Anna gasped, and the sound of her breath increasing lit a small fire inside Cain. He could feel himself straining against the flat-front khakis he wore for work and he pressed himself into her as his other hand moved to glide up her stomach and cup her breast.
When she moaned and pushed back into him harder, Cain wanted her more than he ever had. That minute. He wanted to know what it felt like to be inside her and the thought nearly drove him over the edge as she pressed into him with her firm butt.
“Wanna go back inside?” He asked, his voice a strained whisper.
“Yes.” She said it definitively, and Cain found himself daring to hope that she was saying yes to more than just walking back into the bar. She’d been giving him signs all week that she was ready, that she wanted to take the next step. And it was all Cain could do to stop his mind from picturing her in any number of scenarios. All of them involved her naked, his cock inside her, and her screaming out his name. But he wouldn’t push Anna. He wanted her—more than he’d ever wanted a woman. But she’d been hurt, and he wouldn’t add to whatever lingering fear she might feel. More than anything, he wanted her to feel safe. To know that he would never hurt her.
“Come with me.” He pulled her back toward the bar by the hand. They’d been the last to leave, since Anna had stayed to help Cain clean up. He pulled his key from his pocket and they went inside, locking the door behind them. “Back here.” Cain led Anna to the back room, where a pool table stood in the center of the space. He didn’t turn the lights on; the low amber glow from the boardwalk lights outside filtered in over the shutters on the windows, giving the room a soft warmth like candlelight.
As Anna pushed herself into Cain’s arms, he held her away from him for a moment. “You’ll let me know if you’re not ready?”
“I’m ready,” she breathed.
“I’ll stop whenever you want. You just say the word.” Cain hoped he’d be able to stop himself if he had to.
Cain undressed Anna, and she stood still for him like a model, her breath catching as his tongue followed his hands through the work of removing her clothing. When she stood before him naked, she met his eye, and the uncertainty he’d seen before had changed to a wanton gleam that had him nearly out of his mind. He slid his hands around her waist and lifted her onto the pool table.
Anna scooted back and lay down, her heels braced against the pockets in the bottom corners as she reached her arms up to touch the rail of the table above her head.
“Oh my God.” Cain tried to steady his breathing. Seeing her pale body exposed to him had Cain vibrating with anticipation. “You’re sure?”
Anna nodded, her eyes never leaving his.
He pulled his shirt off and then pushed his pants and briefs down as she watched. Having her eyes on him only stoked Cain’s desire and he felt himself stiffen almost painfully as her eyes raked his chest, his stomach, his cock. He climbed onto the table, kneeling between her legs. He ran his hands down the outsides of her calves, feeling the soft skin covering the strong muscles beneath. Anna put her ankles over his shoulders, grinning up at him, and Cain lost himself. He pulled her hips up toward him and leaned forward until his tongue found the soft folds of her center. He licked and nipped at the silky skin there, listening to Anna’s breathy moans as he felt himself growing harder still.
She gasped as he plunged a finger deep into her sopping depths at the same moment as he sucked hard on the nerve-rich bundle beneath his tongue.
“Cain!” It wasn’t a cry of fear or alarm. Her voice dripped with pure, unadulterated desire.
He stopped for a moment just to look at her. Anna, bared for him. He felt like he’d captured a hurricane, stilled the passage of time. He had a force of nature splayed out in front of him, complete trust in her eyes. “You’re beautiful,” he told her, before bending his head back down to taste her. As his tongue worked, he added one word at a time. “So. Fucking. Hot.”
Cain worked his hand and his tongue together, gently, putting another finger inside her wetness and moving them in and out, stroking the soft spot on the interior wall inside her as she arched up into him. His tongue made small circles around her clit.
“God, Cain,” she breathed. “I can’t … I don’t…” She couldn’t form a sentence. Good. He was pretty sure a complete sentence was out of his grasp at that moment, too. When she rasped out, “I need…” Cain stopped to fish a condom out of his pants, crumpled beside him.
He rolled the condom along his length and then set her legs gently back on the green felt of the table. He moved to brace himself over her, his weight on his forearms as he stared down into her face. Her eyes glowed.
