By the time they got to the hotel a couple hours later, Cheri was shaking with need.

Whatever fear she had of monster movies was long gone now that Dev had replaced those old memories with oh-so-sensual new ones.

They’d each checked-in to their own rooms, but agreed to meet up in Dev’s shortly after. Now, she stood before him, just a few steps from his king-sized hotel bed, on shaking legs.

This was it. The moment she’d been waiting all these years for, and there was no one and nothing to stop them now.

His lips touched hers and she gasped as tingles shot through her body. Then his tongue swept into her mouth, stealing her breath. His lips pressed harder against hers, demanding and commanding her to yield to his desires. Her chest rose and fell rapidly as her heart raced.

Dev. Dev. Dev.

The beating of her heart thrummed to his name. This moment, this time, was all she dreamed of since she was a teenager. The ache of the lonely nights, years spent waiting for Dev, finally dissipated. Wild need woke inside her, and she pressed her body into his as he leaned into her. And she could feel he was ready. Dev's hard shaft ground into her stomach as he pulled her tighter to him. His tongue curled around hers in an intimate dance, and a moan escaped her.

More. She needed more.

Wordlessly and with a sweep of his arms, he lifted her off the floor and carried her to the bed. Cheri was lost in his strength, floating, high on being near him, breathing in his masculine scent, feeling the pull of his muscles as he moved.

He stumbled slightly as he made contact with the hard barrier of the bed frame but recovered quickly, and bent to let her slip to the bed. Another gasp escaped her as her body connected with the softness of the hotel mattress.

Dev lowered his body to hers and he slid her cotton tee over her breasts. He buried his face between them, squeezing them together as he breathed deeply.

Was it supposed to be like this? So slow and tender? So far, it had been all hot and fast. This was new, and it was scary and amazing at the same time.

"I could stay like this forever," Dev said so quietly that she barely heard him, "and die a happy man."

Cheri's heart melted into a puddle of goo.

"Let me show you what it could be like between us now that we have time.”

He swept his fingers over the front clasp of her bra, letting her breasts spring free. With a sigh, he rained kisses over the tender flesh until he found the peaks. He sucked one into his mouth, and her back arched as white heat shot through her. That sweet ache that had been building all morning exploded into a firestorm as he held her breast in his palms while he licked and sucked.

She whimpered as a new need rose inside her. She wanted to please him as much as he was pleasing her.

Maybe if I get it right, he won't need another woman.

It was an impossible thought, a desperate one born of her decade-long love for her brother's best friend. But what was left of her reason soon fled as Dev unzipped her jeans, and pulled them off her hips, inch by inch.

As he slid them down her legs, he kissed the inside of her thighs, one side and then the other. His warm breath feathered the place that ached for him most, and she bucked her hips.

Dev chuckled, a low sound that came from deep in his throat. Cheri couldn't stand the fire between her legs, and she hesitantly touched her fingers to her clit, desperate for some relief from the torture of the aching tension between her legs.

But Dev pushed her hand back.

"No," he said a low sexy voice. "I'll get to that when I'm ready."

Cheri mewled, wanting so much more than he was giving.

"Dev, please," she whimpered.

"I like that," he said. "You sound like you need me."

"I do," she murmured. “So much.”

"Soon, very soon," he promised. He cupped her mound, grinding his palm against her needy clit while he licked the insides of her thighs once again. She pushed her hips into his hand, but he held down a thigh with his arm, pinning her to the bed.

"Trust me," he said. "You'll like this better eventually if you don't move."

Eventually? Fuck eventually. She wanted now.

He tugged her panties off and tossed them to the floor. As the air of the cool hotel room hit her overheated core, she whimpered. But then his tongue snaked out to cover her there, swirling heat against the sensitive bundle of nerves in a way that had her whole body tensing.

“Oh my god, that feels so good,” she whispered, her hips fluttering toward his face, urging him to lick and suck harder.

"You taste so delicious," he said huskily.

How could he be so patient? Every part of her was desperate for release, and she reached down to clutch his broad shoulders.

And then his tongue found her entrance, and he thrust it inside. She bucked against his face, overcome with sensation. He pulled out and began lapping at her, licking and sucking before thrusting his tongue in again, and every muscle in her legs and hips tightened. She rocked against his mouth, seeking more fiction, hunting for the way to release the fire that burned through her body.

He groaned his approval and his long, firm tongue moved faster. In and out, in and out, fucking her deep and slow. It wasn’t enough. She needed him. His thick cock deep inside her. But just as she was about to tell him that, he parted her slick lips with both thumbs and swirled them around her clit. The tender tissue was swollen and aching, the feeling so sublime, it drove her over the edge in one mighty push.

She screamed, calling his name, urging him to continue. He renewed the assault with his mouth, plunging inside her even as he worked her clit. She gripped his hair, using it as an anchor to keep herself on earth as she shattered around his tongue.

She was still shivering when Dev pulled himself up and gave her a searing kiss. She tasted herself on his lips and groaned at the heady combination of his mouth and her essence.

* * *

This was it.

This was love. If he hadn’t known it today when he and Cheri had spent one of the happiest days of his life doing not much of anything at all, he knew it now.

He’d had good sex before, and plenty of it. But this? The chemistry they had was out of control, and the fact that it made him feel almost as good to make her smile as it did to make her come?

Fuck yeah. It could only be love.

Touching her, tasting all she had to offer, filled him with a satisfaction that went beyond the physical.

