CHAPTER <b>0024 </b>
Meadow’s POV:
And just like that<b>, </b>I lost all coherent thought.
I couldn’t <b>move</b>.
I couldn’t breathe.
ric’s words echoed in my ears like a promise.
And even worse? He didn’t even give me a moment to second–guess it.
Wait-<b>“</b>I gasped as his strong arms gripped my waist, lifting me off the ground like I weighed nothing. My thighs brushed the cool edge of the marble counter as he settled me onto it like I belonged there.
<b>My </b>core throbbed nonstop, my heart pounding hard against my ribcage as ric drewzy circles on my
thighs. He was distractingly hot.
I swallowed hard, my palms pressed t against the countertop as I–tried to catch my breath. “ric…”
I lost my train of thought as he leaned in, his lips moving lightly over the skin of my jaw and neck. ric kissed me everywhere except my mouth, and I wanted to know why. Badly. But right now I didn’t care.
My head fell back as I moaned, feeling his five o’clock shadow grazing my skin and causing me to shiver.
He pulled back, his ink–blue eyes nearly ck as he studied me. “Tell me to stop,” he rasped, voice low
and rough.
I didn’t.
Because I didn’t want him to stop. Ever.
“I <b>don’t </b>want you to,” I whispered instead.
The moment I said that, it felt like I was giving ric the permission to ruin me. And I could see that he
wanted to from the way his eyes darkened even more.
“Lie <b>back</b>.” His voice was <b>a </b>strictmand, and it left no <b>room </b><b>for </b>questions or arguments. Just like it was in the car, he was going to give me what I wanted.
But only on his terms.
I did as he said<b>, </b>the thought of what he was about to do to me causing heat to pool at the bottom of my stomach and between my thighs.
“I love how fucking obedient you are when you want something from me,” he whispered roughly as his fingers hooked into the waistband of my shorts and panties. He pulled them down gently, and
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instinctively, <b>I </b>lifted my hips slightly, letting him slide them down my legs.
I still had on a tank top, but the fact that my entire lower body was bared to ric…
Oh my God. This was a bad idea.
I started to close my legs, but ric tutted harshly. “Keep those legs open<b>, </b>Meadow,” he said, spreading my thighs apart slowly. “Keep them open for me.”
From the angle Iy, I wouldn’t be able to see his face clearly unless I was straining my neck<b>, </b>sitting up or leaning on my elbow, but I had a feeling that ric wouldn’t want me to do that.
So I justy back, heart pounding in my ears, my chest heaving furiously.
<b>For </b>a full minute, ric didn’t say anything, and I was starting to have second thoughts when he suddenly appeared at my side.
The look in his eyes knocked all the breath out of my lungs.
“Fucking hell, Meadow,” he whispered, the expression on his face like he was being tortured. But not in a bad <b>way</b>.
He looked like he was holding himself back from fucking me right there and then.
<b>I </b>wished that he would.
But knowing ric, he wouldn’t.
<b>“</b>Just look at <b>you</b>.” His hand grazed my waist, and before I knew it, he was lifting the hem of my tank top.
“Lift up for me.”
I <b>sat </b>up briefly and he took it off all the way.
So now, I <b>was </b>fully naked. Set like a meal in front of ric Ashford.
I turned my head to look back at ric, but his eyes weren’t on my face. Not anymore.
He took his time. Didn’t rush. ric stared at my body like I was a meal he had been starving for<b>, </b>and <b>now </b>that he had me, he wouldn’t leave a single part of me untouched.
And then he did the least thing I was expecting him to do.
He grabbed a stool. A stool!
And then he pulled it with him to the edge of the counter–the same edge that had my sex facing him.
“ric, w–what are you doing?<b>” </b>
He looked at me like I just asked an insane question.
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<b>“</b>I’m doing what I said I would do, Meadow–eating you out.”
ric took a seat on the stool and my breath stuttered. He hadn’t even touched me yet and I was already shaking. What would happen when-
I gasped loudly when he grabbed me by the backs of my thighs, pulling me even closer <b>to </b>the edge. And then he started to kiss his way from my ankles up to my knees.
