by Amy Andrews
Driven by an imperative she didn’t understand, but wasn’t about to ignore, Kelsey leapt out of bed and threw on some clothes - yoga pants and a t-shirt. Scraping her hair into a messy knot, she zipped up a hoodie, pushed her feet into flip flops and shoved some Hermes issued condoms into the front hoodie pocket.
Ten minutes later, grateful for the head covering to obscure her identity, she was knocking on Ari’s door. It opened on the first knock and she barely had time to register that he was in nothing but his underwear, before he was dragging her inside, pulling her into his arms, pushing her against the closing door and kissing her.
Kissing her hard. Kissing her deep. Kissing her long. Giving her the rough pant of his breath and the deep resonance of his groans and the wicked stroke of his tongue. Sweeping into her mouth, plundering every quarter of hers until she was moaning and sighing and clinging and grinding against the hardness inside his underwear.
He pulled away abruptly and they stared at each other for long moments. Kelsey’s heart raced and their combined breathing sounded like a hurricane. Slowly he released her, a smile on his mouth as his hands dropped from her hips and he backed up. And he backed up some more, then some more.
The smile on his lips grew bigger and Kelsey was too flummoxed by the kiss to do anything much at the moment other than watch. He stopped when his calves hit the mattress and he lowered his ass to the bed, his gaze intense as it dropped from her face and drifted south to touch every part of her body.
Slickness built between her legs as he slowly found her eyes again. He crooked his finger. “Come here.”
Kelsey could no more have disobeyed that imperious finger than flown to the moon. She walked towards him on shaky legs, the thick bound of her abdominal pulse a hot throb in her belly.
“Now, where were we?” he asked, his voice soft as he leaned back onto his elbows, his gaze taking another slow turn of her body before returning to her face. “Oh yes...that’s right. Take off your clothes.”
Her hands trembling a little, Kelsey withdrew the strip of three condoms from the hoodie pocket and tossed them at Ari. He caught them in a move that looked pure reflex and, grunting his approval, tossed them on the bed.
She unzipped then, removing the hoodie as she kicked out of her flip flops. The t-shirt came next. She wasn’t wearing a bra and the harsh suck of his breath as her breasts tumbled free had her nipples hardening to tight achy points. Shimmying her hips, she pushed off the yoga pants leaving her in nothing but a black lace bikini brief.
He didn’t say anything, just let his gaze wander over every inch of her body. Kelsey pointed to his underwear. “Your turn,” she said, her voice thick.
He shook his head and pointed at the scrap of lace hindering his view. His gaze was so intent on the space between her legs it felt as if that finger was actually stroking her there.
“Those first.” His voice had dropped so low it wasn’t much more than a disturbance of the air.
Sliding her thumbs beneath the fabric bracketing each hip, she pulled them down, shimmying once again as the black lace slipped down her legs. She kicked them and the yoga pants aside with a brief sweep of her foot.
She was totally naked now and not remotely self conscious as he stared at her like she was the best damn piece of Baklava he’d ever seen. His nostrils flared. “Come here.”
Kelsey shook her head glancing at his underwear. “Now you.”
Without taking his eyes off her face, Ari stood, and divested himself of the last barrier. His height and breadth suddenly dominated the room as he stood gloriously, arrogantly naked, his cock springing free, jutting from his body.
It was so fucking potent it made her dizzy.
Sitting again, his stiff cock rising like a trident between his legs, he reached for a condom. Still not taking his eyes off her, he ripped the foil open. Kelsey’s heart beat a little faster as she watched his deft fingers fit the thin, latex protection over his cock.
Her breath got caught somewhere in her throat as he worked it all the way down his magnificent girth. It was an enthralling show.
“Kelsey.” His voice was rough as tree bark and she dragged her gaze away from the weapon primed and loaded in his lap. He crooked his finger again. “Come here.”
She didn’t refuse this time, she practically ran the four paces to where he was sitting and stepped right into the space between his legs, her hands sliding onto his warm shoulders.
His palms settled on the backs of her thighs, just above her knees and her skin hummed at his touch.
