, then shifted so I could pull as much of it as possible over us, while using my body to warm what remained uncovered.

After one last brush of my lips against her head, I snuggled in and followed her into sleep.

Chapter 11

Cassandra

I woke slowly, feeling oddly