Page 53 of Sir Hugo Seeks a Wife
How the devil can I ever recover
The woman I’ve been so many years?
You’ve made me love, despite my fears.
Hugo kissed Athene with all the joyous passion in his heart and gathered her up in his arms.She moaned with pleasure and curled her legs around him.
When she bit his shoulder, a bolt of arousal sizzled through him.“Don’t wait.”
“I wanted to—” he began.
“Later.I need you inside me.”
The provocative confession had him shifting to plunge into her.God knew he was ready.He’d battled for restraint since he’d washed her, wanting to serve her after she’d given him such joy.Touching her lissom body always turned his blood to flame.
He pulled her hips forward and thrust.His awareness shrank to the hot clench of her muscles around him.Because he was a large man, he was usually careful with a lover.But Athene fitted him as if created to be his.
As she released a long sigh of satisfaction, he buried his face in the warm curve of her neck.He drew in a lungful of her rich scent: woman, soap, arousal, need.
This intimate contact stirred up such a powerful mixture of reactions.The wish to linger in the transcendent peace.The masculine urge to rush toward the explosive crest.The yen to take his time, so that she claimed her peak again and again before he lost himself.
She wrapped her arms around him and wriggled down in the bed to take him deeper.He loved being this close to her.When he possessed her, he believed nothing could ever part them.Elusive, scintillating Athene would be his forever.He began to move, establishing a driving rhythm.
“Hugo…” she gasped.Unbelievably, he felt her flutter into quick orgasm.She rolled her hips and gave a long, shuddering moan that was the sweetest sound he’d ever heard.
Every time he went to the hilt, it was like coming home after a long, arduous journey.He’d never felt this with a lover before.He could already tell that losing it would leave him bereft.
It wasn’t long before Athene succumbed to another orgasm.She was so magnificently responsive.Her ragged cry of completion rang in his ears, as he finished with a few short thrusts then pulled free to sit on the edge of the bed.Fumbling hands grabbed the towel that he’d left on the nightstand.With a groan, he pumped into the linen, while Athene watched him out of glowing eyes.At first, she’d been a little uncomfortable with her nudity, but now she let him feast on the sight of her.
She laid one hand on his bare hip.“It happened twice.”
Warmth seeped into him from a touch that should be casual but which was anything but.He liked the surprise in her expression.He liked that he was the first person to show her just what her body could do.“If I’d lasted longer, it would have happened again.But you must know by now, you’re irresistible to me.”
Gratification shone in her eyes.“I can’t resist you either.”
He dropped the crumpled towel to the floor and turned to kiss her with every ounce of thankfulness in his heart.He’d wanted more from her than an affair.He’d wanted a lifetime commitment from her before they shared a bed.She hadn’t given him that.In grimmer moments, he wondered if she ever would.What they had was still mighty fine.He retained just enough sense to know that if he pushed Athene too hard, he’d end up with nothing.
But dear Lord above, he couldn’t help wishing that she was his wife.That he could present her to the world with no need for shame or subterfuge.That he could fill her with his seed.That the arrival of a child wasn’t a disaster, but instead a welcome step in their ever-closer union.
He kept his tone light, when he raised his head to stare down at her in wonder.Even if declarations and entreaties and demands queued up behind his lips and fought for release.“That bodes well.”
Her pleased smile made her look unexpectedly impish.Her lips were full and red after all their kissing.Hugo wouldn’t be human if he didn’t imagine her using those lush lips on his prick.
Was that something she’d tried?Despite her claim to being a scarlet woman, he gained the impression that her youthful sins hadn’t taken her on too many sensual adventures.No doubt she’d liked having a lover, but she displayed an endearing innocence, now she came to his arms.While she wasn’t untouched, she was sweetly inexperienced.
She stretched out against the sheets, as lithe and graceful as a cat.“Doesn’t it just?”
Athene had a spectacular body.He hadn’t paid it near enough attention.Partly because looking at her led to wanting her.And wanting led to fucking.He’d never been so voracious for a woman.One glance from those flashing dark eyes and he was harder than a steel bar.
Now he studied her elegant form from her straight shoulders, down over her unexpectedly voluptuous breasts to the beguiling curves of her hips and those long, long legs that she wrapped around him when he was deep inside her.
He saw her shiver with sensual awareness.She was comfortable enough with him now for his admiration to stir her rather than make her feel awkward.“Goodness me.I feel like you want to eat me up.”
He gave a short laugh.“I do.”
She looked puzzled, confirming his suspicion that the dreadful George hadn’t tried too hard to please her.The fact that she’d found enjoyment spoke more to her inherent sensuality than to her first lover’s skills.“You mean to bite me?”
Heat seared him, as he recalled the brief sting of her teeth.“Well, you bit me.It’s only fair.”
