“Stick with me.Don’t you know?The house always wins.”He grinned against her lips.The time for talking was over.He swept her up and sat her on the edge of the bed.Then he crossed to the door and turned the lock.He stripped off his coat as he walked back across the room, then made quick work of the buttons of his vest, letting it fall to the floor.
A small smile played across her lips as she watched him approach.“Don’t you have to be downstairs?”
“That’s the benefit of being the boss.I don’t have to do anything.”He tugged his cravat free as he stopped in front of her.“Especially when my beautiful lady needs me.”
“Oh, I need you, do I?”Her hands spread across his chest, grazing across his nipples.He hummed low.God, he loved her hands on him.
“Yes.I think I need to prove just how well I can take care of you.”Grasping her arms, he tugged her to her feet and kissed her.Her lips parted for him, and he licked into her mouth.Her kiss felt desperate, searching.He was more than happy to pour how he felt into their connection.He would kiss her all night long if that was what she needed to believe that he loved her.He slid his hands into her hair, dislodging hairpins.Working his fingers through the thick, luscious locks, he unwound the chignon she always wore.
Lizzie hummed against his lips and gripped his shirt.She shook her hair out.“That feels good.”
He scratched her scalp.Her eyes fluttered closed and he buried his nose in the hair by her temple.“You smell sweet, like flowers.”
“It’s my hair oil, lily of the valley.”
“Hmm.”He kissed across her cheek and captured her lips once again.The tiny buttons down the front of her dress proved impossible without looking, and he huffed and pushed her onto her back before attacking the row.But he could not figure out how to slide the little round buttons free.
Lizzie chuckled.“They are hooks, not buttons.”She unhooked the first two.
He brushed her hands away impatiently and finished the job, only to find a practical cotton chemise and stays underneath.He shook his head.“I’m still disappointed that I didn’t get to fully unwrap you the other night when you wore nothing under that orange dress.”
Bending over, he caged her with his arms and used his teeth to pull at the laces of her stays.He kept his eyes on hers.She watched him with such hunger that his cock went rock hard.He kissed up the smooth column of her throat, nibbling until he could pull her earlobe into his mouth for a slow suck.Her moan had all his plans for slow seduction fleeing.Matthew flipped her over and tore her clothes down and off.When he had her bare but for her stockings, he took a moment to admire her generous curves.
She looked back over her shoulder at him, her long mahogany waves spilling over her shoulder.“Matthew, please.I need you.”She rolled her hips, rubbing that gorgeous ass along the front of his trousers.
Desperate, he tugged his shirt over his head and threw it to the floor.His trousers were next.He smoothed a hand over her luscious ass.Giving it a small smack, he groaned as the spot turned a rosy pink.Lizzie whimpered and bit down on her bottom lip.Her eyes were fiery with lust.He brushed her hair to one side and leaned over to take her mouth in a sloppy kiss that set fire to his blood.He slid his aching cock up and down the seam of her backside.Another whimper of pure want came from Lizzie.
She tore her lips from his.“Stop teasing me, naughty boy.”
Matthew straightened, and grabbing her hip, he notched his cock at her entrance.Sliding into the wet heat of her pussy had him rolling his eyes back in the pure pleasure that engulfed him.He pulled back and then impaled himself deep in her tight heat.
“Yes, that’s it.Right there.”She threw her head back and pushed her hips back against his thrusts.
He gave her ass another sharp tap.She made him feel like an animal, pulled only by his base instincts.That’s not what he wanted, so he bent and slid an arm under her to bring her up flush against him.“You make me wild, Lizzie.I have never felt this need for anyone like I do for you.”
His hips smacked against hers as he fucked into her.He dropped one hand to sift his fingers through the curls of her mons.Finding that swollen clit, he strummed it with his thumb and felt the rumble of her moan against the hand he had between her breasts.“That’s my girl, come all over my cock.I won’t stop until you are undone.”He slid his hand up to her throat.Her gasps vibrated against his hold.His cock throbbed as he thrust into her, his orgasm barely leashed.“Trust me.Let go.I have you.”He gave her clit a pinch.
With a low moan, she came, her pussy convulsing around his cock.He let her go and pulled out to paint her ass as his cock pulsed and pulsed through an orgasm that left him absolutely undone.He collapsed on top of Lizzie.Their breaths heaved in tandem for a minute before he rolled them so that they were facing each other side by side.Fuck.This woman.He pushed her hair away from her face and cupped her flushed cheeks.“I am so tangled up in love with you.”
Her eyes went from sated to wary.Her mouth opened and then closed.
“It’s okay.I know it’s a risk to love such a bruised heart.But I’ll take the gamble.”He leaned in and placed a soft kiss against her mouth.“The house always wins.”
Chapter Twenty-Six
It was sohard to be sensible when she was wrapped in Matthew’s embrace.His declarations of love should scare her, but instead, her foolish heart only felt hopeful.She tried to tell herself that he was absolutely the wrong kind of man for her to love; she truly did.There were dozens of sensible reasons.He was too ruthless and rough, far too domineering and foul-mouthed.But as his lips sipped on hers, soft and sensual, she found it hard to keep those thoughts in the forefront.
He smelled so good, like tobacco and sex.His body was a hot furnace pressed up against her.She ran her hand through his inky curls and rubbed her nose in his soft beard.Never had she felt so sated and cared for as she did in his arms.Matthew seemed to know exactly how to unlock all her desires, ones she hadn’t even known she had, like when he’d spanked her backside.Her cheeks flamed hot at how wet it had made her.She gazed into his eyes and kissed him again and again.Could she take the risk and let him unlock her heart as well?
“Perhaps I should call down for water for the bath.I would very much like to bathe you.”His big hand smoothed slowly down her side to grasp her backside in a playful squeeze.
“Won’t that be a lot of trouble for the staff when there are customers downstairs?”she asked.
The mention of customers had him sighing, but it did not stop his hand from roaming up to cup her breast.His clever fingers teased her nipple, and she gasped at the tingle of pleasure that raced through her.“And my son is surely done with his supper by now.”She reminded both of them, because she was fast falling under his spell again.A warm bath and his hands soaping her body sounded like absolute heaven.
Matthew sat and then pulled her up with him.“Will you come to my room tonight?After Robert is asleep?”He pressed a kiss to her lips.“I want to come up at the night’s end and wrap myself around you and sleep with my nose buried in your hair.”He pressed another kiss behind her ear.“And wake you in the morning with my tongue buried in your pussy.”
“You wicked man,” she sighed.“Yes, I will come to your room and wait in your bed.And maybe in the morning, I will take you up on your offer of a bath.”
