Her knees fell open as she let out a small cry and tried to sit up. Evan pulled her again, causing her to fall back down, arms over her head. The crook of each knee lined up with the edge of the mattress and Evan dropped to his knees in front of her.
"This isn't funny," she said, trying to pull herself up again, but unable to because he held each leg against the bed.
"I'm not trying to be funny. I'm very serious." He studied her inner thighs, stroking above her knees with his thumbs to relax her.
He could feel the heat from her, smell the musky dampness of her arousal, and his gut cramped into painful desire. He blew onto her lightly from just a few inches away. She twitched.
"I'm as serious as that Cupid was," he murmured.
She made a sound that could have been a gasp, a smothered laugh, or a moan. It almost sounded to his eager ears as if she were having an orgasm. She wasn't, of course, but the sound made his blood go south.
Evan swallowed hard, leaning in and running the pad of his thumb across her plump clitoris then down into the dewy heat below. His thumb sank inside her, and she pulled him in, clenching on with tight muscles.
Holy hell, she felt good. He closed his eyes for a second, feeling her skin pulse around him, and listening to her breathy little moans of pleasure.
He couldn't get enough of those moans.
"What is that?" she asked, spreading her knees farther, the movement urging him to sink deeper.
"The bottom of my thumb." Evan buried his face in her thigh, breathing in her scent deeply. Then he flicked his tongue over her clitoris, his thumb still deep inside.
Halley let out a wild cry and suddenly her fingers yanked his hair hard, jerking him back. So hard, water popped up into his eyes. It was a good sign. Evan laughed at her response and pulled his thumb out.
"Don't stop!"
"I'm just getting started."
Evan loved to look at her, to see her swollen pink folds in front of him, aching and throbbing for his touch. She moved with quick jerky movements, wiggling down farther, trying to entice him to touch her.
He was happy to oblige.
With his tongue, he tasted her, running up and down each side, swirling over her clitoris before finally sliding down the middle. He gave a long teasing probe deep inside, then pulled back.
"Put it back," Halley panted.
Evan was drowning, his control shredding under her desperate and vocal need. Halley was aggressive, intent on getting what she wanted. It was that part of her that made her sue-cessful in her business, and mixed with her loyalty and her kindness, it made her all the more fantastic to him.
She was everything he liked in a woman.
He liked giving her pleasure. And if he could keep himself from exploding in his boxer shorts, he could enjoy it a little longer.
So he continued to tease her with his tongue. Gliding lightly up and down, skirting her clitoris, never going deep enough to satisfy her, but brushing with a feathery touch of his mouth.
Halley's legs thrashed, her hand clawed at his shoulders, and she made alternating sounds of ecstasy and agony.
"I want you inside me. Now." The words came out harsh and nonnegotiable.
Evan paused. Then he looked up at her, met her glazed eyes over the length of her flushed body, and said, "Really? I couldn't tell."
In spite of his holding her legs over the edge of the bed, she managed to sit up. She scooted forward, toward him, a dangerous gleam in her eye.
He was in for it now.
He couldn't wait.
It wasn't long in coming. She shoved on his chest, her fingers gripping the dusting of hair there, tugging on him until he felt the sharp jerks of stinging pain.
Then she was in his lap. All of her. Every warm, wet, pink, flushed, salty inch of her. A nipple was tantalizingly in front of his mouth. He reached for it.
She jerked back, head arched, voice insistent. "No. No more playing. I want you inside me."
"Yes, ma'am." He wasn't about to argue with the Naked Caterer. Not when it would be so much fun to give her what she wanted.
Her arms locked around his neck, and her breasts brushed across his chest. Evan shifted and settled her down in his lap more comfortably. Her hot little mound was pressing against the base of his cock, making him sweat with need.
He was still wearing his shorts, but was loath to let her go even long enough to shuck his clothes. Yet there was a more urgent concern about what he wasn't wearing.
The tangy taste of her still hovered in his mouth and he wiped at his moist lips. "Someone needs to stand up and get a condom."
For a second, he thought she was going to tell him to hell with the condom. Panicked alarm skittered through him.
He should have known better. Halley wasn't stupid.
She sighed. "Damn. Where are they?"
"Nightstand." His voice was a relieved croak. He was mature, he had control, but hell, how was he supposed to stay strong against the temptation of sliding into Halley skin on skin?
It was like waving steak and dried kibbles in front of a dog and telling him to choose.
No, that wasn't right. Making love to Halley wouldn't be anything like dried kibbles, condom or not.
She disentangled herself and went over to the nightstand while he ditched the rest of his clothes. In a minute she was back, with not one condom, not even two. But four condoms.
His body hummed in anticipation while his brain froze. Who was this woman? His best friend, naked, with a handful of condoms.
Damn, he liked it.
Reaching for her, he felt a strange thickness inside his gut area.
He loved Halley. Of course he'd always known that. But it felt different now, more intimate and satisfying.
She slid into his lap as if she belonged there, as if they had done this dozens of times before. Evan dropped a kiss onto her shoulder, trailing his tongue across her salty skin as she rolled the condom onto him.
He nuzzled into her neck and stared up at her, tenderness mixing with passion.
"What?" she said as her fingers finished their task and she looked up.
"Nothing." He shook his head and smiled.
Did she even know what was happening here? That this had become way more than just sex and had nothing to do with hackers or websites or work?
This was about them, moving from friends to lovers and eventually to more.
She didn't see it now. But by the end of this, when she was sore and satisfied, boneless and carefree, he would explain it to her.
It might take some convincing, but he had every intention of having more than one day with Halley.
Evan was looking at her strangely, like she'd gone and grown a third nipple. As if he was simultaneously horrified and yet intrigued by the possibilities.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" She didn't expect an answer, and she didn't get one.
Not an honest one, anyway.
He smiled and said, "You're beautiful."
Evan's arms were around her, pulling her forward against him. Her chest molded to his, and she had her legs wrapped around his waist.
It put her right flush against his erection, and the press of him right on her soft spot was deliciously distracting. She didn't pursue the conversation. Evan could look at her any way he damn well pleased as long as he did it while inside her.
"Come here." Evan urged her forward, with a hand on the back of her head. "Taste yourself on me."
He gave her a drawn-out, languid kiss, teasing his tongue past hers. The musky taste in his mouth was from her, she knew. From her desire for him.
Yanking her head back, she moaned, "Evan, please."
"Please, what?" Evan's thumb ran across her bottom lip and she could smell the rich scent of her body there as well. "Take out my garbage? Hack the Three Commandos? Fuck you senseless?"
"The last one." Without thought, she pulled his finger into her mouth and sucked. Her eyes drifted closed and she started to bump against his penis. She was losing her patience here. How could he just sit there naked with her and maintain his control?