Page 69 of The Duke of Distraction
She did as he bade, widening her stance.Her scent washed over him—roses and something indefinable but wholly Sarah—and he nearly shook with want.But like the other night, this wasn’t about him.It would never be.It was only about her and giving her all the pleasure she deserved.
He braced his gloved hand around her hip, holding her steady, and then he licked along her sweet folds.She cried out, and then the sound became muffled.She’d stuck the glove in her mouth.
“Good girl,” he said, smiling against her heated flesh.
He used his bare fingers to stroke her clitoris, pushing and teasing her until she began to move against him.Then he used his mouth, his lips and tongue ravaging her sex with sucks and licks.He was vaguely aware of her muted sounds of ecstasy, but it was difficult to hear over the roar of his own thundering heartbeat in his ears.
Slipping his tongue inside her, he pushed at her thigh.Her legs began to quiver around him, and her muscles tensed.She was so responsive, so wonderfully sensual that he could hardly keep a thought in his head.Except for one: how badly he wanted to bury himself inside her.
And so he did.With fingers and tongue, he filled her.She rotated her hips against him, pressing herself into his mouth.He sucked her clitoris and thrust his fingers into her core, curling until he found that spot that would send her over the edge.
He was certain she would have screamed if not for the glove in her teeth.He held her hip tightly as she came in his mouth, never ceasing his attentions for even a moment as she crested the wave of rapture.
She stiffened one last time, and the shaking in her legs increased.He slowed, stroking her outer flesh until her body began to quiet.Then he stood and took the skirts from her tightly clenched fist, letting them fall to the floor.
He pulled the glove from her mouth and kissed her again, driving his tongue deep into her mouth as he curled his arm around her back and pressed her tightly against him.Gradually, he lightened the kiss until he broke it completely, his breath coming hard and fast.
“My God, Felix.I had no idea.”
“None?”
“Not really.I knew there were…things beyond sexual intercourse, but nothing like that.”She clasped the back of his neck and kissed his earlobe.“Thank you,” she whispered.“Now what about you?”
He stepped back, turning his body to reenter the larger alcove, pulling on his glove as he went.It was damp from her mouth, and when he thought of her with it clenched between her teeth, he wanted to frig himself until he came in spectacular abandon.
Alas, that would have to wait until he got home.He hoped he could make it that long.He’d never had an orgasm without someone touching his cock, but right now, he feared that was possible.
He took deep breaths, seeking to return his body to a less frantic state.But then she joined him in the alcove, moving behind him so that her breasts pressed against his back as she reached her hands around to stroke his chest.
He moaned softly.“Sarah, we need to go.”
“Where?”she asked hopefully.“Is there another alcove where I can do for you what you did for me?”
He turned and dropped a kiss on her forehead.“No.There is no other alcove.Not like that one.”
“Then let’s go back—”
Felix was saved when a party of three ladies emerged from the dim light as they made their way along the passageway.They bid Felix and Sarah good afternoon and asked if they knew the way out.They’d somehow become turned around.
“I do, in fact,” Felix said.“Follow us.”He led them in single file, making a few slight turns before taking a sharp turn to the left to return them to the entrance chamber.
“Oh, thank you,” the older of the women said.Now that they had more light, Felix thought she must be mother to the other two.“I worried we would be lost in there for some time!”She laughed with an edge of nervousness, then they bid farewell and left the grotto.
“Come, it’s getting late,” Felix said, guiding Sarah out into the sunlight.
She turned to him with a slightly puzzled expression.“Why won’t you let me give you the same pleasure you’ve given me?”
“Because it’s not about me.”
She scowled and cast a look toward the sky.“Stop saying that.You deserve to have someone do something for you.Or maybe you’re incapable of allowing that.”She arched a brow at him.
He suppressed his own scowl.“Let’s get back to Stag’s Court.Dovey is staring at us in open interest.Please tell her to stop trying to push us together.”
“Do we really need her help?”Sarah murmured as they walked to the gig.
No, what they needed was for her to act like a bloody chaperone and keep them apart.
Dovey asked about the grotto as they drove back, and Sarah told her all about the shells and glass and rocks, as well as the darkness and cool temperature.Felix hadn’t even noticed the latter because whenever he was around Sarah, his body felt as if it were on fire.
When they arrived at Stag’s Court, a coach was just being driven toward the stables.
“I think that’s Beck and Lavinia’s coach!”Sarah exclaimed.She barely waited for Felix to help her down from the gig, and as soon as she hit the ground, she hurried toward the house.
Seales opened the door, and she rushed inside.Felix helped Dovey down, and they followed at a more sedate pace.
“The Marquess and Marchioness of Northam are in the drawing room, my lord,” Seales said.“Miss Colton has already started in that direction.”
“Thank you, Seales.”Felix was glad to see her so excited.He was also relieved to have their friends here as a necessary buffer between him and Sarah, because he couldn’t keep surrendering to temptation.
