He slipped one of her bra straps off her shoulder, exposing part of her breast. He bent his head and moved his lips across the upper curve of her breast, his tongue licking a line of fire across her tender skin. He reached behind her to unclip her bra and it fell to the floor by the bed. His eyes feasted on her body and Holly had never felt more desirable. He brought his mouth back to her breast, his lips and tongue tracing each curve before circling her tight nipple. Sensations shot through her flesh, tingling sensations that travelled from her nipple to her inner core. He drew her nipple into his mouth, sucking on her gently, making her wild with longing. He moved to her other breast, exploring it with his lips and tongue, drawing on her nipple with the same exquisitely gentle suction until she was making mewling sounds of need she couldn’t remember ever making before. Had she ever felt this aroused? Had she ever had her breasts treated so tenderly? So worshipfully?
Holly put her hands on his waistband, desperate to get him naked. ‘You’re wearing too many clothes.’ She unclipped his belt and pulled it out of the lugs, glancing up at him from beneath her lashes. ‘Seems only fair I get to undress you.’
‘Go for it, sweetheart.’ His voice had such a sexy timbre to it she felt it vibrating in her core.
She slid his zip down and he stepped out of his trousers, standing before her in a pair of close-fitting black undershorts. Tented undershorts. Magnificently, gloriously tented. She skated a finger down the length of him, a frisson passing over her flesh at the thought of him entering her. Stretching her. Filling her. Pleasuring her.
He pulled his undershorts down and captured her hand and held it against the throb of his arousal. ‘You make me so hot I can barely stand it.’
‘Likewise.’ Holly slid her hand up and down his length, watching as ripples of pleasure played out on his features.
After a moment, he pushed her hand away. ‘Enough. My turn to torture you.’
Holly shivered as he pulled her down to the bed. He gave her a smouldering look and peeled her knickers down her thighs like he was taking his time unwrapping a much-longed-for gift. ‘So damn beautiful...’ He traced the seam of her body with a slow finger.
Holly sucked in a breath as he brought his mouth to her. ‘I’m not very good at this... I can never come so—’
‘Relax for me, sweetie.’ Zack placed a gentle hand on her abdomen, settling her like one did a nervous pet.
Holly had to remind herself to breathe when he lowered his head once more to her body. His breath was a warm caress and then his fingers touched her, sending her senses into overdrive. His lips were next, separating her folds, his tongue moving over her delicate flesh until she was gasping. A tiny ripple turned into a torrent, sensations rushing through her body in ever-increasing waves. Waves that threatened to overpower her consciousness. And then bliss...a floaty feeling of sublime pleasure coursing through every inch of her flesh.
Zack propped himself up on one elbow beside her. ‘Knew you could do it.’
Holly suddenly felt shy that he had witnessed her at her most vulnerable. She had never orgasmed during oral sex before. She had always pretended to get it over with because the sheer intimacy of it had threatened her. Frightened her. But with Zack it had felt so...so right. She watched the pathway of her finger tracing his collarbone rather than meet his gaze. ‘You’ve probably done that hundreds, no thousands of times.’
He brought her chin up with his finger, his gaze dark and lustrous. ‘I don’t do it with everyone.’
She tried not to read too much into his comment but her heart lifted all the same. Did he see her as somehow special? Different from his other lovers? ‘Would you like me to do the same to you?’
‘Not just now.’ He brushed her lips with his mouth. ‘I want to make love to you. But first I have to get a condom.’ He got off the bed and walked over to where he’d left his trousers on the floor. He came back in carrying the tiny foil packet and she marvelled at how gorgeous he looked naked. Strong and fit and lightly tanned, his abdomen rippling with toned muscles.
Holly made room for him on the bed, not an easy task as there wasn’t much to spare. He came down beside her and gathered her close, his mouth coming down to hers in a lingering kiss. He moved his mouth down to her breasts, caressing them with his lips and tongue, ramping up her need for him until she was writhing and whimpering.
‘Please...’ She reached for him, desperate to have him inside her.
