Page 36 of Modern Romance March 2025 (5-8)

“You never asked to meet anyone.”

“I’m not blaming you,” she said, rubbing her finger over his lower lip. “It suited me to hide in the corners of your life. I think I was almost waiting you out, waiting for you to come to your senses.”

“What does that mean?”

She shrugged. “Doesn’t matter. But all that’s going to change now.”

“I like you in my shirts,bella, or like this, with nothing on.”

Before she could draw another breath, he bent that proud head down and licked her nipple. Electricity shivered down her spine. She sank her fingers into his hair as he played with the bud, licking and tugging and finally, closing his lips around it and sucking.

Shaking, Nyra half gasped and half moaned as his fingers gently cupped her belly and then delved down into her folds.

His curse rang loudly in the silence.

“You’re dripping,” Adriano said, laving the wetness and tapping on her clit.

“For you,” she said, holding on to him for balance but also hoping he would launch her into the sky like he usually did. “I’ve missed you so much, Adriano.”

He shifted his mouth to her other breast, his breath a sharp stroke against the waiting bud. “Never again, Nyra. You will never be deprived again.”

And then with his mouth alternating between her nipples and the valley between her breasts, and his finger strumming her folds, thrusting through her core, pinching her clit, while his filthy words of praise drenched her skin, he pushed her to the edge of the cliff and launched her into a thousand fragments.

Nyra came, sobbing and keening and crying, his name falling over and over from her lips.

* * *

When she returned to the ground, trembling from head to toe, it was to find the cool sheets at her back. On his knees and hands, Adriano was watching her, filling her entire vision.

She clasped his cheek, loving the rough bristle of his stubble against her palm. “I wanted to seduce you,” she said, her eyes flickering between his. “You didn’t come to see me after returning from Japan.”

“I wanted to,” he bit out, skating his mouth over her palm.

“I want this to work, Adriano,” she said.

“I know, wife. And it will.” Then he leaned down, his shoulders bunching tight when he stopped short of giving her his entire weight. “And you don’t have to go to these lengths to seduce me,bella.” His pelvis came down and Nyra instantly opened her thighs.

The rough, weighty press of his cock against her damp core made their groans ring out together. “All you need to do is ask me for this. For whatever you want.”

She threw her arms around his neck and pulled herself up. Her already sensitized nipples scraped deliciously against his chest hair. “Then, please, come inside me. I’m desperate.” And then she took his mouth.

He tasted like toothpaste and whiskey and him…

The kiss went to incendiary from the get-go. Heat flushed and prickled under her skin, as he plundered her mouth with the same desperate need she felt.

Nyra writhed against the sheets, anchoring her hands in his hair as he moved his mouth down her jaw and then blew a soft puff of air over her nipple. The peak tightened and arched toward him.

She tugged at his hair hard. With a chuckle, he closed his lips over it and she was riding the gates to heaven on a wave.

The suck and pull of his clever lips made her core weep and gush. A curse rattled off his lips when his cock felt her damp folds. “You’re so ready for me,bella.”

“I am,” she said, clinging to him.

He played with her breasts a little more, bringing her right to the edge, all over again. Just when she thought she might expire from the little mirage hovering out of reach, he pulled her up to lean against him.

Her chest heaving with rough pants, Nyra took a few seconds to register how he had positioned them. Her damp back slid against his hairy chest but it was only one point of attack. His hair-roughened thighs bracketed hers and against her lower back, his cock was trapped. The scent of his soap and sweat wrapped around her like a coil.

“Give me your gaze, Nyra,” he said, kissing a line along her shoulder blades.

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