Chapter 5

“That’s your third cup of coffee, Kat.” AJ mumbled, his eyes looking over the chart in his hands at Katherine.

“Kat?” Katherine asked with distaste. “No one calls me Kat. And my mother said since I’m a grownup I can have all the coffee I want.”

“You don’t need it.”

“That surgery is going to take twenty hours at least. I need to stay sharp.”

“What happens when you come down from that high? You’re going to be trembling and on edge. I’d rather have you all there with me, Henry. You should also be worried about your bladder. All that coffee means more bathroom breaks.”

“Shit!” Katherine swore as she tossed her full cup of coffee in the trash. She hated it when AJ was right, and since meeting him, she’d discovered that was all the time. She stared at AJ, loving how his brow furrowed, his eyes squinted in concentration and how he bit the corners of his lips in thought. She had dreamt of those lips the whole night, remembering what they had done to her two years before and what she wanted them to do to her now.

She crossed her legs when she felt her nerves rush bringing her secret place to life. Katherine had to try steadying her breathing, now in short spurts of hot breath, the pounding of her pulse through her body which ached in pain for her forbidden man. She closed her eyes as her fingers dug into her file. Was it possible to come to orgasm even without being touched? Her body was telling her yes. She could feel a solo drop of sweat roll down the line of her spine on her back. Her hands were getting clammy, and her knees threatening to give out on her.

“Kat?”

Kat, that’s what she wanted him to call her when he was buried to the hilt inside her. She swallowed hard as his deep velvet voice rumbled in her ear once more. The sensual baritone making her body vibrate with need, she could almost feel him rocking with her. Katherine could hear her labored breathing, and the pulsing of her blood in her ears. But when she heard AJ call her name once again, her orgasm tore through her. Her legs unable to hold her up, Katherine fell back on the wall and grabbed on the chair next to her. The intensity of her orgasm had taken her body by surprise, shocking her into submission. When the last embers of her climax burnt out, she relaxed.

When Katherine opened her eyes, she realized AJ had stopped studying charts and was now studying her. She startled in surprise at the immediate and absolute boldness of his gaze. His gaze swept her from head to toe, leaving a burning trail touching her already hot flesh.

She pressed her body against the wall as AJ dropped his charts on the table and rose to his feet. With three large strides he had her plastered against the wall. She didn’t realize that she still had a death grip on the chair until AJ pried her fingers open. He planted a kiss in her palm. Katherine opened her mouth to say something, but the words jammed in her throat. She felt AJ use his foot to knock her legs apart. He pressed his thigh against her center, his large body overcrowding her.

Katherine whimpered in defeat as she felt another orgasm building inside her. She didn’t think she would be able to last twenty seconds, let alone twenty hours standing next to AJ. She watched as he reached his long hand to the door and locked it. Studying the pre-op charts in the on-call room together had seemed like a good idea before, but now Katherine thought it was the best idea she had ever come up with.

“Please!” The plea left her lips before she could stop them.

AJ ground his thigh against her once more, and Katherine felt herself unravel. Her hands went to his shoulders as he lifted her off the ground and balanced her around his waist. “Are you sure?” he asked, his lips following a line down her neck.

“Please!” AJ’s lips on hers silenced her. She wrapped her hands around him tight, as he went to work on his and her surgical trousers. Katherine could barely feel the whispering touch of his fingers on her skin. But when she felt a cool breeze on her rump, she knew she was halfway there. She wrapped her leg around AJ’s bare thigh and the contact made her climax. She would have preferred that AJ took pity on her and wait for her to come down from her high, but he chose that minute to bury himself inside her. Her body screamed in delight, but her exhaustion was slowly stalking her as her climax built with each stroke of AJ’s shaft inside her. She grabbed a fistful of AJ’s shirt, her teeth biting into the base of his neck as the aftershocks of her orgasm raked her body. Katherine’s body still trembled as her breath came in short spurts.

But when her eyes opened, she wasn’t against the wall, but on the bed. When did I get here? Oh, my stars, I’ve only been dreaming. She breathed in AJ’s scent and smiled. She didn’t care how she got to the bed; she was still wrapped around AJ.

“If I was that good in your dream, just imagine how it will be in real life.” AJ’s teasing chuckle filled her ears and sobered her out. “Damn and that was one hell of a hand job. Here I thought you went to a good catholic all girls’ high school.”

“What?” Katherine pushed AJ off her. They were still fully clothed, but the evidence of what had happened between them in her mind, was there. Both their surgical trousers had stains on them. And the front of AJ’s looked crumpled. Katherine looked at her hand and realized the death grip she had was not on a chair, but on AJ. She could feel her cheeks burn crimson. How the hell where they supposed to go out like this?

“I— I didn’t realize— I—oh hell I don’t know what I was doing.”

“I beg to differ. You definitely knew what you were doing,” he chuckled.

“We have to get ready for surgery.” Katherine tried to push her way past AJ, but he grabbed her shoulders and forced her on the bed once more.

“I think we need to change first.” His hot breath tickled her ear drum and Katherine thought she would cry with need. How the hell was that a dream? It couldn’t have been all a dream. “I’ll get someone to bring us some clean scrubs. You just wait here and try not to dream about me when I’m gone.”

