Chapter 14
Man has no wit greater than her,
No judgment made, no slight or slur.
She is holy! Her words are might,
Yet silken, like sound taking flight.
-FromAn Ode to Lady Lavinia Gillingham
by The Duke of Seduction
“Ihaveno idea what to do,” she said, “but I daresay I’ll work it out.” She pressed her lips to his chest and trailed her mouth to his nipple, where she licked a circle around it.
“Uh, yes. I daresay you will.” He barely ground the words out. How he’d managed to hold himself in check was a mystery to him. He’d nearly spilled his seed when her muscles had squeezed around his fingers, and she’d come apart in his mouth.
He might be a rake, but he was a rake on his knees, completely at the command of one woman. This woman.
His knee pressed against her heat, and she rotated against him, moaning softly against his chest. “How is it that I’m not satisfied after what you just did?” she asked with a soft innocence that would have made him laugh if he weren’t strung so damn tight. “Is it that you maybe aren’t very good at this?” He did laugh then, a strangled sound that didn’t particularly resemble amusement. “That can’t be right, for I did enjoy thatimmensely.” She’d been kissing and licking him between her words, driving him insane with her explorations. But now she stopped and peered up at him. “Am I, perhaps, insatiable?”
“God, I hope so.” With a grunt, he gripped the back of her neck and angled her head so he could kiss her, his tongue driving into her mouth hard and deep as lust spiraled through him.
She clutched his shoulders as her pelvis moved against him once more. He adjusted his knee, rubbing along her folds, and she gasped into his mouth.
He set her back, pulling away from her almost ruthlessly as he stood to tear his remaining clothes off. His boots landed in some nether region of the room, and he may have actually torn the fall of his breeches, but he didn’t care.
When he was nude in front of her, he watched as her gaze dropped to his cock. Her eyes glimmered with desire, and her tongue darted out to lick her lower lip.
It was enough—more than—to send him to the very edge.
He put his knee back between her legs, but lower between her thighs, and he clasped her sides, scooting her back up the chaise so her torso was elevated. “I would say we should wait until we are properly wed, but I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
She gripped his waist and pulled him down on top of her. “Lovely.”
He paused, looking into her dark eyes. “But I will always stop if you ask me to.”
“That’s nice to know, but the only thing I’m asking you now is to go faster, please.”
“Insatiable is probably accurate,” he murmured just before he kissed her.
She sucked his tongue into her mouth and proceeded to demonstrate her natural skill at kissing. He lost himself completely to the devilish things she was doing to his tongue.
And she managed to pull him into her so that his cock pressed at her opening. She moaned, her fingers digging into his hips as she rose up against him. White-hot need burst inside him, and he had to hold himself back.
He moved his hand between them and found her slick passage. He teased her flesh, arousing her so that her kiss deepened and her legs opened wider.
Gripping the base of his cock, he guided himself to her sex and slid gently into her sheath. She was wet satin and heat, and he glided inside with relative ease. He’d no idea what to expect with a virgin, having no experience with them. Oh, but the farther he moved into her, the tighter she became. He pulled his mouth from hers and groaned in ecstasy.
“Is this all right?” he managed to grit out.
“I think so. It feels…odd.”
“That is not encouraging.” Hell, he wasn’t going to last long. He needed to get himself under control. He pushed into her until he was fully inside, then took a deep breath, dropping his forehead against hers. “Just stay still a moment.”
“I thought we were supposed to move.” She brought her legs up and curled them around his waist. “Ooh, that feels better, you’re against that spot, and ohmy. I don’t think I want to be still, Beck.” She began to move her hips, and his cock jerked inside her.
“Lavinia.” He pulled out of her, not quite all the way, and drove back in. He tried to go slow, but feared he was failing miserably. “I want this to be… pleasant for you.” He could barely speak.