Hot and Bothered
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With breathless anticipation, she watched him walk toward her in naked splendor, his muscular body tanned and fully erect. In seconds he joined her on the bed, flinging the covers aside before he pulled off her dress, panties, and bra. Gathering her full breasts in his hands, he reverently kissed each one, then took the sensitive tips into his mouth, feasting on them until they pebbled and she thought she’d go mad.
“Oh, that’s too exquisite!” she cried.
He kissed her belly and alternated warm, damp kisses with gentle love bites along her thighs. His fingers stroked her pulsating wetness until the mounting sensations became excruciatingly pleasurable and her pelvis crashed against his relentless hand, lifting higher with each caress. Thrashing her head from side to side, she cried out, her primed body convulsing in the throes of a shuddering climax.
“Oh,” she moaned, her womb contracting with tiny pulses.
“Easy, honey.” James pushed her damp hair away from her face and kissed her brow. “You’re so gorgeous,” he murmured hoarsely, soothing her quivering body with slow, lingering strokes, bringing her to a new level of arousal as his hot breath tickled her ear with earthy descriptions of how he intended to please her.
His ardent mouth covered hers, rubbing his tongue across her lips, then sliding inside with an in-and-out motion that promised erotic delights. He nibbled her earlobes and gave her luscious little love bites along her neck as he cupped her breasts and gently tweaked her tender nip-pies. A flood of pleasure washed over her again. She bent her head and kissed his flat nipple before laving it with her tongue. She moved over to kiss the other one as her hands slid down to caress him.
His jaw clenched in his passion-darkened face. “Don’t,” he muttered through his teeth, his voice clogged. “I won’t be able to hold back.”
“Then come inside me,” she urged, her breaths coming fast and shallow, her blood rushing through her veins like flames of fire.
James covered her trembling form with his large body, bracing his weight on his elbows as he loomed above her, strong and fierce. She felt the engorged tip of his erection nudge her soft cleft as she parted her thighs to receive him.
He held her face and kissed her again. “Do you want me?” he taunted, the veins on his neck corded with the sheer effort of holding back.
“More than you’ll ever know,” she said, meeting his hot gaze hungrily.
“Will you marry me?” he demanded, his gruff voice low and urgent as he slid his hands under her buttocks and lifted her pelvis, penetrating her damp sheath with maddening slowness.
Arching into his thrust, she gasped, “Yes, yes, I’ll marry you. Oh!” she cried, when the last inch of him was deeply embedded inside her. He drove in repeatedly, slowly at first, with a thoroughness that sent her spiraling higher and higher. Her sex pulsed and tightened around him each time he plunged inside, pulling him closer to her throbbing ache. Delicious, unbearable, too intense … too exquisite. Straining toward release, she hovered on the brink, her body desperately arcing to meet each thrust. When she thought she couldn’t take any more, James drove harder and deeper until she lost it, bucking wildly beneath his solid weight, her nails digging into his wide shoulders. She screamed in release, her body shuddering violently beneath his.
He came with savage abandon, his body slick with sweat, his groaning release loud and harsh. She reveled in the sound of his thundering shout. Her heart brimmed with so much love she couldn’t contain it.
James rolled over, bringing her with him until her limp body lay sprawled on top of him. He pressed a kiss on her temple. Boneless and breathless, Sofia rested her cheek against his chest and listened to his strong, beating heart. Sighing, she felt deliciously depleted of energy as his hands gentled her body, stroking the length of her spine while murmuring hot endearments. Moments later, his actions stilled and he rested his hands possessively on the curve of her buttocks.
Lifting up on her elbows, she cradled her chin in her hands and gave him a saucy smile. “Still want to marry me, counselor?”
He chuckled and patted her bottom. “You bet. You’re not getting away from me again, honey.”
She blushed and didn’t say a word, too taken by the determined look in his sexy blue eyes.
“I think we should make it a double wedding this afternoon, if Lucita and Dad don’t mind. What do you think?”
“I think I love you, James Connor.”
“Good,” he said, his arms tightening around her.
After a few moments, she moved to cuddle beside him, but his strong hands held her in place. “Stay where you are. Let me savor holding you like this. Soon we’ll be married, but I want to remember this moment for the rest of my life.”
“Our lovemaking?”
He chuckled and squeezed her. “Not only that, honey, but hearing you say that you love me. I’ve been to hell and back, yearning for you, despairing that I wouldn’t be able to stop your wedding with Dad in time. I feel as if my life has only just begun.”
“Mine, too, darling,” she said, pressing a kiss on his gorgeous mouth. “From the moment I met you I was lured to you, even when you were fighting me on behalf of your dad. While you were trying to get me out of his life, I was attracted to you beyond my control. Then when you kissed me I went over the edge with needing you, needing more. Your passion thrilled me and scared me at the same time. That’s why I avoided you.”
“Don’t worry, honey. We have a lifetime for loving.”
“About that child you mentioned you wanted … I think we might have started something already,” she said, giggling with delight.
His mouth widened into a potently male, very satiated grin as he hugged her. “Good thing you’ve agreed to be my Mrs. Connor.”
“Not yet,” she said with a dreamy smile. “But very soon, Mr. Connor. Very soon.”
HOT AND BOTHERED
“Luring Lucy” copyright © 2001 by Lori Foster.
“Truth or Dare” copyright © 2001 by Laura Bradley.
“Compromised” copyright © 2001 by Gayle Callen.
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