“Eísai ómorfi,” he whispered.
She had no idea what he’d said but she didn’t need a translation, it was there in his eyes. His head was level with her chest and he was looking his fill of her breasts, a reverence in his expression that was both heart and panty melting.
His fingers slowly stroked their way up to her ass and Kelsey almost whimpered at the havoc they were creating. After long moments, he pressed his forehead to her sternum, burying his face in her cleavage. He inhaled then, roughly. Once, twice, three times, before turning his face and planting a kiss on the slope of her left breast.
It was the lightest of touches, barely there, yet Kelsey felt it all the way to her clitoris. The screamingly hard nub between her legs throbbed at the stimulus and she swayed a little as she drew in a ragged breath.
His hands gripped the back of her thighs and Kelsey sunk her fingers into the hair at his nape. Whether she was gaining purchase or just wanted to keep him there, she didn’t know, she just knew it felt more than sexual to hold him close.
He turned his face and pressed a kiss to the other slope before giving his lips and tongue full reign, exploring every millimetre of her breasts. Licking and kissing, drawing wet patterns until he reached her nipples, sucking each one into the hot recess of his mouth.
Kelsey cried out, burying her hands deeper into his hair and arching her back as he switched from side to side until Kelsey’s was a giant quivering mass of nonsensical noises. Until her legs were weak and she was floating in a sea of pleasure –the smell of maple syrup and her own arousal thick in her nostrils.
And just when Kelsey thought she couldn’t take anymore, that the low pull in her abdomen was sure to swell into something bigger and harder and that she was actually going to orgasm from nipple stimulation, his fingers went exploring.
She gasped as they burrowed between her legs, stroking the plump, slick seam of her sex with absolute precision. The pleasure cranked from intoxicating to almost vicious in its intensity, her knees buckling under its onslaught.
Ari’s thighs clamped firm around her, keeping her upright, keeping her in place as his fingers prodded for entry. Kelsey cried out as first one finger, than another found their way deep inside her, the walls of her sex contracting tight at the thick, blunt intrusion.
“You’re so wet,” he muttered around her nipple before scraping his teeth against the hard, aroused point and sliding another finger to the swollen knot of nerves at the apex of her slippery inner folds.
It was all it took, just a few rubs of her clit and the low pull morphed into an intense ball of pleasure uncoiling in one almighty release, streaking rapture like lightning to every cell in her body.
Kelsey’s breath strangled in her lungs as she called his name. “Ari!”
Her body bucked as the sensation unfurled with flashpoint intensity, breaking like a storm and he groaned as the hot, wet channel of her pussy clamped tight around his fingers.
Kelsey didn’t know how long it lasted, she lost all sense of time as wave after wave rocked her and spun her around. All she knew was her heart was still hammering and her clit was still quivering and she’d barely regained the strength in her legs when Ari slid his fingers from her body.
“Theé, Kelsey,” He dropped fevered kisses all over her chest, her neck, her collar bones and breasts. “Se chreiázomai kai theló na se gamiso.”
She didn’t understand the Greek but his hands felt good sliding over her body, satur
ated as it was with sensation. His touch showered sparks up and down her legs as he urged them apart and hot whispers straight into her ear in his mother tongue fanned goose bumps down her neck.
The low timbre of his voice washed over her dreamily as her knees widened and she lowered into his lap, her big toes just touching the floor. The thick, hard nudge of him against the slick lips of her sex finally brought her back to herself. She moaned and opened her eyes, finding him watching her, his mouth a straight line, his jaw rigid, his eyes dark and intense.
“Agápi mou.” His chest heaved. “I need you.”
The combination of his soft endearment and his expression of quiet desperation undid her and Kelsey kissed him, long and deep, feeling between them for his latex covered shaft and notching him at her entrance.
CHAPTER NINE
Ari fell back, groaning as she slowly swallowed him up, her moan of satisfaction lighting a fire in his belly as his fingers closed convulsively around her hips. She fell forward gasping, “So good,” as she took him all the way to the hilt, her forehead pressing to his chest.
