“Is that a compliment?” Morgan asked as she made the turn.

  “Yes, that’s definitely a compliment. Morgan, you’re hot.” She squeezed Morgan’s thigh before sliding her own hand up higher, leaving it in place when she heard a gasp. “Problem?” Adler asked.

  “I thought I told you to keep it in your pants,” Morgan said.

  “You could always pull it away,” Adler suggested, leaning over a little closer.

  “God, why would I do that?” Morgan chuckled. Adler’s fingertips danced over the fabric of Morgan’s cargo shorts at the apex of her thighs. “Addie!”

  “How does it feel?” Adler asked.

  “Like I might drive us off the road. What happened to cooking dinner and talking?”

  Adler moved two fingertips up and down. She watched Morgan’s eyes close for only a second before opening again. She couldn’t believe she was having this kind of effect on this woman just by lightly grazing her through her shorts.

  “I don’t know. I know that’s the right thing to do; we should talk. I just also know I like watching you like this. I liked it earlier, too.”

  “Earlier?” Morgan asked through a gasp.

  “When you were on top of me.”

  “Fuck.” Morgan stopped at the red light. She looked over at Adler. “You can’t talk about that while you’re doing what you’re doing to me.”

  Adler applied more pressure with her fingers and asked, “Could you come like this?”

  “Yes,” Morgan whispered. “I’ve been on edge all day. Hell, I’ve been on edge since last night. I’m driving, though, Addie.”

  “Then, drive. I’ll do all the work.”

  “I swear to God, I am going to get you back for this.” Morgan chuckled again but stopped as Adler pressed into her harder.

  “I hope so,” Adler said.

  She moved her fingers up and down several more times. Morgan hit the gas a little harder than she likely intended when the light changed. Adler used it as her opportunity to unbutton the shorts and lower the zipper.

  “Oh, fuck,” Morgan said and swallowed hard.

  Adler watched Morgan’s face as she slid her hand down over her underwear.

  “It’s only fair; you touched me like this on the beach.” She cupped Morgan and pressed hard. “I can feel you.”

  “You made me wet,” Morgan said with her eyes still on the road.

  Adler leaned over further still. She pressed two fingers through Morgan’s underwear and into her clit.

  “Oh, God,” Adler muttered. “You feel…”

  “Just don’t stop. You started it. Don’t stop,” Morgan said as she slowed for another red light. “Make me come, Addie.”

  Adler stroked Morgan through the thin fabric of her underwear, wondering what color they were. She couldn’t see much from her position and with Morgan’s t-shirt covering up part of what she was doing. She didn’t want to move anything right now other than her fingers against Morgan’s body. She was touching a woman while that woman was driving them back to her house. Her hand would come away from that woman’s body coated with her arousal. Morgan’s hips tried to buck but couldn’t. Adler smirked at the fact that she was doing this to her. When the light turned to green, Morgan pressed the gas pedal. That small movement must have done something to her because she came in Adler’s hand then. She called out Adler’s name, pressed her own palm against Adler’s, and closed her eyes for a few seconds before opening them again.

  “That’s the sexiest thing I’ve ever seen,” Adler said when Morgan came down.

  “That’s the sexiest thing I’ve ever done,” Morgan replied with flushed cheeks.

  CHAPTER 15

  “Dinner was amazing. Thank you,” Morgan said, kissing Adler’s neck from behind.

  “You’re welcome. Now, go relax in the living room or something.”

  Adler was rinsing the dishes from their shared meal. She hadn’t allowed Morgan to help cook, set the table or anything. Now, she wasn’t even letting her do the dishes.

  “I could just go upstairs,” Morgan said as she wrapped her arms around Adler’s waist. “And get ready for bed.”

  “Did you overexert yourself today?” Adler asked.

  Morgan could feel Adler’s smirk. She kissed her neck again and slid her arms under Adler’s shirt, pressing her hands flat to the woman’s stomach.

  “I definitely didn’t overexert myself.” She flicked Adler’s earlobe back and forth with her tongue. “I think you’ll discover that men overexert themselves while women usually have no problem going all night long.”

  “Morgan…” Adler whispered.

  Morgan’s hands slid a little lower to rest on the waistband of Adler’s jeans as she said, “Yes?”

