Page 43 of Dangerous Lover

In answer, she turned her head and kissed his chest. He didn’t feel it through his sweatshirt, but the gesture stunned him. It was an unmistakeable gesture of … of affection.

He’d lusted after this woman for most of his life, it seemed. The sex they’d had yesterday hadn’t even begun to get her out of his head. He was okay with sex. It was what he knew, so he could deal with lust, and the thought of fucking her as long as he was physically able.

What he saw on her face nearly unmanned him. He wanted to put it back on a sexual footing, right now, so he wouldn’t have to deal with all those … things roiling around in his chest like huge hot boulders. He was bending to kiss her when she shivered.

“Out,” he said harshly. If he could have reached his own butt he’d have kicked it. Jesus, keeping her in the cold damp basement was not a good idea. What was he thinking? He’d actually flashed on pushing down her pants and taking her, right there, on the freezing concrete floor.

What was thematterwith him? He wouldn’t even treat a casual sex partner like that—and this wasCaroline.

With a hand on her back, he ushered her up into the kitchen. This wasn’t any good. In the half hour it had taken him to fix the boiler, the house had cooled down noticeably. He was okay with it, but Caroline would find it uncomfortably cold. Only one place to go—to bed.

Oh yeah. Get her between the sheets, start fucking. Get rid of that…that prickly feeling in his chest.

Jack kept his hand on the small of her back. “Keep on going up.” Caroline looked up at him, startled. She blushed when she saw the heat in his eyes and smiled faintly.

“Okay.”

Her bedroom had big windows, with no double glazing. The heat had simply leaked out and it was already close to freezing. Condensation had iced the windows over, forming giant star patterns on the pane. Their breaths were making clouds around their heads. Undressing Caroline slowly like he wanted to was out of the question.

He bent down and kissed her softly, reaching past her to pull down the covers. “Don’t undress, just get in.”

“Okay,” she whispered, toeing off her shoes and lying down. She scooted over, watching him. She’d left a big empty space on his side of the bed, an invitation as clear as if she’d engraved it on a card.

Jack undressed, watching her eyes. There was a little trepidation, a little shyness, but there was also welcome.

Naked to the waist, he unzipped his jeans and hooked his thumbs in the waistband. Hesitating, he finally just shucked them and the briefs off, taking socks and boots with him. Caroline’s eyes widened when she saw him.

He didn’t have to look down, he could see what condition he was in from what was in her eyes. And he could feel how swollen he was. He was hard as a club, already weeping from the tip, the drops of moisture cool against the tip of his cock. It was the only place where he felt cold. The rest of him was so hot he didn’t feel the cold at all, though he was naked. All he had to do was look at Caroline, and know that he was going to be inside her very soon, and a hot flush swept over his body.

“You’ve been thinking about this,” she said faintly, when he got into bed.

“All morning.” His weight made the bed dip and tip her towards him. Jack reached for her, rolled on top of her.

“All—” she gave a half laugh. “Even when you were fixing the boiler?”

Oh God, she felt so goddamned good, warm and soft, skin like satin. He rested his upper body on his forearms and looked down at her, smiling, as happy as he’d ever been in his life.

“Not then, no.” Down there in the basement, his only thought had been to get the damn thing up and running and get Caroline to somewhere warm. “But before. And after. And especially now.”

“Yes, I can see that.”

“Feel it.” Suddenly, Jack wanted her hands on him, like he wanted his next breath. He levered himself off her, to the side. He took her hand, soft, slender, long-fingered and curled it around his dick. “Feel me,” he whispered. “Feel how much I want you.”

Her fingers flexed under his, once, then closed around him. He hissed as a surge of blood rushed through him, straight into his dick. He’d pulled the covers up and tucked them around her shoulders, so Caroline couldn’t see what she was doing. But even if she couldn’t see it, she could surefeelwhat she was doing to him. Fisting her hand around him, she brought her hand down to the base, then slowly back up, smoothing a finger over the head of his cock. One pump of her hand, and it was weeping again. She could feel it, the little witch. The shyness was gone, and a smile of pure seduction was on her face.

She could feel everything she did to him, how his stomach muscles clenched when the back of her hand ran over them. The hand not holding his dick was on his chest, over his heart. She could feel how his breath shortened, how his heart raced.

Jack usually had a clock running in his head, and it was accurate to the minute. But now he lost all track of time in the quiet room. It was so sullen and overcast outside it was hardto tell what time of the afternoon it was, and there were no outside sounds.

There was only them, and the noises they made in the quiet room.

His rough breathing, the rustling of the sheets. The quiet slither of her clothes dropping by the side of the bed as he undressed her under the covers. The creaking of the bedsprings as he finally mounted her.

The slowahhhsound she made as he rolled back on top of her and positioned himself, barely inside her, feeling if she was wet enough. She was, not completely primed like he was, but wet enough. More foreplay would have to come later, when he’d had her—oh, maybe a thousand more times and had cooled down a little. Right now, if he waited even a second more to enter her, he’d come on her stomach, or his head would explode, so he slowly pushed his way in. Pushed his way home.

It felt like a homecoming.

There was no mistaking it—the welcome her body gave him. Tight as she was, there was no resistance, just the wet warm sleekness of the tissues of her little sex, parting to make way for him. He didn’t have to hold her thighs open, she’d lifted her legs herself and opened them wide, heels hugging the backs of his thighs, arms tight around his neck, arching into him.

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