Zack ripped open the condom packet and swiftly applied it, coming back to her in a tangle of limbs. He positioned himself at her entrance, balancing his weight so as not to crush her. ‘Tell me if I’m going too fast for you.’
‘You’re not going fast enough,’ Holly said, lifting her hips to receive him.
He put a hand underneath her hip and brought her up to meet his first thrust. She placed her hands on his buttocks, drawing him down to her aching body, sighing, gasping, almost crying with relief when he entered her slickly, smoothly.
He set a slow pace at first, allowing her time to get used to his thick presence. Her body welcomed him, wrapping around him, pleasure pulsing through her most intimate flesh. He increased his rhythm as if he could no longer control the urges rushing through him. The same urges rushing through Holly. Hot rushes that sent tongues of fire to every corner and crevice of her body.
His breathing became laboured, his hold on her tightening, his pace almost frantic. It was magic, dark wicked magic to have him pumping inside her. But it wasn’t quite enough to get her to the summit. As if he could read her body, he slipped a hand between them and began to caress her swollen flesh. The sensations began to ripple through her, giant swamping sensations that made her aware of nothing but what her body was feeling. Feelings she hadn’t felt before. Not like this. Not with this powerful rush that swept her into a vortex and spun her around in a dizzying whirlpool before tossing her out the other side, breathless and blissfully sated.
Zack’s release followed on the tail of hers, his body driving into her with increasing urgency, his breath hot and fast against her neck. He let out an animal-like groan that made her skin lift in a shiver. Had she really done that to him? Made him feel the same heart-stopping pleasure he had made her feel?
‘Oh, my God...’ Holly flung her head back against the pillows. ‘That was...amazing.’
Zack smiled and brushed some wayward hair back off her face. ‘You were amazing.’
She placed her hand against his chest, close to where his heart was thumping as erratically as hers. She kept her gaze down, focusing on the flat dark circle of his nipple. ‘Zack?’
He brought her chin up, meshing his gaze with hers. ‘What’s troubling you?’ There was concern in his expression. Concern and tenderness she hadn’t expected to see.
She moistened her lips, tasting where he had been, and another wave of longing swept through her. ‘I’ve never been able to come during oral sex. I used to always pretend to get it over with. But with you...it was so natural. Almost as easy as breathing.’
He leaned forward to press a soft kiss to her mouth. ‘You’re a very sensual woman. I’ve been having wicked dreams about your body from the moment I met you.’
Holly traced her finger down the length of his sternum. ‘Why me? I mean, I’m not like your usual type.’
‘I didn’t know I had a type.’ His smile was crooked. ‘Was I that predictable?’
She pretended to purse her lips. ‘I guess you’re used to having anyone you like. You’re rich. Handsome. Charming. Good in bed.’
He placed a warm hand on her belly, his gaze teasing. ‘Only good?’
She shivered under his light touch. ‘Amazing. Awesome. Spectacular.’
He drew a circle on her stomach, making every cell of her body shudder in reaction. ‘Some of the sex I’ve had hasn’t been as good as this.’
‘I find that hard to believe.’
; He brushed a tendril of hair away from her face. ‘Why?’
She could feel herself drowning in the deep sapphire sea of his gaze. ‘You’re so good at seduction. You made me want you from the first moment you looked at me. How did you do that?’
He smiled and cupped one of her breasts with his hand. ‘It wasn’t anything I did. It was what we did. The chemistry we have. I felt it as soon as I saw you. I knew we’d be dynamite together.’
Holly only hoped her involvement with him wouldn’t blow up in her face. It was dangerous to let her guard down, but how could she resist this magic? The magic of his hand on her breast, his legs tangled with hers, her body still twitching and tingling from where his had thrust. He had warned her against falling in love with him and she was determined to heed that warning. She had no intention of falling in love with him. Falling in lust was okay. More than okay. Lust, she could handle.
Love, not so much.
Zack’s mouth came down on hers in a blistering kiss that made the hairs on her scalp tingle at the roots. His tongue swept over her lower lip before entering her mouth, teasing her tongue into a dance. He made a deep murmuring sound, a sound of pleasure and approval, his hand going to her hip to draw her body closer.
