“I want you,” I breathe, arching beneath him.

He slides his hand from my face downward.

Down my throat.

Down my cleavage.

Across my belly button.

Down.

To cup my sex.

And penetrate me with two fingers.

His features tighten with raw passion.

A groan vibrates up his chest. A groan just like the one that vibrates up my own chest.

I shudder beneath him.

He watches me for a moment, eyes darkening by the second as he takes his cock and teases my wet entrance with the head. I’m waiting for him, panting. Wanting. He rocks back and then starts filling me, not with a fast thrust, but with a slow, deliberate drive of his hips that makes me aware of every inch of him entering—every inch possessing me.

He fills me—no condom, all bare, just him—as if he doesn’t plan to leave an inch of me unclaimed, unfucked, or empty. He fills me as if he’s home. He tenses when he’s fully inside, and groans when my body clutches him greedily—my channel gripping his hot length, not wanting to let him go.

We’re both fighting for control, to take it slow, his body shaking with his need. I rock my hips and he does the same, a low growl rumbling up his chest as he lifts his head from my breasts and kisses me, kisses me as if I’m all there is right now, all he wants.

“You’re everything, everything good and pure and right,” he rasps into my mouth. He seizes me by the hips and pulls out only to drive in, so deeply I feel him in my heart.

“And you’re all I want,” I gasp, and he slips his hands under the small of my back and grabs me by the ass, holding me there as he starts pounding me harder. He lowers his head. Forehead hovering above mine. Pounding inside me.

My body starts seizing as I hit the pinnacle. His hard, muscular body moving over me without mercy now. Tears of pleasure burn in my eyes as Matt relentlessly drives in and out, in and out, watching me now—watching me take it, take him, writhe for him, go off for him.

I cry out, a soft yell I fear echoes all over the White House.

I’m lost. I’m his. I don’t want to be anywhere else, will never be anyone else’s, he’s my guy, my commander, my god.

As I come, his eyes flash as he looks down at me, every raw emotion written on his face, every feeling he’s tried to hide in public is out here in the open for me, every ounce of passion etched across his normally impassive face here for me to see.

I come even harder, if that’s possible, my body reverberating top to bottom, side to side, and down to the marrow of my bones.

He reaches his climax right in my depths, and I know it’s because my own climax detonated him. His body pulses with his orgasm. I’m still going off in a crazy undulating motion beneath him, but he holds me down by the hips and forces me to take everything. A thousand bursts of color behind my eyelids. I cling to his body and hear him exhale in satisfaction against the top of my head.

We fall still, our breaths echoing in the Lincoln bedroom. I ache because of him and I also ache for more. Even when he’s still hard inside me.

A sheen of sweat coats our bodies. Matt’s coffee gaze feathers over my naked form.

“I can’t get enough of you.”

He sounds amazed and a little frustrated as he cradles the back of my head as he lifts me up an inch for his mouth. He pushes his tongue inside until I mewl softly. “Fuck if I’m not ready to take you again,” he says, his voice gruff as he slides his large, gentle hand down my abdomen.

He cups me between my thighs and gently feels me.

“How sensitive are you, Charlotte?” he asks, lightly rubbing his index finger along my opening.

I hear a low mewl leave me. I want to lick him up, every inch of him, and I definitely crave to lick every inch of his big presidential cock.

“I want you,” I breathe. “Again and again. And I want to …”

I let my eyes fall on his erection and shuffle my body closer. I stare at his cock, the head turgid and swollen, the veins popping up the length. Matt is so swollen he feels heavy in my hand as I reach him. I cup his balls in both my hands, then slide my fingers upward, encircling his width with both my hands as I take him in my mouth.

The taste of the salty drop of pre-cum already on the tip of his cock along my tongue makes me moan deep inside.

A groan rumbles up his throat as he begins to pump into my mouth. His hands are fisted in my hair. He’s plunging deeper, filling my mouth with his cock. With every upward thrust groaning my name, Charlotte.

Before he starts coming, he pulls me back and dives for my mouth with his hungry one.

His kiss so hard our teeth gnash together, our tongues tangle without holding back.

“More,” I moan as we keep kissing and running our hands all over each other’s sweat-slicked bodies.

He instantly rolls me to my back, and goes where he wants to go.

The pace is frantic, the bed squeaking, he’s fucking me so hard, his eyes watching me as if there is nothing more beautiful, nothing he’d rather see, than me—naked and writhing—in his bed.

He fucks me primally, like he knows he’s the most powerful man in the world, and I’m so hot for him I come right away.

I’m loose in bed, languid in his arms, Matt chuckling when I groan as if in pain.

“You okay?” He cups my face and inspects my features, then all of me, sort of in a concerned but admiring way.

“Better than okay. I just bagged the president.” I smile, a sad, forlorn, haunted smile, then Matt looks down at me as he pinches my nipple, playfully.

“I just fucked the daylights out of the first lady and I don’t intend to let up anytime soon.”

Matt brings a Kleenex and wipes me between my legs, and watching him do this makes my heart sort of crumble.

“I’m sorry. I got carried away. I’ll be more careful.” He cups my face and kisses my forehead, looking into my eyes. “Are we going to be okay?”

I look into his eyes, realizing what he’s asking me. If there’s a risk of me getting pregnant.

“I think we’re okay,” I breathe, then nod more firmly. “Yes.”

He smiles at that, kisses me on the lips. “You felt incredible,” he assures.

When he returns and sits at the side of the bed, he’s silent, and although he’s leaning forward on his elbows, his broad shoulders tense.

“If you need to go, I don’t want to keep you,” I whisper.

He drags a hand over his face and glances at me. “Nothing I can do right now. I made the call. I’m meeting in the Situation Room”—he glances at the clock on the nightstand, then shakes his head—“later.”

I knee my way on the bed toward him. “Will they be okay?”

He clenches his jaw as I wrap my arms around his shoulders. “I’m betting a rescue team of eight on that.” He nods firmly, his eyes glazed, warlike.

“Can I do anything?” I ask.

He kisses me, thoughtful. “Pray.”

“I’m sorry this happened.”

“There’s a price for peace. Always.” He looks at me. “But it’s worth it.” He runs a hand down the back of my head. “Go to sleep, baby.”

I lie back down, and he stretches out beside me, a pillow propped behind his back as he pulls me to his side.

My eyes drift shut. No matter what goes on outside this room, in these arms, I feel safer than I ever do anywhere else, and the relaxation seeps into my pores as I drift off and keep my arms around him—as if I, just a small, normal girl, could somehow comfort the most powerful man in the world.

I wake up at 5 a.m. Matt isn’t there. I sit up. “Matt?”

I look around the empty bedroom, ease out of bed, and quickly get dressed. I find him in the small family kitchen. “Are you all right?”

He takes my hand and draws me to sit next to him, then he presses his thumb into my palm, quiet. My heart speeds up with a mix of panic and dread. It feels as if my ribs have just collapsed in my chest, crushing my lungs.

“I had an early meeting in the Situation Room.”

I know why. It’s not easy to make the hard calls. But then our eyes connect again, and a smile tugs his lips. “It’s done. The men are free. A couple wounded, but no casualties. The rescue team did an outstanding job.”