  “Go into the living room and relax.” Adler used her butt to give Morgan a slight shove backward. She laughed when Morgan grunted a little. “I’ll be right in. I’ll bring wine.”

  Morgan smiled at Adler, kissed her on the shoulder, and moved, as ordered, into the living room. She decided to start a fire in her wood-burning, newly refurbished fireplace. The dark and light color bricks mingled together to provide just the right combination of colors for just about any occasion. Morgan placed several logs inside, and deciding she didn’t want to waste time, she tossed in the starter log, lit it, used the poker to get everything in the right place to produce a romantic, roaring fire, and looked on for a moment.

  “Nice fire,” Adler said when she entered the room. She passed Morgan a glass of red wine and held one to her own lips. “Romantic.”

  “That was the idea,” Morgan said, turning to her. They clinked glasses, took a sip, and sat on the sofa next to one another. “Movie?”

  “Dinner and a movie? Perfect first date.” Adler smiled at her. “We just had dessert, but do you have popcorn? I could make some.”

  “I do. James eats it by the bucketful when she’s here.”

  “I’ll make some,” Adler said, moving to stand.

  “Addie, sit.” Morgan pulled her back to the sofa. “You’re all anxious now, aren’t you?”

  “It’s just that we’re actually in private for the first time since–”

  “We came together on a beach?” Morgan finished for her with a smile.

  “Yes,” Adler said.

  “Addie, nothing’s going to happen tonight if you don’t want it to. We really can just have dinner and a movie, with or without the popcorn. I’d like it if you slept in my bed tonight instead of the guest room, but we don’t have to do anything.” She placed her hand on Adler’s thigh. “Although, I do think it’s interesting how in the car earlier, you had no problem touching. Now, you’re all adorably nervous.”

  “I’m not nervous,” Adler argued.

  “Liar,” Morgan said with a laugh. “And Addie?”

  “Yeah?”

  “So am I.”

  “But you’ve done this before. And today, we…”

  “Adler, it’s true that I’ve been with other women, but that doesn’t have any bearing on what happens with us. It doesn’t work that way. I’m not comparing you to anyone. Today was the best day, Addie. When we met in Wyoming, I thought I had a crush. When I got back here, I told James and my other friends all about you. They all worried that I’d fallen for some straight girl. Truthfully, I worried about that, too. It’s why I’ve tried to be careful with you. I didn’t want to get my heart broken.” She squeezed Adler’s thigh. “I know I still might. That’s true in any relationship; one or both of us might want to get out of this one day. But, right now, I want to be with you. I’m not thinking about how anyone I’ve been with is the same or different than you. All I can think about is you.”

  “Hey, Morgan?”

  “Huh?” Morgan moved to reach for her wine.

  “Take me upstairs.”

  Morgan stopped in her tracks. She moved to lean back against the sofa, looking at Adler’s beautiful face.

  “We’re not good at stopping once we start, Addie. Are you sure?”

  “Oh, my God.” Adler stood. “Is this what it means to date a woman? Are you going to ask me a hundred times if I’m sure before you tear my clothes off?” She laughed.

  Morgan stood up next to her and asked, “Would you rather I not ask anymore and just took what I want?”

  “Yes.” Adler swallowed so hard, Morgan could see every movement in her throat.

  Morgan reached for the button on Adler’s jeans. She unbuttoned them and pulled down on the zipper. She caught Adler’s eyes watching her. Neither of them said anything. Adler’s eyes were a dark gray now. Her tongue slid out to lick her lips. Morgan’s did the same in response. She moved into Adler’s space, reaching around her lower back to pull down on the jeans. Adler moved back a step in an attempt to remain balanced. Morgan pushed the woman back even further, until she had Adler on the wall next to the fireplace. When Adler said nothing, she kneeled down in front of her, kissing Adler at the top of her underwear. Adler made one of those whimpers Morgan already liked so much. Morgan moved to stand again. She stared into Adler’s eyes and slid her own hand into the woman’s jeans. This time, she didn’t stop above the underwear. She went below it.

  “Oh,” Adler muttered.

  “This is what I want. You said to take it.” Morgan leaned into Adler.

  She kissed Adler’s neck as her fingers moved into slick folds. Morgan stroked slowly, enjoying the feel of Adler’s wetness against her fingers. She sucked on Adler’s earlobe. When she did, the woman’s hips bucked into her hand.

