Hot SEAL, April's Fool by Becca Jameson (smart books to read .txt) 📗

feel the way you do. So, I ask myself which would be worse? Having you for five days or telling you to get the fuck out?”

She watched him flinch, but he said nothing.

“There’s no contest. I’d rather have every second I can have with you, even if it means I never recover from it. I’ll take five days in your arms over nothing.”

He jerked his gaze back to hers. “It doesn’t have to be that way, April.”

She chuckled sarcastically. “Really? You have a magic wand?”

“Come back with me. Move to San Diego.”

She flinched, taking a few steps backward until she ran into the edge of her bed. “You can’t be serious.”

“Totally serious.”

She shook her head slowly. “Cole, that’s crazy. I have a life here, and we hardly know each other, and I would never trust you not to hurt me again.” Her voice trailed off.

His breath hitched. “You said yourself you hate your job. I can tell you’re not fully living. And it’s not true that we don’t know each other. We’re the same people we were ten years ago. You know me better than anyone alive.” His voice lowered and he took a step toward her. “Let me earn your trust back, ladybug. Please. It breaks my heart to know I hurt you so badly.”

She jerked her gaze to his. “What the hell did you think would happen when you disappeared on me?”

He drew in a deep breath. “I made a mistake.”

“You think?”

“I’m sorry. I didn’t realize… Fuck. It doesn’t matter what I thought. What matters is that I’m here now and I’ve missed you every day. I’m begging you to give me another chance.” He had inched closer with every word, and now he reached out and smoothed his hands up her arms.

When he leaned in and set his forehead against hers, she sucked in a sharp breath. The man had so much power over her.

“Please?”

She licked her lips. “I’m not making any promises that extend past five days, Cole. I can’t and I won’t. But I’m yours until you leave because I don’t have the strength to turn you down.”

He leaned back, his eyes warm, a smile growing.

She reached behind her, lowered the zipper on her dress, and let it fall to the floor. She shivered as she stood in front of him in nothing but the black lace panty-and-bra set she’d put on that morning. Had she known it would come to this later in the day? Probably.

“Jesus, ladybug.” He took a step back, his hands still on her shoulders. “You’re so fucking sexy. I thought you were the hottest woman alive the first time I saw you naked, but you’ve gotten even hotter since then.”

She flattened her hands on his chest and smoothed them up to his tie, tugging on it as she spoke. “You have too. You’re two times larger I think, and high school football didn’t put nearly as many muscles on you as the Navy.” She pulled his tie free and went to work on the buttons of his dress shirt. She honestly couldn’t wait to flatten her hands on his chest. She needed to feel him. All of him.

He slid his hands to her waist, the spread of his fingers seeming to skim both the undersides of her breasts as well as the edge of her panties. Before he had a chance to explore further, she was tugging his shirt down his arms, forcing him to let go.

“Lose the pants too, Cole,” she ordered. “I want to watch.” She crawled up onto the bed backward as she watched, leaning on her elbows.

He never took his gaze off her as he removed everything but his underwear. And she nearly died when he tucked his hands in the elastic at the waist and lowered those too.

God… His cock. Had it been that large too?

She licked her lips as she watched him stroke it from base to tip, precome gathering in the slit. “Jesus, Cole. I’m pretty sure every part of you is larger.”

He chuckled as he climbed over her, parting her thighs and kissing his way up her legs.

She dropped onto her back, unable to hold herself aloft as his mouth worked its magic on her inner thighs, and then skipped her soaking core to tease her stomach next.

By the time his lips were trailing along the top edge of her bra, she was panting. She finally got to plant her hands on his chest, and she couldn’t stop touching him. Everywhere. As if he might disappear soon and she needed to feel all of him before he vanished.

When his mouth found hers, he changed to a frantic pace, deepening the kiss immediately. His palms slid down her arms until he tugged her hands away from his body. He threaded their fingers together, stretched her arms over her head, and pressed their combined palms into the pillow.

The act of dominance made her moan. This was something new. He’d been the most amazing lover in the world ten years ago, but that was the high school version of Cole, a man with no more experiences than the ones he’d had with her.

His cock pressed against her pussy, making her eyes roll back. She had to break free of his lips because she was growing light-headed from lack of oxygen. She tipped her head back. “Cole…”

He chuckled as he nibbled a path to her ear, just like he always had. When his lips tickled her lobe, she moaned. It was amazing how hot this man could make her with a simple touch to her earlobe. “God, I love that sound,” he whispered into her ear. “I missed that more than anything.”

For a moment she let her mind wander to the forbidden, wondering how many women had moaned for him in the last ten years. The man was so tempting, and April knew he was a kind and generous lover. Surely there was a long list of women who’d experienced his kind of lovemaking and been