After a second, she tapped out on my arm, two quick slaps of her palm against my skin, and I let her go instantly. She rolled off and lay on her side facing me, breathing fast and grinning that infuriatingly sexy grin.

  “Nice move,” she said.

  “What did you expect?” I shifted onto my side too, and I couldn’t help but stare into her eyes. They were bluer than I remembered, the pupils wide and dark. “That I was just going to lie there and wait for you to pin me?”

  She eased close, so close I could feel her lips move against mine as she whispered, “That’s exactly what I was hoping.”

  “Well think again.” I intended to get up, I really did, but she slid her hips a little closer until our thighs touched and I was suddenly frozen to the spot. I felt her fumble between us and I looked down to see her untie her belt and pull it off. Her gi top fell open and I groaned. She wore nothing beneath it, not even a sports bra. Her breasts were as golden as the rest of her, the nipples small and tight in the centers of two perfect, tawny circles.

  “How about if I even the field?” Robideaux shrugged out of her top. “Better?”

  “What are you doing?” I whispered.

  “I propose a rematch,” Robideaux said, pushing me onto my back and straddling my waist. She knelt above me, her hands braced on my shoulders. “No holds barred. Whoever taps out first, loses.”

  “What makes you think I want a rematch?” I said, trying to sound tough, but I couldn’t take my eyes off her breasts. They swayed ever so slightly with each breath, tantalizingly close. I wanted my mouth on them. I wanted to tighten my teeth around her nipple until she moaned. Her crotch was hot against my stomach and I twisted my hips, trying to dislodge her before I lost my mind and clamped my mouth to her flesh.

  “Your cunt felt so good against my leg when I beat you last year,” Robideaux said softly, rocking on my belly. “I made you wet that day, didn’t I?”

  “Fuck you.”

  “Maybe.” She lowered herself, still pinning my shoulders, and kissed me, her tongue teasing my lips before dancing inside my mouth. I gripped her forearms and jerked my pelvis into empty air, aching for contact. I moaned into her mouth and sucked on her tongue. She pulled back, laughing.

  “I bet you still think about it, don’t you? Do you come, thinking—”

  “Get the fuck off me.”

  “Make me.”

  I planted my feet flat on the floor, thrust my hips and torqued my shoulders, throwing her to the side. I was on her in a second, my legs scissoring her thighs, but she was naked from the waist up and I didn’t have anything to hold on to. I tried for a front chokehold, but Robideaux twisted the back of my T-shirt in her fist, jerked it tight around my neck, and almost executed a reverse choke. I managed to twist away just in time but lost my grip on her legs. She pumped her hips and flipped me, and the next thing I knew I was on my back with her forearm across my neck and her body pinning my chest. She licked my lips, then nipped at my chin.

  “Are you going to tap out?” she murmured.

  I turned my head away as much as I could so she wouldn’t see what the weight of her body was doing to me. I couldn’t move, and if she leaned a little harder with her arm on my neck, I wouldn’t be able to breathe, but my cunt was swelling and my clit was hard and all I wanted her to do was press harder, everywhere. She inched up until her breasts met mine and I groaned.

  “All you have to do is tap, darlin’, and I’ll let you up,” Robideaux whispered, one hand dropping to my waist. She pulled the ties on my pants and I felt cool air against my belly.

  “No,” I moaned, turning my head back and searching for her face. Her eyes were hazy and her lips parted in a half-smile far sexier even than her cocky grin.

  “You make me so hot,” Robideaux murmured, shifting ever so slightly until her crotch rode my thigh. She slid her hand down my pants and cupped my cunt while pressing a tiny bit harder against my neck. “Ready to give up?”

  “No.” I jammed my leg into her crotch and she groaned, her eyes closing and her grip on my neck relaxing. I thrust my hips to throw her off, but she stayed with me, squeezing her hand between my legs and catching my clit in her fingers. I yelled, “Oh, fuck!” and went completely still.

  Robideaux trembled and jerked her crotch against my leg. “Nice…try.” She shuddered and shifted her arm from my neck to cup my cheek in her palm. She was shaking so hard I knew she’d come soon.

  “Tapping out?” I gasped, my clit twitching between her fingers. I could have bucked her off then, except her grip on my clit felt too good. I wanted to beg her to make me come, but it was so much better than I’d imagined all those times I’d teased myself to orgasm while thinking about her that I never wanted the reality to end.

  “I can last as long as you can,” Robideaux said, but she sounded about to lose it.

  I shoved my shoulders up while I still had enough strength in my stomach to do it and caught her nipple in my teeth. She moaned as I sucked her, but I couldn’t hold it long. I fell back and she almost followed.

  “Concede?” I asked weakly. I couldn’t breathe. God, I was close now.

  “You wish,” Robideaux grunted, milking my clit with long, firm strokes.

  “Robideaux,” I groaned. She was making me come and I couldn’t stop her. Didn’t want to stop her, didn’t want the terrible wonderful pressure building in my cunt to stop, ever. I gripped her hips to keep her centered on my thigh and pushed and pulled her along my leg. The muscles in her stomach went board hard, and she threw her head back and came with a loud cry, soaking her pants and mine. She didn’t let up on me but just kept pulling my clit while she writhed on top of me, still coming, and I exploded seconds after her.

  I lay there panting, spent and weak, Robideaux’s body pinning me to the mat, her hand still between my legs. She shivered and I felt around on the mat for her jacket and dragged it over her. Robideaux bit my neck, then nuzzled my ear. I kissed her. When she rubbed my clit in slow, firm circles, I moaned.

  “You might want to tap out before you get hurt, darlin’,” she murmured.

  “Are you crazy?” I laughed and bumped my clit against her palm, already hard enough to come again. “Feel that?”

  “Mmm, yeah.”

  “Does it feel like I’m ready to tap out?”

  Robideaux heaved herself up on an elbow and grinned at me, her eyes soft and satisfied. “Up for another match?”

  “I’m here, aren’t I?”

  She leaned down and kissed me. “Same rules—you tap out, you lose.”

  I just nodded and kissed her back, thinking that win or lose, it was going to be one hell of a tournament.

  About the Author

  Radclyffe has written over fifty romance and romantic intrigue novels, dozens of short stories, and, writing as L.L. Raand, has authored a paranormal romance series, The Midnight Hunters.

  She is an eight-time Lambda Literary Award finalist in romance, mystery, and erotica—winning in both romance (Distant Shores, Silent Thunder) and erotica (Erotic Interludes 2: Stolen Moments edited with Stacia Seaman and In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip written with Karin Kallmaker). A member of the Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame, she is also an RWA/FF&P Prism Award winner for Secrets in the Stone, an RWA FTHRW Lories and RWA HODRW winner for Firestorm, an RWA Bean Pot winner for Crossroads, an RWA Laurel Wreath winner for Blood Hunt, and the 2016 Book Buyers Best award winner for Price of Honor. In 2014 she was awarded the Dr. James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Award by the Lambda Literary Foundation. She is a featured author in the 2015 documentary film Love Between the Covers, from Blueberry Hill Productions.

  She is also the president of Bold Strokes Books, one of the world’s largest independent LGBTQ publishing companies.

  Find her at facebook.com/Radclyffe.BSB, follow her on Twitter @RadclyffeBSB, and visit her website at Radfic.com.

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