  “I want more, Morgan,” Adler said as her arms wrapped around Morgan’s neck.

  “Remember what I said about how women can go all night long?” She flicked at Adler’s earlobe with the tip of her tongue. “This is only the beginning.”

  She squeezed Adler’s clit between two fingers. Adler gripped her behind the neck in response. Morgan slid her thigh between Adler’s, pressing it into the hand that was working between them. She rocked her own center over Adler’s thigh as she applied more focused attention to Adler’s clit.

  “I’ll come,” Adler said on a breath. “If you don’t stop or slow down, I’ll come.”

  “Good,” Morgan replied, using two fingers to flick Adler’s clit back and forth, up and down, and then in slow circles.

  “Morgan, I’m coming,” Adler said.

  Her hands were in Morgan’s hair. She tugged and pulled until Morgan’s face was in front of her own. Then, she kissed Morgan hard. Her own moans were quieted by Morgan’s mouth as she came. The moment Adler’s tremors subsided, Morgan slid her fingers out. She gripped Adler’s shirt and yanked it off, revealing a lilac-colored bra beneath. Morgan pulled her own shirt off, tossing it to the floor to join Adler’s. She unclasped her own bra, dropping it onto the gathering pile. Adler’s eyes went immediately to her breasts. Her hands moved to cup them. Morgan groaned at the contact. Her breasts were already swollen with need. Her nipples were already erect and hard. By the time Adler touched them, it was painful, but in that way that the pain of their hardness was balanced with the pleasure.

  “I want your bra off,” Morgan said.

  “Well, I did tell you to take what you want,” Adler said in a husky voice.

  Morgan reached around her as Adler lifted herself away from the wall, enough to unclasp and remove her bra. Morgan stared at Adler’s breasts only for a moment before she bent to take a nipple into her mouth and pressed Adler back against the wall. Adler’s nipples were hard, too. Morgan knew she’d been the one to do that to her. That knowledge alone made the need between her own legs soar. She didn’t have to worry, though, because Adler’s hands were tugging at the sweats she’d put on after the shower. They were around her thighs by the time she moved to Adler’s other nipple.

  “What are you doing?” she asked.

  “Taking your clothes off. I want to touch you,” Adler replied.

  Morgan let the nipple go with a pop. She raised her head to look into Adler’s eyes. Clearly, this woman not only wanted to be touched by her, but she wanted to touch Morgan as well. The desire in the Adler’s eyes said most of that. The fact that she was sliding her hand inside Morgan’s underwear said the rest.

  “Oh, God.” Morgan’s forehead went to Adler’s shoulder.

  “Touch me, too,” Adler said.

  Her fingers danced in Morgan’s wetness. They were aimless for several strokes, but that didn’t matter. Adler was touching her skin. She was stroking her most intimate parts. Morgan yanked down hard on Adler’s jeans, needing more of her. Once they were down to her knees, she noticed Adler’s matching lilac panties. They had a soft satin feel with a lace trim that had Morgan’s mouth watering at the sight. Of course, that might have had something to do with the fact that the lilac was darker in one particular location. Morgan pulled them down to meet Adler’s jeans. Adler’s fingers finally started stroking her clit. She was soft and tentative, but it had Morgan ready to come all the same.

  “Addie, you’ll make me–”

  “Touch me, Morgan. Please. I need you again.”

  “I want something else,” Morgan said before kissing her.

  Then, she slid her fingers back into Adler’s wetness, moved them down lower, and entered her.

  “Oh, yes,” Adler breathed out. “Yes.”

  Morgan moved in and out slowly as Adler continued to stroke her. When Adler flicked her clit in just the right way, Morgan used her free hand to press the woman further into the wall at her shoulder, and pressed her own center over Adler’s thigh again to apply more pressure and thrust into Adler harder.

  “Addie, yes.”

  Morgan rode out her orgasm while searching deeper inside Adler to find the place that would make her come. Her free hand moved to Adler’s breast. She clasped a nipple between her thumb and forefinger, tweaked it gently but enough to make Adler whimper again. She used her thumb to flick Adler’s clit while her fingers curled inside the woman.

  “Yes, yes.” Adler’s hips moved into her hand. “There. Yes.”