Then she raised herself up, anchoring her hands on his shoulders and leaning all her weight forward, her jaw set, her gaze locking on his like a heat seeking missile. Raising a hand to her hair she pulled it out of its knot and sent it cascading around her shoulders.
“Don’t move,” she whispered. “Let me.”
The instruction went straight to his balls and Ari’s hands tightened on her hips as he let her take control. She rocked against him then, a glaze in her eyes that told Ari all he was going to need to do was to hang on. And hang on he did as she set up a rhythm, her full breasts swaying hypnotically to the rock of her hips.
Her tightness undulated along his shaft in an erotic grip that ratcheted up his heart rate and squeezed the muscles of his thighs and ass and belly in a vice. But it clearly wasn’t enough for Kelsey, a frustrated grimace marring her features as she leaned forward, leaned into the hands that were gripping his shoulders.
But still it didn’t seem enough as she half growled, half whimpered, shutting her eyes and sinking her teeth into the cupid’s bow of her top lip, her hair forming a curtain around her face.
She was magnificent. Like an avenging angel hunting down an orgasm it seemed she couldn’t quite reach.
She stole Ari’s breath.
He slid his hand from her hip, to the slick heat between her legs. “No,” she said, panting as her hips flexed faster. “Too sensitive.”
“Tell me.” He withdrew his hand. “Tell me what you need.”
Anything, he’d do anything.
An aggravated little mewling noise slipped from her lips as her eyes blinked open and zeroed in on his. “I don’t know,” she said, her tone desperate as one of her hands turned from gripping his shoulder to pummelling it a couple of times. “It’s ...just...there.”
Her arms trembled and her thighs trembled, her face was flushed and he could see the mad flutter of her pulse at the base of her throat. Air chugged in and out of her lungs in breathy gasps.
“What about this?”
He thrust then as she sank down and she cried out, her green eyes widening, her fingernails sinking into the flesh of his shoulders. “Oh God.” She moaned and her eyes almost rolled back in her head. “Yes.”
Her guttural approval was like petrol to the flame burning in his loins and Ari thrust again, harder this time.
She gasped as her head rocked. “Yes. Just like that.”
Grunting as he leashed the relentless pull of his own orgasm, Ari, gave it to her again, just like that.
“Please, yes...” Kelsey bore down harder through her arms, moaning loud. “Don’t stop.”
Stop? He never wanted to stop.
Ari slammed his cock into her, revelling in the tight sheath of her pussy. Three more thrusts and Kelsey’s eyes flew open, her lips parting on a gasp that ricocheted around the cabin. She cried out then, the sexiest damn banshee noise he’d ever heard.
“Yesss!”
Her entire body tightened, her fingernails sunk into the flesh of his shoulders, her back arched. Their gazes held as she ground against him, her pussy fisting his cock, squeezing hard as her body trembled and shook to the pulse of her orgasm, her wild moans a powerful aphrodisiac.
He joined her, the orgasm he’d been holding back breaking like a dam. Their climaxes intertwined, the rhythmic squeeze of her pussy and the hot pulse of his cock locking them together as Ari spilled inside her until they were both spent and he collapsed onto the mattress, pulling her down on top of him.
“Theé dóse mou dýnami,” Ari said eventually as he stirred beneath her, his hands sifting through the fan of her hair. “We’re good at this.”
She laughed but it sounded heavy and sleepy. “I think phenomenal is more accurate.”
Her warm breath was like a lightning rod against his skin, goose bumps erupting across his scalp and prickling down his nape. She was right, their chemistry was phenomenal.
Propping her chin on his chest she traced his bottom lip with her finger. The sensation slid all the way down to pool in his groin. “I missed you,” she murmured, her voice sounding sleepy and before he could respond, she laid her cheek on his chest again and he heard her yawn.
Ari’s heart thunked in his chest. He’d missed her too. He’d known her for only a handful of days but it was the truth.
When he’d told her to go yesterday it hadn’t been churlish. He hadn’t been angry or annoyed. He understood the risk Kelsey was taking and pushing her to stay had been wrong. It’d been the wakeup call he needed about whatever the hell they were doing and Ari had taken a reality check.
