Page 80 of The Paris Chapter

God, I could get used to waking up beside him.

‘Are you awake?’ he asked sleepily, his eyes still closed.

‘Yes but I don’t want to move,’ I said, placing a hand on his chest. It was warm and strong like him and as I stroked his skin, I marvelled how much had changed in such a short space of time. I would never have guessed I’d end up curled in his nook feeling like I had come home. ‘I ache in places I didn’t know I could ache.’

Ethan chuckled, and I felt the rumble through his chest. He leaned down to kiss the top of my head. ‘Who needs the gym?’ He tightened his arm around me and I sighed contently. Therewas a beat of silence. ‘So, you’re okay about last night?’ he asked softly.

I lifted my head off his chest slightly to see his eyes had opened and he was looking at me. ‘I have a feeling I won’t be able to stop smiling today and everyone will be very annoyed with me.’

‘I won’t be.’ He leaned down and brushed his lips against mine. ‘I want to make you smile every day.’ Then he looked at me so deeply, my heart started to speed up.

‘I think you can easily do that,’ I said, smiling happily.

He pulled me back for a kiss that turned hungry and frantic again. ‘Ruined,’ he gasped between kisses. ‘I’m totally, utterly ruined and I couldn’t be happier about it.’

‘Me too,’ I breathed as I shifted higher, pulling him closer, curving my body around him. Ethan grunted in approval, his free hand coming around to touch my face gently. I wrapped an arm around his neck and when our tongues met, my body was suddenly eager to carry on with last night. I was about to suggest that when his phone started to vibrate on the bedside table.

Ethan sighed as he pulled away. ‘I remember Juliette saying something about seeing a venue today. And then us all having dinner together.’

I groaned. ‘We have to leave this bed?’

‘If I want to keep Juliette as my friend and restaurant partner.’

We looked at one another as his phone stopped vibrating then giggled.

‘She doesn’t mean that much to me,’ Ethan added.

We kissed again then I leaned back. ‘Knowing Juliette, she’d never let you cut her out,’ I said.

‘Good point.’ Ethan leaned over to grab his phone and return her call, turning back to look and smile at me as he did so. Lastnight passed like a precious secret between us as Ethan arranged to meet her in an hour.

‘I suppose we’ll have to get up now,’ I said. I sat up in bed and stretched. I eyed the handcuffs tossed on the floor with empty condom wrappers, and I shook my head. ‘I can’t believe we actually used the handcuffs.’

‘You were very keen if I remember correctly,’ Ethan said, leaning over to plant a kiss on my bare back. His hands rubbed my shoulders and then he moved my hair over to one side to press gentle kisses under my ear and down my neck.

‘Don’t,’ I said, shivering. ‘When you kiss me there…’ My words disappeared as he trailed kisses down to my shoulder and then his hand moved up my side to cup one of my breasts. ‘There isn’t time.’

‘There’s always time,’ he whispered, stroking my skin. ‘So soft,’ he said. I turned my head to smile, and he caught my lips with his. His fingers found my nipple and it hardened instantly under his touch. ‘I don’t how I’ll keep my hands off you today,’ he said, pulling back to give me a mischievous grin.

‘Then don’t,’ I whispered, turning fully to face him. Hooking my arms around his neck, I pulled myself onto his lap. ‘Will Juliette ask what’s happened between us?’

‘There is no doubt. If she asks if we’re together, I want to say yes. What do you think?’ Ethan asked me, looking seriously into my eyes, his hands firm on my waist as I sat astride him, feeling that he was just as aroused as I was.

I beamed at him. ‘It’s a yes from me too. It’s yes to everything,’ I managed to murmur as Ethan moved my thong to the side and eased two fingers inside me, curling them in a way that hit me exactly where I needed it. I let out a moan, and he grunted contentedly. ‘We need to be quick,’ I gasped as his mouth came down onto my nipple, sucking it deeply into his mouth.

‘You know I don’t like that,’ he complained, flashing a grin up at me.

‘Ethan,’ I said breathlessly. ‘Please?’ I tried batting eyelashes at him.

He groaned but leaned over and grabbed a condom from the bedside table. ‘I don’t know how we’ve got ourselves into a situation that when you beg me, I have to do exactly what you want but…’ He slipped it on and lifted me easily on top of him, both of us sighing when he slipped inside me. ‘It feels so good.’

‘Hmmm,’ I agreed, rocking on top of him. ‘So good.’

Ethan gripped my hips. ‘No one else will make you feel this good.’

‘I don’t want anyone else,’ I breathed. Ethan’s hands moved up to stroke my breasts and I moved faster on top of him, both of us letting out an appreciative moan. I ran my hands through his hair. ‘Are we really together now?’

His hand moved down to touch me, rubbing me exactly where I needed him, making me cry out with pleasure. ‘Sweetheart, we were together as soon you begged me to kiss you; it just took us a while to figure it out,’ he said huskily.

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