Holly reached down to stroke him, her fingers moving up and down his shaft, delighting in the way his sounds of pleasure intensified. She slithered down his body, pressing kisses to his ridged abdomen. His skin was warm and scented with soap and a hint of male sweat—an intoxicating combination that thrilled her senses. She poked her tongue into the shallow whorl of his belly button, a part of her shocked at how natural it felt to be pleasuring him in such a way. She went lower, trailing her tongue over the section between his belly button and his erection, teasing him with her closeness, with her brazenness.
‘You’re killing me.’ His voice was a raw thread of sound, shredded by his ragged breathing.
Holly circled his tip with her tongue, tasting his pre-ejaculatory fluid. She lifted her head to glance at him from beneath her lashes, a sexy sultry look she hadn’t thought herself capable of before. ‘Do you want me to stop?’
His hands gripped the bedcover with tight fists. ‘You don’t have to do this...’
‘I want to.’ Holly bent her head and opened her mouth over him, taking him in inch by inch, feeling his shudders against the walls of her mouth. It was the most intimate thing she had ever done and yet she felt as if it was the most natural thing in the world to pleasure him as he had pleasured her.
He lay back against the pillows, drawing her head down against his heaving chest, his hand stroking her head like he was soothing a child. ‘You’ll have to give me a minute to recover.’ He turned his head to press a kiss to the top of hers. ‘Where did you learn to do that?’
‘Not from my exes.’ Holly propped herself up beside him, some of her hair falling forward to tickle his chest. She swept it back over her shoulder. ‘I never wanted to do it. It revolted me, to be perfectly honest.’
He frowned. ‘Then why do it to me if you feel that way? I wouldn’t have pressured you.’
She smoothed away his frown with her finger. ‘You have this strange effect on me. You make me want to do things I’ve never done before.’
He rolled her over until she was beneath him, his arms on either side of her head caging her. He brushed her lips with his. ‘Likewise. Pretending to be engaged being a case in point.’
Holly lifted her hand to his head, toying with his hair, running it through her fingers. ‘It’s kind of sweet how you wanted to help your father by pretending to be in a steady relationship, but aren’t you worried about what comes after? When we end it?’
Something moved at the back of his gaze, a fleeting shadow, a ghost of guilt. ‘I’m hoping by then I’ll have convinced my father I’m capable of more than a run of one-night stands.’
Holly ran her finger down the square line of his jaw from his ear to his chin and back again. ‘What’s the longest you’ve been in a relationship?’
‘Six weeks.’
‘Who ended it? You or her?’
His eyes became shuttered, his expression tightening as if she had touched on a nerve. ‘I don’t set out to deliberately hurt people, Holly.’ He moved away and sat up with his back to her, his hands resting on the bed either side of his legs.
‘I wasn’t suggesting you did.’
He rose from the bed and picked up his underwear from the floor, stepping into it and turning back to face her. ‘I’d better go. I’ve got court in the morning.’
Holly pulled the bedcovers up to cover her nakedness, suddenly feeling exposed. Vulnerable. ‘When will I see you again?’ Damn it. She sounded like a clingy girlfriend. ‘I thought we were going to have dinner?’
‘Maybe another night. I’ll call you.’ He retrieved his trousers from the floor, put them on and then shrugged himself into his shirt, leaving most of the buttons undone. He raked a hand through his tousled hair and then let out a long breath, his tense shoulders dropping. ‘Hey...’ His voice had lost its hard edge and a softer light shone in his gaze.
Holly tried to smile but it fell short of the mark. ‘I’m sorry, but I’m kind of hoping this wasn’t a one-nighter.’
He came back over to the bed and sat alongside her stretched-out legs. He placed a hand on one of her knees and gave it a reassuring squeeze. ‘It’s not.’ He slid his hand up her thigh and she shuddered with another wave of longing. He leaned down to press a lingering kiss to her lips and she wound her arms around his neck, wishing he didn’t have to leave but too frightened to ask him to stay in case he said no.
