Lily dared him to disagree with her.

But instead of being intimidated by her fury, Travis’s mouth set into a dangerous line. “How many times am I going to have to say this to you, Lily?” Each word hit her like a bullet.

“You. Are. Not. Fat.”

Two tears ran down her cheeks, and the will to fight left her body. “I am. I always have been. I always will be. Lily, Lily two-by-four.”

“No, sweetheart.” His voice was more gentle than she’d ever thought it could be. “That was just a stupid kid who said those things.”

“Why didn’t you defend me?”

“I was scared.”

“Of what?”

“Of you. I thought you were perfect.”

“No.”

“Beautiful.”

“No.”

“I loved you, Lily, even then.”

Both Travis and Lily looked at each other in shock.

Travis took a deep breath, then smiled. “I love you.” He swallowed, as if testing the words on his tongue, in his mouth. “I love you, Lily.”

Lily’s arms went limp as she leaned into Travis’s warmth. Everything was instantly forgiven, and even though she wished she knew better, she didn’t.

Travis had just said the words she had been longing to hear her whole life.

“You love me?”

Softer than a feather, Travis kissed her lips, and moved his hands past her wrists to intertwine with her hands. Lily was afraid to say anything that would break the spell. She was afraid Travis would start laughing, that he’d say, “Just kidding.”

But then he whispered the words, “I always have,” against her lips, and she was lost to anything but him.

With a groan that spoke volumes of desire, Travis threaded Lily’s red locks between his sticky fingers.

He tilted her head to get better access to her mouth. Lily opened wide for his invasion, meeting his passion with her own. Whisky merged with Travis’s signature essence. He tasted like magic.

He pulled her tightly to him, cupping the huge bulge between his legs in the soft valley of her thighs. Lily wanted to sink into him, to be naked and filled all the way to the brim with his raw heat.

Her unspoken prayer was heard. Travis laid her down on the floor. “This dress has got to go,” he said.

Before she realized it, his fists were curled around the collar at her neck and he was ripping the dress clean down the middle.

Underneath the linen atrocity, Lily was stark naked. She had stripped off her sexy underwear along with her sexy dress.

“On second thought,” Travis said, “you can wear that dress as often as you like, as long as you promise to be smooth and naked beneath it.”

“I hate that dress,” she said as she reached for Travis to pull him down to her.

“Me too. Ugliest thing I’ve ever seen.”

They laughed together, but when he laid his heavy weight on her, their laughter faded away. Lily sucked in her breath as sticky cream smeared onto her br**sts from his shirt.

Travis ran his hands between their bodies. “Uh-oh,” he said, “looks like someone has gelato all over her.”

“Do you like gelato?” Lily murmured huskily.

Travis smeared the chocolate around her puckering areola. “That depends.”

“On what?” Lily held her breath as Travis bent his mouth over her breast.

“On how it’s served.”

His words were hot against her flushed skin. Lily arched up into his mouth, but instead of sucking her nipple into his mouth, he gently pushed her back into the soft carpet and lapped chocolate off the undersides of her br**sts.

“Mmm,” he said, rearing up over her. “You should taste this.”

He swept his tongue inside her mouth. Lily sucked the chocolate off his tongue and he groaned.

“More?”

Lily nodded, her heart beating so hard she was afraid it might leap put of her chest altogether. I love you.

The words pulled at her insides and sat on the tip of her lips unsaid.

Travis licked ever-narrowing circles on the soft flesh of her br**sts, until her tight ni**les were the final bit of chocolate surprise. “I always save the cherry on top for last,” he said with a wicked grin.

Nearly incoherent with need, Lily watched Travis’s lips surround her nipple. She closed her eyes as his teeth lightly raked over the sensitive tips. He sucked one peak hard into his mouth.

“More,” she moaned.

Cupping her br**sts between his palms, Travis showered loving attention on both ni**les at the same time. He ran his tongue through the deep valley between them. Light stubble raked Lily’s inflamed skin.

Having never felt so safe before, Lily reached for his hand and tried to put it between her legs. Travis looked up from her br**sts, his pupils dilated, his breath coming hard. “Is that sweet pu**y of yours feeling neglected?”

Unable to form words, she nodded.

Barely above a whisper, he said, “Let me see.”

Lily spread her legs so that he could see how wet she was. Travis leaned down over her cunt, so close that his breath teased her something terrible.

“Oh my,” he said, running his index finger down the length of her lips, “you are wet, aren’t you?” Travis brought his finger to his mouth and sucked her juice in. Tilting his head to one side, he raised an eyebrow.

“Hmm. Needs a little something.”

Lily gasped as he spread her legs wider and spread cold gelato onto her vagina.

“Now that looks like the kind of dessert I like. I’d better eat you up before it melts.”

Lily closed her eyes and held her breath as she waited for Travis to lick the chocolate cream from her cunt. None of her fantasies could have ever prepared her for this kind of loving. Somehow she had found a lover who knew what she wanted before she knew herself.

His tongue, warm and broad, curved into her, then up and over her swollen clitoris. Again and again he stroked her cunt with his tongue. His face was buried firmly between her thighs, his hands cupped and squeezed her ass.

The orgasm hit her full force, and Travis responded to her spasms by plunging two fingers in and out of her while sucking her clit into his mouth.

“Your mouth, oh God…” Lily never wanted it to end.

Travis’s fingers continued to work their magic as he reared up over her, biting and sucking her br**sts, tonguing her ni**les. His mouth worked up to the pulse point in her neck and shivers ran though her. The tail end of her first orgasm merged into another.