Realizing I must be broadcasting what I was feeling, I cleared my expression and focused on the here and now. Having a little time with him was better than none at all, and I would take all I could get. “Do you miss your brother now that he’s in Tennessee?”
“I’m used to not seeing him every day at this point. He went to college in Alabama, and I stayed closer to home and went to UCLA.” He picked up the tattoo gun and added more ink. I barely felt the needle as he brushed it over the tender skin between my breasts.
“That’s my plan too,” I murmured. “I’m going to Trinity, which is the local college back home. It’s pretty prestigious, though. The law program is phenomenal.”
“If you’re going there, then I know it is.”
I narrowed my eyes on him, thinking he was just tossing a line at me, but his face was completely serious as he continued to tattoo me. He was being sincere, and pleasure filled my soul with warmth.
“Monroe has been accepted at a few different colleges, but she hasn’t made up her mind where she wants to go yet.” I sighed unhappily. “She’s running out of time to choose, but I’m hoping she will just stay local with me. We’ve never spent more than a few nights apart before, and I don’t know if I could handle us being separated for months at a time.”
“It was difficult for Luca and me in the beginning, but we got used to it.” He wiped at a spot he’d just finished inking and inspected his work. “Almost done, babe.”
I glanced down, but I couldn’t make out anything of what he’d created. My skin was starting to welt up a little and was an angry red, but that wasn’t surprising to me.
“I can add to this later on, if you want, and make it an entire chest piece.” He added more ink. “Just say the word, and I’ll make you my greatest masterpiece, Mila.”
I wanted to tell him then and there that I wanted him to spend the rest of his life inking only my skin. Instead, I closed my eyes and pushed all thoughts of leaving him come morning out of my head.
Ten minutes later, he did a final wipe down and made an appreciative noise in the back of his throat as he looked at his hard work. Opening my eyes, I glanced down at myself.
“Let me take a picture so you can see it better,” he said and picked up his phone.
By the time he handed it to me, I was practically bouncing with excitement. “It’s a key.” And it was the most beautiful key tattoo I’d ever seen. It was a skeleton key, old and tarnished, but when I looked closer, I realized the shape of it was really the letters of his name in intricate cursive with a heart at the end.
He really had marked my skin, claiming it as his own.
And I fucking loved it.
“It’s my new favorite tattoo,” I whispered, touching my fingertips to the center of my chest.
“Don’t rub it,” he cautioned, and I dropped my hand. I knew better than to rub fresh ink, but all I wanted was to touch where he had given me a part of himself. “Let me put some ointment on it and tape you up.”
His touch was gentle as he applied fresh ointment and then put gauze over the tattoo before taping it into place. As soon as the last piece was secure, I dropped the two hand towels from my breasts and pulled his head down. I devoured his lips with my own, unable to hold back what I was feeling another second.
We’d spent plenty of time getting to know each other. I’d let him brand me, and now I needed him on a basic, primal level. From the moment I’d set eyes on him, the sexual chemistry between us had been off the charts, and I was surprised we’d lasted this long before tearing off each other’s clothes.
His weight pressed me into the couch cushions as he came down beside me, his giant hands touching every inch of bare skin he could reach.
He tasted slightly sweet and tangy and a little smoky from the barbecue sauce on the chicken wings, but there was something intoxicating just under that which went straight to my head faster than the Spirytus ever could.
“You’re so fucking beautiful, Mila,” he murmured against my ear in his deep voice. “But I need to see the rest of you.”
Before I could blink, he was working my jeans and panties down my thighs, his big body following them. I heard him inhale deeply, breathing in the scent of my pussy, and then his mouth was feasting on me. His tongue spread my lips, drinking me in. His tongue curled over my clit, and I was completely lost.
I stabbed my fingers through his short dark hair, lifting my hips, silently begging for more because all I could get past the sob that was twisting my insides was a garbled “Please, Lyric,” before he thrust two fingers deep into my pussy and I exploded for him.
Gasping for air, I tried to clear my head, but my body was still trembling from the intensity of coming all over his face. No one had ever made me come so fast. Of course, I’d only had sex with two other guys, and neither of them had really known what they were doing.
Lyric, however, knew his way around the female body like a seasoned pro.
And I was suddenly jealous of every other girl to come on his mouth like I just had.
Pushing himself up onto his knees, he stared down at me, his eyes swirling with a mixture of beautiful shades of brown. He pulled his shirt over his head and tossed it aside, then he was getting rid of his jeans. Before they followed his shirt, he pulled a condom from his back pocket and dropped it on my chest, but I was too focused on his cock straining for my attention.
Holy shit.
I didn’t know guys got that big. Sure, I’d heard River say my brother was so big she’d walked funny for days after their first time, but I’d never personally seen anyone as big as Lyric Thornton. The two guys I’d experimented with were what I assumed was average size, but Lyric’s cock looked like a fucking anaconda compared to them. He had to be as big around as a Pringles can and just as long as one too.
Nervously, I licked my lips, wondering how I was going to survive him.
And how I would ever live without it again after this night.
Chapter 7
Lyric
I’d never seen anything sexier than a naked Mila looking up at my cock, her face still flushed from her orgasm, licking her lips like she was starving.
Then she lifted her lashes, and I realized she was nervous. “Lyric—”
“If you’re a virgin, I need to know now, Mila,” I told her, my voice hoarse with need and my body struggling to hold back from thrusting into her, balls deep.
“No,” she said with a soft laugh. “I’m definitely not a virgin.”
I wasn’t sure if I was more relieved or jealous. Someone had touched her before I’d even met her. Whoever that lucky fucker was, I wanted to bury him, wipe him and any other guy from my girl’s mind so there was only me in her head.
“It’s just… You’re so damn big. And I’ve never been with anyone who is so…well-endowed.” A flash of vulnerability lit up her gray eyes for a moment before she reached out and touched her soft fingertips to the tip of my pulsing cock.
“We don’t have to do this,” I told her even as sweat beaded down my back. “There is plenty of fun in what we’re doing right now.”
“No!” she answered with an adamant shake of her head, causing her glossy black hair to fall over her tits. “I want you. All of you.”