I rub my thumb over the tip once too, just to add to his frustration. I don’t miss the way his legs tremble.
‘Cherry,’ he grinds out once more. ‘Dry yourself off and get on the bed,now.’
24
Duke
Walking out of the bathroom to find Cherry on my bed, wrapped in a towel, wet hair trailing over one shoulder, has me stopping in my tracks. The sunset pours through the window, dousing her skin in an otherworldly golden glow. Against the canvas of my white sheets, she’s the subject of the most glorious painting I’ve ever seen.
I lean for a second in the door frame – something to hold me up – and make sure I’m not dreaming.
This isCherry goddamn Hensley.
The beautiful, strong,cunningwomanwho sets my body alight, and is goddamn torturing me with her slender body and soft curves. The mischievous twinkle in her eyes when she bites down on those lips. The way her delicate fingers wrapped around my cock in the shower—
‘Duke?’ Cherry asks, pulling her legs up onto the bed.
I adjust the towel slung loosely around my hips, though it does nothing to hide the raging boner I’m still sporting.The way Cherry glances down to it, pressing her lips together, says enough.
There’s no way that’s going to fit.
Fuck.
Slow. Thishasto be slow.
For both me and her. I’ve waited too long for this, I can’t rush it, can’t get too caught up and not savour every moment with her like she deserves – especially now I know how much this means to her too. Now’s the time to prove to her how much I care, to devote myself entirely to her pleasure.
Besides, she’s younger, she’s … possibly less experienced than I originally thought given the bucket list.
Have a guy give me an orgasm.
I’ll give her every orgasm she needs, along with the fucking world. But we’ll take it slow. No rushing to try to tick things off some silly bucket list, and then burning out.
‘Mhm?’ I reply, stalking towards her. Letting her gaze devour me as I get closer, like I’m her last meal. And, God, I cannot wait to taste her again.
‘You were staring.’ Her big brown eyes watching me with something like wonder. They glance down once to where my hard cock is caged behind the towel, and she swallows. Then she licks her goddamn lips, like she’s getting ready to take me.
Nope. Can’t have her eye-level with my cock any longer.
‘I’m always staring at you.’ I press my knee into the bed beside her and begin climbing on. She edges back when I nod towards the head of the bed, lying herself down untilI’m hovering over her. ‘And even when you’re not around, I’m still thinking of you. How goddamn breath-taking you are.’
‘Yeah?’ Cherry breathes out.
‘Can I?’ I run a finger along the top of the towel, awaiting her nod before I unfold it from her body, laying her bare for me.
Dusky pink nipples point up at me, begging to be played with. I want – no,need– to make her body quiver again like I did in the shower.
‘I thought you said I was thebane of your life?’ Cherry quips.
I press a kiss to her neck and her body instantly arches up into mine with a soft moan, like I’m the hit she needs to come alive. ‘Oh, you’re that too. This,’ I trail a finger down her body as I continue to brush my lips along her collarbone, relishing the way her breath begins to race, ‘is fucking torturous. Always on my mind. Why do you think I’m always so quiet? It’s because I can’t stop thinking about you.’
And with that Cherry wraps her arms around my neck and tugs me into a kiss. She’s frantic, opening her mouth to me immediately, those years of pent-up desire spilling out like a waterfall again. But I only give her gradual, relaxed strokes of my tongue until she calms and matches my slower pace. Her hand brushes over my head, fingers trailing about the patterns shaved into my hair. A small moan escapes her mouth as I sink my teeth into her bottom lip, tugging, just like I’ve been dreaming of doing for years.
And it was worth the wait.
Nails rake up my back, my skin exploding into goosebumps, the sensation shooting straight down to my already aching cock. I trail my lips along her jaw and down her neck, sucking and kissing at her tender skin, revelling in the way her body jolts below me. It’s almost enough to distract me from her hands sliding down to the edge of my towel and—
I catch her wrists with one hand and pin them above her head. Cherry gasps and presses her chest up towards me, those perky breasts just grazing my chest. Fuck, she looks damn edible laid out for me like this.
