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  “You like what you see, sweetheart?” He smirks down at me.

  I meet his eyes and answer honestly. “Yes, I like what I’m seeing and touching.” I rub my hands over his sculpted abs.

  “When we’re like this, you can look and touch as much as you want. My body is yours. But, only when we’re like this.” Ryan leans down and licks across both my nipples, then looks into my eyes again. “Does your body belong to me when we’re like this, Chloe?”

  “My body always belongs to you. Not just when we’re like this.” It has always belonged to him and only him, but I can’t tell him that.

  He growls and then starts pulling down my shorts. “I want what’s mine. Now.”

  “Yes.” I wiggle out of my shorts and underwear and then reach for his belt. Once we’re both naked, we look at each other for a moment before Ryan reaches down and pulls a condom out of his pocket. He puts it on his erection and positions himself over me.

  “You’re ready aren’t you, Chloe?” He asks as he reaches down and touches me. “Fuck, you’re soaking wet for me. I can’t wait for you to come all over my cock.”

  I arch up, wanting him inside of me. I know it’s going to hurt. It’s been three years with only my fingers and my vibrator. But I want him so bad that I don’t care. I grab his cock and put it at my entrance. “I’m ready.” He slides in, and I involuntarily flinch as the pain comes.

  Chapter 3

  Ryan

  Chloe freezes as I enter her, and I can see the pain on her face as tears gather in her eyes. I stop immediately. “What the fuck, Chloe? Am I hurting you?”

  “Just a little. It’s been awhile, and I have to get used to you. Just give me a second.”

  “Awhile?” I ask. “I know you said that you didn’t cheat on Adam. But you weren’t sleeping with him before you broke up either?” The thought of that makes me happier than it should. I love knowing that she hasn’t been with that bastard recently.

  “No. I wasn’t sleeping with him.”

  The alpha male in me comes awake as she relaxes under me. I’m going to make this woman, my woman, come so hard. No, not my woman. Yes. I won’t deny it to myself even though I can’t say it out loud. She is my woman and I plan to show her that. “You alright now, or do you need some more time?” I ask her as I grab a throw pillow and put it under her ass to change the angle so I’ll hit her clit with every thrust.

  “Yes, please move before I go crazy.” She tilts her hips into mine to let me know that she means it.

  I brace my hands on the arm of the couch behind her head and start thrusting into her. She is matching me thrust for thrust and moaning as I twist my hips to rub her where I know she needs me. I lick and bite her neck and ear as she starts to beg.

  “Ry, please. Harder.” She is starting to move faster under me, and it’s taking everything I have not to blow. I move my mouth lower. Licking and sucking her beautiful breasts. I really have missed them. I take the left one into my mouth and bite as I lean my body down, pushing on her clit. That’s all it takes for her.

  “Ryan.” She screams my name so loud that I’m sure it can be heard in the main house. She’s thrashing so hard that I can barely keep myself inside of her as I thrust. I let myself go, and I’m jerking just as hard as she is. I can’t feel my legs, so it’s a good thing that I’m not standing up. My arms start to give out, but I don’t want to crush her. I manage to twist myself sideways onto her wide couch and end up next to her on my back.

  She’s lying there breathing as hard as I am. Something’s wrong, though. “Chlo? You don’t like to cuddle anymore?” I ask. She used to always climb onto my chest when we were lying down together, even before we had sex.

  “I-I do. I want to, but I wasn’t sure if it would be okay.” I look over, and she’s biting her bottom lip and staring at the ceiling.

  Shit. I’ve been such an asshole to her. I know I need to be, but I can’t stand having her be unsure about what to do around me when we’re like this. I reach over and pull her to me. “It’s definitely okay, sweetheart. I want to feel you in my arms.” She smiles up at me and then closes her eyes. I hear her even breathing a couple of minutes later, and then I feel myself drifting off to sleep as well.

