breathing in his deep, rich scent. She was trembling inside and it wasn’t from her near attack but the step she was about to take. A step that would change her life forever.
Her breath caught in the back of her throat as she watched Ethan walk across the office floor. He’d wrapped a large, white towel around his waist. He stopped, towering over her. His eyes were a swirl of colors – blue, gold, black. The colors seemed to change in reaction to the emotions racing across his face. His chest was bare, a bronzed work of art thick with black, curling hair. He brought her hands to his towel.
“Take it off,” he ordered.
Her hands trembled as she worked the knot free but she managed to fumble it open and let it drop to the floor. When she discovered his size, her wide eyes sought his for reassurance.
He folded himself over her, pushing her into the soft leather of the couch. “I’ll take care of you. I’ll take a long time,” he whispered by her ear, nipping the sweet upper curve. “Do you trust me not to hurt you?”
She moved closer, drawn like a magnet to the hair-roughed chest, her nipples throbbing when she pushed into him. “I trust you.”
Ethan let out a savage breath. Years of waiting to find her, months of wanting to fuck her…and now, he held his mate in his arms.
He quickly stripped her of the robe. Closer, he could hear her tortured breathing. Her nipples were diamond hard points digging into his warm chest. She clung, trembling. His big hands tunneled through the damp curls of her hair, savoring its silkiness. Somehow, she’d bundled it on top of her head so the shower’s spray had only dampened it. “I need to mark you,” he said through a tight throat.
“Mark me?”
His hand brushed her hair away from her neck and he licked the side of her neck, tasting the honeyed sweetness of her skin. “Here. I need to place my mark here so no one, no one will ever hurt you again.”
His mouth brushed hungrily against hers and he felt it open, felt her body quicken in response even as he heard her helpless groan of pleasure.
He interpreted her response as agreement, a scared oath. “I’m sorry, baby. I can’t wait. I need you too damn much.”
Lily smiled knowing he was apologizing for the fact he was about to take her on a leather couch in his office. No doubt, it offended his sensibilities. Ethan was a sophisticated man, seduction his game. Instead of upsetting Lily that there’d be no fancy dinner, romantic carriage ride or a ten-star hotel to mark their mating, it gave her a rush of feminine power to know his desire for her had knocked away his veneer of civilization and control.
The man wanted her .
His wolf craved her.
The coolness of the air rolled over her as he moved. Before she knew it, he was crouched between her legs.
“I need to taste you,” he growled, grasping her calves and bending her legs forward. She moved, trying to get away. “Ssh, baby. You’ll like it, trust me.”
He smiled at her and Lily couldn’t help but compar e his grin to that of his animal counterpart. Both so charming and so lethal.
He put pressure on her bended knees, spreading her to his view. She shivered, her mind racing with thoughts of what he was about to do. She’d read. She’d read lots and lots. Romances, erotica – manuals – she’d satisfied her curiosity on how things were done, but nothing had prepared her for this. Flesh against flesh. Tongue against…
He knelt between her splayed legs, his gaze locked on the pinkness of her slit. He bent forward, his shoulders taking the place of his hands to hold her in place. His thumb touched the outside of her swollen lips and she jumped.
“So wet. Is that for me, baby?” H e grinned again and Lily was lost. Completely lost. She wanted this man. She’d been on the verge of falling completely, helplessly in love with him for months. Now, she fell over the edge. He said she was his mate. A person made especially for him, even if she
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