Page 55 of Spark
Sophie moaned, trying to muffle the sound with her hand while he did his best to drive her out of her mind with need.
She smelled so fucking good right now, the perfume of her arousal drove him crazy in the best possible way. He was panting, and it took all his self-control not to groan with the fierce need burning through him.
The need to keep things very quiet just made this whole make-out session more exciting. The master bedroom was located on the other side of the house, but Athena’s room was just down the hall from Sophie’s bedroom.
He’d spent his shift at Calidus in a fever of anticipation, imagining everything he planned to do with Sophie as soon as he finished with work.
Once his shift finally ended, he drove back to the ranch in record time, breaking speed limits all the way down the highway that connected the Bearpaw Springs Resort to the town of Bearpaw Ridge.
When he arrived back at the Swanson ranch, he discreetly parked his car some distance down the road from Damaris and Mitya’s house, and circled around to Sophie’s bedroom.
To his relief, her light was still on. He’d tapped lightly on her window, and she slid it open for him. It was pretty high off the ground, but Chris had leaped up and caught the windowsill, then easily lifted himself up and over, into her room.
Sophie had greeted him with a smile and a kiss that quickly ignited, until they were frantically devouring each other’s mouths with greedy lips and plunging tongues.
Now, she as begged him to go all the way and yield to his desire to fuck her brains out, his inner sabertooth cat stirred and came fully alert.
Do it. Make her ours, it ordered him.
Chris froze in the act of unfastening the button at the waist of his pants. Alarm bells rang in his head. This was the second time it had urged him to claim Sophie.
Now, it wanted tomateher and establish a lifetime bond? Without an actual courtship? Without Sophie agreeing to commit herself permanently to him?
And that wasn’t even taking into consideration that Matt was definitely interested in courting her.
Chris gritted his teeth at the possibility that Matt might never talk to him again if Chris stabbed him in the back by stealth-mating the woman that Matt had been in love with forever.
It was already dicey enough that Chris had added benefits to his friendship with Sophie. Matt wouldn't be happy if he found out…whenhe found out, Chris corrected himself. He knew he couldn't keep this change in his relationship with Sophie a secret for very long.
Shit. Chris hadn’t been lying this morning, when he asked her if she wanted to take their friendship to the next level by adding some benefits.
All he had wanted then was to have some fun, deliciously dirty sex with someone he already knew and liked.
But now, his cat was warning him that he couldn’t actually have meaningless sex with her. How could things have changed so quickly between them?
Chris needed to figure this out, but right now, with his cock hard and his senses drunk on her scent and soft skin, he couldn’t think straight.
The loudest thought in his head right now was that he really needed to come. So did she.
He decided to leave his pants on for now, and raised himself on his elbow. “That’s, uh, sort-of off the table for now,” he whispered. “Plus, I want to do some other fun stuff first. Roll over on your back.”
She obeyed, and he took a moment to appreciate how completely hot she looked, her shining brown hair spread over her pillow, her cheeks and throat flushed with desire, and her full breasts taut with need.
He moved over her and began kissing his way down her lushly-curved body, paying special tribute with lips and tongue to her amazing breasts as she desperately tried to keep from waking up everyone else in the house. Her free hand buried itself in his short hair, trying to pull him closer.
“Oh, God, Chris,” she panted. “I feel like I could come just from this.”
Knowing that he was the reason that she was having trouble controlling herself was a fucking power trip. He loved it.
“Don’t,” he ordered. “Or you’re going to miss out on the rest of what I’m planning to do.”
He dipped his tongue into her belly button, then moved lower, scooting down to the end of the mattress. He hooked his finger into the waistband of her lace-trimmed pink cotton panties and began to pull them down. She raised her hips to make it easier to slide them down to her knees, then past her ankles. They joined the other clothes on the floor.
Sophie was completely naked, and a sight to behold. Chris lay between her spread thighs and took a moment to appreciate the sight of her pretty dark-pink pussy, all wet and swollen for him.
Taking his time, he kissed his way up from her knees to the inside of her legs, making her squirm with impatience and desperate need before he finally reached his goal at the top of her thighs.
He could feel the tension humming through her body as she waited for him to take the next step. With amusement, he noted that she was actually holding her breath.