This was an aberration – it wasn’t normal. For him or her.
But her voice on the phone had reached inside him and he’d throbbed with the need to see her one more time. Being like this with another woman hadn’t been on his radar. Hell, it hadn’t even been on his wish list and that was confusing and confrontational but he wanted Kelsey and she wanted him.
And the world hadn’t ended. He hadn’t fallen apart.
Ari didn’t think for a moment he’d been cured of grief - he still wasn’t ready to let go of Talia - but maybe he was finally emerging into the light?
Thanks to Kelsey.
“I missed you too,” he said but she was already asleep.
Kelsey woke the next morning to the trail of fingers at her hip, a warm solid body spooning her from behind and a seriously large erection making itself felt in the cleft of her butt cheeks.
“Mmmm.” She stretched a little but didn’t open her eyes, just luxuriated in the feel of Ari and the certainty that she didn’t have to go anywhere today. She snuggled into the cradle of his thighs and the virile length of his cock.
“Kalimera.”
The greeting rumbled around her low and sexy as Ari dropped a kiss on her shoulder. Kelsey had heard Ari curse, come and mutter dirty words in his native tongue but there was something so nice about his innocent morning greeting and the way it slid out, all rough and sleepy, caused a glow deep inside her chest.
His hand moved steadily north to her ribs and she smiled. “Good morning to you, too.”
Lips buzzed their way across her shoulder blade to the bony notch where nape met spine and Kelsey wriggled against his dick suggestively. “What time is it?”
The cabin was as dark as ever but she could hear the distant shutting of doors and the muffled chatter of people as they walked past the cabin so it had to be morning.
“Eight thirty.”
Kelsey’s eyes flashed open. “Really?” She hadn’t slept this late since her last stint home between contracts.
Not that there’d been a lot of sleeping going on.
“Uh huh.” A hot tongue swiped up the side of her neck as his fingers traced the ruts of her ribs. “We wore each other out.”
“Mmm,” she sighed as she shut her eyes again. They had fucked like demons after she’d taken a little nap. But his body d
idn’t seem that worn out. Nor was hers if the heat smouldering between her legs was any indicator.
“Doesn’t feel like it.” She ground against him, her heart skipping a beat or two as his breath caught. The smoulder flickered to flame. “We should do something about that.”
Ari had been delighted to hear about her day off and had suggested they spend it in his cabin. Kelsey knew she shouldn’t be encouraging whatever the hell this was but in a few days she’d never see him again and she just didn’t have the willpower to deny herself the sex or the snuggles anymore.
It seemed to her that he’d given up trying to deny it, too.
“I’ve been thinking,” he said, his teeth grazing the spot where her pulse beat unsteadily in her throat, his fingers stroking the underside of her breast.
Her nipple burgeoned at the touch. “Oh?”
“Come into Mykonos with me.”
Kelsey’s eyes fluttered open again. Okay...that she hadn’t been expecting. She remembered he’d expressed an interest in only seeing Mykonos so she supposed, it shouldn’t be surprising he wanted to go. This was his holiday after all. But...
“I can’t. I can’t be seen with you even off the ship.”
His whiskers spiked against her shoulder blade as he anchored his chin there. “I know. I’m not talking about walking the streets together. My boss owns a house on Mykonos. He said I could use it when the ship docked for the day if I wanted. You should see it, Kelsey, it’s beautiful with this infinity edge pool that looks out over the sea. You can join me there and no one need know. Just you and me skinny dipping and –”
His hand finally quit teasing around her breast and slid over. Kelsey shivered and her belly pulled tight.
“Making out.” His thumb teased her nipple. “Plus the housekeeper there makes the best spanakopita.”
Kelsey’s eyes shut as his fingers strummed at her nipple sparking sensation to all her erogenous zones. The idea of spending a day away from the ship with Ari, no sneaking around, was so damn tempting.
So damn...normal.
“Well...I do like to eat,” she said, her voice raspy as his fingers grew rougher with her nipple.