He let out a whoop of joy and shook his hair back from his eyes.
“Holy shit, it’s cold.” She laughed, ducking beneath the surface again just for the shock of it. Her body was still hot from the springs, but the cold was stealing it away bit by bit.
“Come here,” he said, towing her toward where the hot spring water formed a short waterfall, thundering down into the lake with a cloud of steam.
The force of it pushed them back, but Silas was more stubborn than nature. He maneuvered them behind the curtain of water, where a rock ledge sat back from the cascade. The water was warmer here.
“It’s like a secret room,” she said, delighted when her voice echoed off the outcropping above them. She braced her hands on the ledge and lifted her upper body out of the water so she could brush her fingers over the sparkle embedded in the wet rock.
She turned, grinning, to look at Silas. One look at his set jaw and hard eyes, and she knew that the easygoing, playful guy was gone. In his place was the hard, hungry man.
“Come here, Maggie,” he said. The command was low and raspy. Part of her wanted to escape, just to let him chase her down.
She swam slowly to him and watched his nostrils flare when she paused just out of his reach.
He crooked his finger at her, and there was nothing playful about it.
Closing the distance between them, she stood.
Without warning, Silas reached under her arms and boosted her up. Her breasts pressed against his chest, nipples already hard from the cold, reveling in the feel of his hot skin and the brush of chest hair. He wrapped her legs around his hips, his erection pinned between them.
“I don’t have a pocket.”
Which translated to no condom.
“I’m on the pill,” she said, licking water droplets off her lips.
He stilled against her, looking more serious than she’d ever seen him. “Are you okay with me inside you with nothing between us?”
Was she? It seemed like the day for out-of-character adventure. Her body responded with a resounding “Hell the fuck yes.” She nodded, wide-eyed and ready to die from anticipation.
“Hang on to me,” he said, his voice rougher than the rocks at his back.
She tightened her arms around his neck and buried her face there when he guided his cock to her opening. Her body was revved on adrenaline. She hoped she’d survive it. Then when he fed the first inch into place, she decided she didn’t care as long as she could have him inside her.
“No, darlin’。 You’re gonna look at me,” he ordered, his voice sounding strained.
She lifted her head and met his gaze. Those gray eyes had a fire in them. In one swift, short thrust, he slammed himself home.
Her cry echoed off the rock above them as he filled her. They watched each other through heavy lids as he pumped into her while nature flowed all around them. She became part animal as her body gave itself over to the biology, the innate need for him. When he held her by the hips and used his grip to speed the pace, she bowed back.
The edge of the wall of warm water rushed over her hair and down her back as the man moved inside her. Harder and faster. Thick and undeniable.
She was overwhelmed, overtaken by nature. She couldn’t wait to get where they were going and, at the same time, never wanted it to end.
When he dipped his head to pull a nipple into his mouth, she hitched her legs higher and reveled in the change of angle. That tight bundle of nerves was exposed, and every brush against the flat of his abs was like lightning in her system.
“Silas!”
“I can feel you getting ready to come, darlin’。 Don’t you fucking hold back on me.”
She couldn’t if she wanted to. The only thing her body wanted was to climax.
He was pumping into her relentlessly. All she could do was cling to him. His gaze was fixed on her breasts as they moved with each thrust. With nothing between them, she felt him grow impossibly thicker in her, felt his muscles tense under her hands, beneath her legs.
Every pump was accompanied by an animalistic grunt from his throat. He was so close to coming it made her lightheaded.
“You better fucking come right now,” he growled.
The threat worked. Because the second he slammed into her to the hilt, the second she felt the first jet of his release as it loosed inside her, she came.
It was everything. Like fireworks and an earthquake. A tidal wave and a detonation. Her body went off around Silas as he came into her very depths. Part of her knew that her body was made for more than enjoying sex. But in the moment, she felt like she’d realized a beautiful truth, that there was a magic achieved together. A miracle of chemistry and biology and nature.