Liddie was leaning against the strip of siding next to the door, watching Tobias try to unlock the door. He was incredibly nervous, so nervous that he fumbled with the key and lock. He finally got the door unlocked, so he pushed it open and gestured for Liddie to go in first. She nodded and stepped across the threshold, and then Tobias followed her, hauling his guitar case behind him.

“Wow. If I lived in a place that looked like this, I’d never move.” She was looking around Nolan’s apartment. “But then again, the only apartments I ever lived in were crappy ones on the base, so I don’t have much to compare to.”

“Yeah, it’s nice, but the place where Nol and Bridget live now is nicer. It’s got a yard and a bigger kitchen. Perfect space for a couple.”

Tobias stepped into her space and cupped her face in his hands. “Speaking of coupledom, I haven’t had a chance to kiss you all night.”

She smiled up at him. “I think you need to rectify that situation, mister.”

Tobias bent down and Liddie stretched up onto her toes, and they met in the middle. Then Tobias lifted her off her feet and swung her legs up to where he cradled her in his arms. He wanted to take her into the bedroom, strip her clothes off, and sink into her. Hell, he’d wanted to do just that for thirty fucking years, ever since graduation night. But he would take it as slow as she wanted to. After all, he had waited thirty years. A few more hours, weeks, months wouldn’t matter.

Liddie wrapped her arms around his shoulders and began to nibble on his neck and behind his ear.

“Bedroom, Toby. Or couch. Someplace where we can get horizontal.” She nipped him lightly on the chin. “Or, hell, even the floor.”

Tobias swallowed hard but headed into the bedroom. He didn’t turn on the lights, but between the light in the living room and the lights outside, they could see each other just fine. He laid her on the bed, where she stretched out luxuriously, bringing her arms over her head before reaching for him. Tobias crawled over the bed and lay beside her. He stroked her cheek with the back of his hand, and she smiled at him.

“Now what?” she whispered.

“Ever what you want, darlin’,” was his answer.

“I want you to kiss me some more.”

“I can do that.” So he did. They lay on the bed, bodies entwined, and kissed—slow, hot, wet kisses that revved Tobias up and made him so hard he nearly couldn’t stand it. His cock strained against the fly of his jeans, the zipper pressing against its length.

He grunted when Liddie writhed against him. He squeezed her hip, holding her away, but she wriggled closer, rubbing her breasts against his chest. He could feel the hard peaks of her nipples through her thin shirt, and he couldn’t resist circling one with his thumb. Liddie made a little moaning sound, and he grew even harder, despite thinking that that was impossible. She pressed her hand over his so they were rubbing her breast together, and she wrapped a leg around him, leveraging herself to grind against him.

“More,” she whispered in his ear. “Give me more, Toby.”

“More what?” he gasped between kisses.

He felt her hand grasp at his jean-covered erection. “More of this.” Liddie slid her hand up, under his shirt, until she got to his pec. She lightly pinched his erect nipple before writhing against him. “More of everything.”

Damn!

Tobias fumbled with the buttons on her shirt dress. Truthfully, he was ready to just rip it off, buttons be damned, but he didn’t know if she had another shirt to wear home, so he resisted. Finally he got the top open—with no tearing, even—and his breath caught. She was wearing some sort of sexy bra that left her full lower breast exposed but featured a band of lace over her nipples and areolae. Tobias thumbed her nipples, making them jut even higher through the thin lace. He worked one side of the lace up, exposing her breast, and then placed his mouth over the tight nipple, circling his tongue over her areola. Then he did the same with the other side. He could feel her quivering under him, and God help him, he couldn’t stand the pressure of his jeans anymore. He pulled away from her. He heard a little gasp of displeasure when he removed his mouth from her, then rolled away long enough to tear his shirt over his head and rip his jeans down. He growled when his boots prevented the quick removal of his pants. Liddie grinned, her smile full of mischief, and crawled to the end of the bed to help him remove the boots, leaning over, her ass in the air.

They’d been completely naked together only once before, when they went skinny-dipping. Every other time they’d fooled around, they’d always had to get their pleasure under or through their clothes. Right now, the fact that he was totally naked and she was fully clothed and staring at him threatened to put Tobias over the edge without even a touch. He crawled up her body to return to her embrace. Liddie’s hands roamed all over his back, his ass, his thighs. He knew he was going to have scratch marks all over him the next day, and he loved the idea.

He returned to worshipping her breasts even as he worked her panties down over her hips and knees and finally removed them. She’d kicked off her flats as soon as they’d gotten horizontal—he’d heard one of them hit the wall—so all Liddie was left with was that sexy bra, which was all but removed, and her shirt dress, which was now completely unbuttoned.

“Look at me, Liddie,” Tobias commanded. She snapped her eyes to his. Tobias ran one thumb over her lip, pressing against the petals of her mouth. She understood and pulled his thumb between her lips and sucked, hard. Tobias’s cock twitched, became even harder, and stood upright, almost snug against his belly. He replaced his thumb with his lips, pushing his tongue into her mouth as he slid his hand down her mound and rolled his slick thumb against her clit. She gasped into his mouth, writhing against his hand.

