‘I’m not sure how much longer I can hold on, my darling...’

‘I need you too,’ Kaya whispered.

And she did. Oh, how she wanted his man to fill to her and take her, soaring away to places she’d never imagined.

She’d never done this before.

The technicalities presented themselves, a wash of reality penetrating the hot haze of lust.

He was impressively built.

Kaya took deep breaths and forced herself to relax back into his caress. She sensed the urgency in him, felt its palpable weight nudging between her legs, and closed her eyes.

She knew that he was reaching for the wallet he had earlier dumped on the bedside table, and heard the tearing of the foil and then his brief withdrawal as he eased on protection.

A man who took no chances.

He entered her, long, hard and deep, and she cried out and flinched back. It was an automatic reaction. It lasted seconds but during that time she heard his exclamation of shock and then his instant withdrawal and soft cursing under his breath. When she peeked through half-closed eyes, it was to see that he was ditching the condom that had slid off during that moment when he had found out...what she’d been so desperate to keep under wraps.

‘Kaya!’

‘What?’ Kaya wriggled up a little but she just couldn’t meet his darkly demanding gaze.

‘You know what. Why didn’t you tell me? You should have told me.’

The last thing he’d expected had been this. A virgin!

And there was more. A tumult of chaotic thoughts rumbled around in his head as he realised that in his shock, God only knew, but the condom had not done what it should have done. Had it torn? He’d felt his own liquid all over his hands as he’d pulled out of her. He couldn’t dwell on that. He wouldn’t. His eyes were hot and dark as jet as he watched her looking at him. He reallydidforget everything because, damn it,a virgin. It was a shot of adrenaline. He breathed in deeply, head thrown back, overcome by something that felt like...possessiveness.

He should be worried sick about the consequences of the unforeseen. He wasn’t. He was on a high.

‘Sorry,’ Kaya apologised in an agonised whisper. ‘I should have. You’re right. I didn’t want to because... Okay, I’ll go. I understand.’

‘No chance,’ Leo ground out, already rising to the occasion.

‘What do you mean?’

‘It’s a turn-on, okay? Stay, Kaya. I... I’ll be gentle. I can do things to you that don’t involve penetration and you can do the same for me.’ He shot her a crooked smile. He felt her relax, and the rush of triumph, satisfaction and pleasure that filled him made him light-headed for a couple of seconds. ‘Sex can wait for...later.’

‘Okay...’

Kaya smiled back and pulled him towards her.

Kaya looked at Leo. He was standing by the window, his back to her, staring out at a day that was only just waking up. They hadn’t drawn the curtains and she could glimpse the rosy hue of winter in the skies, a mix of greys and blues and tinges of pink and orange.

He was naked. Naked and perfect: broad shoulders, a narrow waist and long, muscular legs liberally sprinkled with dark hair, just like his chest. All man.

He turned round and smiled slowly as their eyes met. He walked towards her and Kaya adjusted her position on the bed, eyes irresistibly drawn to the hang of his penis and its urgent swelling as he drew closer to her until, as he stood by the side of the bed, it was throbbing and hard.

In the space of four days—lazy days passed in a blur of bed, sex and some food grabbed in between—she had lost all the inhibitions that had kicked in that very first time.

He had taught her and he had taught her well. He had opened her up to a world where only touching existed and she had learned to enjoy it.

‘Lick me,’ he commanded huskily, and Kaya knelt on the bed, steadying herself, and took him in her mouth.

Leo looked down at her, at her head moving, her hair streaming around her.

He couldn’t stop wanting her. Every time they’d made love it had been with the same driving, blind passion with which they’d made love that very first time...fully, tenderly and completely, after the mishap with the condom.