Chapter Twelve
Harris
Addilyn’s arms slid around my waist as she laid her cheek against my chest and hugged me. “I can’t believe you managed to get this whole place just for us. Is there really no one else here?”
“There’s just you and me, nobody else,” I said, finding myself wishing that what I was saying was true about much more than the planetarium. The longer I was near Addilyn, the harder it was to spend time apart.
I stroked the back of her neck as I cupped her head in my hand and lost myself in the blue of her eyes when she looked up at me. “Did you mean what you said about wanting to work for NASA?”
“Well,” she hedged, “NASA’s more of an idea. It’s more about what I’d like to do than who I’d like to work for. Nowadays, there are a lot of up and coming opportunities in the space race, but...” She turned away, shaking her head as her arms slipped from their hold around me. “There are some engineering programs with collaborative ties to NASA that I would have liked to be a part of, but it’s... It’s not the direction my life is going now.”
If she had punched me in the gut, I wouldn’t have felt the impact of her words any greater. Capturing her beautiful face in my hands, I made her look back up at me. “Don’t do that. Don’t throw your dreams away. You’re so young. You could do anything. Never let anyone—not me, not your dad, not some random jerk on the street—tell you what your life should be. If you want to chase the stars, then do it. Don’t make that goal about tomorrow. Make it about today.”
Her large, luminous eyes turned hungry. “There’s only one thing that I want today, and I’m looking at him. I want you to make me feel like you did when we were in your office.” She moved close, arching her breasts into me and making it hard for me to breathe. She had a way of taking control over me with just a glance, and the worst part about it was that I didn’t mind. I wanted to be her everything, but that part of me that was grounded in reality knew that I never could. Her getting involved with me would only hold her back, but... we still had tonight.
I lowered my lips to hers in a kiss that grew in hunger and heat as the softness of her yielded under my every touch and stroke until she was mewing her need with little whimpers. Wrapping my arms around her, I picked her up and was rewarded by her wrapping her arms around my waist. It was all the encouragement I needed to take her without hesitation.
The brush of my hands over her thighs and hips collected her dress around her middle before I reached below her to open my trousers. My cock throbbed in my hand as I coaxed it to freedom. Her squeal of surprise as I twisted and jerked my fingers to rip her lace panties away did something to my soul. It made me want her more. It made me want to own her, even though I knew I never could. She was a wild bird that I would never try to cage.
I sank my fingers into her once, twice, as she gasped my name into my mouth. Her liquid heat coated my hand, her glorious twenty-something body ready for me already. I positioned myself against her, then wrapped my arm around her hips and thrust hard as I pulled her down against me. It was with one forceful thrust that I sank my shaft into her hot center, then paused as her body spasmed around me. That was when everything slowed. Her ragged breath, her tiny plaintive cries, and her warm honeysuckle scent encouraged my every stroke as I took her with heavy slaps of my hips as her body shook in my arms. My lips teased at her neck before I nipped her, fighting the urge to bite, to leave some small mark upon her body to let the world know that she was mine. But, that was yet another lie. She wasn’t mine and never would be, not in any way that would be meaningful and lasting. She was a bright, shining star streaking through my evening sky, and I was simply lucky enough to get to bask in the glow of her starlight for a short time.
“Harris... Harris, I’m close!” she panted in a tremulous voice with her cheek pressed to mine. I kept each thrust just as I had been, burying myself inside of her tight channel, over and over, with the same overriding command that I wish I had on her life.
“Come on, baby,” I groaned. “Let me have it. Come on me.” I had to grit my teeth against my need to finish first. My thighs burned, my cock was swelled so hard that it hurt, and my balls ached with the need to send their contents surging into her depths, but I vowed to hold out until she’d found her sweet release.
“Yes, yesssss.” Her entire body shook uncontrollably and her arms became like steel bands around me. She shifted her angle, then her hips, making me almost blind for half a second before her loud cry of ecstasy filled the entire planetarium with her pleasure.
It was all I could take. My hips sped up, the world turned on its axis, and I died, leaving myself and pouring all that I had into her.
My legs had turned to rubber, and I sank to my knees. We still clung to each other and I was still deep inside of her. I buried my face into her hair, breathing her in while allowing myself to remain in the delusion for just a moment more that we never had to part. It was the most I would ever have from her because it was the most that I could ever dare to ask for. I wouldn’t anchor her soaring life to a guy like me, a guy with cement around his feet. My future was set, but hers was still being created. I wouldn’t get in her way, no matter how much I wished I could keep her like this in my arms forever.