She inhaled sharply as he spread them across her stomach in a gentle sweep, the glittering kaleidoscope catching the light and refracting into rainbows scattered against her skin.
"Do you know how much they're worth?"
"Not as much as the priceless canvas they're lying on," he said, grazing her lips repeatedly until she sighed with want.
He toyed with the jewels, edging them around her navel, savouring the little shiver she gave every time one slipped into the dip and he scooped it out with a fingertip.
He lined up the sapphires while licking one breast.
He made patterns with the emeralds and amethysts while suckling the other.
He made a heart out of rubies while whispering in her ear what he intended to do to her all night long.
"There's something infinitely decadent about using gems as foreplay," she said, her voice hitching as the back of his hand skimmed her bikini line.
"Wait until you see what I have in mind for the gold bar."
She laughed out loud at his innuendo and rolled onto her side, carefully gathering the jewels into a pile, before scooping them up and depositing them back into a pouch.
"You're something else," she said, the admiration warring with heat in her eyes a powerful aphrodisiac for a guy who sure as hell didn't need one.
"And you're stunning," he said, diffusing the emotion-laden moment by deliberately concentrating on the physical. Bad enough he might be losing his mind over her, no way would he let his heart follow.
"You had your fun with the jewels, now it's my turn." She took their foreplay to a whole new level by lowering her head to his cock.
He blew out a breath as she closed her lips around him, taking him in as far as she could, before she started to move. Sucking him hard. Swirling her tongue over the tip. Driving him wild.
The eroticism of watching her, blonde hair draped over his thighs, the glint of priceless stones in the background framing her beautiful body as her head bobbed up and down, almost blew his mind.
But he had other ideas about how this interlude would finish, and it involved him inside her, now.
He fumbled for his pants, grabbed his wallet and a condom, before easing her away.
She watched as he sheathed himself, as he reached for her, as he held her hips and guided her down onto him excruciatingly slowly.
With velvet cushioning his back, his hands spanning her waist, he watched her lifting up and sliding down on him. Over and over.
Erotic. Exquisite. Exceptional.
He thrust upwards, deeper, harder, and her head fell back, exposing the long column of her neck, her breasts pushing forward.
He gripped her hip with one hand, his other palming her breasts, tweaking the nipples as she increased tempo and he bucked with impatience.
The sounds of their ragged breathing mingled with her escalating moans as the pressure built, and all he could think about was her, wet and wanting, driving him to the brink.
As he watched her, wild and wanton, and savoured her pussy clamping around him, he finally lost it.
He cried out her name at the same time she clenched around him, her face contorted in ecstasy, before she gazed down at him and smiled.
The sinful smile of a sated woman.
The merchandise in this room might be worth millions, but what they'd just done?
Priceless.
Chapter 26
Ruby crossed her fingers behind her back as the last necklace went under the auction hammer.
