All of You Page 23

  Kat was shocked at the headiness she felt touching him like this. She’d never imagined sexually arousing someone would feel so empowering. Maybe the rush of power came from the knowledge she was arousing a man who had a great deal of experience in this area.

  Or maybe it was just because it was Danny.

  A man she was wildly attracted to.

  A man she deeply…cared for.

  Regardless of where it was coming from and why, there was no denying the exhilaration she felt knowing her touch was exciting Danny.

  Really exciting him, if the colossal erection she was currently rubbing was any indication.

  “Why don’t we go up to your bed, Danny?” When he shook his head, Kat asked, “Why not?”

  His gaze latched onto hers. “Because if I get you on that bed, I will fuck you. More than once and in more than one position. And, trust me, you’re not ready for all that.” Danny eyed her mouth hungrily and exhaled a hard scoff. “Hell, I don’t even know if I can handle it.”

  Kat smiled, slowly pulling his zipper down. “Oh, I’m pretty sure you can handle it. It’s not your first time, remember?”

  He startled her by gently gripping her chin, forcing Kat’s eyes to meet his. “This is not the same. Not at all.” Danny searched her eyes. “You know that, Kat, right? That this is nothing like all of that…and that you are nothing like all of them?”

  Danny’s impassioned tone and the forlorn look on his face ripped her heart to shreds. Kat thought about all of the women he’d been with – women he hadn’t loved and who hadn’t loved him. She thought about how horribly alone he must have felt all those years…how alone he must still feel.

  Kat wanted him to know he never had to feel that way again. She wanted him to know that, no matter what happened between them in the future, he was wanted.

  And needed.

  That he was loved.

  Kat accepted the silent acknowledgment with as much ease and confidence as she did anything she knew to be one hundred percent, unequivocally true.

  No use trying to fight it, will it away, or reason her way out of it, because it was as true as any scientific experiment or mathematical equation she’d ever solved. Yes, she couldn’t prove it, but that intangibility took nothing away from the absolute certainty of her feelings.

  Kat was wildly in love this crazy, confusing, damaged man – and probably had been from the moment he’d treated Stella (really, the whole family) with such incredible kindness after Nathan had briefly lost his way last year.

  Kat had no plans to share that information with Danny or to factor her feelings into her future. Her future was too uncertain and involving Danny in it would only lead to a lot of pain.

  For both of them.

  But that wasn’t going to stop her from experiencing this with him tonight.

  She couldn’t have stopped now even if she’d tried.

  Kat turned her head to kiss the inside of his wrist. Danny cupped her face and pulled her into his chest, his other arm enveloping her. Kat wound her arms around his waist and her eyelids closed, safe in his embrace.

  They stood that way for what felt like hours, holding each other. The sensation of Danny’s strong, steady heartbeat against her cheek comforted her in a way Kat hadn’t known before. When he gently pulled her hair tie out and began running his fingers through her hair, tears filled her eyes.

  Kat’s fingers curled into his taut back muscles. “Danny?”

  “Yeah, sweetheart?”

  Kat tilted her head back and met his eyes, brow quirked and lips curled. “You know, for a man whore, you sure are hard to get into bed.”

  Danny laughed out loud. He tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and smiled down at her. “Maybe I’m turning over a new leaf. You ever think of that?”

  Kat huffed. “Just my luck.” She lightly dragged her fingertips up and down Danny’s spine, loving the way his eyes glazed over. “Well, can we at least go lie down in your bed?” Kat shifted on the table. “I think my butt’s asleep.”

  A weird expression crossed his face. “Why don’t we hang out on the couch? When you’re ready to sleep, you can use the bed.”

  God, the man could be obstinate and difficult when he wanted to be.

  But there was no one – no one – as stubborn as Kat when she put her mind to something, a fun fact Danny was about to learn the hard way.

  “My leg is really bothering me,” Kat lied. “I need to lie down and stretch it out.”

  “Oh, yeah, of course.” A look of concern on his face, Danny grabbed onto her waist. “Put your arms around my neck.” When Kat did, he lifted her, turning her in his arms and slipping his right one underneath her bent knees. “Okay?”

  Kat nodded and he made his way to the staircase.

