He caught her wrist.“Be certain.Is this what you want?”
She did not pretend to misunderstand.Her bare bosom brushed against his muscular chest.She was more than certain.Desire raged within her.For his body, and for him.This was their one chance.“Don’t you want it, too?”
“I want all of you.”He lifted her and placed her beside him on her back, then positioned himself between her thighs.
“I want all of you, too.”She kissed along his jaw, letting him see her urgency.She wanted him to realize she’d never desired anything more in her life.He was what she’d been waiting for.She rubbed her bare hips against his breeches.“But I suspect we need to unbutton your trousers in order for you to let me have it.”
“I don’t mean one time,” he said as he reached between them to free his shaft.“I mean all the times.”
The resulting gap in his waistline caused his breeches to sink below his buttocks.She ran her hands over their muscular curves and pulled him closer.His shaft now nestled directly against her wet heat.Her breath caught.
He moved his head lower until his mouth reached her breasts.
“Are you listening?”he asked as he suckled her.
No.She was not listening.A rich, restless pressure was swirling within her.
Sensing her needs, he slid his hand between her legs and began to play.
She gasped for air.A rush of pleasure washed all conscious thought from her mind.He was not offering her the release she sought, but stoking the flames even higher.With his mouth to her breast and his hand between her legs, she was helpless to do anything more than submit completely.All she wanted was him.
His mouth rose from her nipple long enough for him to murmur, “I want you to be my partner in all things.”
She slid her hands into his hair.“I want you inside me.”
The corner of his mouth lifted.“I want to take that as a yes.But just in case my intent is unclear…” His hand paused its sensual magic.“I’m referring to you being my wife.Would you like me as your husband?”
Her heart skipped.She shoved her doubts away.They would deal with the future tomorrow.For now, they had tonight.
She wriggled against his hands to try and coax him to stroke her again.“Convince me.”
He moved his hand away from her legs altogether.
She nearly cried out from the loss.“No, I want—”
“I’ll show you what you can have.”He lowered his head between her legs and introduced her to the heavens.
She closed her eyes and gave herself over to pleasure as he illustrated talents with his mouth and tongue that she had never dreamed possible.Only when her legs stopped trembling did he raise back up and realign his body with hers.
He kissed the side of her mouth.“What do you say?Do you like what I have to offer?”
“Let me show you.”She wrapped her legs about him and arched her hips to nudge his shaft to her core.
He entered slowly, carefully, gently.
There was a brief moment of pain, and then only fullness and a growing yearning for more.
This was what she had been waiting for.The pleasure he built within her burned as bright as the streak of a comet, innumerable constellations filling the sky, an entire universe of heat and light and beauty.They were creating a new world together.
“Don’t hold back.”She met him rhythm for rhythm.“Take me with you.”
He grabbed her hips and covered her mouth with his.
They did not stop until the stars exploded for both of them.
When at last they finished, he rolled over on his back and pulled her into his embrace.His heart pounded beneath her ear.Her own had escaped her chest and belonged wholly to him.She nestled closer as their breaths slowed into a gentle, lulling rhythm.
“You didn’t give me a straight answer,” he mumbled.“Was that a yes?”