“On top of the pool table at the bar isn’t exactly the sweet first time I’d imagined for us,” he said. He wanted to make sure she was really okay with this. Although if she’d said no, he wondered if he’d really be able to stop. He would, but he’d have blue balls for at least a week.
“It’s not my first time,” she reminded him. “And this is perfect. All that matters to me is that I’m with you.”
He wanted to thrust himself violently inside her, claim her completely, savagely. But instead he slipped just the tip of his cock inside her wetness, both of them hissing with the sensation.
“Little turkey, you’re so wet.” He moaned as she arched her back. He pulled back, then pushed back in, just a little further, pulling back again.
Anna quaked beneath him. “I can’t believe that I get hot when you call me ‘turkey’,” she moaned. “God, I want you. I can’t believe how much I want you.” She sat up then, surprising Cain, and with amazing force, pushed him onto his back on the table. She climbed on top of him, grasping his length in one hand as she lowered herself onto him.
“Oh my God.” He was teetering dangerously on the edge of self-control. The warm dim light reflected off her skin, outlining her small breasts. She began a rhythm, sliding up and down along his length. She started off slowly, but quickly picked up speed, her head thrown back and her breasts bouncing as she rode him. She held onto the light hanging over the table, something he probably would have cautioned against if he’d been of a clearer mind. But at that moment, all he could see was Anna, her arms over her head as she rode him relentlessly, crying out over and over again.
He felt himself moving closer and closer to the edge, and couldn’t stop the sounds that escaped his lips as he watched her rock above him, felt her around him, her warmth and wetness grasping and pulling at him. He pulled himself back from the edge long enough to put his hand on her, his thumb in just the right spot to create friction against her. She whimpered and her eyes widened as her head leaned down to look at him.
“Oh my God. Cain.” Her voice was a shredded whisper.
His fingers worked in time with her movements and her eyes dropped shut.
Cain felt himself creeping back to the edge, and he knew that Anna was close, too. He didn’t stop himself as his vision darkened and all he felt was Anna, tight and wet around him.
“I can’t … I’m going to…” He couldn’t even get the words out before exploding into her, shaking with the release.
Anna cried out at the same time, and he felt her warmth pulsing around him, making his own release that much more intense. When he finally came back to himself, Anna was smiling down at him and then she collapsed onto Cain’s chest, both of them panting as his hands held her to him.
Read more from Delancey Stewart’s novel Adagio (The Company, #1). She also invites you to subscribe to her mailing list for alerts on new releases.
About Adagio (The Company, #1)…
A hot adult contemporary romance series set in the world of professional ballet…
The world of professional ballet is built on illusion. The illusion of perfection. The illusion of effortless beauty. The illusion of eternal love.
But backstage, few members of the Union Ballet Company suffer from such illusions.
Anna Glaser has dreamed of nothing but dancing professionally h
er entire life. And when she’s finally offered a position with Union, she takes it, giving little more than a passing thought to what she might have to give up in exchange. But Sebastian Kaplan, the director who gave her the chance, won’t forget so easily.
When Anna meets Cain, who has been dubbed by the local media as Union’s most eligible bachelor, she realizes that making a deal with the devil might mean that Heaven -- in the form of a gorgeous dark-haired man -- is forever out of her reach.
Dancers at Union know that things that glitter and shine under the stage lights can still be vicious and evil when the lights go down.
Adagio is the first episode in the adult contemporary romance series, The Company, an engaging drama-filled series romance that takes readers behind the scenes of the ballet and into the lives of those who live to dance.
About Delancey Stewart…
Delancey Stewart writes contemporary romance.
Stewart has lived on both coasts, in big cities and small towns. She's been a ballet dancer, a pharmaceutical rep, a personal trainer, a marketing director, and a direct sales representative for a French wine importer. But she has always been a writer first.
A military spouse and the mother of two small boys, her current job titles include pirate captain, monster hunter, Lego assembler and story reader. She tackles all these efforts at her current home outside Washington D.C.
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