This was the perfect chance for her.
Lifting her arms, she wound them loosely around his neck at first, but when she felt his warmth against her, she threw caution and her clothes to the wind.
Or at least she tried.
Nick helped her off with her dress, he took great care with all of the skin that he bared to his gaze and his hands.
The way his fingertips traveled across her skin sent shivers through her body.
His mouth feasted on her neck, down along her collarbone.
She gasped in a breath and her hands reached around to his back.
"You're so... hot," she blushed at the way her words sounded, "a- all over. Your skin."
Nick didn't say a thing, but she wondered if he was smiling.
She certainly was.
His lips moved over the top of her breast and she closed her eyes, lost in the sensation.
And then she felt his lip against her nipple.
Ruth moaned, her legs moving restlessly against the sheets. "Nick..."
"Ruth."
When he spoke, she felt his breath against her sensitive skin, her nipples puckered, tightened.
"Look at me, honey. I want you to watch me put my lips all over you."
How could she resist?
Ruth opened her eyes and the look in his made her tremble with anticipation.
She might not be good with relationships since she'd barely had one, but she knew the look of hunger.
Usually that was just for the treats that she baked, but this?
What he hungered for... was her!
"There she is," Nick's voice was barely a whisper but it was also a caress against her skin, "that's the woman I love."
His words made her tremble, but they also made her eyes tear up.
"I still can't believe that you love me."
He smiled then. She felt the pull of his lips against her skin. "I love you, Ruth. Everything about you."
She opened her mouth to say... something, but as she drew in a breath, his tongue swept out between his lips and with the tip of it, he brushed against her nipple.
Ruth felt like she was going crazy.
Deliciously crazy.
Her nipples had always been sensitive, but with Nick touching her it was like every nerve ending was firing in cascades of sensation.
He shifted against her, over her, one leg pressed between hers.