  * * *

  Chloe

  I wake up shivering from the air conditioner. And from being in Ryan’s arms. I still can’t believe that he’s here with me. I look over to the clock on the cable box and see that it is only 2 a.m. I need to grab a blanket, and then I should get some work done. I really want to wake Ryan up and have my way with him, but he looks so peaceful sleeping. He hasn’t looked at peace since I’ve been here in Las Vegas. Most days he has circles under his eyes, so I want to let him get some rest.

  I slide out from under him slowly and watch him turn on his side as he settles back into sleep. I grab a throw off of a nearby chair and place it over him. I go to grab another one to wrap myself in when I see his shirt on the floor. I can’t resist putting that on instead.

  I’m sitting on my high work chair, leaning over my drafting table, when Ryan comes into my workroom. I sense him before he even speaks. “Chloe. Why are you working at 3:08 a.m. and not sleeping with me?” He walks up behind me and nuzzles my neck. “You look sexy in my shirt, by the way.” He places a condom on the table, and I have to hide my smile.

  I turn to him. “I woke up and was cold.” He didn’t put anything on when he came looking for me. His body is so hard and hot. I almost whimper as I take him in.

  “I would have warmed you right up.” He takes my mouth in a passionate kiss and I drop the pencil I’d been holding.

  “You looked so peaceful sleeping. I couldn’t wake you up. So I came in here to work on my proposal for Seattle.”

  “So you were thinking about letting me sleep? I appreciate that, but next time, you need to wake me up. I want you more than I want a little sleep. Understand?” I nod, swallowing hard as he continues. “Were you also thinking about me being inside of you while you worked? About how you’re depriving yourself of my cock?” He pushes his partially buttoned shirt down my arms and runs his hands over my breasts.

  “Yes.”

  He moves one of his hands under the bottom of his shirt and slides it through my wet folds. Then he smiles a cocky smile. “You were. I need to punish you for making me look for you when I woke up. You should’ve been there in my arms.”

  “P-punish me?” I try to pull back.

  Ryan senses my fear and pulls me tight against him, looking into my eyes. His smile is gone. “I would never hurt you, Chloe. I would never put my hands on you in a way that you wouldn’t like. I know you wouldn’t like what you’re thinking I meant. I mean that I’m going to make you wait for my cock. You’re going to have to earn it.”

  I sigh in relief and start to drop to my knees. He grips my arms to stop me. “Not like that, sweetheart.”

  “What do I have to do, then? To earn it?”

  He smiles again and turns me around as he pulls me off of the chair. “You’re going to hold onto this table and tell my about what you’re working on. Your ideas. While you do that, my hands are going to explore your body. If I like what I hear, and you come hard on my fingers, then we’ll move to the next challenge.”

  “The next challenge?”

  “If you scream loud enough for me with my hands, then I’m going to explore you with my mouth and tongue while you tell me more details about what you want to do to my building. This building is important to me, and whoever designs the interiors has to get it right. So, if you can convince me that it’s you, and then come hard on my mouth, you’ll get both the job and my cock.”

  “Wh-what if I can’t convince you?”

  “You will. You know me better than anyone, and I remember all the times we sat side by side, me drawing my buildings and you drawing the interiors. I know that you’re the right person for the job. But I want to hear you telling me while I’m pleasuring you.” He starts to pull off the shirt but then stops. “I’m
going to leave this on. It’s so hot to see you in one of my shirts again. I remember when you used to ask me to keep a t-shirt so you could sleep with my scent. You don’t know what that did to me, knowing my scent was on you as you slept.”

  “I know what it did to me.”

  “Yeah, Chlo, and what was that?”

  “I used to touch myself and imagine it was you as I smelled the scent of you around me,” I admit to him. I don’t tell him that I purposely kept the shirt from the night we were together, pretending that I couldn’t find it when he asked for it after I broke up with him. It’s under my pillow right now, in fact.

  “Well now it is going to be me. Are you ready to start talking?”

  I nod, and he puts his hands on my shoulders, massaging them. “I know this is going to be your first fully tech building, and I wanted to reflect that inside.”