“Tobias,” she hissed. “Oh God, more, please.”

He slid down her body, kissing the length of her torso. He got to the apex of her thighs and kissed the neatly trimmed triangle of dark curls before looking up again. He arched an eyebrow, and she nodded. Tobias darted his tongue against her folds, barely tasting her. Then he got serious. Soon, Liddie was thrashing against the bed, crying out his name, pulling his hair. Then she stiffened, her orgasm rolling through her. Tobias chuckled against her mound as she bucked against him. As her pleasure subsided, Tobias made his way back up her body, kissing and stroking her.

“Just as sweet as you ever were, darlin’ Liddie,” he murmured in her ear. “Sweet as honey.”

He kissed her mouth, her cheek, her throat before laying his head against her breast to listen to her heart thrum.

“Tobias, I want you. All of you.” Tobias raised his head to find Liddie’s eyes blazing at him again. The edge of her lip turned up in a grin, and she shrugged a shoulder. “Well, I do.”

Tobias scooted up a bit to where they were face-to-face. He stroked her hair and kissed her once, twice.

“Be right back,” he whispered, rolled off the bed, and began digging in his jeans. He’d put two condoms in his wallet, just in case. Tobias held up the two Mylar squares and cocked an eyebrow at Liddie.

“Um, if it’s babies you’re worried about, there’s no need for those.”

“Yeah?”

Liddie nodded. “No baby plumbing anymore. Hysterectomy eight years ago.”

Well, hell. “I’m clean.”

“I am, too.”

Tobias put the condoms on the nightstand and slid into Liddie’s arms. He kissed her again, and again. Liddie giggled and wiggled against him, and soon they were rolling around on the bed, at one time almost falling off, which set off another round of laughter. Finally, Tobias had Liddie’s back to the mattress, and he was staring down at her.

“What are you thinking, Toby?”

“That I’ve waited thirty years for this. That I’m scared shitless now that the moment is here.” He caressed her cheek with the back of his hand. “That I’m going to last about ninety seconds because I’m so fucking revved up right now.”

“Think about alternate tunings or something,” she teased. “But, sweetheart, it’s exactly the same for me.”

Then he kissed her, and she wound her arms around his broad shoulders and twined her legs around his hips. He moved his lips to her neck, kissing and nibbling across her throat and up to her ear.

“Are you ready, darlin’?” he whispered.

“Please.”

Tobias reached down and ran two fingers against her folds before dipping between them. He watched Liddie close her eyes and rock her head back as he guided himself inside, just the tip at first. He pushed deeper, then pulled out, and then repeated the action, going a little farther each time. She whimpered, and he slowed, not wanting to hurt her. He rolled his hips again, and Liddie cracked open her eyes and grinned. She blew out a breath and then squeezed with her core. Now it was Tobias’s turn to whimper.

“Girl, you do that again, and I’m done. Holy shit.” Tobias leaned his head on her shoulder, chuckling.

“Well then, how about you get this show on the road and fuck me, Tobias Harper?” She smacked him on the butt.

“Woman, you talking dirty and spanking my ass isn’t helping,” he fake-groused as he thrust into her again.

“Holy crap,” she gasped. “I can feel you just about . . . holy.”

Tobias was concentrating hard, trying not to come. He thrust once, then three smaller pumps, each set growing harder, more intense, until finally, he was pounding into her. Liddie was biting her lip, holding on to the headboard as she spread her legs as wide as they could go. Tobias pulled one of her legs over his shoulder, and the change of position allowed him to hit that perfect spot inside her.

“Liddie,” he growled. “Damn, you feel good.”

Liddie snaked her fingers between her legs, adding her own ministrations to Tobias’s. Watching her touch herself proved to be too much for Tobias, who roared, “Shit, I’m there, babe.” Liddie felt his cock throb inside her as he stiffened, and she gripped him with her core while her own orgasm raced through her. He continued pumping, rocking against her, their eyes locked, until she collapsed, limp and sweaty. Tobias was breathing heavily when he bent his head to kiss her, licking the salty perspiration on her neck. Liddie wound her fingers through his hair and pressed her lips to his forehead.

He lay still for a few minutes, then kissed her again. He slowly slid out of her, prompting another exclamation, and then went into the bathroom, returning with a warm washcloth. His touch was careful, loving, as he cleaned her up, and by the time he was finished, she was almost asleep. He disappeared into the bathroom again, then reappeared with a large towel. He got into the bed and pulled Liddie against him. When he rolled them both onto their sides, a towel covered one side of the bed.

“You think of everything, Toby Harper,” she murmured, more than half-asleep.

“Because I’ve been thinking about this moment for thirty years, Liddie Hopewell.”

Tobias saw her grin, and then she nuzzled into his chest and was instantly asleep. Tobias lay in the dark for a long time, watching her, touching her, until sleep finally overcame his wonder at her being with him.