Even Closer
By AnitaB
Chapter two: Likes and Wants
She was killing him with the sound of his name on her lips and the delightful movement of her hips against the front of his. Alex wanted this. She wanted him even closer than this. His Alex wanted them both out of their clothes. Thom would do anything to get her skin under his hands, his lips. The words were on his lips before he'd thought it out. His hands were asking the same question on her waist, sliding just high enough to burn over the silk of her skin. But he had to wait for her answer before he stripped his precious girl out of her clothes. And there was no patience in him when her body was wrapped around him like that. The distance between their hips was the only thing giving him any control when she gave him a warm smile and the words to change his heart rate.
"Yes, I'd like that. Now take off my shirt and touch me." His hands clenched at the thought. Thom knew he was smiling as he fought the hungry nerves in his fingers to a compromise as she moaned his name. He was going to take her shirt off, not rip it off.
"I've got you, Alex. Arms up, sweetheart." Carefully dragging the cloth up her body, Thom helplessly groaned at the sight of her sitting in his lap half naked and wanting him. His breath caught in his throat as those warm, strong, bare arms pulled him in for a tight hug and a deep kiss. /Yes, Alex, just like this.\\
Skin, so much smooth, warm skin and she wanted his hands to explore. "Thom," her voice shook around the sound of his name as he dragged both hands slowly up the smooth warmth of her back. Her hands clenched in the front of his shirt as that gorgeous body arched and trembled in his arms.
"Do you like this?" He knew the answer by the look on her face that the answer was 'yes,' but it took her enough time to catch her breath for him to dip his head and drag the tip of his tongue down the arched line of her throat. The wordless plea of her voice and the bite of her nails in his back just pushed him further. "Alex, my sweet Alex." He pulled her closer and planted a simple kiss right over her heart just for the tightening of her grip. "Answer me, Alex. Do you like this?" Thom rested his chin against her ribs to look up at her face. That was what he wanted, her face filled with pleasure, his name on her lips, and her hands clutching at him.
"Thom… fucking love this… want you." She sank her teeth into her lower lip and forced her hands open to reach for the hem of his shirt. He groaned low in his throat at the heat of her fingers against his stomach. "I want to touch you, now." Thom dragged her down for a quick hard kiss, before helping those hands peel his shirt off over his head. Her eyes trailed down his chest, it was almost like he could feel the heat of her gaze. In just a second, he could. Alex spread both hands wide against his chest, dipping her head to press a soft kiss right over his heart. "Thom…"
"Alex," His fingers moved on their own, catching her face to lead her up. Thom needed a kiss, needed to taste those sweet lips and that moan of his name. He wrapped his arms tight around her waist and dragged her flush against his chest. Thom loved the shiver he felt travel down her spine almost as much as he loved the soft, burning heat of so much of her skin against his. "You feel… so good, sweetheart. I still want you closer, still want to touch you. Would you like that?"
Alex rocked her hips against his and buried her nails in his back. "Fuck, Thom, you ask for permission one more time and I'm handcuffing you to this headboard and taking you. Yes, Damnit, touch me. I want it all." Her knees tightened at his waist, bracing for the hard and ever so precise stroke of her hips along the entire length of his erection. "Every single inch of you. Got it?"
Every single nerve in his body got the message and acted. Thom found himself pinning a smiling Alex against the sheets with his hands fighting her bra out of his way. "I want to hear you, sweetheart. No hiding what you like." When he let his eyes leave her face, he couldn't help a low, rasp of a sound. "So beautiful." The curves of her breasts called to him. Thom needed to touch, to kiss and taste. "Alex," His hands spread wide against her back and pulled her up against his lips. The first stroke of his tongue over her breast had them both groaning. /That's it, my Alex. Tell me what you like… so damn sweet.\\ Following the guidance of her hands in his hair and her voice in his ears, Thom explored every sensitive nerve in her upper body with hands, lips, tongue and gently teeth.
He loved this, loved the feel of her clinging to his shoulders and arching at his touch. He loved the taste of her skin and the texture of her nipples against his tongue. He loved the strength of her legs squeezing his ribs and the clenching of her fingers in his hair. Thom was going to be hard pressed to ever let her out of his arms or his lips again. "Thom?" Her voice hitched around his name in perfect time with the stroke of his tongue just above her belt.
He smiled into a kiss on the same spot before resting his chin over her heart to look up her ribs to the gorgeous heat of her eyes. "Yes, Alex." Thom kept his fingertips moving in tiny little circles at her waist while she stared at his lips and licked her own. "Do you need something, sweetheart?"
"Fuck, Thom. I need … so much… you. I need to … feel you like you've been feeling me." Thom fought back a groan at the thought of her lips exploring him, trailing over his skin. "My turn,"
/Yes, Alex, please.\\ Thom pressed one more kiss to her hip and rolled to his back, locking his fingers around the headboard. "I don't have much control where you're concerned, Alex. You might not get a very long turn this time." The muscles in his stomach tightened and twitched as Alex sat across his hips and rubbed her hands over his chest. "Not when you feel so good."
"I understand the problem." Alex smiled, leaning down to flick the tip of her tongue along his jaw. He knew he'd tried to steal a kiss mindlessly by her sudden laugh and the touch of her fingertips over his lips. "But you're gonna try your hardest, aren't you? 'Cause you want to know what I like." She was trying to kill him with that curve of her lips and the gentle teasing in her voice. "Well, my Thom, I like touching you."
"Alex," The headboard creaked in his hands as she pressed her breasts against his chest and claimed his lips for a kiss that heated all his nerves. /Yes, hard being the operative word.\\
He was absolutely going to love everything she had in mind.
