The door clicked shut, and before Piper could even breathe, Alex was on her—grabbing her by the hips, slamming her back against the door with a thud that rattled the old frame.
"Do you have any idea what you do to me?' Alex growled into her ear, voice low and rough, sending a full-body shudder racing through Piper. "You have any idea what I want to do to you right now?"
Piper barely managed to gasp, "You'd better show me."
And Alex did—lifting her by the thighs, hauling her up so Piper had to cling to her, gasping into her mouth. Alex's hands slid greedily over her ass, squeezing hard enough to bruise, grinding her against the hard line of her jeans with a shameless groan.
"Fuck," Alex muttered against her neck, nipping at her skin. "I missed you... missed this... missed the way you fall apart for me."
"Then ruin me," Piper whispered back, breathless, desperate.
Alex's answering growl was pure animal. Clothes were torn away in frantic handfuls, thrown somewhere into the darkened corners of the room, leaving trails of need between kisses that turned wet and messy and so goddamn dirty.
When Piper was bare beneath her, Alex dropped her onto the bed like a prize she was about to claim—and hovered over her, devouring her with her eyes first.
"Look at you," Alex murmured darkly, thumb dragging along Piper's bottom lip. "Spread out and so fucking ready for me. You don't even know what you do to me, do you?"
Piper whimpered, hips lifting off the bed instinctively, needy beyond shame. "Then stop talking and show me, Vause."
Alex's laugh was wicked as sin. "Oh, baby," she said, dragging her mouth down Piper's throat, over her breasts, nipping and sucking until Piper writhed beneath her, "I'm just getting started."
She slid lower, hands forcing Piper's thighs wide, and without hesitation buried her mouth between them. Piper cried out—a raw, broken sound—as Alex licked and sucked at her with merciless precision, her hands pinning Piper's hips down when she tried to buck up helplessly.
"You taste so fucking sweet," Alex growled against her, voice rough, devouring her like she hadn't eaten in months. "I could die like this... die with you dripping down my throat."
Piper sobbed her name, desperate, clinging to the sheets with white-knuckled fists, her body trembling violently as Alex drove her closer, closer—until she shattered apart with a scream that echoed off the old wooden beams of the ceiling.
But Alex wasn't done.
She kissed her way back up Piper's shaking body, sliding two fingers inside her with a slow, brutal thrust that made Piper sob again, too overstimulated to know where her pleasure ended and where Alex began.
"You gonna come for me again?" Alex whispered into her ear, pumping into her with slow, relentless strokes. "You're mine, Piper. Every fucking inch of you. Say it."
Piper barely choked out, "Yours. Always yours," before another orgasm tore through her like a goddamn earthquake, leaving her wrecked and boneless beneath Alex's weight.
When Piper finally managed to blink through the haze, Alex was grinning down at her—sweaty, smug, and utterly, hopelessly in love.
"My turn," Piper rasped, a wicked gleam lighting her ruined face.
Alex arched an eyebrow, amused and aroused all at once. "Think you can handle it, Pipes?"
Piper grinned savagely.
"Lie back and find out."
And oh, Alex did.
And oh, Piper made sure she never forgot what it felt like to be worshipped until her name was nothing but a strangled prayer against the pillows.
Later—much later—they collapsed into a sweaty, tangled heap, legs draped over each other, bodies still thrumming with aftershocks.
"You," Alex panted into Piper's hair, "are a goddamn menace."
Piper laughed weakly, pressing a kiss to Alex's bare chest. "You love it."
Alex tangled their fingers together and tugged Piper closer, voice rough and soft at once. "Yeah. I do."
And for the first time in forever, Piper believed it.
Every goddamn word.
Always.
