Lifebound (11 page)

Chapter Twelve

R
ealization flashed over his face, lighting his beautiful cerulean eyes.

He kissed her again, and she melted against his warm, strong body like a candle on a hot stove. Their hands roved over one another almost frantically in their haste to touch, to explore, to caress. Adriana recklessly stripped away her clothing and helped Josh quickly peel off anything that lay between them as they both sought to press skin to skin without any hindrance.

They fell to the mattress, clutching at each other wildly.

Josh hardened against her and she pressed herself closer to him.

“We need a condom.” He pushed free of her only long enough to grab what he needed from the nightstand drawer.

Then his body pressed against hers once more and she reached down impatiently to clutch at him, gliding her hand over his penis then gripping it possessively.

“This is mine now. You can have it back when I’m done with it.”

He groaned, his head sinking into her shoulder where he pressed hot kisses into her clavicle and up her throat.

“Keep it as long as you need it, just don’t stop what you’re doing.” His breath warmed her shoulder, and he shuddered at her touch.

She needed him closer. She wrapped her arms around him and pulled him even tighter into her embrace, relishing the feel of his skin against hers. The buds of her nipples tightened as they brushed against the warmth of his chest.

Between her legs, his warm hard body pressed against her, pressed into her. Boldly she guided him to her entrance and thrust her hips against him, grinding her need into his.

“Oh please. Please.”

“Baby, what are you doing to me?” He jerked and thrust himself all the way inside her.

She was tight and his entrance was a little painful, but the pain made her happy. He belonged to her now, and she wasn’t about to let him go. She wrapped her legs around his hips and rocked herself against him to bring him even deeper inside.

“Honey, if we don’t slow down just a little, this won’t last very long.” Josh began to thrust in rhythm with her motion.

She stopped moving and looked up at him. “I want this to last forever, Josh. Take all the time you need. Do whatever you want.”

He rolled over to his side, bringing her with him so her body still lay against his. “Then what I want is for you to scream my name so loud they can hear you on the next floor.”

He bent his head to her breast and began to explore the soft flesh with his mouth. He nibbled his way around the edges of peachy brown, and every nerve ending in her body began to buzz.

Adriana closed her eyes briefly in ecstasy as he teased the hardened tip with the end of his tongue then took her into his mouth, encircling the bud with his warmth and softness. As he suckled gently at first, then with more insistence, she gasped out loud and ran her fingers into his hair and clutched at his shoulder. The first orgasm rolled through her body with a deep shiver.

“Josh! Oh don’t stop!” She’d had no idea she could orgasm from breast play alone. She trembled uncontrollably.

When he moved to give his attention to the other breast, his fingers slipped below to caress her belly and the tops of her thighs, tantalizing her with almost touches to the curls that veiled her clitoris.

“Please, please, Josh! Don’t make me wait.” She wriggled under his hands to bring him closer to the spot she most wanted him to caress.

“You said you wanted it to last forever. Did you change your mind?”

She grabbed at his hair and pulled his mouth to hers to plunder it. She pulled at his lips with hers, sucked at his tongue, and tasted him deeply. When she pushed him away, he continued to lean in toward her, his mouth seeking hers.

“I can do more things with my lips than kiss. Do you want to wait for that?”

“No, ma’am.”

“Then quit playing around and get to business, skaterboy.” Over the past several days, she’d experienced numerous incredible moments of pleasure as Josh’s inventiveness and use of creative props had taken her body to places it had never been. But nothing he’d done before compared to the wildfire that erupted inside her when his fingers lightly stroked her outer folds.

“Is that better?”

“More, Josh. More. Now.”

“How’s this?”

He pressed his fingertips onto her bud more firmly, stroking and toying with her clitoris as his mouth explored and circled a nipple. Swirls of twin pleasure rolled through her body, surging back and forth within her so she couldn’t focus on either location of exquisite torment. First she’d feel his tongue suckling at her areola, pulling the entire circle into the warmth of his mouth. Then his fingers would stroke deep inside her core, taunting her clitoris, stretching and thumbing it so it vibrated with waves of deep delight.

“So good. You are so good, so sweet.” She moaned and whimpered, helpless in the power of his deep, wonderful, giving touch. “You have to do this to me all the time.”

“Absolutely,” he murmured against her breast, then tugged at her nipple hard with his lips as he reached deep inside her, his thumb firm against the epicenter of her sex. He pulled her to the brink over and over before casting her into the waves at last. The next orgasm burst through her with its twin epicenters of pleasure, and her back arched to bring him even closer.

“Josh! Oh Josh, yes!” She felt certain her cry could be heard on the beach.

Josh smiled as Adriana fell back onto the bed, her breath coming in heaves and soft groans.

He propped on his elbow and stroked her stomach, her skin trembling beneath his fingertips. She was so beautiful. So creamy smooth and round in all the right places. “I’m going to kiss every inch of you. Starting here.” He lowered his head and pressed his mouth against her stomach. She smelled like vanilla and tasted like sweet cream.

Adriana moved beneath him. She sat up and pushed him back onto the mattress with such force that Josh wondered if perhaps he had hurt her somehow. But when she pulled the condom free of his hardened shaft, the smolder in her eyes told him otherwise.

“Lie very still,” she whispered. “You’re mine now.”

He thought he would explode in her hand that very moment. But he did as she asked and fought the urge to tumble her beneath him, instead allowing her to wind her legs over his as she sat up beside him.

