Strictly Business

by Lisa Eugene

  “Who’s laughing now?” She snickered and walked away.

  She retreated about two steps before he grabbed her arm and spun her around to face him. She wanted to shut her eyes, but his animal gaze hypnotized and immobilized her. He was no longer laughing. Her gaze slid down his body, rolling over the curvature of his pecs, the boxy definition of his abdomen and lower to the curly spirals of dark hair that matted his groin. Her eyes widened as she absorbed the full view of his engorged member jutting out from the dark thatch of hair. His cock was long and thick and veiny, extending to a smoothed bulbous crown that was pulled taut.

  The sight of him was wreaking havoc inside her and his thick rod was growing larger with the caress of her gaze. Wade took her hand and guided it towards his erection, moaning deeply when she wrapped two fingers around the bulging head and squeezed, expressing a clear droplet of fluid. His shaft jerked hard against his abdomen as she raked her nails lightly against the underside of his heavy testicles. Breaths disappeared in his chest and his hips lurched forward. She enjoyed the feel of her fingers wrapped around his impressive length. Her touch whispered over him, and she loved the soft moans and the deep grunts that shot from his throat.

  “Nina…” He grounded out her name and pulled her hard against him. He captured her lips hungrily and ravished the sweetness of her mouth. His tongue was hot, demanding and relentless. It plowed inside in blatant exploration, and she opened to allow him in.

  Wade’s long fingers spread around her buttocks and pinned her to him as he grounded his shaft eagerly against her. There was no thought of gentleness as his wild need for her was unleashed. He’d spent too many hours wanting her, unfulfilled. He’d also been twisting and turning all night with restless desire. He took like a starved man who’d never tasted sweetness.

  She moaned against his mouth and shifted eagerly, tilting her hips forward so that the hard ridge of his shaft was wedged against the sensitive flesh between her legs. She rode against him wantonly.

  She couldn’t stop the waves of pleasure pulsing through her. Her fingers combed through his hair and down his back as he lifted her and she wrapped her long legs around his hips, clinging desperately to him. She could feel the scorching heat of his cock through her thin shorts as he bent his knees and circled his hips against her again and again.

  “Oh God, Nina!” he rushed out against her neck. “If we don’t stop—”

  His words were drowned in his throat as she captured his mouth, biting and sucking greedily, moaning and gasping his name as she rocked against him; her release was a blinding storm about to race through her.

  “Need you!” she gasped.

  He pulled away slightly, his chest heaving with each staccato breath. He searched her face.

  “Nina, are you sure? Are you retracting our agreement?”

  Even as he asked the words he was already carrying her towards his bed. His boxers fell somewhere along the hall he practically ran down, and he impatiently kicked them aside. She still had her legs wrapped around him in a death grip, and her hips humped wildly against his straining cock. They had just made it through the threshold of his room when she stiffened and arched against him, crying out in ecstasy as her orgasm exploded through her in blinding waves of heat. She was barely aware of her nails digging into his neck.

  “Shit! Shit! Shit…” Wade gasped. He was having great difficulty trying to hold Nina’s writhing frame. He lowered her onto his large bed and pried her arms from his neck. His bathrobe flew across the room.

  Swiftly he dragged her wet shorts down her shapely legs and spread her so he could observe her weeping sex. Her hips were still undulating as spasms washed through her. She was beautiful. He lowered his head and dragged his tongue along her wet cleft. She flexed her back and choked out a long moan.

  “Oh God! Need you…”

  He climbed up her body and turned her head towards him. His palms cradled her face. He looked into her lust filled emerald eyes, and his heart tightened in his chest. His fingers trembled with his desire and his feelings for her.

  “You’re beautiful…” he whispered as he lowered his mouth to hers, feeling the velvety slide of her tongue and swallowing her delicious moans.