  For a woman who’d spent her entire life putting on a brave face, proving her independence, and shunning anyone who tried to get close to her, Kat was sure as hell enjoying this whole letting-her-guard-down/being-taken-care-of dynamic going on between her and Danny.

  Kat was pretty sure it was because Danny made it seem like he was looking after her because he wanted to, not because she needed him to. Danny knew Kat didn’t need him to carry her, but he wanted to. There was a big difference between the two and he seemed to get that, somehow.

  It was a lovely, unsettling thought that had Kat unconsciously tightening her arms around his neck.

  Danny rounded the corner into his bedroom and walked over to the edge of the bed. He laid Kat down, but when he went to pull away, Kat tightened her arms around his neck.

  She smiled up at him. “Not so fast.” Kat pulled him in and pressed a few soft kisses to his lips.

  When Danny groaned and tried to pull away again, Kat slipped her tongue between his lips and slid it against his tongue slowly. Rhythmically. Until, with another groan, Danny began kissing her back.

  A few seconds later, he’d positioned himself above her – on his forearms and knees, keeping his weight off her – Kat’s arms still wound around his neck as they continued kissing, licking, and nipping at each other.

  Kat dragged her hands down his bare back, loving the feel of his hard muscles flexing beneath her fingers. She slid her hands around to his stomach and slowly made her way to the still-opened fly of his jeans.

  She’d just slipped her fingers inside and against his erection when Danny reared back and grabbed her wrist.

  Danny took in Kat’s unapologetic grin and quirked a brow. “Did you just trick me into bed, Kat?”

  “Sure did.”

  Danny laughed. “You little vixen.” Kat moved her fingers, brushing up against his erection. He inhaled sharply, searching her face as his smile faded. “What am I going to do with you?”

  “Have sex?” she asked hopefully and Danny laughed again. Kat pinched his thigh. “No. Seriously.” She eyed the bulge in his jeans. “You obviously want to, too…”

  “Of course I want to, Kat. I’ve already told you, I want you more than I’ve ever wanted anything in my life,” Danny replied. “But there are a lot of factors involved here, not the least of which is that I’ve never been with a virgin and have no idea how to…” He flushed slightly and shrugged. “I guess, do it, for lack of a better term.”

  Kat ran her hands along his inner thighs, stopping just before reaching the bulge at his crotch. “Well, we can learn together, then.” She rubbed her thumbs over the lower portion of the bulge, loving how Danny sucked in a long, hard breath. His gaze turned intense and his breathing jagged as Kat continued caressing him through his jeans. “I’ve never done it and you’ve never done it with a virgin, so we’ll figure it out as we go. Together.”

  A flash of yearning crossed his face before Danny said, “No, you’re just confused. All of this sex stuff is messing with your head. And I don’t want you making a rash decision based on fucking afterglow.”

  Kat huffed. “You know, while I appreciate you trying to be chivalrous and respectful of my feelings, I’m starting to get pissed
off.” She propped herself up on her elbows. “I’m an adult. An adult who is not known for entering into situations without giving it the proper forethought. And, so, if I say I want to have sex with you, that means I want to have sex with you, dammit!”

  “I don’t want to hurt you, Kat.” He shook his head. “I don’t think I could live with myself if I hurt you in any way.”

  “Of course it will hurt!” Kat gestured down to the massive organ in question. “That thing is huge and the space it’s going into is not.” Danny winced. “But it will only hurt temporarily. You’ll be gentle, I’ll be brave, and we’ll survive. Millions of women have gotten through it relatively unscathed; I’m quite sure I will, too.”

  When Danny still didn’t look convinced, Kat formulated her death blow…

  A sure-fire clincher.

  An ace in the hole.

  Because, while Kat wasn’t typically big on playing dirty, this guy needed a good, hard push.

  “Of course, maybe you’d rather I had someone else break me in first…” She shrugged. “I’m sure Ben would be more than happy to-”

  Danny’s eyes flashed. “Over my dead fucking body…you’re mine,” he breathed out before dropping back onto his forearms and kissing her so hard it stole her breath.