“AJ—”

His lips silenced her. “Don’t worry. Now you’ve got me all hot and bothered. So, when we are done with our surgery, I promise to make your toes curl. I am going to make you scream so hard, the angels up above are going to want to come and save you. You wanted this didn’t you? Now you are definitely going to get it. If we weren’t short on time, I’d make you cum. Show you how much better it is when I’m in control.”

Katherine felt her body respond to his words. Maybe they could push the surgery back a couple of hours, or days. The guy had already gone a whole month with the tumor, what was another week?

“Let go.”

“What?” His hands rose fractionally at his sides, showing Katherine it wasn’t he who was holding her, but the other way around. She laughed nervously and released his shirt. She watched as AJ slipped out of the room. She let out a shaky breath of relief. She needed some time to think. But first she needed to clear her sex-hazed mind. She was finally going to have what she wanted and waited for so long. She was biting at the bit at the promise. Just twenty or so hours and she would have AJ. He had promised toe-curling, earth-shattering sex—and she was going to hold him to it.

AJ slipped in minutes later. But he didn’t go to her. He leaned on the door and just watched her. His eyes burned with a desire and need that was staggering. Katherine licked her plump lips and that earned her a groan from AJ. She wondered what other sounds she could get him to make for her. Brazen, and her mind still in a sex haze, Katherine lifted her thighs and slowly, seductively shimmied her trousers down her thighs. She had the pleasure of seeing AJ’s smoky eyes widen.

“You need to stop that,” he said in a strangled croak. “I said later, I’m not going to cheat you with a quickie.”

“Don’t call it a quickie, just call it a preview.” She hooked her thumbs on the waist band of her already wet panties. Lifting her legs as high as the bunk bed would allow her, she pulled them off and threw them at him. “Are you sure you don’t want a sneak peek?”

She got impatient when AJ glanced at his watch then back at her. She needed to get the doctor to submit to the man. Not thinking clearly, attributing her brave attitude to the fact that she was already half naked, Katherine rubbed her thumb on her clit and buried it inside her. That won her a growl. AJ pushed away from the door and was just about to take a step toward her when a knock on the door busted their bubble.

Katherine watched him crack the door open, reach out and grab a laundry bag and close the door. He tossed the bag on the top bunk, his hungry eyes urging Katherine on. Nervous now, terrified and feeling a little bit stupid, Katherine pulled back her thumb, but made the mistake of putting it in her mouth. But that bad idea earned her a positive response.

AJ chucked his trousers and boxers and tossed them to the other side of the room. Katherine’s eyes widened. Seeing his full glory was intimidating. She wondered how she had been able to take him in the first time, because she doubted, she could do it now. AJ got on his knees before her. Grabbing her thighs, he pulled her against him. Katherine’s head fell back, waiting for the pain and pleasure of his shaft inside her. Instead, she got the gentle warm touch of his tongue. She could feel herself unravel quickly but that wasn’t how she wanted to cum this time. She tried pushing AJ’s punishing mouth away, but he was too strong.

He jerked her toward him once more, his fingers biting into her flesh and bruising. Her hips lifted off the bed as he tasted and suckled from her sweet nectar. Her hands grabbed a fistful of the bed sheets as her body begun to transcend. But just before her orgasm crushed into her, AJ pumped into her. She hadn’t noticed when either of their shirts had come off, all she knew was her fingers were touching AJ’s bare skin, and his mouth was hungrily feasting on her nipples.

Katherine arched with each powerful stroke, as she tried her best to hold her orgasm off.

“Stop it!” AJ’s commanding voice rang in her ears. “I’m in control now, let go.”

“I want it to last—” Katherine swallowed a gasp when she felt AJ pinch her clit, at the same time biting down on her tit. A punishing, unforgiving climax thundered through her. Katherine felt her body squirm, trying to get away from AJ. She felt her toes curl, as a scream bubbled in her belly up her throat, but it never got out. AJ flipped her over and had her on her belly, taking her from behind and he had managed to ensure her mouth was buried in the pillow. She felt the walls of her pussy clench around AJ in a death grip, his body tremble and then the heat of AJ’s release inside her.

“Give…me…a…second.” AJ breathed out. “I’ll get off you in just a second.”

“I don’t care if you never leave.” Katherine hoped she had said it as clearly as it sounded in her mind.

She was smiling, basking in the remnants of AJ’s warrior-like lovemaking, when the cold engulfed her. AJ had left her body. He grabbed his shirt from the floor and toweled her dry. Flipping her back over, he worked on her front, his eyes never leaving her body, his hands never faltering in their charge. Katherine was sure she had died and gone to heaven.

“You’d better put some clothes on, or—” AJ didn’t finish, instead he swallowed hard.

Katherine wanted whatever his mind was thinking up. But a knock on the door, told them it was time for the surgery. She dressed in silence and watched as AJ dried his sweaty body and dressed. He took their discarded clothes and shoved them into the bag that had carried the clean pair of scrubs.

“This is going to be hard—trying to perform surgery, all the while knowing you don’t have any underwear on. You’d better stay on your side of the table, or I’ll take you on top of the patient with the surgical staff and the entire gallery as an audience.”

“Promises, promises.”

Who said dreams couldn’t come true?