  “Go on,” he tells me as he slides his hands lower to cup my breasts through his shirt.

  “I was thinking that the walls and furniture should be in shades of grays and blues, but with pops of lemon yellow to brighten it up. Especially because Seattle is not so-so sunny.” I’m having trouble concentrating while he kneads my breasts and pinches my nipples.

  “I like it so far, sweetheart. Keep going.” His hands are on my stomach now, teasingly close to where I want them but not quite there yet.

  “I saw in the preliminary designs that you want a skylight over a central atrium.”

  “Mm-hmm.” His hands are on my ass now, caressing and squeezing my cheeks. I can’t stop myself from moving my hips. I can feel the moisture dripping out of me.

  “I-I’d like to make it a stained glass griffin instead of just being clear glass.”

  His hands move around me and are finally where I want them. He shoves two fingers into me while his other hand pushes on my clit. “I like all of that so far, Chloe. Now come for me so I can taste you on my mouth next.”

  He is pumping in and out with the fingers of one hand while he swirls his other hand over my clit. With his fingers working on both places, I’m soaring towards my release within seconds. I let go and scream so loud that if there were windows in this room, I can imagine them shaking.

  “Good job, Chlo. I liked what you told me about the building,and I liked how you came for me. Now it’s time for round two.” I’m still shaking from round one. I may not survive round two with all of my brain cells intact.

  * * *

  Ryan

  Damn, that was hot. Hearing Chloe talk about her ideas for my building while I touched her everywhere nearly made me come. I’m not sure who is being punished here, but I want to keep going. I started this, and I have to see it through. Besides, I haven’t forgotten the taste of her, even after all of these years. I need to know if she’s changed. I move all of her drawings off of the table and then turn her around, lifting her onto the angled surface. She reaches behind her to hold on to the top as I step between her spread legs, holding her in place.

  “Are you ready for my mouth, sweetheart?” I ask her as I pull my shirt apart, scattering what was left of the buttons. She looks at me with glazed eyes and nods. “Then go ahead and tell me some more about what you want to create with me in Seattle.”

  I lean over and start sucking on her earlobe as she begins. “I want to make sure the employees have a state of the art break room. I think that since they will mostly be tech guys, I should find some retro arcade games to put in there, as well as floor to ceiling TVs with all of the new gaming systems. I would have a separate full service cafeteria, and also a quiet room for those who want that.”

  “What a good girl. Wanting to make the employees happy. I like that.” I make my way down her neck licking, sucking and nibbling.

  “It’s important for the people working for you to be happy. For the floors where they will all be working together, I would suggest having the supervisor and manager’s offices in the middle of the room with walls of glass around the outside so that light can get in to everyone.”

  “Go on.” I tell her as my mouth moves to her breasts, going back and forth to give them both attention. She’s arching into me and I put a hand on her stomach to hold her still. I love the way that I’m affecting her, and I also love what she’s telling me.

  “Th-the cubicles should be at least double sized so that they don’t feel like they’re in a little box, and the aisles should be wide too.” I’m nibbling on her nipple and she loses her concentration for a few seconds. “I-I…”

  “You’re close to being done, Chlo. Don’t stop now,” I tease her and then move my mouth down to her stomach, licking her belly button.

  She starts again. “I would like to meet with each employee if possible, to customize their workspace with the shades of the blue and gray that they like. They should be comfortable in their surroundings. I also would like to have Owen make some cool art. Not so professional looking like he does for the other buildings. Maybe some paintings and sculptures that include computer parts.”

  I look up at her and stare into her eyes. “I knew you were perfect for this job. It’s yours, Chloe. Now prepare to scream.”

  I lick through her wet folds and slide my tongue into her. I can barely hold her on the table as she is bucking and writhing hard. It’s not going to take much to send her over. Which is a good thing, because my cock needs release. It needed it a half hour ago, but now it’s demanding it. I move my mouth up and suck her clit into my mouth, biting gently, and she comes hard and screams so loud that I’m thankful there are no windows in here.