One hand encircled his hardness and the other traced lazy patterns across his chest, pausing ever so often to pinch and tug lightly at his nipples. She must have liked that, he thought to himself with a grin of pride. But thought shortly became impossible as the throbbing of his penis took over his mind completely.

“You like this?”

“Oh, baby, you know I do.”

“I wonder how long I can make it last then.”

Her fingers circled and pulled, alternately squeezing and brushing so he could never guess which touch she would feature next. He groaned softly and his eyes drifted shut, as he lay hypnotized by her actions. The next sensation he felt was so unexpectedly pleasurable that his eyes snapped open again.

The warmth of her mouth slipped over the head of his penis, surrounding him with its softness, and the center of his entire consciousness focused with laser intensity on that small area of skin and nerve endings. Every stroke of her lips and tongue threatened to send him out of his skin. He gripped the sheets tightly in an effort to hold back the explosion that built within him. Time stopped as she lavished herself on him.

She doesn’t have to do this.
He hadn’t gone there for her yet, and in his experience, women only went down on a guy as payback. He had never been offered the act as a gift in its own right. As she kissed and stroked him with her mouth and tongue, he slid closer and closer to the brink, and out of nowhere he understood what it meant to have a lover, not just a sex partner. For the first time in his life, he truly felt loved.

“Adriana, what are you doing to me?”

“This,” she said cryptically. “Close your eyes. Just feel.”

She shifted against him as she straddled his body with hers, first slipping on a fresh condom, then herself over him to envelop him in a warmth even deeper and more encompassing than her mouth had been. She was tight around him, so tight she had to be a virgin. He couldn’t believe he was lucky enough to be her first—and more than anything he wanted to be her one and only.

“You feel so good, baby.”

“Just be still and let me love you.”

She rocked against him in rhythm, running her hands over his chest and shoulders, leaning forward to press her breasts, those soft sweet breasts, against his chest. Each movement of her hips back and forth stirred the pool of sensation centered at the root of his dick, shaking him to the core of his body.

She wriggled against him so the soft skin of her ass pressed into his hips, then reached behind herself to fondle his testicles. No woman had ever thought to give his boys some play. He’d had no idea her tickling touch would send him nearly through the roof. How had he found someone this precious? This loving?

Unable to resist her, he opened his eyes to watch her sway against him. Her hair brushed her shoulders and he ran his fingers through its silk, then stroked the skin of her belly and thighs, marveling at its creaminess. He wanted her, all of her. He wanted her forever beside him, no matter the cost, no matter the consequences.

She rolled forward once more to kiss him, her body pulling at his shaft so the pool inside him tumbled and boiled. The instant her lips met his, he lost what had so far passed for self-control.

“I got to have you now, baby.”

In a single fluid move, he rolled her beneath him and thrust into her. When she grabbed at his back, the depth charge within him grew more powerful, eclipsing everything but the feel of her around him. Her legs wrapped around his waist, dragging him even deeper into her body, a place he desperately wanted to be. She gasped and a tear escaped the corner of her eye.

He was hurting her. The thought sobered him, and he forced himself to stop moving. He would not hurt her for the world.

But she pulled him into her again, thrusting her hips upward against his. “Don’t stop, Josh. Take me right now.”

She clenched at his back with her fingernails, and the bright half-moons of pain on his skin only shortened the fuse of the explosion to come in him. She rocked against him once more and control became something he’d only heard of—it had no place in his being any longer.

She moaned and sighed, the sounds of her pleasure pushing him even deeper into her warm tightness. Then she began to constrict around him with a cry, and the surging pool in his groin went off like a geyser. His breath left him with a groan of his own as his body shook with the overwhelming release.

He looked down at her as she lay there against the pillows, her silky hair cast in wanton tangles around her head. She was so beautiful. So soft and precious to him. All he wanted was to gather her into his arms and hold her forever.

So he did.

They lay there tangled in the sheets and in each other’s arms for a long while. Josh had to stop himself over and over from asking her to marry him right then and there. But he didn’t. He wanted to do it right. She deserved a real proposal with dinner and a ring and him down on one knee. He wanted her to know in her heart he was sincere and that she meant everything to him.

He kissed her again and again, so glad to be able to do so.

“I love you,” he murmured, unwilling to keep it to himself any longer.

“That’s just the sex talking,” she teased.

“Well, it was pretty incredible.” He laughed. “But I do love you, sex or no sex.”

She lay there with her head on his shoulder, her fingers making little patterns on his arms and chest. He wondered if she would return the words, then decided she didn’t have to.

After a while, she glanced up at the clock and sighed. “Only about twenty minutes to go.”

“What do you want to do?” he asked. “We can just lie here together or we can have more incredible sex.”

“I vote for incredible sex.”

But when she rolled over against him, he caught a wince of pain on her face. He would not hurt her. But he did have an idea that might dull the pain just a little.

“You just lie still.” He winked.

Adriana had no idea that it was possible to experience a more intense orgasm than Josh had already given her. But when he began to work his way down her body with his mouth, she knew she was in for something very different this time.

Every spot he caressed felt beautiful and every tender place he kissed felt loved. She relaxed into his hands knowing that whatever else happened that night or for the rest of their lives, Josh loved her. As he pressed hot kisses onto the sensitive skin of her thighs, she began to feel very guilty that she hadn’t returned the words.