Page 158 of Under an Endless Moon

A deep, desirous, mind-bending kiss.

This kiss was slow and thorough.

Unhurried.

Like we had all the time in the world. Like we had no end.

Our tongues danced and played, and our breaths mingled as our hearts beat in sync.

I let my hands explore, palms riding over the glorious muscles of his shoulders, fingers dragging over his massive pecs and scratching at his rippling back.

Otto moaned and dropped down a fraction, letting his heat burn through my body as he kissed me into a puddle.

A needy, helpless puddle.

“Otto.”

“I know, baby, I know.”

He pushed up high on one hand and let the other glide up my outer thigh until he was gripping my hip. I felt his fingers tremble. Felt his nerves. The concern he forever held for me as he pulled back, breaths heaving from his lungs as he studied me.

“You say, Raven. If you get scared or anxious or just fuckin’ change your mind, you say.”

“I promise.”

He sat back on his heels, and I sat up. He reached around me and drew down the zipper of my dress.

Cool air brushed my back, and chills lifted across my flesh. He bunched up the material and began to slowly drag it over my head. He tossed it aside, and my chest rattled as he gazed down at me.

I didn’t have a bra on under the dress, and it left me completely bare except for black, lacy underwear.

“You have no idea, do you? What it’s like seeing you this way?”

He leaned in and started to pluck the pins out of my hair, letting it fall around my shoulders.

The fresh baby’s breath that I’d tucked into the twist earlier this morning rained around me.

“Goddess. How’s it I’m touching a goddess like this?”

My nails raked his chest, coasting all the way down until I was tugging at the button of his jeans.

“And how is it that I’m finally getting to experience this fantasy with you?”

A ridge of cockiness rode the edge of his mouth. “Going to make sure you get to experience it again and again. In every way that you’ve imagined.”

He eased off the end of the bed and hooked his fingers in my underwear as he went, and I arched as he peeled them down my legs.

Otto hissed. “Fuck me. Never have I seen something sobeautiful. This fuckin’ gorgeous body laid out on my sheets. You said I was every fantasy you’ve ever had, Raven. But you are my only dream. The one wish I’d never dared to make. And now I have it in the palm of my hand.”

He let that palm slip up around my hip before he squeezed at the same time as he leaned in to inhale the flesh on my inner thigh.

Need flash-fired, a riot in the middle of the room.

Otto edged back, never looking away as he shoved his jeans off his waist. He took his underwear with them as he shucked himself free of the denim.

Then he straightened.

Naked.

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