  I suck her until she comes down and then tell her, “Okay, sweetheart. You’re going to get my cock now. But I need you hard and rough and I don’t know if I can wait for you,” I say this honestly as I slide her off the table and turn her around.

  “Don’t worry about me, Ry. I just came twice. Just put that beautiful cock of yours in me and do what you need to.”

  “You think my cock is beautiful?” I ask her incredulously.

  “I think all of you is beautiful. And don’t go worrying about that not being manly. You are 100% man, Ryan. Even a manly man like you can be beautiful. So deal with it and fuck me like you want to.”

  I chuckle to myself and take her from behind. It only takes a few hard thrusts before I’m yelling her name and coming so hard that I’m seeing stars. I bite into her shoulder. I let go of her and step back. “I’m sorry, Chloe.” I tell her as I look down at the mark I left on her.

  She turns to me and reaches up to touch my face. “Don’t be, Ryan. I told you that I belong to you. I’m glad that you marked me. I love you.” I can see it in her eyes. She means it. But I can’t go there. Not yet.

  “I-I have to go Chloe.” I look down at her, seeing her expression turn sad. “Keep the shirt.”

  I practically run back to the living room and throw on the rest of my clothes. I walk out her door and head to my car. I drive to my condo at City Center, and as I park my car, I see Luke getting out of his.

  “Well, this is something new. Since when did my oldest brother stay out as late as me? And with no shirt on. ”

  “Ha-ha! I’m not that old.”

  “So, your date went well?” he asks as we walk to the elevator and punch the buttons for our floors. We both live in penthouses here.

  I decide that I need to confide in someone, so I tell him the truth. “Actually, no. I wasn’t into my date at all.”

  “Then what happened to your…oh shit, Chloe.” He looks me in the eye, and I nod. “You need to be careful, man. She nearly destroyed you last time.”

  “It’s only about sex this time.” The words sound hollow even to me.

  “It may be that now, but we both know that you’ve never gotten over her. You know we’ll all support you if you take her back. She was like a sister to the rest of us. But just take it slow. Make sure that she’s going to stay this time.”

  “Thanks, Luke. I’m planning on taking it slow. But you’re right. She’s the only one for me, and I need
more than just sex from her.” I tell him about my other decision. “I’m going to let her design the interior of the Seattle building. She told me her ideas and they’re exactly what I had in mind.”

  “Cool. I remember the two of you always talking about you designing buildings and her decorating them. I’m glad that it’s working out for you.” The elevator gets to his floor, and he steps out. “Now, if only I could decide what I can do for the family business, we would all be happy.”

  “Luke, you can do whatever you want. You don’t have to come work with us. You know that, right?” He nods but I can tell he doesn’t really think so. “I love you man, now go get some sleep.”

  “Love you too Ry. Goodnight.” He moves off, and I go to my place and collapse onto my bed for the couple of hours I have until my alarm will go off.

  Chapter 4

  Chloe

  I’m humming to myself as I head into the office a month after our first night at the guest house. He still hasn’t stayed over and we don’t ever go to his place. I know I scared him a little, okay a lot, when I said that I love him, but I think he actually believed me. I can’t wait to officially work with him on the Seattle project. Ryan wanted to finish his plans before he brought me on board as the official interior designer. Angie stops me as I head towards my desk. “You look happy today, Chloe. That’s nice to see.” She’s always been nice to me although she’s close enough to the family to know what happened three years ago.

  “I am happy, Angie. Thanks for noticing.”

  I get to work answering emails and returning phone calls from the Chicago office and some of the international offices too. I’m just finishing a call when Ryan walks in, stopping at my desk. “Can I see you in my office, Chloe?”

  “Of course, Ryan,” I tell him with a smile. I get up and follow him in. I close the door and lock it behind me. I head for him, but he holds up a hand to stop me.

  “I need to go over a few things with you for the Seattle project, including your salary and timeline. It’s time to make it official. Please take a seat.”