“What do you want to know?”she asked.“I’m pretty boring, actually.”
“I doubt that.Where did you grow up?”
They discussed their past.She told him about growing up in the suburbs, playing soccer on the weekend and the piano lessons that she’d despised.He told her about growing up in Lativa.He’d played soccer too, when he’d gone off to university, but hadn’t ever learned to play a musical instrument.
She’d taken French in high school.Rafi spoke French, Spanish, Arabic, and Mandarin fluently.
Their meal arrived and Carys might as well have been eating sawdust.She had no idea what was on her plate since her eyes continuously drifted to his.
“Should we get out of here?”he asked.
Carys froze, staring into his eyes.She saw the promise there and was startled when she found herself nodding.“Yes.Please!”
He lifted his hand and the waiter appeared.“We need the check.”Then Rafi shook his head and stood up.“You know what?Never mind.”He reached into his pocket and pulled out several hundred dollars, which he handed to the wide-eyed waiter.“This should cover it.”Then he took Carys’s hand, and they left the restaurant, nearly running.
The SUV was already waiting at the curb, the back door open and waiting for them.Carys had no idea where they were going because Rafi held her hand, his thumb stroking the inside of her wrist.She’d never realized that her pulse point could be such an erogenous zone, but at the first pass of his thumb, she gasped.She wanted to leap onto his lap, wrap her arms around his neck, and kiss him.But the driver and the guard were the front seat.So instead, she sat there, staring up at him, feeling her heart pound against her ribs as other places throbbed with urgent need.It was almost embarrassing how turned on she felt.
“We’re here,” Rafi rasped.Carys had no idea where “here” was, nor did she care.He slid out of the seat, still holding her hand.She slid with him, barely remembering to grab her tote bag as she stood up.She slung it over her shoulder as she followed him into an unfamiliar building.A part of her had a moment’s hesitation since she was following a man she barely knew, into a strange building, in a part of the city she wasn’t familiar with, but Rafi led her into a private elevator, and directly into his arms.Since the two men followed them into the elevator, Carys tensed, wanting so badly to kiss him but not wanting their first kiss to have an audience.She gripped his upper arms tightly as she stared into his eyes, his hands pulling her just as tightly against his body.That’s when she noticed his erection throbbing against her stomach as her knees went weak.
This wasn’t the tepid warmth that she’d felt when other men had touched or kissed her.This was a molten, white-hot, painful level of need.Carys was on the edge of insanity and if he didn’t kiss her soon, she might scream.
Thankfully, the elevator doors opened and the men stepped out first.Carys was oblivious to everything.Her whole focus was on Rafi.
“In here,” he hissed, practically pulling her through a door…and straight into his arms again.Carys didn’t hesitate.She was exactly where her body screamed to be.When she felt his hands on her back, pulling her closer, she whimpered and went up on her toes, reaching up to pull his head down to her.And then…finally…he kissed her.Carys’s head spun with desire as he nipped at her lower lip, demanding that she open for him, and when she did, the experience was shocking!
Someone kept whimpering and she tried to ignore it, focusing on touching him, shoving his clothes out of the way so that she could touch his bare skin.There were ripping sounds.Then she felt him pick her up.Carys wrapped her legs around his waist, kissing her way down his throat.She heard a door close again, then he set her on her feet and began stripping off her clothes.
Chapter 9
Rafi was nearly out of his mind, desperate to be inside Carys, to feel her clench around his shaft, screaming his name.But he needed more than just that.He needed to explore her skin, to learn her body.He tossed her dress away and released her bra clasp, tossing it away too.Then he looked down at the most perfect breasts he’d ever seen.For a long moment, he simply stared, too entranced to do anything more.But another of those sexy whimpers and he leaned in.His mouth found one nipple while his thumb stroked the other.He felt her back arch, pressing that nipple more firmly into his mouth.He sucked hard, intoxicated by the feeling of her writhing against him.
When her fingers dove into his hair, he groaned, then moved his mouth to the other nipple, pinching the one his mouth had just abandoned.“Rafi!”she cried out, spurring him on.He sucked harder, needing another moan, another sound from her.Those sounds were like water and he was dying of thirst.
Then she did the most amazing thing.Rafi was just about to switch back to the first nipple, needing another taste, but Carys’s grip on his hair tightened.“Don’t…stop!”she hissed, arching against him, pressing that nipple to his lips.So, he continued teasing, while his thumb and forefinger pinched and stroked her other breast.Then, unexpectedly, her body tensed.For a moment, Rafi didn’t know what was happening.But when realization dawned, he was stunned.Then he was so turned on, he was literally in pain because Carys, lovely, charming, delightful Carys had climaxed!
“That was so hot!”he groaned, shifting his abdomen against her core to help extend the orgasm.When she laughed, it was lovely and sexy.The way she rolled her hips against him, as if she were pulling the last bits of pleasure from her orgasm, made his head spin.Damn, that was hot!
She sighed and Rafi looked down at her breasts.But he’d enjoyed them enough.Time to discover what other parts of this beautiful woman’s body was as sensitive.So, he moved lower, kissing and nibbling his way down her stomach.With deft fingers, he removed her panties.But when he looked at her boots, Rafi couldn’t take them off.Just sliding his hands over the leather was turning him on even more.So now, as he looked down at her, she was completely naked except for her leather boots.
“Stay just like that,” he ordered and stood up, wondering vaguely when they’d ended up on the bed.“Spread your legs for me, Carys.”
She did, but not wide enough for him.He paused with one hand on his belt, then spread her legs wider.She was so beautiful!Her pink folds glistened with arousal and he could just see that nub.A part of her that he couldn’t wait to explore in more depth.
Quickly, he stripped off his clothes, tossing everything out of the way.Then he came toward her, watching her, sensing her nervousness.But that wasn’t what he wanted her to feel.
Rafi kissed her softly, slowly…until he felt her body melt.Only then did he kiss his way down her body again.
“I think I’ve had my pleasure,” she teased with a soft sigh when he kissed the soft swell of her stomach.
“I disagree,” he replied, and moved even lower.With his fingers teasing a path, his mouth followed.Rafi inhaled the sweet scent of her, then licked.Yes, delicious!Carys had just become his favorite flavor.She tasted like nectar and he licked, teased until he heard her hiss, then his mouth slid over that nub while his finger slid into her heat.Immediately, he felt her muscles tighten around his digit.He had to clench his teeth and take a moment to regain control.He wanted to give her at least one more climax before he entered her.
However, it came faster than he’d expected.As soon as he started sucking and his finger twisted inside of her, Carys’s back arched and he felt her body quake with another release.It was so erotic, that he couldn’t hold back this time.Moving over her, he thrust into her, taking her gasp of surprise into his mouth.He started moving, pulling her hips closer.Every cry from her made his mind spin with lust.He was moving faster, harder and…too soon, he felt his own orgasm explode through him.He couldn’t see for a long moment as the pleasure ripped through him.
When he opened his eyes again, Rafi looked down at Carys, then wanted to do it all over again when he recognized her smile of intense satisfaction.Rafi collapsed against her, pressing his face against her neck as he let the last shudders of pleasure wash over them.
Finally, he rolled to the side, taking Carys with him so she was draped over his chest, her soft, blond hair tickling his neck and cheek.With a gentleness that bordered on reverence, he stroked her hair, her back, and her bottom, smiling when she squirmed closer.
Chapter 10