Brody Law: The Bridge / The District / The Wharf / The Hill

He reached out and pulled her against his naked body. She closed her eyes and let out a long breath.

“Why are you still wearing so many clothes?” His fingers fumbled with her bra, and in a matter of seconds they were skin to skin, their bodies meeting along every line.

“That’s better.” He kissed her mouth and then left her lips throbbing and wanting as he pressed kisses along her throat. Every spot he touched seemed to alight in fire.

She choked out, “Shower.”

Taking her hand, he led her to the attached bathroom and cranked on the water in the tiled shower. Water streamed from two showerheads.

She stepped into the warm spray and he joined her. He squirted some liquid soap in the palm of his hand and rubbed his hands together. “Now, what is it that needs washing so much that you had to interrupt my flow in the bedroom?”

She dragged her gaze away from the water sluicing over the planes of his body. “Everywhere.”

“I was hoping you’d say that.” He flashed her a grin that had her groping for the shower wall for support.

His warm hands, slick with soap, started at her shoulders and quickly descended to her breasts, where he circled her nipples, teasing and provoking them.

His palms rubbed her belly, and she couldn’t help the moan that escaped her lips.

“Turn around.” His hands cinched her waist and he spun her around toward the bench that extended from the shower wall.

He shifted his attention from her stomach to her inner thighs, and she parted her legs as the spray of water hit her shoulder.

He nudged her from behind, urging her to bend over, his erection spearing her lower back.

She placed her palms flat on the bench beaded with water.

Sean cupped one hand between her legs, and her hips automatically swiveled. She panted. “I thought this was supposed to be a shower.”

“And I’m very thorough in my cleaning. Don’t want to miss one little spot.” His soapy fingers caressed her flesh, and her arms began to shake.

He moved rhythmically against her, his hard, tight erection probing between her open legs. His magic fingers continued their exploration of her throbbing folds. When he entered her with first one finger and then a second, she closed around him.

He cupped her breast, pinching her nipple, and then his teeth nipped the back of her neck. The contrasting sensations overwhelmed her senses and she exploded.

As she rode the wave of her release, he plunged into her from behind. He was delivering all the intensity that had been simmering beneath the surface. She’d wondered what it would be like unleashed, and now she knew. Overwhelming.

Every time he entered her, he took her to some new height, some realm inhabited by just the two of them. When he pulled out, she felt moments of pure desolation.

He reached between her legs again, and his touch was so electrifying she screamed. Within seconds her muscles tensed and she clenched her jaw. She was almost afraid of the power that gathered within her.

The gentleness of his touch contrasted with the force of his thrusts inside her, and once again she broke. The pleasure that flooded her body melted her and she sobbed, pressing her wet face against her arm.

He whispered her name over and over and it echoed in the shower, surrounding her as he surrounded her. He pounded against her, skin on skin, and when his climax came, it engulfed both of them in its ferocity.

No moaning, groaning or grunting for Sean. He howled. And the sound of his passion, of his possession of her, sent a thrill to her core.

When he spent himself inside her, he covered her with his body. His legs twined around hers, his arms wrapped around her torso, his chest and belly were sealed against her back to the juncture where their bodies remained connected in the most intimate way.

The lukewarm water beat against their entwined forms as they gasped for breath. Slowly, he peeled away from her and slipped out of her. She felt the loss of him in the pit of her stomach, so she straightened and turned in one movement and clung to his chest.

He smoothed the damp hair from her face. “I’m sorry. Did I hurt you? I couldn’t...couldn’t help myself.”

Then she realized tears, not just water, were coursing down her cheeks.

She nuzzled against his chest, the sprinkling of dark hair ticking her nose. “You have nothing to be sorry about. You just took me somewhere, someplace—” she dug her fingernails in his firm buttocks “—I don’t know.”

He chuckled and wedged a knuckle beneath her chin, tilting her head back. “Would it be too cliché to say ‘paradise’?”

“You felt it, too?” She rubbed the water from her eyes.

“You’re kidding, right?” He cupped her face in his hands. “Do you think it’s every day I howl at the moon during sex?”

The happiness that welled in her chest overcame her, and tears sprang to her eyes again.

He kissed one of her eyelids. “If you keep crying, I’m going to think I’m a brute.”

She slapped his chest with her hand. “Are you kidding? Do you think it’s every day I break down and cry during sex?”

The smile dropped from his face, and his dark eyes kindled. “It was special, wasn’t it? I don’t generally go in for the mushy stuff, but you make me feel...mushy.”

Her fingers traced the ridges of his pecs. “You don’t feel mushy at all.”

“You just ruined my mushy moment.” He smacked her backside. “Let’s get out of here before we both look like prunes.”

Sean tucked a towel around his waist and padded out of the bathroom, returning with a fresh towel for her.

He held it out for her as she stepped from the shower. “You do realize that if I towel you off, it’s going to ignite that fire down below all over again.”

She fluttered her lashes. “Is that a threat or a promise?”

He wrapped the towel around her body. “You do have school tomorrow, right? You don’t want to come in with a sex hangover.”

“I don’t know.” She dropped the towel. “Is that the kind of hangover that can be cured with the hair of the dog?”

Sean made a move but stopped when his cell phone rang in the bedroom. “Oops, that’s my work phone. I’d better pick that up, but hold that thought.”

She gathered her towel from the floor and followed him into the bedroom. He was right. She had to get it together and return to Courtney’s to get ready for school. They’d have another chance to be together. Wouldn’t they?

Despite being half-naked, Sean had already morphed back into the dedicated cop with the phone call. He sat on the edge of the bed, the cell pressed to his ear, his face creased into lines of worry. “Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Do you think I asked him to contact me? Do you think I want it?”

A sick feeling twisted her gut, and she edged out of the bedroom, tucking a corner of the towel in the edge at her chest. She couldn’t take any more, not after what they’d just shared. She wasn’t ready to crash to earth just yet.

She wandered into the kitchen and collected the plates from the table while Sean’s voice rumbled from the other room. As she ran water over the dishes, someone pounded on Sean’s front door.

She dropped the silverware in the sink with a clatter and grabbed a dish towel, twisting it in front of her on the way to the door.

Sean stalked out of the bedroom, clutching his phone in his fist. “Who the hell is that?”