Page 56 of Reckless
He didn’t hesitate.
“Leave your hands where they are like a good girl,” Alex murmured, squeezing once for emphasis before letting go of her fingers. Although her palms didn’t budge, her gaze widened, and he leaned in to answer her unspoken question with a dark smile.
“One sensation at a time. All of them are yours. Which means I do all the touching.”
Zoe’s stare glinted in the mirror’s reflection, his pulse burning faster in his veins when she complied with a tiny nod. Alex lowered his attention to the column of her neck, sliding the edge of his tongue over her skin while keeping his distance from the rest of her body.
“Alex.” The sigh that spilled out of her vibrated beneath his lips, but he refused to give in. With only the very slightest pressure, he strung a path of kisses from Zoe’s neck to her shoulder, following his movements with an equally feather-light glide of his fingertips. He hooked the edge of one finger under the strap of her tank top, her hips arching toward his as he lowered the ribbon of fabric just enough to run his teeth across the spot where her neck met the curve of her shoulder. But rather than giving Zoe the added contact she sought, he shifted back.
“Uh-uh, Gorgeous. No touching unless I say so.” Alex buried his smile deep in her shoulder. Christ, the blush on her skin was enough to undo him right here on the damn tiles.
“We’re supposed to be seizing.” Zoe’s tone toed the line between sexy and sweet, both daring him to fuck her hard and fast and right freaking now, but he didn’t give in.
“If you want to really live in this moment,” he said, swirling his tongue against the pulse point in her neck before lifting his head to lock eyes with her in the mirror, “then feel each touch all by itself. Let me give you the experience. Bit”—he broke off to dust his fingers over the indent above her collarbone, skimming over her sternum and down the midline of her belly before falling away from the flare of her hip—“by bit.”
Zoe’s answer came by way of a want-soaked sigh that was far from an argument. Alex returned his gaze to the reflection in front of him, her parted lips and shuttered, warm-honey gaze testing his resolve while hitting every one of hisfuck yestriggers. Zoe’s face flushed dark pink with desire, and his cock grew even harder as he raked his gaze lower over her body. Her shallow breaths lifted her chest in quick rhythm, her nipples beaded into tight points against the loose cotton covering them, and Alex pressed his mouth to the shell of her ear.
“Close your eyes.”
Her lashes fluttered before settling, sending a shot of heat to the base of his spine. Reaching beneath the arm Zoe still had extended toward the vanity, he spread his palm over the front of her tank top at the top of her chest, her heart answering the pressure with a wild thrum against his skin. He centered himself behind her, lowering his hand to her belly before moving back up to the spot between her breasts. Zoe’s rapid breaths became moans, and each one pushed Alex to repeat the circuit with slow, soft strokes.
“Are you with me, right here?” He let his fingers play in the spot right over her breastbone, dipping to the underside of one cotton-covered breast to tease her through the fabric. Zoe’s shoulder blades squeezed together on another moan, her knuckles going white over the granite ledge in front of her hips as her nipples peaked, begging to be touched.
“Yes. Oh, God. Yes.”
The need in her voice sent his hands over the hem of her top. “Where do you want me now?”
Zoe’s eyes flashed open, her expression stealing his breath.
“Everywhere, Alex. I want you everywhere.”
Forcing himself into slowness that shook his hands, he lifted her tank top over her head, guiding her palms back to the counter as the garment fell to the floor. He stepped in behind her, bringing his chest as close to her back as possible without making a connection before brushing his lips over her neck. Zoe gasped, her body tightening even further as he kissed his way down the ridge of her spine. Every response to his touch, no matter how subtle, made Alex crave the next one all the more, and he kissed a path over her neck, her shoulders, her back, until he’d shown every inch of the skin in front of him the attention of his fingers and tongue. But between her mostly naked body and the sheer desire on her face as she stood there trusting him to pleasure her, Alex couldn’t wait any longer. Keeping one hand steady around Zoe’s rib cage, he linked his other arm beneath hers, sweeping the pad of his thumb slowly over her nipple.
“Oh.” Her breath kicked out on a sharp cry, his cock jerking hard as she arched all the way into his touch.
“See? Just feel my hands on you. Right here.” Alex circled again with his thumb, this time harder. From over her shoulder, he sent his stare back to their entwined reflection, watching her nipple tighten and flush dark pink under his touch. “I’m with you, baby.” He rolled the tip of her nipple between his thumb and the callused edge of his forefinger, picking up speed and pressure. “Right here. I’ve got you.”
Zoe nodded, the strands of sun-kissed hair that had come loose from their twist tickling over Alex’s skin, and even that slight suggestion of her closeness pushed him harder. Her spine bowed upward with each pass of his fingers, her breath sawing past her lips. Alex watched in the mirror as Zoe arched against the friction, her eyes shut tight and her expression lost in sensation as he worked her nipple in faster strokes.
“Please. Alex, you’re driving me crazy,” she moaned, pressing up on the balls of her feet to fit her breast into more of his touch. The shift brought her head back against his shoulder, and while he wanted to give her a slideshow of sensations one at a time, he wasn’t about to deny her, either.
“Then go crazy.”
Alex lowered his hand from her nipple to the swell of her hip. Her shorts were little more than a blue and white scrap, with a deceptively sweet ruffle at the bottom hem, and he dragged a finger along the line where her leg tapered into the lush curve of her ass.
“These are so fucking hot.” He let his finger follow the flutter of fabric back and forth, sliding beneath the cotton to find soft, bare skin. “No panties?” Jesus, now they were both going crazy.
“They seemed…” Zoe stopped, her breath hitching as he added another finger to skim her inner thigh. “Kind of pointless. Oh, God, don’t stop.”
Alex slipped his hand between her thighs to cup her pussy, wicked satisfaction spearing all the way through him at the eager way she opened to his touch, but still, he kept his movements soft. Trailing two fingers over her fabric-covered clit, he wrapped his other arm around the front of her hips with firm intention. He anchored Zoe’s body in place, pressing against the indent between her thighs one more time before pushing aside the damp fabric to finally touch her skin on skin.
“Right here,” he grated, channeling every last shred of his willpower into not saying fuck the experience and sinking his cock all the way inside her right goddamn now. She met his touch with a tilt of her hips, the fabric of her shorts riding up just enough to give him a sultry glimpse of her pussy beneath, and Alex stroked her again just to hear her moan.
“Don’t stop touching me.Please.”
The words quivered past Zoe’s lips, her eyes squeezing shut even tighter as she rocked against his fingers. Sliding his free hand past the waistband riding her hips, he pushed lower. Zoe widened her stance, leaning forward against the vanity in invitation, and fuck if he was refusing her, no matter how hard his impulse screamed.
His cock could wait. Right now, he was going to give this woman the most earth-ripping orgasm of her life.
