CHAPTER 37 Non-Negotiable

  ~ CARA ~

  My eyes flew wide in concern. Rig’s head was buried in my shoulder, his shoulders rising and falling quickly with his panting breaths that I could feel against my neck.

  “Do what?” I pleaded, trying to pull up his chin, still arching against him.

  Then, though he’d resisted my efforts to lift his head, he lifted it on his own, his eyes glinting, his chest still heaving.

  “Don’t make me be the one to remind you… your first time should be special... with someone special... right?” he said.

  It could have been bait. It could have been resentment. But there was none of that in his tone. His eyes blazed and pleaded with me at the same time.

  “Not here,” he breathed. “Not now. I want to, Cara. Fuck. You have no idea how much I want to. But this… this needs to be more.”

  I frowned at him, touched and pissed off in the same moment. Then I rocked my hips against him. “But, I want to. I’ve never wanted to, Rig. You’re the only person who’s ever made me want to.”