Hidden Heat by Amy Valenti Page A

your baseline levels that seem to be the problem, not the aroused ones—if sex caused this, which I doubt, the damage is already done.”
    With a sweet smile at the pair of us, she gave a little wave and swept towards the door. “Bye, then!”
    The door shut behind her and I stared at it for a second, open-mouthed, while Scott rolled his eyes and got to his feet. “That’s our Beth…”
    I made an effort to close my mouth, and instead concentrated on the pills she’d given me. “Is she always like that?”
    “She doesn’t like to waste time while people tiptoe around taboo topics. You learn to cut to the chase after a while.” When he saw me popping one of the pills out of its foil casing, he grabbed a glass and filled it with water, then slid it across the table towards me. “What’s in those?”
    “I have no idea, and I don’t wanna know. If you trust Beth, that’s good enough for me.” Without giving myself any further time to ponder possible side effects, I put the pill in my mouth and chased it down with half the glass of water. “There. Done.”
    Scott stepped in closer as I stood up, cupping my cheek with obvious concern. “You okay?”
    Unable to stop myself from nuzzling his hand, I said, “Still scared…but I feel better knowing Beth’s on the case.”
    “Me, too.” He sighed. “God, Holly… I wish we knew how this happened. I mean, is it my fault?”
    “Did you do it on purpose?” I asked.
    Frowning, he shook his head, and I ran my hand through his hair. “Then how can it be your fault?”
    Instead of answering, he kissed me—a soft, sweet kiss that nonetheless rekindled the desperate craving inside me. I pushed him up against the kitchen worktop, moulding my body to his, kissing him hard, gasping into his mouth.
    Scott eased me back enough to say, “You know, Grant could walk in here at any moment.”
    I didn’t care. All I could think about was Scott’s hard, thick cock slamming up inside my pussy. “Let him.”
    Scott tried to protest, but as I unzipped his pants and freed his cock, he groaned instead. “Okay, okay, but if he comes in here you don’t get to freak out about it.”
    “Freak out?” I rolled my eyes. “I’d be more likely to ask him to join in.”
    His cock jumped beneath my fingers, and I laughed, stroking it firmly. “Oh, you’d like that? Have you guys done each other before?”
    “Maybe… But we were really bored and horny…”
    “Hmm.” It was on the tip of my tongue to suggest we actually called Grant in here, but I managed to keep my mouth shut. Maybe the pills were kicking in.
    “Fuck, Holly…” Scott nuzzled my neck, then pulled at my shirt. “Come here.”
    He stripped away the garment, then my bra, and I moaned as he teased my sensitive nipple with his tongue. “Love it when you do that, oh, my God…”
    Scott gave the other nipple the same electrifying treatment, then claimed my lips again as my pussy gushed and a shiver rippled down my spine. I tore free of the kiss, gasping. “Oh, fuck, I need you right now …”
    Whatever he thought about my desperation, he felt enough urgency of his own to oblige. He unbuttoned my jeans, then tugged them off, lifted me and slid me backwards onto the kitchen counter. The surface was slightly chilly below my buttocks, but the warmth of his cock more than made up for it when he slammed into me.
    “Oh, yeah !” I cried out, wrapping my legs around his waist and pulling him in deeper.
    “God, you’re amazing,” he growled in my ear, drawing out almost completely before driving back in.
    He took me hard and fast and I leant back on my hands, tilting my hips up so that every thrust hit my hot-spot. It took only a minute for the unbearable tension within me to break into chaotic waves of pleasure, and Scott groaned as the inner walls of my pussy tightened around him.
    “Already?”
    I was too breathless and full of shuddering ecstasy to do more than nod, and he stopped holding back, pounding into me