for. Come with me. I want you in my bed.”
He took her hand and led her upstairs. There was a big bed against one wall of the room. Light shone dimly through heavy linen curtains, casting a warm glow. Overhead, a ceiling fan made lazy circles.
But she didn’t have time to take anything else in. Jared slid his arms around her waist, turning her, then backing her toward the bed. He paused to pull her tank top over her head, his own shirt following. His chest was all hard muscle, his dark nipples as hard as her own. But she barely had time to admire his wide shoulders, the ripple of his abs, before he put his hands on her shoulders, pushing her down onto the mattress. There was something commanding about his touch. Purely male. He bent over her, breathed onto the naked flesh of her breasts.
This is it. This is where I scream.
She arched her back, trying to get her full, tingling breasts closer to his mouth.
Jared’s tongue shot out, flicking at one hardened tip, and she sighed, snaking an arm around the back of his neck to pull him closer.
He pulled away and dislodged her hold on him. “No, darlin’. Lie still.”
“Jared, I can’t wait.”
“Ah, but you will wait. I’ll not have it any other way.”
Her sex pulled tight in a sharp spasm at his words, the tone of his voice. She rubbed her thighs together to ease the sting of blood pounding there, but it did no good. She needed his hands there, his hot mouth, his throbbing cock. Nothing else would do. She held her arms at her sides and resigned herself to waiting, shivering all over.
“Better.” He smiled up at her approvingly and his eyes, dark and bottomless, beautiful, glinted with lust.
He bent his head and she waited for the exquisite torture to begin again. But instead of teasing her this time he immediately pulled her nipple into his mouth.
“Ah, that’s good…”
His hot tongue swirled over the tip before he began to suck. It was almost painful, yet exquisitely, sharply, arousing. His hand came up to cover her other breast, cupping it, squeezing gently. When he crimped her nipple between his fingers and tugged she nearly came up off the bed. Nearly came ,was surprised to find she had to hold her orgasm back.
No man had ever done anything like this to her. She had never come with a man without long and concentrated work. What was different about him?
She had little time to think about it as he snapped open the button of her shorts and dragged them down over her hips.
Yes, touch me…
She eased her hand down to cover her mound, to press there in desperation, but Jared’s big hand quickly covered hers and moved it away.
“Allow me.” A wicked smile lit his features, his dimple flashing.
“I wish you’d hurry,” she said, not even certain she meant it.
“I’ll get there soon enough, I promise you, darlin’.”
He bent his head once more, drew his hot, wet mouth over her body. Beginning just beneath her breasts, he ran his tongue down the center of her ribcage, her stomach. She trembled beneath him, her skin lighting in a blaze of sensation everywhere he touched. When he reached her navel and dipped his tongue in a groan escaped her. God, she was soaking wet. Hurting with wanting him. Wanting to push his clever mouth down further until he closed it over her needy sex. She moaned, arched her hips.
“I know exactly what you need, Leigh,” he murmured. “I’ll give it to you.” He punctuated his whispered words with soft, moist kisses pressed into the flesh of her belly. “I’ll give you everything.”
His head dipped lower, and he blew a breath on the tight curls at the apex of her thighs. She spread them wider.
“Yes, that’s it. Open for me. Ah, you’re lovely, like a flower.”
His warm breath made her shiver all over, a shiver made of pure anticipation. Pure pleasure. Pure need. She fought to hold still.
When he planted his mouth on her wet, aching pussy she cried out. Pleasure stabbed through her when he used his