But his thoughts were cut short because then she was kissing his neck and licking his ear and writhing against him, slowly driving him crazy. Dev tried to kiss her back but she was sliding down his body, pushing up his shirt and lavishing his chest with kisses. She found his nipples and sucked on them much as he’d done hers. Tingles rushed through his body straight to his balls.

Shit. He never responded to anyone else like that.

Cheri let her tongue trail down his chest in one long lick and then rested her hand on his cock, still encased in his jeans.

"Mmmm," she hummed. Her fingers worked his jeans button and zipper and he lifted his hips so she could pull them off.

She tightened her grip. "I love how the skin feels so silky, but hard underneath.” She paused and cocked her head. "You're wet?"

"You do that to me. Pre-come. Nature's lubrication, though with you I don't think I would need it."

"You wouldn't?"

"Baby, you were so wet, I felt I was on a water slide."

She grinned without a hint of the embarrassment she’d shown in the past, and that sent a thrill through him.

“Seems like we have quite an effect on one another.”

Both hands were around his shaft now as she stroked him and he couldn’t catch his breath to reply. The skin on her fingers was incredibly soft but her grip was strong, just how he liked it.

Then her hands slid down his shaft and she dropped low. He pinched his eyes closed right as her warm, wet mouth engulfed his head.

"Ah, fuck," he muttered. It was heaven, especially as she swirled her tongue around the head. “Cheri.”

She took in more of him but not past the first third. Cheri grasped the rest of him with one hand while cupping his balls in the other.

His balls were on fire. He hadn’t been with anyone else or jerked off since they’d started their lessons and weeks of frustration, aside from the one release at the strip club, was clearly getting to him. He felt filled to the brim, balls heavy with cum, and his cock pumped and primed to launch. As much as he wanted to rush her, though, those feather-light strokes and gentle suction were driving him wild.

His hips jerked and she pulled away for a second before diving lower to lick from his balls up the underside of his shaft. Then, she bobbed forward and sucked him good and hard. He felt it then, the tingling shooting up the length of his cock, the tightening of his stomach.

“You gotta stop. I want to come inside you this time,” he groaned.

But she refused to be deterred and renewed her attack on his cock. Her lips slid up and down his shaft and then her tongue wrapped around the head. When she took him in her mouth again with her tongue pressing against the head, his balls drew up and his cock swelled to explosive hardness.

Something inside him snapped and, with a growl, he gripped her by her shoulders and dragged her up the length of the bed to straddle him. The second her searing hot pussy touched him, he shuddered.

"Girl," he said. "What you do to me."

"Good," she murmured, grinding on his cock like she couldn’t wait to get it inside her.

Deftly, he swiped at his jeans and pulled out his wallet. He took out a condom he had there and set it on the corner of the nightstand so he could find it. The jeans and wallet fell to the floor with a thump.

"Now," he said, "where were we?"

"You were about to ravage me?" she said.

"That sounds about right." He sat up and pulled her head down toward his, intent on giving her a long, slow kiss, but her hand brushed against his cock, jolting him with the shock of her touch. With a growl, he took her lips, hungry and demanding, and she responded with the same immediacy. She groaned as she ran her fingers over his shaft.

He claimed her mouth ferociously and their tongues tangled with wild abandon.

Dev needed this. He needed her.

She pulled at his t-shirt to get it over his head, and he did the same. They were finally naked and anticipation lit her eyes. She threw her arms around his neck and pulled him closer.

"Dev, please."

It melted him. He shifted and ground his erection against her pussy. She shivered.

"I have to have you," he whispered into her ear.

Her eyes went wide as he ripped the foil off the condom and rolled it on his thick, and hard cock, wincing from even that pressure. He was so close, so fucking close, that burying himself in her slick heat might be enough to set him off. He said a silent prayer for patience as he guided her over his cock, using his hand to position himself at her entrance. A gentle push brought the head into the opening of her slit and, despite how wet she was, she was very tight. After all their foreplay, he was still afraid of hurting her.

"Okay so far?" he said, and she nodded.

He was shaking now as her pussy gripped him tightly, fighting his need to enter her and his want to take her as gently as possible. He inched up again and she gasped.

"Okay?" he asked again.

"Yes. Oh god, I didn't know it would feel like this."

Dev was too far gone to listen. All he knew was that he was going to explode and soon, and he wanted to make this as good for her as he could. He sat up and drew a succulent nipple into his mouth as she gasped and arched her back.

"Hold on, baby," he said. "Things are just getting good."

Time slowed as her hips started to do the work, rising and lowering her body onto his, slowly at first, then faster, taking him deeper with each motion. Soon, she was taking all eight inches of him, her inner flesh dragging against him in a firm, sensual caress. She whimpered, her hips moving faster now, like pistons as her muscle tensed. Almost there, if he could just hold back for one more—

Suddenly, her whole body froze and she screamed as her molten pussy clamped over his swollen cock. There was no holding back now. Her body was milking him relentlessly and all he could do was ride it out. Her hips bucked as she came but, as much as he wanted to watch her face, his own climax gripped him, dragging him under like a tidal wave. His cock jerked hard as he spurted inside her with a low growl.

It was only minutes later, when his heartbeat slowed, that he realized what she’d said.

“I didn’t know it would feel like this.”

Cheri had been a virgin. And something told him that was no accident. She’d been waiting all this time…

For him.

The realization made his chest ache with sweetness. He’d always been a cocky guy, but he’d never felt so humbled.

No more tip-toeing around it. This was serious. Being with Cheri was serious. In fact, this type of feeling was what he’d been waiting his whole life for. And now that he’d found it, he wasn’t giving it up without a fight.