  A heady rush consumed him. His balls were drawn tight against his body and his cock ached to be inside her. His leaking fluids made him slippery against her hip. With a rumbling sound of need he rose above her, almost sighing when her legs parted for him. He dipped a finger into her slit, testing and rubbing her moisture against her straining nub. She whispered something inaudible, and he positioned his tip against her beckoning entrance. With a strained shout he entered her to the hilt with one swift thrust of his hips.

  Nina expelled a shocked breath. Wade was so large and unyielding that she needed a moment to adjust to his size and fullness. He was a potent throb inside her, hot and insistent. He held himself still above her, his large body braced on his elbows. She could feel the small tremors wrack him as he struggled for control. His woodsy scent surrounded her as his taut muscles slid against her heated flesh. Slowly he began to move inside her, and she gasped at the delicious currents that rippled along her nerve endings. Her channel was stretched tight around him, but their combined fluids allowed a smooth slick sensuous glide.

  “God, you feel good,” he whispered huskily, increasing his pace. “Don’t think I

  can…last…long.”

  Her hips rose up to meet every deep thrust. She whimpered, feeling the loss when he pulled all the way out, but shivered at the sizzling heat when he powered into her. Soon his rhythm became urgent, his hips rocking and tilting in a mad frenzy. She became lightheaded with the pleasure, feeling it roll through her body all the way to her fingertips. He rucked up her tee shirt and closed his mouth over her rigid nipple, the hot suction sharpening her sizzling senses. She threw her head back, her eyes squeezed tight, and her lips parted as Wade continued to strum her desire; her quick breaths and choppy groans confirmed she was close to shattering.

  “Look at me, Nina!”

  She heard him, but was so lost in sensation that it took a second issue of the throaty command and a modicum of effort for her obedience. She found herself staring into the deepest depths of his eyes and melting inside from the passion she saw there. Their connection was electric, and he held her gaze, forbidding her to look away.

  His face was warped with pleasure, his body slick and sheeted with sweat. The loud slapping of their bodies was an erotic melody filling her ears. He reached down with one hand and braced her hips tightly to him, pleasuring her with fast hard thrusts. His hot shaft stretched and filled her, pounding into her clutching softness, giving pleasure that was mind-numbing. She arched beneath him, her eyes unblinking and captive. A keening wail started in her throat.

  “Wade!”

  “Yes! Yes! come for me…my sweet, sweet, Nina!”

  She exploded then, the breathy command of his voice, the penetrating gaze that seem to brand her soul, and the raw tantalizing heat between her legs shattered her body into sharp points of rapture. She had to look away; the intense waves of pleasure gripped her, furling through her again and again. She fisted the sheets, vaguely aware of Wade above her. He roared his release with powerful jerks of his body as his cock thickened and flooded her with spurting pools of warmth. He continued to move languidly inside her, greedily extracting every spasm and fission of pleasure.

  He burrowed his nose in her hair and sighed. “Am I too heavy for you?”

  She shook her head, not sure she could speak. She was crushed beneath his broad body, but loved being so saturated with his aura and warmth. She didn’t want to fracture the magical spell that cocooned them. He rose up on his elbow and shifted to her side; they were still lying askew, near the bottom of the bed where he’d hastily deposited her. He motioned her further up unto the mattress and snuggled close behind her, hooking a muscled thigh over her warm hip. She felt exhaustion creep over her and closed her eyes to allow it to claim her.

/>   Wade sprinkled slow kisses over her temple and jaw. He was so overwhelmed by the woman in his arms that he mindlessly murmured endearing words against her ear. The confession of love slipped from his lips before he could curb it, and he stilled instantly. It had definitely been loud and coherent enough for her to hear.

  He chanced a glance down at Nina and was gratefully relieved when he saw her closed lids and heard the soft pacing of her sonorous breaths. Although he felt the emotion, he knew she wasn’t ready to hear his confession. Lust she could accept. It was an undeniable force between them. Anything more would be met with doubt and suspicion. He knew she needed time and was willing to wait as long as it took to gain her trust. Holding her closely, he tucked her head under his chin and fell into a deep contented sleep.

