The New Hire Down the Hall Knew My Name Before HR Did novel · Chapter 4 of 24

Chapter 4: Loud

I had told Dawn it was a curling iron, and she had said "Sure, Ren," and gone back to her roof claim grinning.

At 9:02 that night Kyle was on my porch in Papillion with his jacket over his arm and no one else on the street.

I opened the door and pulled him in by the shirt.

"You said six," he said.

"It's nine. Be quiet."

"We're not in the building."

"Then you can be as loud as you like," I said, and I kissed him against my own hallway wall.

He laughed into my mouth.

His hands came around my waist and lifted me an inch off the floor, and I locked my arms behind his neck.

I had not been touched like that in years, and he seemed to have all night.

"Where?" he said.

"Up the stairs. First door."

He carried me.

My townhouse had a narrow staircase, and he took it with me in his arms and his boots loud on every tread.

I laughed out loud for the first time in weeks.

It rang off the walls.

It was my house, and I could do that.

He set me down at the foot of my bed.

I stood there in my work clothes in the lamplight, with my cardigan still buttoned to the throat.

"Take it off," he said.

"Which part?"

"All of it. Slowly. I want to watch."

I undid the cardigan, one button at a time, with his eyes following each one, and let it fall.

I undid the blouse.

The mark on my collarbone had gone nearly black, and he looked at it, and his jaw tightened.

"I did that," he said.

"You did."

"Does it hurt?"

"Yes," I said. "Do it again."

He made a sound I had not heard before, rough and low, and pulled his shirt over his head.

He had a wrestler's build, wide in the shoulders and thick through the chest.

He had a dark scatter of hair on his chest and a long pale scar down one forearm.

I put my hands flat on his stomach.

The muscles jumped under my palms.

I unfastened my skirt and let it drop and stepped out of it, and out of my underwear.

He looked at me with a hunger that was almost too much to hold.

"Get on the bed," he said.

I did.

I lay back on my own pillows, naked, and he knelt over me with his hands on either side of my head.

He kissed me slowly, deeply, with the full weight of his mouth, and then moved down to my throat, and my shoulder.

At the curve of my left shoulder he stopped, and bit, and sucked.

I arched up off the mattress.

"Second one," he said into my skin.

"Kyle."

"Say it louder."

"Kyle," I said, and it came out of me in a long ragged sound that I had not made in the supply room.

"Louder."

"Kyle!"

"There she is," he whispered.

He worked the bruise in with his mouth and tongue until my fingers were in his scalp.

The heat of it went through my whole upper body.

Then he lifted his head, and looked at the dark spot he had made, and licked it once.

"Now I'm going to fuck you," he said. "And you're going to make all of it. Every sound. I want to hear all of it."

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