The air heated, becoming thick, her arousal clear. I was standing just a few feet from Snow, all of my instincts telling me to go to her, to pull her against me and claim her mouth with mine. I wanted to tell her she was fucking mine, that I loved her. I wanted her to know I’d saved myself for her.

“I love you,” she said again and I groaned.

Closing my eyes, I knew I wouldn’t make her wait to hear those words.

“I love you, Snow,” I finally said and opened my eyes to look at her. “I have loved you, but stayed away because I worked for your father.” I took a step closer. “But there has been no one else for me. Ever.” I let those words sink in as I stared into her eyes.  She looked shocked as hell as she stared at me with wide eyes, her mouth slightly open, her pulse beating rapidly beneath her ear.

“You love me?” she asked, looking shocked.

I’d wanted to go to her, to tell her she was mine, but I’d stayed back, given her space. “I love you more than anything else in this fucking world.”

“Hunter.” She said my name softly and I growled low in approval. “I don’t want to fight this, or try and deny my feelings any longer.” She looked at me with wide eyes, the very sight of her making me so damn ready to claim her and make her mine, finally.

My cock jerked, and I knew I couldn’t deny myself, couldn’t deny the chemistry that moved between us any longer. I walked toward her, eating up the distance that separated us, seeing the desire clear on her face. My body became tighter, every part of me ready to finally claim her. I inhaled deeply, taking her very scent into my body, memorizing it in my very cells. I was only inches away now. We breathed the same air.

“The moment I saw you I knew you were mine.” I needed her to know that. I needed her to know that we were meant to be together. I smoothed my finger over her bottom lip and felt her tremble.

She reached out, curled her hands around my biceps and pulled me closer. Snow was breathing harder, her pupils dilated, and I could see the way the flush on her cheeks deepened. For long seconds we just looked into each other’s eyes, and I had a hell of a time not taking her right then.

“I’ve never been with a—”

“I know,” I said before she could finish. “You’ll be my first, too.”

She breathed harder, faster.

“I want you. I need you.” Her voice was soft, needy. “I want to be yours and I’m tired of pretending I can fight this. I can’t.”

I started breathing harder the longer I stared at her, the more I let those words sink in. There would be no stopping this.

“I need you, Snow,” I said and cupped the back of her neck.

“I need you, too, Hunter.”

I groaned. I forced myself back and looked into her face. “You want this?”

She nodded.

“You want me to claim you?”

“Yes, Hunter. I want that more than anything.”

For long moments we stood there, neither speaking, but the heat, chemistry, and electricity tangible. “Get on the bed. Let me show you how much I love you. Let me show you what I want to do to you.”

Snow didn’t make me wait. She went over to the bed and sat down, her eyes heavy-lidded. I took in every part of her, every inch. The long fall of her dark hair, the way she looked at me with big, blue eyes. I’d worship every part of her, make her scream out for more, beg for it to never end.

“Undress for me,” I whispered.

I wanted to see if her nipples were a deep red or rosy pink. I wanted to see how hard they were, how wet she was for me. Once she was naked I stood there for long moments just staring at her, taking in the very essence that made her up. “Lay on the bed. Let me see your pretty pussy.” My cock was so damn hard.

When her thighs were open and her pussy was on clear display, a harsh groan left me. I was on my knees before her seconds later, the need in me demanding I claim her. I smoothed my hands up her legs, over her thighs, and curled my fingers into her soft flesh. I pulled her thighs apart even farther. She smelled good, felt so fucking incredible. I leaned in until there was only an inch separating our mouths.

“Yes,” she whispered.

I leaned back just an inch and lowered my gaze to her chest, saw her breasts rise and fall violently with her increased breathing, and felt my mouth water. Her nipples were a rosy pink.

I needed to taste her. “I’ll never get enough. Never.” I looked down at her pussy again, saw how wet she was for me, her arousal glistening. I slipped my hand between her legs, but looked into her eyes, gauging her reaction, her emotions. I kept my fingers poised right on her inner thigh, right by that crease where her leg met the tight, hot little part of her.

And when I touched her pussy she opened her mouth and gasped. I speared my fingers through her wet, soaked slit, and grunted in arousal. “I want you so fucking badly.”

And I’d have her...all of her.

“I’ll never get enough.” Snow was my world. One look at her and I’d known. She licked her lips, and I was riveted to the sight, imagining her mouth wrapped around my cock.

God, I’ll never get enough.

“Tell me you’re mine.”

“I’m yours,” she said without hesitation.

“Only mine.” I leaned up and moved my tongue along the seam of her lips, the flavor of her addictive. When she started kissing me back I didn’t stop the groan that left me. I broke the kiss and trailed my lips along her jawline to her ear. “I am so hard for you.” She made this soft noise. I slipped my hand to her nape, curled my finger into her soft, warm flesh, and started kissing her pulse.

I knew that I had to claim her now. I dragged my hand up her belly and cupped one of her breasts. I’d been waiting for this moment my entire life.

“Yes,” she whispered.

I was on her now, my body pressed to hers. I sucked on her neck, dragging my tongue up the slender column of her throat, and thrust back and forth against her softness, right between her legs.

Her flesh was sweet, addictive. She gasped. I took hold of her nipples between my thumb and forefingers and pulled at the already taut flesh. I was shaking with the effort to keep calm.

My dick was so hard it ached, and my balls were drawn up tight to my body. Right now all I wanted to do was to fuck her hard and rough…make her mine. I pulled back, resting on my knees, and reached down to take hold of my cock. I started stroking myself from root to tip, not able to control my need to touch myself as I stared at her body.

And then she reached down, spread her pussy lips wide, and showed me exactly what was mine.