I was so wet, so damn ready, that he entered easily, my muscles contracting to draw him in farther, as if he were part of me. As if in the short time since he’d last been inside me I’d lost a part of myself. His thrusts were deep and powerful and demanding, and I could feel his body tense as he got closer and closer.
I took one hand off the wall, then slid it between my legs, finding my clit and stroking it faster and faster in time with his thrusts. Water sluiced over us, but I felt none of it. All I could feel was my hand upon my clit and Evan’s cock inside me. I was reduced to nothing but the sensation of sex, of coming release, of the electricity that now concentrated between my legs like a single vibrant point that was growing and throbbing and threatening to burst free, as if there was no way that so much pleasure could be held enclosed in anything smaller than the universe.
And then Evan was coming, his hands tight on my hips as he tugged me even closer, our bodies slapping wildly together as he emptied himself inside me, taking me to my own release as that vibrant point exploded out, making my entire body sing and tingle, all the way to my toes and my fingertips.
I pressed both hands against the wall again, gasping and spent. I wasn’t certain I could ever move again. Then Evan pulled out of me and he turned me around and I moved obediently, draping my arms around his neck and pressing my head to his chest as he used a washcloth to gently soap me up and then adjusted the rest of the showerheads to rinse us both completely.
“I thought you said we’d be late,” I murmured when he was done ministering to me.
“I imagine we will,” he said. He kissed me so soundly that my body fired all over again. “It was worth it.”
Yeah, I thought as I clung tight to him, it was.
I still felt boneless when we emerged from the shower moments later. I sank down beside him on the upholstered bench, my head leaning against his shoulder. “You’ve melted me,” I said, though there wasn’t a hint of complaint in my voice.
“You managed to destroy me pretty completely, too,” he said. “Should we blow off my surprise?”
“Is it a good surprise?”
“The best,” he said.
“Then no.” With effort, I forced myself to stand, then held out a hand to help him rise. “But I warn you. My standards are high. If it’s not the best, there will be consequences.”
“I’ll keep that in mind,” he said seriously.
Since he wouldn’t tell me where we were going, getting dressed was a bit of a challenge. But he swore that the flirty dress and sandals I picked out were perfect. I pulled my hair back into a ponytail with a few loose tendrils framing my face, then swiped on some mascara and lip gloss and called myself ready.
“Perfect,” he said, returning to my bedroom after leaving to change clothes himself. He wore jeans and loafers now, with a casual jacket over a simple white T-shirt.
“You couldn’t possibly have had an entire outfit in your briefcase.”
“No. In my suite.”
“You have a suite? If I’d realized, I wouldn’t have let you share mine last night.”
“Don’t even joke about kicking me out of your bed. And yeah, Cole and Tyler and I crashed here quite a bit. Jahn gave us each a drawer.”
“A drawer,” I teased. “That’s serious.”
“It was,” he said. “The man was like a father to me.”
I might have been playing, but I could tell that Evan was serious. “What about your own dad? I mean, you were old enough when he died. Surely you remember him.”
“I remember him,” he said, his words like ice. “He was a goddamn bastard.”
“I’m sorry,” I said, knowing my words were inadequate. The press had painted a picture of a happy family struck by tragedy. Now I tried to revise my perception to picture a broken family that had been even more destroyed with the death of Evan’s father. A man who, from what I was guessing, hadn’t exactly been around for his wife or kids.
I tried to imagine not having my dad, and the thought left a huge hollow spot in my gut.
I went to him and took his hand, then rose up to brush a kiss over his lips. “In that case,” I said, “I’m even more glad you had Jahn.”
We headed out, and to my surprise, Evan stopped the elevator on the lobby level instead of descending all the way to the parking garage.
“No car?”
“It’s reasonably close. We’ll take a taxi.”
“Close,” I said, running various options through my head.
“Don’t even try. I’ll only be disappointed if you manage to guess.”
I laughed. “Fair enough,” I said as a taxi pulled up in response to the call light. Evan stepped off the curb to open the door for me, then walked around and got in on the opposite side.
“One thing I forgot to mention,” he said, as he settled in beside me. “I’d like you to put this on.” He reached into his pocket and pulled out a black sleep mask with an elastic strap.
I peered at it dubiously. “Seriously?”
He just looked at me, not answering.
“Evan!”
“Hey, if you don’t want to …” He trailed off, then leaned forward and told the taxi driver to take us back to the condo.
I goggled at him. “What are you doing?”
“Rules are rules.”
“Fine,” I said, snatching it out of his hands. I slid the mask on over my eyes. And in the moment before the world disappeared from sight, I was pretty sure that I caught the driver’s smirk in the rearview window.