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She sparred with him dozens if not hundreds of times, but Alex had no idea just what he'd been hiding under those exercise clothes. She helplessly watched every hard line of his muscles shift as he stretched out on their bed and locked his hands on the headboard. Her mind processed the heat, need, and strength in his words. /That's my Thom,\\ Alex found herself sitting across his hips just for the press of his erection between her thighs and teased him with words and touches.
Then she heard the headboard creaked in his hands and the plaintive sound of her name on his lips. Now it was her control in question. Alex wanted, needed to taste his kiss, to feel every strong, gorgeous inch of his skin against her own. She lips reached for his, her body pressing close to feel his heart pounding against her breasts. /Thom, yes, my Thom.\\
Nothing, absolutely nothing could be as hot as this moment, this man and his arms around her. Alex got lost in the heat of his skin against hers, in the sweet desperate dance of his tongue and the low helpless moan of her name. /More, Thom, more kisses, more heat, more skin.\\ Alex weakly dragged herself back from his lips and brace hungry hands against his chest. "Thom,"
"Alex, please, sweetheart." His eyes were trying to break her open. No one, ever in her life, had looked at her with that much warmth, need, and trust. No man had ever wanted her pleasure more than his own. No one had ever protected and cared for her like he did. With that fire in his eyes, he still kept his hands on the headboard… because that's what she wanted.
There was so much Alex wanted to give him. As much as she fucking loved kissing him, she couldn't give him all those things attached to his lips. "I'm right here, Thom. I know what you want and I'll give it to you." Alex smiled and rubbed her hands up and down his heaving chest. "Soon enough. It's my turn to touch, to taste." His low groan shook through her fingers and made the first decision for her. Alex wanted to feel those vibrations against her lips, taste the salt of his sweat on her tongue. "Hold on tight, Thom." Dipping her head, Alex kissed, licked, and nibbled her way down his throat and over his chest. He was so warm, so hard, and so damn delicious she might never let him wear a shirt again.
"Alex," She rested her chin on the waistband of his sweatpants but couldn't bear to give up the heat of his skin against hers. His stomach rippled under her hands as his head lifted to stare down at her. She smiled, loving the sudden clenching of almost every muscle in his body. "You're not getting me out of my pants until I've gotten you out of yours." The smile on his face said he understood her very, very well. "I mean it, sweetheart. You're naked first, or it's my turn, right now." Alex played the fingers of one hand over the front of his pants more for the helpless arch and groan than for the feel of him through the fabric. Not that she didn't love touching him anyway.
"Anything I can do to you through the pants doesn't count, though, does it?" She shifted just enough to wrap her fingers around him through the cloth in a short but clear stroke. Alex dipped her head without breaking the gaze to blow a hot breath right over his tip, kissing the fabric when his eyes clenched. "I'm not done with my turn yet, Thom. And I'm known to be creative."
"Alex," Strong hands reached for her, closing around her wrists to pull her up his chest and into his arms. "Alex, love, I'm not payment and I will lose control if you put that gorgeous mouth where you're trying to." She got lost in the depths of his hungry kiss, only realizing they'd moved when he lifted his head. Alex was on her back with her legs wrapped tight around his waist as he kissed his way down her ribs. "If either of us is hitting our knees, I'm first."
"Th—Th—Thom…" Cold air hit her legs, quickly followed by the drag of warm skin as Thom peeled the last of her clothes off her feet. No one had… no one had ever… done that before. No one had ever wanted to. Her breath caught in her throat at the heat of his mouth on the inside of her ankle. An agile tongue circled over the bone, dragging a helpless arch from her back and burying her nails in the sheets. "Oh, Thom."
"Tell me you don't want this and it stops. We're dressed and back to chaste kisses for as long as you need. But you have to know that I've been dying to find out what you taste like and I'd give anything to make you feel good." Thom's hands rubbed up and down her calves but no higher as his eyes locked to hers, heat and concern written on her face. "Tell me, Alex, tell me what you want."
/Everything, you and me,\\ "Thom, I want you, only you, all of you. Any way I can have you." Alex forced her hands open to reach for the broad strength of his shoulders. "I want this, Thom, please." His smile made her heart race in the split second before he moved.
"That's my girl," Thom curved his hands up the inside of her thighs to open her legs and cup her hips. "Thank you, Alex, for trusting me this much." He kissed a quick line up her leg to lick her hip bone. "I love that you trust me, want me this much." Alex had only the time to run her fingers through his hair before Thom robbed her of all thought and coordination with the first flick of his tongue high between her thighs. /Oh, fuck!\\
Thom was going to kill her. He was going to break her into tiny, mindless little pieces with that happy sound and the eager, thorough exploration of his mouth. "Yes, want you, trust you, need you, Thom."
"You are so sweet, Alex. I want more." His hands tightened on her hips, angling her to plunge his skillful, agile tongue even deeper. Alex was going to draw blood on his scalp if he didn't let up. And there was no sign of him letting up. With almost a growl, Thom plunged two fingers inside her, finding the most amazing spots with his fingertips and his tongue at the same time. Those hot eyes met hers over the trembling muscles of her stomach and she knew he was smiling despite how busy his lips were. "Come for me, Alex. That's what I'd really like. That's what I want."
She was close, very close to giving him what he wanted. And he was very, very close to giving her exactly what every single nerve was begging for. /Just a little more, please.\\ Alex fought for breath, reaching out one hand for something to hold onto. Thom shifted between her thighs, one strong arm wrapping around her waist to keep her right where he wanted her. That freed up one hand to twine his fingers through hers. "Thom, please."
/Almost there…\\
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