She put her hands on her hips and glared at him. “Girls school, remember? Then bodyguards, overprotective parents, and a fear of going into an arranged marriage and not being a virgin.” She gave him her best “duh” look. “That’s a good way for a woman to get beaten, you know.”
Sparks pressed his lips into a thin line. She could see his jaw jump around and wondered what had him upset. “Did Asif beat you?”
“He tried,” she admitted. Then she looked down in embarrassment. “My father told me that I should allow him whatever liberties he wishes. I just don’t want to submit to him. He’s a disgusting human being. That’s why it’s so important to lose my virginity,” she insisted. “It’s so simple! If I do that he won’t even want me anymore. Problem solved.”
“And you’ve really thought this through?” he asked. “You know what it means to have sex with a man? You understand what the emotional impact will be and what the physical risks are?”
His words frightened her a little. “Emotional impact?”
SPARKS WISHED HE had just kept his mouth shut, but that felt impossible. She was so completely innocent. Yet his body was responding to her naive proposition. Blood rushed to his groin, and he felt his cock begin to harden. Soon his erection would be pressing against the fly of his jeans, and then he would do something stupid—like sleep with her and take what she was so willing to throw away.
“Yes.” Sparks forced his brain to function, to be rational. “Emotional impact. Sleeping with a man isn’t a quick kiss. When two people throw down like that it causes ripples in the pond.”
She frowned. The expression was a combination of fresh innocence and exasperation. “I assume by ‘throw down’ you’re talking of the sexual act itself.” When she spoke she used her hands. Each graceful movement sent another throb of lust straight through Sparks’s system. “You’re talking of when a man slides his cock into a woman’s pussy. Yes? I know the mechanics of the act. I know what happens when a woman becomes aroused. I know her inhibitions grow lax. Her body softens. She grows wet between her legs, and there is an ache.” Her dark eyes pegged him with their intensity. “I’ve felt this ache before, you know.”
His mouth was dry. He was picturing it in his head. She would be beautiful. All of that dusky skin naked before him. Her slim legs parting, the soft pinkness of her folds splayed open for his pleasure. It would be a feast for his senses, and, God help him, he wanted it bad.
She tilted her head to one side. The diamond stud in her nose sparkled in the dim overhead lights. “You want me. I can tell, you know.”
“Can you?”
She began to remove the long length of her sari. She drew it over her shoulder, baring her belly completely to his sight. A diamond nestled in her navel. He couldn’t seem to look away. Then she reached up behind her and unfastened the choli. The fabric fell away, and Sparks caught his breath. The woman had the most perfect breasts he had ever seen.
Her nipples were dark rose. As he looked, each one beaded into a tight little point. His hands itched to cup them and thumb each perfect bud before sucking them between his lips and laving them with his tongue. Never had he wanted something so badly.
Then she pulled the fabric loose from her hips and unwound it from around her waist. He saw her abdomen, the narrow span of her hipbones, and finally the strip of coarse black hair shielding her mound. She was still staring at him. He could feel her gaze, though he could not break away from his perusal of her body.
“Come on now,” she said huskily. “You know you want me.”
Chapter Four
Jai had never considered herself much of a tease. At least, not in the way that she was behaving currently. There was something very freeing about the decision to get rid of her stupid V card after being so afraid for so long to do just that. She had spent all of that time waiting and thinking about it, and for what? Now she was so very ready, and the man in front of her was exactly the one to help her with her little “problem”.
She dropped her sari on the floor and stepped clear. Then she stepped out of her beaded satin slippers and kicked them aside as well. The single room was lit by only what little light filtered through the windows. The setting sun cast an orange glow across the wood floor. There was a kitchenette in one corner and a bed in the other. She assumed the only door led to a bathroom of some kind.
Jai turned and walked toward the bed. It was strange, but she could actually feel his gaze caressing her backside. Her skin tingled, and she had never been so aware of her desire to feel another person’s hands on her body.
Sparks seemed uncertain. Yet when he started walking toward her there was no hesitation in the way he moved. He reached toward her, and she sucked in a breath and held it. Then his hands cupped her breasts, and she exhaled in a rush. She had never been touched like this before. The exquisite sensations she was feeling overwhelmed her nervous system. She began to quiver. Her nipples peaked into hard points and throbbed. Then he lowered his mouth to her breast, and Jai was pretty sure she was going to melt into a little puddle on the floor.
There was a strange noise in the room. There was no telling how long it took for her to realize that the noise was her high-pitched whimper. She put her hands on Sparks’s head, cradling his head and savoring the softness of his short hair. She scored his scalp with her nails, and this time he was the one that growled. The sound vibrated against her nipples and increased the pleasure she felt.
“Sparks,” she whispered. “I’m aching. Please. I need you.”
She hadn’t a clue what she was really asking for, but she had faith that he did. Then he nudged her back onto the bed, and she was certain that he was going to give her what her body craved. The planes of his body were packed with muscle. His skin was warm where it touched hers. Then he placed his palm low on her belly, and she arched her back reflexively. Her legs fell open automatically. It was as if everything were happening because of sheer animal instinct. She was beyond rational thought. It was all about primal desire now.
