Mutual Desire

by Donna Grant

  His tongue teased her nipple until the tiny bud was hard and straining before he began to suckle it. Arian ground her hips against his chest as her need grew with each pull of his lips. His strong arms held her as he continued to pleasure first one nipple, then the other.

  Arian dropped her head back and closed her eyes against the clear blue sky and sunlight. It was easy to pretend they were the only two people left on earth, their home the haven that surrounded them.

  Her body was on fire. She wanted—needed—Jensen’s touch. When his hand finally grazed her sex, she cried out his name. His fingers dipped inside her, stroking her as only he knew how.

  “I need to feel you inside me.” She cupped his face, afraid that he would see how much she hungered for him.

  Jensen held her heart in his hands, and he didn’t know it. Tears stung the backs of her eyes as she realized he had come to mean so much to her in so short a time. Somewhere…somehow…he had become her everything.

  He lifted his head, his gaze catching hers. For one heartbeat, two, their gazes held before he shifted her so her sex hovered over his rod.

  “Princess,” he whispered and kissed her.

  Slowly, he eased her down atop him until he was seated to the root. Arian let out a sigh. How she loved the feel of him inside her. “I cannot get enough of you,” she confessed.

  “You have me. Completely.”

  She felt her heart clutch as he began to move in and out of her slowly, leisurely. Arian ground her hips against him and arched her back, taking him deeper.

  “Bloody hell,” he cursed against her neck. “Don’t do that again or I’ll spill.”

  “But you feel so good.”

  He leaned down and gently bit her nipple. Arian moaned, her breaths coming quicker as her body urged her onward. The pleasure coiled tighter, driving her toward the bliss that awaited her. His thrusts grew harder, faster.

  Between one breath and the next, her body tightened as she climaxed. A scream lodged in her throat as she rode the waves of pleasure. Jensen gave a final thrust before he cried out her name and pulled from her, his seed spilling into the water.

  She held him close as his body jerked with the power of his orgasm. When he stilled, she laid her head on his shoulder, their hearts beating together. He walked them to shore and sat her on one of the rocks.

  Arian wasn’t ready for their time at their paradise to end. She wound a lock of his dark hair around her finger and smiled as he placed a kiss on her nipple.

  “Thank you for bringing me here,” she said.

  “It was my pleasure. I’m glad you wanted me to stay.”

  Arian wrapped her legs around him and brought him against her. It hurt to look into his eyes because she saw their time ending, just as he did.

  “I wish I could stay here.”

  He chuckled and leaned back to look at her. “You can’t mean that.”

  “I do so.”

  “Princess, you’ve been sleeping in a hut with dirt as your floor.”

  She raised a brow. “Have I complained?”

  “No, but then again there hasn’t been much time to complain, since I’ve spent every moment I could loving you.”

  She knew he meant making love to her, but hearing the words caused her heart to flutter. If there was a chance he felt for her what she did for him, she would stay with him forever in his hut with the dirt floors.

  “I haven’t complained about the loving either. Quite frankly, I’ve enjoyed it immensely.”

  He grinned and cupped her bottom. “I think I’ve turned you into a wanton.”

  “That you have. What are you going to do about it?”

  “You mean besides make love to you for the rest of the day?”

  “Oh,” she said and reached down to take his cock in her hand. “I think that sounds scrumptious.”

  The corners of his lips turned up in a wicked grin. “Never let it be said I didn’t give my princess what she wanted.”

  Arian giggled as he lifted her from the rock and back into the water. She tried to wrap her arms around his neck, but he captured her hands and shook his head.

  “Jensen?”

  “Trust me, Princess.”

  That was the problem. She did. She licked her lips, excitement running through her as he turned her to face the rocks. His hands ran over her back and her buttocks.

  Her hands gripped the rocks, desire swimming in her blood once more. He trailed a finger from her neck down her back. His touch was feather light, seductive and enticing. She moaned as he paused at the small of her back before he continued on, dipping between her buttocks to tease her sex.

  “What do you want, Princess?” he whispered in her ear.

  “You. I always want you.”

  He suckled the lobe of her ear and bit down gently. “How do you want me?”

  “I don’t care.” She looked over her shoulder at him. “Just touch me, Jensen. Make me yours.”

  Something flashed in his eyes before his lids lowered and he kissed her shoulder. His finger circled her pearl before he strummed it, sending a tidal wave of pleasure pouring through her.

  “I want to hear you scream my name.”

  “Yes,” she sobbed.

  The water lapped at her nipples, adding to the sweet torment of her body. Her legs shook from the desire that pumped through her and made her sex throb. She bit her lip and moved her hips as she sought to move his finger inside her.

  “Are you wet for me?”

  She nodded, words eluding her.

  He hissed as he pushed a finger inside her. “My God, you’re so hot and wet.”

  Arian laid her forehead on her arm. She needed him inside her, to feel him thrusting so deep he touched her womb. Her sex clenched as his fingers stroked her. She shivered from the pleasure, unable to do more than hold still as he worked her body into a frenzy.

  His lips skimmed her back while his other hand reached up to cup her breast and massage it. She moaned and pushed against him as he ground his cock into her bottom.

