I leaned over the railing. The ocean was calm today. Calmer than usual. I inhaled the saltiness of the air, letting it fill my nose and lungs. Soon the house would be sold. Soon I have to move on. Find a job. Find an apartment. Maybe open another restaurant.

I peered at the horizon. It had been a month since Jake left, but some days it felt like I had just spent the night in his bed. He had burned something inside me so hot I’d never forget it. It didn’t help that he was in all my dreams.

I pivoted on my heel, when I saw the Jeep.

It was flying down the driveway, kicking up dirt and rocks as the tires spun out of control.

I steadied myself against the railing. No. This couldn’t be happening.

Jake jumped from the Jeep and walked up the stairs, his eyes locking on mine.

“You’re here?” I whispered.

He nodded, walking toward me. His eyes set in determination, his hands reached toward me. “I’m here.”

I didn’t know if I should punch him or hug him. Scream or cry. Run or throw myself on him, but he didn’t give me room to decide.

His mouth landed on my lips hot and heavy, forcing his tongue deep in my mouth. He kissed me, sucking and biting at my lips, wrapping me into his arms until I felt he would crush me with his embrace.

I tried to wiggle free, but he held me kissing me breathless. My legs turned to jelly, and I grasped at him needing him to hold her upright. How was this happening? Where did he come from?

He looked in my eyes, but the only answer I saw was his desire for me.

I had questions and I needed answers, but the look he gave me spilled open the memories of the last night we had together. My core began to melt and all I could think about was taking him inside.

He grasped my face between his palms. “I came back for you.”

I nodded, wrapping my arms around his neck as he lifted me to his chest. I kissed him wildly, sucking at the corners of his mouth, tasting the mint on his tongue, inhaling his male scent. He carried me up the stairs, shoving open my bedroom door.

My room was packed. Boxes lined the walls, but I still had a bed. He lowered my feet to the floor and began stripping the clothes from my body. He wasn’t gentle or easy. There was nothing else to say, only to let the desire take hold and show us the way back together.

I matched his desperate tugs while I urgently piled his clothes on the floor next to mine. His naked body was standing in front of me, but before I could do anything, Jake lifted me in his arms and dropped me on the bed.

I drank him in. The beautiful smoothness of his chest and the ridges of his hard muscles. His hardness eager to fill me. My hands flattened against his chest, trailing over him until they landed between his legs.

I wrapped my fingers around his thick cock, watching as he jerked at the contact. I settled back on my knees, licking my lips. I had wanted this the last time we were together, only I didn’t know how to tell him. Everything in the barn happened so quickly, I let him take control. I wasn’t going to end this day with another regret.

Slowly I lowered my mouth against his shaft, letting my tongue lick at the bead of dew on the wide head.

“Fuck, Liv,” he groaned, grabbing the back of my head.

I’d dreamed about this. How he would taste. How soft and silky his skin would be against my mouth. I licked him up and down before sinking my mouth over him.

I smiled when I heard the guttural moan erupt from his chest. I wanted all of him in my mouth, but he was too big. I began to move over him, each time taking him deeper. My tongue swirled around his shaft, relishing the taste of him. My eyes darted up and I saw him staring at me. Hungry for more. Hungry for me.

There was a deep ache between my legs and I whimpered. I kissed the tip, eager to please him.

Jake pushed me back on the bed. “My turn,” he growled. “Are you going to give me what I want?”

“Oh yes,” I moaned as he hiked my legs over his shoulders, gripping my ass in his palms.

There was nothing gentle and easy about the way his tongue plunged between my legs, but I immediately opened for him, needing it, desperate to feel the heat he could give me.

His tongue darted between my folds, licking and tasting before stopping to suck on the bud that was pulsing with want.

I whimpered. “Please, Jake.” I only wanted one thing. I wanted him inside me. All of it, his hot tongue, his magic fingers, his thick cock.

“I came back to make you mine, Olivia.” He kissed the inside of my thigh.

Oh yes. That sounded good. I wanted that. He settled my ass back on the mattress before his hands pushed my knees wide again as his tongue lashed against my entrance. I knew I was dripping wet, but I didn’t care. He was doing this to me. Making me lose control. Making me want him with every flick of his thick tongue.

“Tell me you want me to take you right now,” he growled kissing my stomach.

“I do.” I nodded.

He flipped me on my stomach, sending my ass high in the air.

“I wanted to make you mine before I left, but I couldn’t.” His hand flattened against my back.

The want and need for him hurt. I wiggled her bottom toward him, finding pleasure when I felt his tongue lick against my entrance.