Zack cupped her face, his fingers gliding under the tresses of her hair, making her skin shiver in reaction. ‘I want you.’ His midnight-blue gaze pulsed with lust, the same lust she could feel vibrating in her body.
Holly traced around his mouth and down his chin with her finger, his stubble as rough as sandpaper. ‘It’s a bit scary how much I want you...’ Her voice was whisper soft and she wondered if she was revealing too much by speaking so honestly, so unguardedly.
He smiled a slow smile that set off a diamond glint in his eyes. He brought his mouth back down to hers, leaving just enough room for breath. ‘It scares the hell out of me how much I want you too.’ And then he covered her mouth with his.
CHAPTER SIX
ZACK WOKE WITH his arms around Holly and her hair tickling his face. He glanced at his watch and inwardly groaned. He’d planned to leave hours ago. The sun was peeking through the curtains with bright accusing eyes. So much for his plan to go home before things got too cosy and domestic. They had made love again and then Holly had fixed them a makeshift meal, which they had eaten over a bottle of wine, and then they had gone straight back to bed to make love once more.
He didn’t normally spend the night at a lover’s place. There was something almost too intimate about it. He was fine with a lover staying over at his house because he could signal when it was time to leave. He liked to be in control of who came and went and how long they stayed.
But somehow with Holly he’d relaxed his rules, which made him wonder if he was walking a fine line. Much finer than he’d planned.
Holly made a soft murmuring sound and stretched like a cute sleepy kitten. She opened her eyes and winced against the punishing sunlight. ‘Ouch. Surely it’s not time to get up yet?’
One of her smooth legs bumped against his and desire shot through him like a sniper’s bullet. Last night those sexy legs had been wrapped tightly around his waist as he’d driven them both to paradise. He couldn’t remember enjoying sex more than with her. Before her, sex was sex. A physical need he satisfied when the opportunity arose.
But with Holly there was a different energy about it, an exciting electric energy that made his body tingle for hours afterwards.
He brushed the tendrils of hair away from her face, bringing his mouth down to
hers, losing himself in the pillowy softness of her lips. How could she taste so sweet this early in the morning, or had his taste buds been hijacked? He could have kissed her for hours. Days. He couldn’t get enough of her lips moving with breathless urgency against his. He drove his tongue through the seam of her mouth, his groin fizzing and firing and furious with lust as her dancing tongue met his. He groaned against her mouth, need spiralling through him like a red-hot tide. Had he ever wanted anyone as much as her? It was stampeding through his body, giant stomping and galloping footsteps of need.
She made a soft sound against his lips, her hands coming up to play with his hair. God, how he loved it when she did that. It made his scalp tingle when she pulled at the strands in little tugging and releasing movements.
He slid his hand up to cradle the weight of her breast. She had such silky-soft skin, as unblemished as a pearl, her rosy nipple peaking in arousal. He brought his mouth to her breast, licking and stroking the cherry-red flesh surrounding her nipple. He flicked his tongue over her tight nipple and she whimpered in delight. He could smell the scent of her body, the fresh spring flowers overlaid with a hint of musk—his musk and hers, the sexy combination of their bodies making him rock-hard. Painfully rock-hard.
He kissed his way down her ribcage, taking his time to pleasure her with his lips and tongue, enjoying the sound of her breathless gasps. He dipped the tip of his tongue into the cave of her belly button and then went lower to the heart of her. She opened to him like an exotic orchid and he pleasured her with his tongue. She came apart and he felt her buck and thrash under his caress and he thought he had never felt or witnessed anything so damn sexy.
When her storm was over, he came back over her with his weight balanced on his arms. His erection was pounding with the need to let go. He wondered if he’d ever felt so hot for a woman. He kissed her hard on the mouth, lifting his head to look into her glazed-with-ecstasy gaze. ‘Hold that thought—I need to get a condom.’ He moved off the bed and fished a condom out of his wallet. He was down to the last one and he was struck with the realisation—the scary realisation—he would have made love to her even if he had run out. Another rule he never broke. Never. Not with anyone, and yet here he was tempted to cross yet another line he had never crossed before.
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