  He pinched her nipple the same time he thumbed her pearl. Arian gasped at the sensations. When his lips moved across her neck, she turned to look at him over her shoulder. Their gazes met before he bent and took her lips in a searing kiss.

  She tore her lips away and groaned as his fingers left her and he slipped his cock inside her. It was just what she wanted, all of him, as close to her as he could get.

  When she would have started to move, he gripped her hips to hold her still. “Wait,” he whispered.

  Arian shook her head. “I can’t. I need you too badly.”

  “Wait.”

  She bit her lip, determined to keep still while her body pulsed and throbbed with desire.

  “There are many ways to take a woman,” he said. “So many ways I would love to make you climax.”

  “Then do it.”

  “Oh, I will, Princess. I most certainly will.”

  It was a promise she intended to make sure he kept. He shifted, burying himself even deeper. She moaned, her breathing coarse even to her own ears.

  “Don’t move,” he warned her.

  Arian didn’t know if she would be able to stay still, but she was determined to try. His hands released her hips and began to caress her. He cupped her breasts, rolling her nipples in his fingers until she was panting and shaking with the effort to keep motionless.

  Her eyes drifted shut as he massaged her buttocks, his hands coming close to her sex. When his finger drifted in the crease of her bottom, she stopped breathing.

  “I could take you there,” he said as he caressed her hole.

  She wasn’t sure that was possible. “There?”

  “Yes. You would enjoy it.”

  Arian enjoyed everything he did to her, so she didn’t deny it. “Will you?”

  “Hmm. I want to,” he said as he nuzzled her neck. “I want to show you all the ways to enjoy sex.”

  “Then do it.”

  In response, he nipped her s
houlder. Arian waited, but he continued to caress her hole. Just when she thought he wouldn’t, he pushed a finger inside her. She gasped. He wiggled his finger, the sensation different and overwhelming…and wonderful.

  “So damn tight,” he ground out.

  Arian wanted to move, to feel him thrusting, but he stayed frozen with only his hands teasing her. She clenched her sex and he moaned. His breathing was as ragged as hers, so she knew he wouldn’t be able to hold out much longer.

  His other hand moved to her stomach and through her curls to find her pearl. The need to move was overwhelming, especially when he began to thumb her pearl.

  “Jensen.”

  He whispered her name before he began to shift his hips with short, slow thrusts. No longer able to stand still, Arian met his thrusts with her own.

  “Come for me,” he said as he gave her pearl a gentle tug.

  Arian screamed his name as she peaked. White lights burst behind her lids and her heart thundered in her chest. Jensen held her hips, thrusting deep before he threw back his head and pulled out of her.

  She sagged against the rock, her body still pulsing from her orgasm. She felt the semen on her back, and wondered if any other man would have been as considerate of her as Jensen was. He wrapped his arms around her and laid his head on her shoulder.

  “You screamed my name.”

  She smiled. “You asked me to.”

  “So I did.”

  Arian turned in his arms and moved a lock of his hair from his forehead. She opened her mouth to tell him how she felt about him when he placed a finger over her lips.

  “Don’t,” he begged her.

  She let him take her hand and lead her from the water. As they stepped onto dry land, Arian couldn’t help but feel she had let her chance at a future with Jensen slip by her. For whatever reason, he hadn’t wanted her to speak, and she had respected that.

  But she was determined for him to know what was in her heart before she left.

  8

  The time at the waterfall had been blissful, and Arian knew she would never experience such joy and pleasure again for the rest of her days. All because of Jensen.

  He gave her the world each time he touched her. There was no holding back, no worry over her being a princess. She was just a woman to him.

  She smiled and ran the comb through her hair once again. They had returned to the village a short time ago, and an easy quiet had settled between them.

  They were each lost in their own thoughts, and Arian had thought she might be able to think of a way to extend her visit. Yet, even as she thought it, she knew it would only hurt Jensen. He would never send her away, but to prolong their inevitable good-bye while bringing them closer together was not fair to either one of them.

  “What are you thinking?” he asked.

  She turned and looked at him. “I’m wondering what your future holds for you.”

  He grinned and sat forward in his chair. “I don’t know really. Anything is possible. I’ve stayed here longer than any other place.”

  “Does that mean you will move on soon?”

  “I’ve been thinking about it.”

  She waited for him to say more, and when he didn’t, she licked her lips and set the comb aside. The thought of him leaving the Amazon brought a sense of foreboding to her. Was he leaving because of her?

  “How about you, Princess? What will you and your future husband do?”

  She didn’t want to think about her intended. He was a fine man, but he wasn’t Jensen. “I would rather not talk about my future.”

  “Why?” He rose and walked to her. “I’m curious. I would like to think about you in a couple of years and know what you’ll be doing.”

  Arian raised her head as he stopped in front of her. “My life will be just as my sisters’ have been. I’ll marry, and I’ll either live in the palace or in a home of my husband’s choosing in Tulso. I will be expected to have children almost immediately to ensure the line, of course.”

  “Of course,” he agreed. “What about what you want to do? I thought you wanted to see the world?”