His hand moved lower. She began to breathe faster and faster. Her breasts rose and fell with each puff of air that went in and out of her lungs. His fingers brushed her mound, tangled in the short hair, and gave a tug. She moaned. How could this feel so incredibly good?
SPARKS SHOULD HAVE been running the other way, except he needed this woman so badly that he wouldn’t have been able to leave had someone been dragging him away. He felt the heat of her pussy on his hand. He let his fingers quest lower, until he was slipping them shallowly into her cleft. He circled her clit with the tip of his index finger. Her hips thrust toward him, and she made a soft sound of wonder.
Sparks traced her delicate folds with his fingertips and watched the expressions flit over her face. In the fading sunlight she looked almost ethereal. It baffled his mind to think that she was really a virgin still. Yet the way she reacted to his touch seemed to support her claim. She was so innocent. Every brush of his hand or touch of his fingers brought such a total and uninhibited response. There was no artifice in her manner. The sheer honesty of her was staggering.
His cock was so hard he was afraid he wouldn’t last once he slipped inside her. He needed her to relax. Even letting his fingers play at her opening told him that she was very tight. He gently worked his index finger past the clenched muscles at her entrance. She made a low, guttural sound and cried out.
The urge to soothe her was incredible. Sparks gently stretched out alongside her and let his body touch hers. He still wore his clothing, but he still felt so very close to her in this moment. He kissed her forehead as he penetrated her completely with his index finger. Her climax was almost instantaneous. He gazed in wonder at her body as her spine grew taut and she pressed her hips down into the mattress. Her inner muscles clenched and unclenched against his finger in rolling waves.
“That’s it, sweetheart,” he murmured. “Come for me. Just let go and ride it out.”
She was gasping and shuddering as her body slowly began t
o relax. He felt her pussy muscles release. Careful not to hurt her, he added a second finger to the first. He began to gently stretch her by using his fingers in a scissoring motion. She moved restlessly against him. He pressed his thumb softly against her clit. The additional stimulation sent her spiraling toward another climax. He felt it rising inside her.
Her eyes opened quite suddenly, her gaze meeting his. The connection he experienced in that moment was profound. The juices from her arousal coated his hand as he moved it in and out of her pussy. The sexy sound of their flesh moving together filled the room. There was nothing in that moment but the woman beside him.
“Come for me, Jaipriya,” he whispered.
JAI WAS SLOWLY dying and loving every second of it. One command from Sparks and her body melted around his fingers. She felt so very full with just two fingers inside her. What would it feel like when his cock pushed deep into her body? For the first time she felt just a twinge of fear mingled with her excitement.
Sparks was undressing. As Jai came down from her second orgasm, she noticed that he had pulled his shirt over his head and was currently sliding his jeans down his legs. Everything about him was hard and muscular. She could not resist the opportunity to brush her hands over the washboard abdominal muscles. He made a low noise in the back of his throat when she touched him. Was it possible that she affected him in the same way that he did her?
“I need to be inside you, Jaipriya,” he said hoarsely. “You’re very tight. I’ll go slow, but I don’t want to hurt you.”
“I want you, Sparks,” she told him softly. Lifting her fingers, she brushed the stubble on his cheeks. “I trust you.”
He rolled over, covering her with his body. The unfamiliar weight was delicious, and she rubbed her calves over the crisp hair on his legs. His body was so different from hers, and she savored every single sensation. He settled between her legs, and she felt the heaviness of his cock pressing against her mound. Excitement made her almost lightheaded. She was already drunk with the pleasure she’d experienced in the last thirty minutes. She was so ready for the next step.
He was watching her. She bit her lip as he reached between them and fit the head of his thick erection to the narrow opening of her pussy. She tried to will herself to relax, but it wasn’t until he began to rub her clit that she felt her body surrender completely to his.
“Sparks!” she cried out in sheer wonder as the length of him slid inside her.
The sensation of fullness was almost too much. But it was the stillness of her lover that finally drove her over the edge. Jai needed him to move. She needed to feel him thrusting against her. Locking her legs around his, she arched her back and undulated against him.
The movement ground his cock against the walls of her pussy. The result was an unbelievable amount of friction and pressure. She cried out with the glorious sensation and did it again, and then again. She felt a wave of heat that culminated at one spot just inside her body, which seemed to be the epicenter of her pleasure. Each motion of her hips sent his cock sliding against that one spot. It heated and finally caught fire. What followed was the most incredible orgasm she’d ever dreamed possible.
She dug her fingers into Sparks’s bicep muscles and gave in to the sweeping release that made her feel as though she could touch the sky.
THE OVERWHELMING URGE to climax made Sparks’s toes curl and his head spin. His balls drew up tight between his legs. It felt as though his blood had turned to molten lava in his veins. He thrust into Jaipriya as hard as he dared. He felt her legs wrap around his waist. Angling his body for deeper penetration, he pushed into her lithe body and felt as though he had touched heaven.