  Adler rocked against Morgan’s hand as Morgan continued to rock into Adler’s hand and thigh, riding out the embers of her own orgasm. When Morgan finally came down, her forehead was pressed to Adler’s shoulder again. Adler’s was doing the same on Morgan’s shoulder. They were both breathing hard. Morgan could feel the sweat on her back and her brow. Her fingers remained inside Adler. Morgan stroked her inside slowly because she didn’t want to not be inside Adler just yet.

  “You are so good at this,” she said to Adler when she finally caught her breath.

  “I am?” Adler asked with a light laugh that reverberated against Morgan’s shoulder.

  “Oh, yeah.” Morgan gave a light laugh back.

  “Is it wrong that I want more?” Adler asked.

  Morgan pulled back to look at her. Adler’s eyes were still dark with need. Morgan used her thumb to feel Adler’s still hard and swollen clit. She swirled her fingers around inside her and watched as Adler twitched. Yes, Adler had come, but her body still needed more. That worked out well for Morgan because she could give more. Morgan could give so much more to this woman she’d fallen so hard in love with, just feeling that twitch at her own fingers nearly brought her to happy tears.

  CHAPTER 16

  Adler pushed back a little at Morgan now that her legs finally remembered how to walk. She needed her own back to not be pressed up against that wall anymore. She also needed to not be standing. Her hands were around Morgan’s neck. Her lips were on Morgan’s. Before she knew it, she had them both moved to the floor in front of the fireplace. Morgan was beneath her. She wasn’t even sure how it had happened. She’d never experienced this before. Sex with her previous partners hadn’t allowed her to get out of her head like this. With Morgan, it was like she had no control over her own body or mind. It was the best feeling she’d ever experienced. She wanted to allow herself to be consumed by Morgan Burns. Her lips moved to Morgan’s neck. She could feel Morgan’s hands gripping her ass, encouraging her to rock into her. She realized then that she must have kicked off her jeans, because she was naked. Morgan was naked, too. Their bodies were pressed fully together for the first time, and it still wasn’t enough. Adler moved her thigh between Morgan’s legs, pressed into her sex, and rocked as she lowered her lips to Morgan’s breasts.

  “Jesus, Addie!”

  Morgan’s hands pressed further into her, encouraging her to take her own pleasure against Morgan’s thigh. She rocked harder, sliding her wetness over Morgan’s leg.

  “I want you,” Adler said.

  “You have me. I’m here. Take whatever you want.”

  “I want all of you,” Adler corrected. “All of it, Morgan.” She looked up to meet Morgan’s eyes. “I’ve never felt–”

  Morgan took Adler’s hand, slid it between her own legs, and said, “Addie, all of me already belongs to you. Take it. Claim it.”

  Adler slid two fingers inside Morgan, groaning at the feel of the softness that enveloped her own fingers. She roamed deeper. She was inside a woman. Her fingers were responsible for the hips that were rising beneath her. Morgan’s orgasm came so quickly, Adler hadn’t been prepared for it. She watched the expression on Morgan’s face. She continued to thrust inside her until the hips stopped entirely. Morgan’s body stiffened and then relaxed completely.

  She watched as Morgan opened her amazing eyes. She appeared to be sated, but something told Adler, Morgan Burns really could go all night. Adler pulled her fingers out, sliding them up to Morgan’s clit instead. She stroked her gently and slowly. She watched Morgan climb again to another climax. Then, she pressed her body fully against the woman beneath her. Morgan’s breathing slowed to normal within a few moments. Adler wondered if she’d been wrong: maybe Morgan had fallen asleep. Before she could lift herself up to check, Morgan had rolled her over and was now on top of her.

  Both women were covered in a thin sheen of sweat thanks to their activities as well as the proximity to the still burning fire. Morgan sucked on Adler’s nipples, one after the other. Then, she kissed her abdomen, smirking at the twitching muscles beneath her lips. Adler realized where Morgan was headed. She spread her legs wide, watched Morgan continue to kiss, lick, and suck at her flesh, and enjoyed the anticipation of what was to come. Morgan kissed the inside of both of her thighs. She looked up with those blue eyes Adler loved, and licked her without asking for permission or if Adler was sure. Adler’s hips bucked immediately. Morgan didn’t need any more coaxing than that. Her hands held onto the outside of Adler’s thighs. She took her fully into her mouth.