“I wanted it too,” I moaned, knowing I couldn’t hold off my orgasm much longer. It was building at a frenzied pace, burning me from the inside out. One thrust and I knew I would spill into the rush of sensation.

I looked over my shoulder as he pushed the tip of his cock against my dripping pussy. He was gorgeous and sexy. His body dominated mine with power and control that was so incredible it made me feel feminine and delicate. As if I was made for this man to pleasure and fill. He was everything solid and strong, and I could give him everything soft and light. I wanted that feeling like nothing else.

Everything in me was pulsing for him, aching for him to fill me like he did a month ago. Only this time I wanted more. I wanted the heat of his seed. I wanted him to fuck me into oblivion. Erase the past month. Erase the hurt and the loneliness.

He reached forward grazing my nipples between his fingers. It shot a bolt of electricity straight to my clit. “Ohh, Jake. I need you.”

“I need you,” he growled, thrusting deep and hard inside me.

I screamed and bucked as he gripped my hips and plunged farther. But I closed my eyes and felt the delicious hum take over my body. The pain turned to ecstasy as he pumped strong and urgent strokes against me.

The month apart made my need for him desperate and raw. His powerful thrusts took me to the peak of my orgasm in seconds. The heat flooded me as I convulsed and vibrated in his hands. His shaft sank into me once more before I heard him unleash a roar over my back. He pulsed, forcing his hot release to spread through me. I clenched around him, needing it deep inside to soothe me. To bring us back together.

“Fuck,” he groaned, lowering my hips to the bed.

I rested my head on the pillow, feeling the exhaustion cover my body. Jake’s damp and warm skin pressed against me as he pulled me into his arms.

“Are you ok?” he whispered.

I nodded. Everything was better than ok. I stroked his arm, draped over my waist.

“I wasn’t going to speak to you again,” I murmured. “Never.”

He kissed the back of my head. “I know.” His fingers swirled over my stomach. “And I was going to show up with roses and an apology. But…” his words trailed off.

My skin tingled and my body hummed. I felt the hot stickiness seep between my legs and felt an ache. Suddenly I needed him again. One time wasn’t enough.

I rolled toward him, my breasts rubbing against his chest.

“I love that you give me your body the way that you do.” His hand slid to my ass, squeezing it in his large hands. “You know exactly how I need you, don’t you, Liv?”

My knee fell to the side when I felt his hand move over my hip and down my thigh. I looked in his eyes, biting down on my lip when I felt his finger trail around my throbbing bud.

“It’s because I need it the same way,” I moaned. My eyes locked on his while he began to stir the want for him.

“I didn’t want to leave you.” He curled a finger deep inside me, bowing me off the bed.

“I know.”

His mouth came down on mine, this time tender and slow. His tongue twined along mine, taking time to taste and kiss. I felt the fire in his touch. My hips rocked against him and I felt his shaft come to life against her thigh.

“Can we?” I breathed. “I need it again. I need you again.”

He kissed along my throat and behind me ear. “I need to fuck you all night.”

I whimpered not knowing if my body could take it, but I would try. I would let him lick and suck me. Kiss me. Put his hands where he wanted. Move my body so we could make each other feel alive. There wasn’t anything I wouldn’t do with him now that he was in my bed.

He rolled me on my back, hovering over top of me. His broad shoulders blocking everything from view. I was sore and my body ached and I knew the minute he pushed inside me it would sear from the inside out, but nothing else mattered.

I wrapped my legs around his waist, locking my ankles against his back. He slid his cock against my folds, covering himself in our wet heat before pushing deep inside.

“Ohh.” I clutched at his back. My nails digging into his skin the deeper he hit my inner walls. It was like fire lighting through me.

He breathed into my ear, his rhythm slow and deep.

I looked into his eyes. The same eyes that had broken my heart. The ones that had walked out of my life. But now I saw my future staring back at me.

He drove into me with a powerful thrust, grinning with achievement. “I’m going to make you come like this.”

I nodded. Please. As long as he was inside me the world was right again. He was alive. What we had was real. It wasn’t just a memory. I meant everything to him that he meant to me.

“Will you come for me, Olivia?”

I knew I didn’t have a choice. My body was already seized with the fever of my orgasm. I clenched around him, feeling the vibrations take hold. Jake wrapped his arms around me, his mouth covering mine as he pumped again, releasing his essence inside me.

“Come, baby,” he whispered as I gasped and clung to him.

The waves crashed around me until I felt the soothing feeling stretch through my body. He was home. Finally, I slept.