Then she let him have her weight, her head against his chest, back pressed firmly into him. “I think I need my head examined.”
“What does that mean?” He stroked the pad of his thumb down her vulnerable neck and once more found her pulse. Beating too fast, but steady. That was his woman. She took her time thinking things through before she made a decision.
“It means I’m probably going to get my heart broken because I’m going to let you get away with not answering me.”
Relief was overwhelming. He dropped his chin on top of her head, feeling her soft curls tangling with the bristles on his jaw. “You aren’t going to ever have a broken heart,Solnyshkuh. I’m going to do everything in my power to make you happy.”
“I am happy. I made a life for myself, and I’ve been happy in it.”
“You forgot to include a future with a husband and children. Somewhere safe you can write your stories in peace. Those are important things, Zelie. I’m the man to give them to you.”
He nibbled his way down her neck, scraping his teeth gently along the way. Tasting her skin on his tongue. Savoring that faint taste of strawberries. “Want you again,Solnyshkuh. I want to go to sleep with you in my arms and wake up seeing you first thing. I love to breathe you in.”
He was making a statement. He wasn’t leaving. She might be nervous about him staying, afraid of Billows and McGrady, but he wanted her to realize he wasn’t in the least bit worried. He wanted her to have that kind of faith in him—in them as a couple. They were stronger than Billows. They always would be.
“I want those things too, Andrii. But more than anything, I need to know you’re safe.”
This woman. He tightened his hold on her. “I’m a badass, baby. You don’t want to believe it, but I am. Have a little faith in my abilities. I need to stay.”
He waited. Watching her. He saw the capitulation in her eyes and then she turned to him and lifted her face to his.Bog, her mouth. She tasted like wildfire. It was Azelie who pulled back first. She tugged at the hem of his shirt, and he complied with her silent demand, removing it one-handed. Then he tugged off her little top to give him free access to her full breasts. He loved looking at her body. All those lush, feminine curves. To him she was beautiful.
Azelie placed little butterfly kisses over the hard muscles of his chest. Her mouth kept climbing, finding his throat, and then she kissed along his jaw. Little kisses. Barely there. He shouldn’t have been able to feel them, but he did. Those featherlight kisses were like dozens of little flames leaping from nerve ending to nerve ending.
“I want to learn how to please you, but you’ll have to instruct me. And you’ll need your jeans off.”
His heart leapt. Went crazy. He cupped her chin, forcing her to meet his eyes. She looked shy but determined. “Are you asking me to teach you how to suck my cock?”
That rose color he loved so much infused her skin, but she didn’t look away. She nodded.
“It’s important to me to learn how to please you. What gives you pleasure. You always give me so much, Andrii. I need to be able to do this. I want to.”
“We might not be ready for that yet,Solnyshkuh, as much as I want it. When I have my cock in your mouth, I’ll want to control the action. I like it a little on the rough side. That might scare you. It’s important that whatever we do together, you have faith that I’m going to make it good for you. That means building up to the wilder things slowly.”
Her gaze didn’t leave his. “I want this, Andrii. It’s important to me. I want you to control everything. That makes me feel safe. It also takes the burden off me of knowing what I’m supposed to do next.”
His cock was already diamond hard. He needed to strip his jeans off just to get some relief. He could see the mixture of nerves and excitement in her eyes. Deliberately, he brushed his hands down her shoulders to the full, inviting curves. He loved the sheer beauty of her breasts. Her nipples were tight buds but sensitive, reacting to his play. He’d been very gentle with her, introducing her to sex as lovingly as he could.
“You’re certain this is what you want to do?”
She nodded. “More than anything I want to learn the right way to do it, to give you pleasure.”
“Your mouth on me is going to bring me all kinds of pleasure, Zelie. There isn’t a right or wrong here.”
“There’re ways you like sex, Andrii. There are ways you might prefer to be in my mouth. I want to learn those ways. Anything you like. But you have to teach me because I don’t have a clue what I’m doing. It’s important to me.”
He didn’t wait for her to keep explaining. He could tell it was difficult for her, and he was proud of her for communicating her desire. More, his body raged at him, impatient for her mouth.
“Take your clothes off,Solnyshkuh. Strip. Fast. I don’t need a show right now; I’m not taking chances on getting any more aroused than I already am.”
She slid off the bed and dragged down the drawstring pants she was wearing, and he was grateful she’d changed from her gorgeous club clothes into the more simple ones she wore to bed. He kept his body facing hers. Without a shirt, the Torpedo Ink tattoo would be very prominent on his back. He didn’t want anything to mar this special moment.
“Lie on the bed with your head hanging over the edge. Spread your legs wide for me. I need to see how hungry you are for my cock.”
She crawled up onto the bed and lay down sideways, so her neck was over the very edge, tipping her head back. She did as he commanded, spreading her legs for him.
“Wider.” He bent over her, and without preamble worked two fingers into her hot, slick entrance. She gasped and liftedher hips. He slid his fingers out again, deliberately trailing the pad of his thumb over her clit. She made a little sound of startled pleasure. He flicked her clit hard, and he saw the answering ripple of her belly muscles as her sex contracted.
Holding her gaze, he licked his fingers, savoring the subtle strawberry flavor. “You are hungry for my cock, aren’t you?”