  It was a whole hour before Nina felt safe enough to draw up her eyelids. Her body still hovered in the aftermath of bliss, but her mind was weaving a tangled knot of panic. She’d waited to be sure Wade was asleep. Shards of light filtered through the tall windows of his room and slashed across the large Aubusson rug. She inched cautiously out of his arms, and made her way towards the edge of his bed. Holding her breath she dropped her naked legs to the floor and tiptoed to the adjacent room, her heart pounding in her chest. Alone, she sank unto the foot of the bed and hung her head in her hands.

  She’d wanted him. Her core was still moist and throbbing from his loving. She was a big girl, responsible for her actions and would not regret assuaging her lust with him. It had been incredible. He’d known how to touch and tease her, expertly drawing out her latent passions. What caused her sudden panic was his spurious confession of love for her. What was he thinking? He’d lied to her once and she’d stupidly believed him, only to find out he was just using her. It was only a week ago that he was having an afternoon tryst with Marie Deluse.

  She was already aiding him with his case so why the need to try to butter her up? She pursed her lips. Men like Wade Connolly kept women hanging on. He was used to charming the opposite sex into getting what he wanted. Maybe he felt he needed to ensure her continued cooperation and support with words he thought she wanted to hear. She couldn’t let herself fall for his flowery words, couldn’t let her heart believe his lies.

  This was sex and nothing else. She almost laughed out loud at the thought. This was so uncharacteristic of her it was almost alarming, but the potent need she had for Wade was undeniable and addictive. Since meeting him she’d had to reconsider some of her rigid philosophies. She just needed to keep her heart shielded until this case was over, then he’d be out of her life forever.

  Nina jumped out of Wade’s bed and crossed to the study. She pulled her red silk bathrobe over her nakedness, and tying the sash, made her way to the living room. The delicious ache thrumming in her sex and the sore muscles of her thighs attested to a night of vigorous loving and mind-blowing ecstasy. She couldn’t help her smile when she came upon him on the couch, talking on the telephone. His blue eyes sparkled when he saw her, and he motioned her over. Nina curled up on his lap like a contented cat, wondering if she’d ever get her fill of him.

  “It’s been crazy lately,” he was saying into the cell. “Forget golfing.”

  Nina wrapped her arms around his neck and stole nibbles of his earlobe. She listened to him talk and smiled as strain warbled his voice.

  “Humm…a dinner party. I—I don’t know, Mike. It—It’s such short notice. What messages?”

  His voice faltered as Nina rubbed her butt into the expanding lump in his jeans. “I’m…not sure.” His eyes widened when her hand slid down to slowly massage the waking organ beneath her. She released the button of his jeans, and with a devilish grin, circled his hot shaft. There was an eclipse over his blue eyes when she freed him and slowly drew on the blunt tip with a finger. A bead of moisture appeared and she glided it over the smooth head, reveling when the flesh bucked and swelled.

  “Um-hum…” His voice rose in pitch and Nina wondered what he’d just agreed to. He seemed to have lost the power of speech. She looked up into the eyes staring down at her and they were flaming lapis. His bottom lip was caught between his white teeth.

  Wade cleared his throat and spoke into the phone. “I—I’m not sure I can come…”

  Hmmm… Nina almost giggled when she heard his words. She looked up and caught his floppy smile and knew he’d also realized the double meaning of his comment. Challenging his words she gripped his wide base and pumped slowly, ignoring the warning glance he shot her.

  She increased her pace and rejoiced when Wade sucked a sharp breath into his lungs. He sputtered and coughed to cover it up and Nina had to release him and cover her mouth with her palms to keep her giggles in. Wade’s chest heaved quietly, and he silently promised retribution.

  “Yeah…I’ve been a little under the weather. I caught this bug in my …throat.” His laughing gaze caught hers, and it became increasing difficult to hold back her giddiness. He coughed and cleared his throat for the satisfaction of the person on the other line and Nina almost burst.

  “I have company. I’ll have to think about it.” Wade’s voice stretched thin when she gripped him again. She licked her palm and ran the slick surface over the ruddy head protruding from his pants, causing him to close his eyes and flop his head back. She felt his entire body stiffen like a board.