“ric…” I whimpered.
<b>“</b>It’s okay, baby,” he murmured, breath hot against my skin. “I’m not going to hurt <b>you</b>. Just rx<b>, </b><b>okay</b><b>?</b><b>” </b>
<b>“</b>Okay,” I echoed softly even though my mind was spiraling out of control. This wasn’t like what happened in the car, this was… different. More intimate.
More intense.
“I’d tell you to concentrate on my mouth, but something tells me I don’t need to.”
And then he continued trailing kisses up my thighs, alternating between the two of them.
My hips jerked automatically when I felt his warm breath on my sex.
ric chuckled darkly, pressing a few soft kisses near my pelvis. Taking his time with the meal that had
been set before him.
<b>“</b>Just look at this pussy,” he whispered roughly, and a gasp escaped my mouth. “So pink, so wet<b>, </b>so fucking beautiful, baby. You want my mouth on this?<b>” </b>
<b>I </b>nodded, unable to force out words.
“Use <b>your </b>words, Meadow.”
<b>“</b>Yes.” I could barely even recognize my own voice. “I want your mouth on me.”
“Good girl,” he growled, and then he lowered his mouth onto my core.
The second ric’s tongue touched me, my world tilted.
<b>“</b>Oh-<b>“</b>I gasped.
His lips were <b>soft</b><b>, </b>but his mouth was firm. Focused. His tongue flicked my clit, his teeth lightly grazing asionally. ric didn’t rush–he savored me, making sure he didn’t miss any single part <b>of </b>my core.
“ric…”
<b>It </b>was too much. I arched my back, unintentionally trying to scoot away from him, but his grip on my thighs was so firm, I didn’t stand a chance. He licked and sucked and nipped andpped up my essence.
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<b>My </b>hand flew to his hair, and he groaned against my sex.
“That’s more like it, baby. Don’t hold anything back.” I felt the vibration deep in my core and I let out a loud moan.
But ric didn’t stop.
His tongue teased and circled and flicked, and I was panting uncontrobly, hips twitching under his grip. ric’s strength was a reminder of howpletely at his mercy I was.
It wasn’t long before I felt my body start to make the climb. The pleasure overwhelmed my senses, and for a second, I thought I’d lost my mind because I couldn’t think of anything else.
“ric,” I gasped, my vision blurring. “I-<b>” </b>
“I know, baby,” he said against my skin. “I know.”
<b>My </b>head dropped back. The marble beneath me was cold, but my skin was on fire. His tongue swept over
my clit again and again, and everytime I thought I was there, he pulled back just enough to make me
chase it.
ying with his food.
I whimpered, begging, aware that my mouth was moving but unable to even hear myself.
I had never in my life felt this way before.
“Stay with me,” he growled, mouth hot and slick against me. “Give it to me, Meadow. I want all of it.”
<b>I </b>was right there. On the edge. And I was burning.
And then-
“Come for me, baby.”
Those words detonated something inside me.
<b>My </b>thighs clenched around his head. <b>My </b>fingers tightened in his hair. And I shattered.
Completely,
<b>My </b>orgasm hit me like a hot wave<b>, </b>overwhelming me.
And I wish I could say ric stopped.
He didn’t. He kept his mouth on me, tasting every bit <b>of </b>my release like he owned it. And like he promised, he kept going even as my legs shook violently.
When I finally came down from my high, I still couldn’t speak or move. All I could do was stare at the
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ceiling as the aftershocks of the orgasm rippled through me.
ric stood slowly, wiping the corner of his mouth with his thumb, and looking dangerously sexy while at it. His eyes darkened as theynded on me–a wrecked, heaving, flushed mess spread open on his kitchen counter.
“Like I said.” he muttered, pulling me up so I was sitting up now. His knuckles gently grazed my jaw. Burning desire to <b>give </b>you whatever you want.”