  She shrugged. “It will depend on my husband. The man my parents chose for me is quite influential to our parliament. I doubt he will ever venture away from Tulso for very long.”

  “No honeymoon for you then?”

  “A short one.” She glanced away, hating to talk about a future that didn’t include Jensen.

  Jensen sat beside her, his face devoid of emotion. “Where will you go?”

  “France maybe, or even Switzerland. It will be a small holiday, just over a week.”

  “Not long enough for your husband to enjoy you as I have.”

  She folded her hands in her lap. “No one will ever enjoy me as you have.”

  In the next instant, he gripped her by her arms and pulled her against him. His kiss was savage as he poured all of his frustration and anger into it.

  Arian wrapped her arms around his neck and returned the kiss. A heartbeat later he softened his lips, deepening the kiss before he raised his head.

  “Life without you will be very dull, Princess.”

  “We have time yet.” She stood and began to undress. “I don’t want to waste a moment of it.”

  He jerked off his clothes and sat her on the bed before falling to his knees between her legs. His hands caressed her, sending chills racing along her skin. His fingers skimmed her curls to tease but never touch her throbbing sex.

  She sighed and closed her eyes as she laid back on the bed. He leaned down and licked her sex before coming to her pearl and swirling his tongue around the tiny nub.

  Desire began to hum in her blood once more, making her sex pulse with need. Jensen’s tongue laved her pearl, alternately licking and sucking until she writhed on the bed, her moans filling the tiny hut.

  “You taste delicious,” he murmured as he kissed her inner thigh. “I could feast on you all night.”

  Arian fisted her hands in the covers to try to control the violent hunger inside of her. She bit her lip to keep from begging him to return his mouth to her sex and give her the release she needed. He had always shown her exquisite pleasure, and she knew this time would be no different.

  His hands moved to her sex, his fingers running through her curls before he dipped a finger inside of her.

  “Your body was made for loving.”

  She whimpered and turned her head to the side when his fingers began to stroke her higher. While his finger was inside of her, he bent his head and licked her pearl again.

  Arian screamed and arched her back as a jolt of desire quickened through her. She could feel her orgasm building, the insistent throbbing growing with each lick of his tongue and thrust of his finger.

  And then he was gone.

  She opened her eyes to find him standing between her legs. He leaned down and kissed her stomach, his tongue flicking her naval. Then he reached for her legs and grasped an ankle in each hand.

  Arian’s mouth went dry as she looked at his thick cock and the bead of liquid that formed on the tip. Her stomach quivered in anticipation of what he would do next.

  He held his arms to the side, stretching her legs out and exposing her sex to his gaze.

  “Beautiful,” he whispered.

  She tried to breathe but found her lungs refused to work. Her body shook from the desire swimming in her. “Please, Jensen.”

  He eased his cock to her sex and rubbed it against her flesh. “What do you want, Princess?”

  “You,” she cried. “I want you inside of me.”

  With one thrust he buried himself inside of her. Arian groaned at the glorious feel of him. Then he started to move. Slowly at first, rotating his hips, but then he began to plunge harder and faster inside of her. Sweat glistened on his skin as sunlight spilled over him.

  He suddenly let go of her legs and leaned on his hands over her, his face inches from hers. Arian wrapped her arms and legs around him and leaned up to kiss him.

 
He began to thrust again, long, hard strokes that had her clinging to him as her climax built. All too soon, she shattered. The room spun and her heart clenched as her body stiffened with the intense pleasure.

  Dimly, she heard Jensen whisper her name before his body shuddered with his own orgasm. It was only a heartbeat later that she realized he hadn’t pulled out of her. She closed her eyes as tears threatened, and though she shouldn’t, she prayed his seed would give her his child.

  Jensen tried to get his breathing back under control as he kissed the neck of the woman he had fallen head over heels for. Every time he loved her, he found his need for her doubled, until the thought of not being with her left him ill.

  He rose up on his elbows and wiped away the hair that clung to her damp face. She was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen.

  Her legs squeezed him and that’s when he felt her sex clutch around his cock. His heart fell to his feet as he realized he hadn’t pulled out of her. How could he have forgotten?

  Because it felt bloody damn good!

  But that wasn’t an excuse. It was one thing to take her maidenhead, but quite another to make her worry that she carried a commoner’s seed.

  “What is it?”

  He tried to swallow, but found all the spit gone from his mouth. “I’m sorry, Princess. I didn’t pull out.”

  She smiled up at him, a smile full of contentment and happiness. “As sinful as it is to admit, I’m glad you didn’t.”

  “And if you’re now carrying my child?” Just saying the words aloud made his stomach quake with fear. And excitement.

  Her hands brought his face down for a kiss. “Then I shall be the happiest woman in the world.”

  Jensen blinked, the joy spreading through him nearly too much to take. His mind raced with possibilities that they might be able to stay together, to make a life.

  And then Magwi’s voice reached him from outside his hut. “Jensen. You need to come outside. Her men have found the village.”

  All the elation and anticipation that had filled him just a moment before vanished at his friend’s words.