When he got out of the driver's side and headed toward the pub, she slid open the window and yelled down. "Come around to the side entrance, Garrick. The door is unlocked."
He waved, then disappeared around the corner of the building.
Hearing the entranceway door open, Nika crossed the room to stand at the top of the stairs. As Garrick climbed the steps, she followed his progress with her gaze. He wore a black T-shirt that stretched across his wide chest. His blue jeans pulled tight around his muscular thighs when he lifted his leg to take each stair. The man was gorgeous, and she couldn't believe he was actually hers. She'd explored that hard body to her heart's content yesterday, and she planned to do the same today.
"If you keep looking at me like that," Garrick said when he reached the top, "I'll have to put the nearest wall to good use."
"Would that be such a bad thing?" Nika asked. She licked her suddenly dry lips.
His gaze dropped to her mouth. "I thought to take you out for lunch before I strip you naked and take you until neither one of us can move. You're getting ahead of me."
Nika had no interest in eating. She was far too hungry for the man who stood in front of her, looking at her as if she was the only thing that mattered. Her pussy clenched, and wetness pooled at the thought of Garrick pounding into her as he took her against the wall.
"What if we were to have a quick appetizer here, then you take me out to eat?"
she asked in a voice gone breathy. "Then after, we can come back here and have dessert in my bed, on the floor, maybe in the shower, even."
Garrick's eyes dilated, and the bulge in his jeans grew even bigger. He backed her up against the wall. "I'm all for that."
"Good, because I don't know about you, but I don't think I can wait to have you until after we get back."
"Leaving my woman wanting is something I can't have. What my woman wants, my woman gets."
Garrick dropped his hands to her hips and held her tightly to him as he pushed his erection against her belly. Nika couldn't wait to have his big cock inside her.
Aroused beyond reason, hands shaking, she reached between them and opened his jeans. She shoved her hand inside and wrapped her fingers around his shaft. His cock jerked in her hand. She gave it a tight squeeze before she stroked him a few times. Her other hand, she put on the back of his neck and brought his mouth down to hers.
Garrick took her lips in a searing kiss that made her body ache even more. His tongue stroked hers as he pulled her hand off his cock and set to work on her jeans.
Once he had them open, he jerked them down to her ankles. Nika stepped out of them as he pulled away from her mouth and stared down at her sheer underwear.
"When we get back," he said gruffly, "I'm going to have to see if your bra matches your panties, then slowly take them both off you."
Breathing heavier, Nika said, "They match."
He groaned. "Then we may have to settle for fast food. Maybe even a drive-thru."
Hooking his fingers into the top of her panties, Garrick pulled them down until they fell to the floor. She kicked them off while he pushed his jeans down only far enough for his engorged cock to spring free.
He placed his hands on her sides and lifted her off her feet. "Put your legs around my waist, Nika."
She did, and he shifted his hands to her bottom and plunged into her wet pussy with one stroke. She moaned at the feel of his thick cock stretching her, filling her all the way up. He then pulled back, only to plunge deep again. Nika held onto Garrick's shoulders while he pumped his hips between her legs. He thrust into her so hard the pictures on the wall rattled.
The feel of what had to be his nails digging against her ass cheeks—though a bit sharp—excited Nika as much as his powerful thrusts. Garrick licked and kissed down the side of her neck until he reached her collarbone. She tightened her inner walls around his pumping shaft, causing them both to moan. It wasn't going to take much longer for her to come. Her orgasm was already racing to meet her.
"Don't stop, Garrick," she panted. "I'm almost there."
"I won't," he replied hoarsely. "Come for me, Nika."
He angled the way his cock entered her so it rubbed more of her clit. With a whimpered moan, she let go as an intense climax tore through her. Garrick nudge the collar of her blouse aside with his nose, then clamped his teeth down onto her shoulder.
He kept thrusting hard into her pussy until his shaft swelled, locking them together.
Against her skin, he made an animalistic growl while his cock pulsed deep inside her.
Nika let out a quiet moan. Another jet of cum splash against her inner walls.
With a nudge of her chin, she tried to get Garrick to turn his face toward her, but he didn't move. He kept her pinned against the wall while he took deep, even breaths, as if he tried to get control of himself.
"Garrick, look at me."
He shook his head. "Not yet." His cock pulsed again and he jerked.
"You're giving me the impression you're trying to hide something from me."
"Just let it go for now, Nika."
Garrick took a deep, shuddering breath and lifted his head to meet her gaze. She didn't see anything about his face that he would need to hide from her. The only thing she saw that was a bit out of place was how his eyes looked. The pupils seemed to have contracted more than they should have. While she watched, they returned to normal size.
The swelling of his cock had diminished, and he no longer climaxed. Garrick pulled out of her and slowly let her legs down until her feet touched the floor. He kissed her forehead, then stepped back to stuff himself back in his jeans and do them up. "If you want to clean up first, then we'll go eat."
Nika bent and picked up her discarded clothes, but she made no move to go to the bathroom. "Garrick, I think we should have a talk first."
"I don't know if you're ready for the kind of talk we need to have."
She frowned. "This is the second time you've said something about me not being ready to hear what you have to tell me. Your behavior is making me wonder whether this was a good idea after all. I can't help feeling as if you're holding something important about yourself back. After my ex, I don't think I can handle a man who keeps secrets from me."
"Don't compare me to your ex, Nika. I'm not like him. I told you before, I'm not going anywhere."
"All right, prove it. Tell me whatever this thing is you don't think I'm ready to hear."
"Can't we drop this and just go out for a nice lunch?"
Irritated by Garrick's refusal to tell her, and the sense of wariness she felt because of said refusal, Nika pushed harder. "I really want this relationship we've started to work out, but if you're going to keep things from me, I can't see it lasting. I have to have nothing between us. I wouldn't keep secrets from you, and I expect the same courtesy in return."
Garrick narrowed his eyes. "Are you giving me an ultimatum? I have to tell you or we're through?"
"Not so much an ultimatum as an insight into how I feel on the subject of keeping secrets. You called me your woman and said that whatever I want I get. Well, this is something I want. I want this out in the open."
"You are my woman. And that being the case, it's my responsibility to look out for your best interests, even if you don't agree with how I handle certain situations. This happens to be one of them. You're going to accept that I feel it's better for you to be kept in the dark."
Nika allowed the anger she felt over Garrick's high-handed words to show in her voice. "You have to be fucking kidding me. You just didn't talk to me as if I was one of your possessions, and that you know me better than I do myself. Where do you get off on saying that? And where are you from? The Dark Ages?"