Page 39 of His UnBearable Touch

“No, no.” She reached down and managed to comb her fingertips through his hair. “Please, no.”

He stilled in a heartbeat. Getting up on his hands and knees over her, searching her expression for pain or revulsion. “What’s wrong?”

“I want us together when it happens.” Her admission warmed his heart, but he felt at a loss for the abject worry in her tone.

“And we will, Allegra. When I mark you, we will.”

She shook her head, her bottom lip pinned between her teeth.

He lay on his side and smoothed his thumb over her chin, whispering gentle words to her. “Tell me what has you so upset, Allegra.”

“Not upset,” she said the words but her expression made her a liar, “I just… I don’t have more than one.”

It took him a moment to understand what she was saying, but before he could argue, she was already talking again.

“Not even when I did it for myself,” she mumbled. “Please don’t-”

He ended her plea with a kiss and reached for the hem of her tank top. “I won’t. Not tonight.”

He sought to reassure her, but he also sought to reassure himself. Allegra deserved to enjoy being loved, it was the most personal physical pleasure that anyone could experience.

“Tonight,” he helped her remove her tank top, discarding it on the blanket before he removed the last bit of clothing covering his body, “the first will be together and after that, we shall see.”

She opened her mouth to argue and he ate her words as thoroughly as he had intended to devour her heat. Moments later she was moaning into his mouth, grabbing at his shoulders, pulling him closer.

Valerio reached down, smoothing his hand over her belly, to trail his fingers between her thighs, teasing her tender flesh. She was still wet from before, but a few well-placed strokes of his long fingers had her knees falling open beneath him, creating a cradle for him.

Allegra’s body stretched around his fingers, muscles pulling him in while a rush of need coated his skin.

Her hips pushed up, and Allegra turned her head to the side, baring her neck and shoulder to his hungry gaze.

“Soon, please. I don’t… too fast.”

* * *

She felt the shift in him.

As if he’d flicked a switch and opened another part of himself.

Everything she felt as she lay bare beneath him, her body begging for his touch, was sensual, needy.

She didn’t feel hesitation like before. She didn’t worry about pain. That was behind her, and Valerio was everything ahead of her… and she wanted the joy that came with him. Wanted it like her next breath.

When he reached for her she had less than a moment to wonder what he had in mind. His hands on her hips tugged her closer, pulled her up against his chest, took her mouth in another soul-searing kiss as he lowered her down.

She felt him lean closer, keeping his mouth on hers even when the difference in their height made it difficult to do. And then she felt it, a warm ache between her thighs, the way his body pushed slowly inside of hers.

And it was like his light in the darkness, slowly building, expanding inside of her.

Allegra felt full, but not nearly full enough. She leaned back, ever so slightly and he slid his hands up her back to give her the room she needed but also to hold her securely.

He leaned over her as she tightened her legs around his waist, breathing out against her skin to let her know what he meant to do.

“Yes,” she gasped and then pulled in a breath as his lips closed over the tip of her breast. His tongue rolled over her nipple and it tightened from the sensation of its rough texture. He pulled her deeper into his mouth for a second time as she sank deeper onto him. The sensations were addictive as his mouth paid homage to her other breast, wringing moans from her throat.

When he was fully seated in her body, when she felt her backside touch his thighs, she groaned and sat up, reaching for his shoulders. The shift in her body rocked her clit against him and she gasped, feeling a ripple of sensation pulse through her core.

“Allegra.”

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