If someone had told me two months ago that by mid-March, I’d be in Boston with Dr. Cai Hunter, who was not only my supervisor but also my lover, and that we’d moved to allow him to reconcile with his billionaire brother…just thinking about how insane that sounded made my head hurt.

I wondered how long it would take me to get used to the surreal world that was now my life. When Cai had asked me to go with him to Boston, all my common sense told me that saying yes would be the stupidest decision I’d ever make, but I hadn’t listened, because what I felt for Cai defied common sense.

I’d spent a few days with my stomach in knots while Cai worked things out for not only his transfer but mine – as well as telling his soon-to-be new bosses about our relationship. But one thing I’d learned about Cai was that when he had his mind set on something, no one could stop him.

The fact that we were here, with our new jobs officially starting Monday morning and our relationship out in the open, was a testament to his persistence.

We’d just said goodnight to Jax and Syll after a wonderful dinner, and were now on ‘our’ floor, which was larger than both my apartment in Atlanta and the apartment where I’d been raised in Minnesota. I couldn’t imagine having grown up in this house, with so much room, even with having three siblings. Cai said not much had changed, except on this floor, a kitchenette, and a door had been added to make it more like a separate apartment. It made it a little less awkward to share the house with Jax and Syll.

“Everything all right with Dorly?” Cai asked as he toed off his shoes. “I’m guessing that’s who texted you during dinner.”

“She’s fine,” I said as I took off my shoes and stretched my arms above my head. My joints popped pleasantly. “Just freaking out about Codie moving in tomorrow.”

“Didn’t Codie stay at the apartment most nights anyway?”

I nodded. “Dorly said she’s glad me leaving gave her the kick in the ass she needed to finally ask Codie to move in, but she’s nervous. She’s never lived with anyone before. Roommates, yeah, but not with someone she loved.”

Cai turned toward me, and the heat in his eyes kicked my pulse up a notch. We’d gotten here yesterday, but with everything we’d been doing, we hadn’t done anything more than kiss or exchange innocent touches like holding hands. One would think after having gone most off my life without sex, it’d be easy to go a few days.

Not so much.

“Go stand by the balcony doors.”

I did as I was told, turning away from him when he twirled his finger, giving me a silent command. I watched his reflection in the glass, my heart skipping and tripping as anticipation danced across my nerves. It was times like this I wondered if this was how it felt to be an addict craving a fix.

“Spread your legs.”

He stood behind me, the heat from his body flowing over my skin, enveloping me. He unzipped my dress, easing it off my body with a slow, sensual caress. It dropped to the floor, and I kicked it aside without taking my eyes off his reflection.

He didn’t say a word as he reached down between my legs and moved my panties to one side. I gasped as he slid a finger inside me, twisting and curling it until it rubbed my g-spot.

“Ahh…” A shaky breath escaped.

“Do you like that, Little Red?”

“Yes, yes, yes…”

He added a second finger, pumping them both into me hard and fast. I swayed forward and put out my hands, catching myself on the glass.

“What do you want?” His voice was a quiet rumble, full of the promise of sex. “Tell me.”

“I want to come,” I said immediately.

“What do you want me to do to you?” he clarified.

“Make me come,” I said. “Fingers, mouth, cock, I don’t care. I need to come so badly. I need you to take me out of my head, make me forget about everything else. I just want to think about you and how you make me feel and not have to worry about work or finding a place to live or…”

My run of words disappeared into a yelp as Cai sunk his teeth into my ass. He hadn’t broken skin, but he hadn’t been gentle either. It was exactly what I needed though. The shock of it jerked me out of my head and took me to that lovely place where I didn’t have to think or plan but could simply let go and give Cai control over all of me.

I cried out as a finger invaded my ass, the burn sudden, providing the spark I needed to reach my first climax of the night. He worked both of his hands, using those long, skilled fingers of his to push me from one orgasm into a second without pause.

When he finally removed his fingers, my knees buckled. He caught me around the waist and swung me up into his arms. He carried me into the bedroom we’d claimed and laid me on the bed. My body was still limp as he rolled me onto my side and pulled my knees up to my chest.

I was vaguely aware of him removing his clothes, but it wasn’t until I felt the tip of his cock nudging at my pussy that I completely came back to the present. He leaned over me, one arm under my knees to keep my body folded in half, and he nipped my earlobe.

“We’re going to work that ass open soon, Little Red,” he promised.

Before I could respond, he snapped his hips forward, sending my muscles into convulsions as they struggled to adapt to a position they didn’t understand. I started to wail, but Cai’s hand quickly covered my mouth.

“Shh, Little Red. Don’t want Jax and Syll running up here, thinking you’re in trouble.”

As he drove into me, his body colliding with mine over and over, I didn’t care about Jax and Syll. In fact, I was confident that if they did see us, they’d completely understand why I was making those sounds. This position made me tighter than usual, and Cai was far from small. Still, I wouldn’t trade the pain-edged pleasure for anything.

Time melted away, and all I knew was the feel of sweat-slicked skin slipping and muscles straining and oh my fucking –

“Cai!!” I screamed against his hand as my vision went white.

“Not yet,” he said through gritted teeth.

I could feel the tension in him, everything taut and ready to snap, but he didn’t falter. He was in perfect control as he sent me from brilliant light to a graying darkness, my brain shutting down as it found itself incapable of processing anything more.

When I came to, I was still curled on my side, and he was softening inside me. His cock slipped out as he lay down behind me, wrapping his body around mine. I kissed his arm, too exhausted to reach anything else.

“I love you,” he said as he smoothed curls back from my face.

“I love you too.”

I’d never imagined saying those words or having them said back to me, but now I couldn’t imagine living without them. Not for the sake of the words alone, but because of who said them.

“You know,” he said slowly, “I’ve been thinking. It doesn’t make sense for us to try to find two different places to live.”

I turned my head, so I could see his face. “What are you saying, Cai?”

He rested his forehead on mine. “I want to fall asleep like this and wake up together. I want us to eat our meals and go to work together.”

I tried not to feel too much hope. “I think I’m going to need you to spell this out so there’s no misunderstanding.”

“I want you to move in with me,” he said without any hesitation. “Or, more accurately, I want us to find a place together. I know it’s fast, but you’ve seen Jax and Syll, and they’re engaged after just one month. You and I are just as well-matched as they are, if not better. We’ve shared space before, plus we do it at work too.”

This was crazy, but so was every other part of our lives that had brought us together. It was that, as much as anything else, that made me smile. “Yes.”

“Yes?” His face lit up with a huge smile.

I nodded, rolling over so that we were facing each other. I pressed my mouth to his, a quick, heated kiss. “Yes, Cai. I want to live with you. I don’t care what anyone else thinks. We belong together.”

He slid his hands down to grasp my ass and yank me tight against him. “Damn right we do.”

Our decision didn’t mean everything would magically work itself out, or that the tension between the brothers would resolve itself, but it did mean that we wouldn’t be facing any of it alone, and that was more than good enough for me.