  “I—I’ve got to go,” he breathed into the cell before he clicked it off and directed his full attention on her.

  He growled and slid his hand beneath the hem of her silk robe, his eyes sparkling with mischievous vengeance. He ran a palm up the length of her thighs and dipped a finger into her slick heat. Panting, she arched her back and squeezed hard on his shaft. A deep throaty moan exploded from his lungs.

  “Stop!” He inhaled a jagged breath and grabbed her wrist, stilling her movements. “You’re gonna make me lose it.”

  He nuzzled her neck and groaned as she ignored his harsh breaths and continued to stroke him. She couldn’t believe how aroused she was. She loved pushing him to the edge.

  “I can’t keep my hands off you. You feel sooo good.”

  “Nina…” he warned.

  She startled when he grabbed her hands and locked them in front of her, her heated breaths coming in short gasps, her naked breast jutting through the opening of her robe. She looked into his dark eyes and felt a prickle of excited alarm at the hungry look in his eyes.

  “Let’s keep these hands out of trouble, shall we?”

  In a few swift moves he slipped the belt from her robe and secured her wrists with the red silk. Nina’s lips parted in protest, but it stuck in her throat as a heady lust shot through her. She felt vulnerable and uncertain, yet at the same time sexually charged, wondering what would happen next.

  His large body shifted her off his lap and he stood behind her as she faced the couch. Her heart pounded, the tension between her legs an unbearable ache. The points of her nipples were hard like bullets. His large hand cradled the back of her head, bending her forward and over the arm of the couch. Her bound wrists shot out, landing against a pillow as she braced the weight of her body.

  He had maneuvered her in strained silence, and she took a chance at glancing back at him. Her legs trembled at the fierce intensity on his face. His gorgeous blue eyes were shuttered and his jaw locked squarely. The tight slash of his lips told her how much he battled for restraint. Cool air whispered across her exposed bottom as the silk glided up and hung around her waist. She heard the soft whoosh of his pants falling and essence seeped from her body in anticipation. A gentle caress traveled over her hips and back, and she moaned.

  When she thought she could wait no more, he gripped her hips and tunneled into her hard. Nina gasped and clutched a pillow, a luscious bolt of sensation shooting through her, the next on its heels before she had time to recover. Wade powered into her roughly, a deep grunt punctuating each fiery thrust. His large hands girded her hips, drawing her back to his unceasing rhythm. The silky feel of the fabric acros
s her back and around her wrists, the cold leather of the couch kissing her nipples, the fierce heat and relentless driving of his hard body, was overwhelming. She squeezed her eyes shut, white-knuckled a cushion, and screamed as pleasure blasted through her.

  She felt a shudder course over him, and with a savage shout, his damp body collapsed on her back.

  He pulled her up against his chest and nuzzled his face into the warmth of her neck. The air from his lungs was hot as it rushed out against her skin.

  “Are you ok?”

  She nodded, still stunned by the force of their love making. He lowered himself unto the couch and pulled her on top of him. A palm cradled her cheek as his concerned gaze searched her face.

  “I wasn’t too rough?” he asked, loosening the silk at her wrist.

  In response she leaned forward and captured his lips for a long slow kiss, letting him know she’d take whatever he had to give. Nina sighed inwardly. She’d decided to enjoy his body and explore this unbelievable chemistry between them for whatever time they had together.

  “So,” she said finally, “what time’s your dinner party?”

  His eyebrows darted high. “Nine. You wanna go?”

  “Sure,” she shrugged. She kissed the smile that spread across his handsome face and noticed that desire still swirled in his eyes.

  “I thought that we’d stay here and make our own party.”

  She grinned, liking the idea, then she frowned. “I don’t want to take you away from your friends. You don’t have to baby-sit me.”

  “Don’t be ridiculous.” He dismissed her statement with a kiss. “If you’d like to go to the party, then we’ll go.”