She didn’t argue when he steered her toward the den, where she flopped down. She felt him ease down beside her where there shouldn’t have been room for him.
Perhaps she slept. She wasn’t sure. She woke when he stirred beside her, then felt him tense. “What’s wrong?”
I was thinking about when Smith said to me, when he was trying to get information, when he was telling me stuff about the children from the clinic.
She drew in a quick breath, remembering the horror of his telling.
The bastard gave away a lot because he thought there wasn’t going to be anyone I could tell.
She nodded against his shoulder.
Something just flickered into my mind.
She felt his excitement.
Hesaidthere was a sexual component.
The observation made something in her memory click. “Wait—didn’t we first make those sparks after...”
Right. After I brought you to climax,he finished for her.And what if I turned you on again, and kept you that way? No telling how much we could do.
You think sexual...need could...be the key?
There’s nothing to lose by trying it.
She heard a chuckle in his voice as he said the last part. Wrapping his arms around her, he shifted their positions so that she was lying sprawled on top of him.
“Let’s see how it works.” As he spoke, his hands stroked over her back and downward to her bottom. His fingers cupped and stroked, and the fatigue she had been feeling vanished—replaced by heat building inside herself. She wanted to squirm against him, but she managed to stay still while he did things no other man had ever done. He knew just what pressure would turn her nipples into aching points of sensation because he felt everything she was feeling. He worshiped her breasts with his hands, then his mouth, suction making her back arch. He kept two hands on her breasts while another hand worked its way down her body.
She stopped worrying about how that could be possible as his fingers dipped into her, then slid upward through her slick folds to her center.
When she tried to rock her hips against him, another hand held her in place.
She moaned, “I need to come,” she gasped out.
“And you will. When we’re ready.”
She wanted to plead that she had never been more ready, but he kept up the maddening conquest of her body—a conquest that would have been impossible for any other man.
His voice murmured in her ear, inside her head.That’s right…let yourself revel in it.With anyone else, she might have been embarrassed at how totally she was in his power. With Travis, she allowed herself to sink deeper into the sorcery of the moment. He kept up his total conquest, making her whole body quiver with need. Need for him. Need for completion.
Not yet. We’re not there yet,he crooned.Reach for me. Pull me in.
How do you know what to do?she gasped out.
Because when I was lost, I pulled myself toward you.
She understood then. He had tied himself to her. It wasn’t exactly the same, but he had managed to forge a link between them. Her breath came in gasps as she reached out for something she didn’t know how to capture.
It’s all right. I didn’t know what I was doing when I went looking for you. But it worked. You’ll figure this out, he encouraged her.
As he spoke inside her mind, she realized what she had to do. She had to want it enough, like he had wanted it enough when he’d found her, like he had overcome any hint of failure. Bonding to her like that had been monumental all by itself. But if he could do it, so could she.
Not you, we,he corrected.We can only do it together.
Yes!She clung to all of it—to his words, to his needs. To her own need.
A tiny sliver of fear wormed its way into her mind. She knew if she accomplished this joining, she would never be the same again.