  As usual, it took no time at all for their kissing turn frantic and soon they were a mess of entangled limbs, struggling to get each another undressed. Danny pulled Kat’s shirt over her head, unclasped her bra, and tossed it onto the floor while Kat shoved down the top of his jeans and her right leg fought to gain traction on his pant leg.

  Danny broke away, panting. He scooted back far enough to grab the bottom of her jeans and pulled them off in one smooth movement. A few seconds later, her panties joined her jeans on the floor.

  “Your turn.” Kat gestured for Danny to lie down. At his quirked brow, she said, “I want to undress you.”

  Totally naked and not the least bit self-conscious (it was easy for a woman to feel confident when a man was gazing at her like she’d hung the damn moon), Kat positioned herself at the end of the bed, pulled off Danny’s boots and his socks, and grabbed the cuffs of his jeans. With help from him, Kat managed to pull them off.

  She climbed back on the bed and positioned herself between his legs.

  Kat rubbed her hands over his long, muscular legs, eyeing them appreciatively. “You have such a gorgeous body, Danny.” She ran an open palm up the inside of his thigh, marveling at the tickle of hair and feel of his hard muscles. Kat slid her hand up the bottom of his green and blue plaid boxers and Danny inhaled sharply. A small smile pulled at her lips. “I still can’t believe I’m touching it.”

  “Yeah, you and me both,” he croaked out and Kat’s smile widened.

  She curled her fingers into the hem of his boxers and met Danny’s widened eyes. Kat very slowly pulled them down until, with a rather dramatic entrance, Danny’s erection finally sprang free.

  Kat didn’t know who gasped louder, her or Danny.

  Yes, she’d had seen plenty of penises…

  In textbooks, educational videos, and the occasional full-frontal shot in movies. But anatomical drawings, animated videos, and quick flashes of genitalia on film had not prepared her for what she was currently looking at.

  Kat glanced up to find Danny already staring at her.

  “I knew it would be big…” Kat pointed at his erection. “…but that thing is ridiculous, Danny.”

  Danny didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. The look on Kat’s face as she eyed his dick was fifty percent horror, fifty percent fascination, and – oddly enough – one hundred percent adorable.

  “Will you touch it, Kat? Please…” Danny’s breath caught when her eyes latched onto his erection again. “I know it’s an ugly bastard, but I need to feel your hands on me.”

  “It’s terrifyingly massive, but it’s not ugly,” Kat said, her obvious approval making the much-discussed organ twitch. She leaned in, squinting. “It’s actually very interesting up-close.” Kat gently ran a fingertip up the underside of his shaft and Danny moaned, his hips instinctively lifting off the bed. Kat tilted her head to the side thoughtfully as she wrapped her fingers around his dick. “So hard and so soft at the same time.”

  Danny made a strangled sound in the back of his throat. When Kat dragged a fingertip across the tip, his head jerked back against the pillow, his eyes squeezed shut, and his pelvis lifted again. And when she began drawing gentle circles around it, Danny fisted his hands in the sheets and dug his heels into the bed, pushing himself up harder against her hand.

  “Kat…” Her hand tightened around his shaft again. “Oh, yeah, sweetheart…just like that…”

  Kat squeezed again. “Like that? That feels good?”

  Danny barked out a harsh laugh. “Good doesn’t come fucking close…” When she moved her hand up, Danny shuddered. “Oh, yeah, Kat…move it up and down on me…please…”

  Kat gently did as he asked, but Danny needed more. He reached down, covered her hand, and showed her how to do it harder. Faster.

  Unfortunately, the sight of Kat, naked and between his legs, jerking him off, proved to be a bit too much and Danny had to yank her hand off before he came all over them both.

  “Were you about to orgasm?” Kat asked. “Is that why you wanted me to stop?”

  Danny nodded. “A few seconds longer and we would have had to tolerate a slight interruption to our plans.”

  “I’m glad you stopped me, then,” Kat said, making him smile. She eyed his dick again. “Well, do you think we should try sticking it in now, Danny?”

  Danny didn’t want to laugh – knew it was inappropriate and not at all encouraging. But she was just so fucking adorable and all of this was just too amazing.

  He managed to keep it to a quiet chuckle. “Not yet, sweetheart.” Danny reached up and ran his fingers through her dark waves. “I’m going to touch you for a while, first.”