She cried out. Her nails dug into his arms, and he knew he couldn’t hold back any longer. He groaned as he came hard. Beneath him Jaipriya gasped and began to tremble and shudder. Her pussy clenched so tight around his cock that he could barely move inside her. Her orgasm intensified his, until Sparks was almost certain that he was going to explode with the sensations he was experiencing.
He pushed inside her and held until he was utterly spent. Rolling to the side, he flopped to the mattress and tried to catch his breath. His head was spinning, and he felt almost high with the pleasure.
“Wow.” Her voice was filled with wonder. “That was—I don’t have the words.”
“Me either,” he admitted. “You’re fun.”
“Fun?” She rolled to her side and propped her head on her hand. “Is that a compliment?”
He chuckled. “Fun” probably wasn’t what an innocent woman was expecting to hear, but he certainly hadn’t meant any insult by it. “Yeah. It is.”
“Why ‘fun’?” she wanted to know.
Sparks stacked his hands behind his head and searched for a way to explain. “Sometimes when two people have sex there’s a lot of baggage and expectation in the room. You’re just honest.”
“I don’t think I know enough to be another way.” She truly seemed to be thinking it through. “I’ve thought about this moment my whole life.”
“And?” he prompted. It was stupid, but he sort of wanted to know that he hadn’t made it a miserable experience for her.
She flopped her hands back onto the mattress above her head. Her hair was mussed, and she was the most gorgeous thing he’d ever seen. “It was amazing! I’m so thankful. Really.”
“Why do I feel like you’re about to tell me thanks so you can just leave?” he asked quietly.
“Well, I suppose I need to get home.” She didn’t necessarily sound certain of herself. “My parents are probably wondering where I am. If I’m gone for too long my father will be very angry.”
“You took those files from your father’s office,” Sparks pointed out softly. “Do you really think it’s a good idea to go back there knowing what you know now?”
Her big dark eyes glistened with tears. “He’s my father. I don’t understand how he could be involved with this.”
“It’s natural to want to be wrong about this, Jaipriya.”
“Jai,” she whispered. “You can just call me Jai.”
“Jai,” he repeated. “I just don’t want you to walk into danger, and that’s what you would be doing if you went back.”
“So what do I do?”
Sparks wondered if he was making a huge mistake. “You’re going to stay here with me.”
Chapter Five
Jai wondered if he could see her thoughts on her face. Just in case he couldn’t, she said them out loud. “You’re insane,” she told him. “I can’t just stay here in this one-room apartment with you! I have no money, no clothes, none of my things…” She trailed off as she considered the ramifications of her actions in the last few hours. “I will admit that I did not necessarily think this through before acting. I was angry. But I have no regrets.”
Sparks didn’t comment, and she wondered if she had made him angry somehow. He got up from the bed and began pacing circles in the center of the room. Would he think her foolish for not turning her back on her family, and simply staying here with him as though they were playing some bizarre make-believe game of house?
“I suppose that was a lot to ask,” he finally conceded. “But surely you can’t want to go back to your father’s house?”
“He’s my father,” Jai said softly. “I still cannot believe that he knows all of what you are telling me.”
Sparks strode to the kitchen counter and picked up the envelope she had given him less than an hour ago. “You think there’s another way to interpret this information?” He waved the envelope at her. “You knew what it was just by looking at it.”
“You colored my perceptions with your outlandish stories!” Jai argued.
She felt herself growing more and more agitated. She jumped off the bed and grabbed her sari. It was tricky to wrestle herself back into the too-small choli, but she managed it.
“Don’t do this,” Sparks said softly. “Don’t just leave.”
“Why not?” Jai felt stiff a
nd uncomfortable. “You gave me what I asked for. I got you the information you wanted. We should both be able to go about our business without getting in each other’s way anymore.”
“Seriously?” His look of exasperation was coupled with him throwing up his hands and starting to mutter beneath his breath.
“What are you saying? It is very rude to speak like that and intentionally not allow others to know what the conversation is about.” Jai could not believe she was instructing him in basic manners.
He abruptly stopped pacing and stared at her. “I’m simply ruminating over your shocking naiveté.”
“Excuse me?” Jai paused in her task of winding the sari around her waist. “I’m naive? Why do you say that? Because I didn’t lose my virginity until I was in my early twenties?”
“That has nothing to do with what I’m talking about.” He marched up to her and got so close that she could smell his distinctive male spice. “The fact that you won’t believe the facts about your family even when they are right in front of your eyes is ignorance, plain and simple.”
Ugh! She was so mad! Why could he not understand that she knew her father? She could not believe that the man who had loved her and spoiled her rotten from the time she was a tiny babe could be guilty of such a heinous list of crimes. Why did that make her ignorant?
“If I so easily believed something so awful about my family,” she said, curling her lip. “It would make me the worst sort of person. If that’s what you think of me, perhaps I’m better off somewhere else.”
SPARKS WATCHED IN frozen horror as she shoved her feet back into her slippers and marched out his door. He heard her stomp her way down the steps, and then he could hear no more. He was alone in the one-room apartment. For the first time in all the years he had bunked here, the place felt empty.
He picked up his phone and sent out a group text to his team. It read simply that he had found the bookkeeper. The immediate responses told him how much his team valued this information.
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