Earning Her Love by Hazel Gower

between her legs. Her dress hiked up high. Thank God she’d worn a dress.
    An all-consuming lust filled her like she’d never felt before. All she knew was she needed Alex. She yanked his shirt up, feeling the ridges of his abs, and pulled her mouth from his. “Off. I need to see you.”
    She was desperate to see him. She’d seen him with no shirt on at swimming, but never this close, and she’d never touched him. Alex stared down at her, his blue eyes darkening with lust.
    “Please,” she begged. The last time she begged had been to her parents, asking them not to kick her out. She hoped Alex wouldn’t turn her down too.
    Mia needed this. She’d only slept with one person in her whole life, and it had been painful and finished within minutes. She wanted to try again, and this time with someone more experienced. A man, not a boy.
    “I…we shouldn’t,” Alex whispered.
    Reaching up, she stroked his cheek. “Please. I need this. You make me feel beautiful. Tell me you don’t want me?”
    Swearing, he lifted his shirt over his head. Mia marveled at his perfect six-pack abs and tattoo-covered chest. Hesitantly at first, she touched each tat, tracing the patterns. He came back down between her legs.
    “No, please. I want to see all of you.” She felt the heat on her cheeks rise and spread through her. She chewed on her lip and stared at him, pleading.
    “Fuck. I’m going to hell.” Alex eased off the bed, stood, and dropped his jeans.
    Um, wow, he went commando. His long, thick cock sprang up, and she wiggled on the bed as tingles shot straight to her pussy, which pulsed at the sight of him. “Oh, you’re way more perfect than I dreamed. I mean...” She pointed to his chest and...other pieces. “Who knew that could look so good?”
    Alex grunted, and she noticed a red tinge on his cheeks. Oh, she was embarrassing him. Slowly, he climbed back on the bed. When he hovered over her, his lips came down to nestle in her neck before he nibbled his way down and along her collarbone. The summer dress felt heavy, and she knew it needed to come off. Clutching him to her, she used his arms to help lift herself up.
    “I want this dress off.” She let go of him and gripped him with one hand as he used the other to lift the dress hem that was bunched at her thighs.
    Alex looked her in eyes. “Once we do this we, I, can’t go back. I won’t go back. Are you ready for that, Mia?”
    Mia didn’t know if she was ready, all she knew was she wanted Alex more than she’d ever wanted anything. Mia wasn’t usually one to get what she wanted, but this time she sure was going to try. She nodded, and on a groan, he helped her pull the dress over her head. She sat before him in her underwear. Alex reached behind her and undid her bra clasp and then stared down at her panties.
    “Are they a favorite?”
    “No.”
    “Good, because I don’t want to hurt you by moving you plastered leg.”
    Frowning, it took her a moment to realize what he’d said. She’d completely forgotten about her leg. She was so eager for him. Alex grabbed the side of her panties and ripped, then he repeated it with the other side.
    Exposed now, she felt the heat cover her whole body, she’d never been naked before a man before. Zane’s father hadn’t even seen her nude. She’d kept her shirt on and her skirt had been flung up and her panties pulled down. Mia was a big girl, and Zane’s father had only had sex with her as a bet. She’d learned that when he laughed at her when she told him she was pregnant. Her lust diminished as memories she’d tried hard to forget resurfaced. Mia hugged her stomach, hiding the stretch marks from Alex’s penetrating gaze. What had she been thinking? She couldn’t do this. She couldn’t let another male into her life. She couldn’t be with another man.
    “Don’t.” Alex tilted her head up to gaze at him. The steel in his voice came through. “You’re beautiful. I have envisioned you like this from the