  He grabbed her hips and twisted, pulling her down gently beside him, so they were laying side-by-side. Danny propped himself up on an elbow and leaned his upper body in, pushing Kat onto her back and half-caging her in.

  He braced her head and neck with his free hand and twisted his head to drop his lips to the other side of her neck. “I’ve spent a very long time thinking about this, Kat.” She shivered, her hands coming up to hold onto his sides. “About what you would look like…what you would taste like…” Danny dropped his mouth to her collarbone and nipped at it gently.

  “Danny…” she gasped out, fingertips curling into his skin.

  “About how this…” Danny’s hand slid down to her breast. His head lifted and his gazed dropped as he watched himself play with her tight, pink nipple. When he pinched it gently, Kat moaned loudly, arching her back, and pushing it harder into his hand. “Would feel in my hand.” Danny lowered his lips to her nipple. “And taste against my tongue.”

  Kat gasped again as he pushed her breast up to meet his eager mouth. As he licked, sucked, and gently nibbled at her erect nipple, Kat’s moans grew increasingly louder and the undulations of her body even stronger.

  He slid his hand down, over her the swell of her hip, and around to her ass, squeezing it gently. “And, God, did I ever think about this.” He squeezed harder and his mouth watered. “Especially this.”

  Danny smoothed his hand over her ass and cupped the roundness, just above the top of her thigh. “You do realize you have the hottest ass on earth, don’t you?” When Kat reared back, brows low, Danny grinned. “Oh, sweetheart…know it and own it. I have never, ever seen an ass like yours. And it’s been fucking me up for the past eighteen months. I’ve been dying to grab it and bite it and do all sorts of other nasty shit with it.” Danny squeezed her again and Kat shivered, eyes wide.

  “I love your butt, too,” she whispered.

  Danny grinned again. “Oh, yeah?”

  Kat nodded. “It looks so good in your uniform pants. And dress pants.” A tiny smile pulled at her lips.
“And every other kind of pants you wear. And, now I know, in nothing at all.” Her smile faded. “I’ve thought about grabbing it a million times,” she said softly, a faint blush spreading across her face when Danny’s brows shot up. Kat nodded. “It really is an incredibly attractive body part, Danny.”

  “Well, you can touch it any time you want to, sweetheart.”

  Kat’s increased blushing sent more of his blood rushing to a different place entirely.

  Danny pulled her glasses off and set them on the nightstand before turning back to her. “Flip over onto your stomach, Kat.” At her quirked brow, he nodded his encouragement.

  She did as he asked, flipping until she was face-down – cheek resting on a pillow, with her arms bent and her hands tucked underneath it.

  Danny held his breath as he took it all in. “I could come just looking at you like this,” he breathed out, meaning every fucking word.

  Kat’s naked body lying on his bed, face-down, ass-up, just begging for him to take her a million different ways?

  Yeah, no words really existed in the English language. Or any other language, if Danny had to guess.

  He was very surprised to see a decent-sized tattoo on her upper back, between her shoulder blades. “Well, look at this…” Danny caressed the pink swirls that made up the shape of a butterfly, with a pink ribbon in the middle. “For Stella, huh?”

  Kat nodded. “We all got one when Stell got hers. Each sister has a different design.”

  Danny continued tracing the lines. “It’s so hot, Kat. I mean, I know it was for a cause and all, but, fuck…” He leaned over and licked at the tattoo, loving the way Kat moaned and the goose bumps spreading across her smooth, olive skin.

  His lifted his head, gaze roaming over the rest of her body. “Any other ones? You got a ribbon for MS somewhere I need to check out?”

  Kat shook her head. “No. My sisters wanted them, but I didn’t. I have to live in this body every day…I don’t need a permanent reminder on my skin that my life could be over at any moment.”

  Danny’s hand stilled. “What do you mean your life ‘could be over at any moment?’”

  She shook her head again. “Nothing. Never mind.” When Danny didn’t move or speak, Kat lifted her head and met his eyes. “Please don’t stop, Danny. Keep touching me, okay?” She lowered her head and squirmed, drawing Danny’s eyes right back to that ass – which was most definitely her plan.