He threw up her skirts, his hand finding the curve of her knee and upward, past the frill of her garter. Her thighs were down-soft, tempting as hell. But he didn’t have time to linger.
“Gabriel, anyone can see,” she protested.
“Then you’ll have to decide, won’t you? Whether the risk is worth it.”
“I can’t possibly—oh.” Her eyes closed, pink suffusing her cheeks.
Triumph surged within him. “Open your eyes, princess. Look at me when I touch you.”
Her lashes lifted, the hazel depths swirling with passionate gold. He rewarded her by circling his thumb over her pearl, his other fingers surging upward into her voluptuous warmth. She was so snug and wet around him that he could hardly breathe.
“Did you miss this?” he said against her ear. “My fingers inside you?”
“Yes. Oh yes.”
He withdrew, drove upward again. “You’ve got two of them now. Can you take another?”
She whimpered, and a gush of dew dampened his palm. He’d take that as a yes.
It was the work of a moment to give her more, his cock rock-hard with envy at the way her sheath clutched his driving touch. Oh, to be balls deep in her pussy… heaven for another day. For now it was enough to reestablish that he owned her pleasure, that she was still his. This was real between them. Intimacy he knew how to give.
His teeth ground together as she came. He endured the exquisite torture of her cunny convulsing around his fingers, milking his thick digits before the flutters subsided. Only then did he pull free of her and settle her skirts back into place.
Smiling into her bliss-glazed eyes, he said, “Now give me a goodbye kiss, and I’ll be off.”
She looked at him and, in the next instant, sank to her knees. To his astonishment, she went to work on the fastenings of his trousers. When his heavy erection fell into her hands, he came to his senses.
“Thea, love, I don’t think—”
The rest of the sentence evaporated from his brain as her lips closed around him.
Christ.Holy Mother of God.
His knees nearly buckled as she took him hard and fast, her fist pumping him as she sucked on his shaft. Her taking control like this wasn’t their agreement, he thought dazedly, but at the moment he couldn’t give a damn.
Her curls bobbed prettily as she took him deeper and deeper. As she endeavored to swallow his prick whole, to consume every living inch of him with her wildfire. His hands clenched in the silk of her hair; his hips thrust with animal volition, fucking her beautiful mouth, and she didn’t pull back. Raw words tore from his throat.
“I need this,” he growled. “I needyou.”
She moaned in response, the moist vibration making his neck arch. Her hot, wet sucking drove him to the edge. When his cockhead nudged the silken end of her throat, lights streaked across his vision. Heat rumbled up from his balls, and with his last ounce of sanity, he tried to pull away.
She wouldn’t let him. Feeling her fingers dig into his buttocks, holding him in place as she had her wicked way with him, he lost all control. He came with a roar, the hot load rushing from him and into her generous keeping.
He staggered backward, his shoulders sagging against a bookcase. As he tried to catch his breath, she refastened his pants and rose. Through the haze of pleasure, he saw that she looked perfectly pristine and ladylike… unless one looked at her eyes. They were slumberous and sultry, brimming with feminine satisfaction.
The merging of lady and siren, the glowing wholeness of it, made his senses spin.
“That,” he said hoarsely, “was the best goodbye kiss I’ve ever had.”
“Consider it an incentive.” Her smile beguiled the hell out of him. “Because my hello kisses are even better.”
***
After Gabriel and the others left, time seemed to drag by at a snail’s pace. Thea tried practicing at the pianoforte, but she couldn’t concentrate. She was too distracted by thoughts of what might be happening in Spitalfields… and of the sensual encounter between her and Gabriel this morning.
I need you.
She hugged the words to herself. It was the closest he’d come to saying that he loved her. He’d trusted her enough to let her take the lead in their lovemaking, and it had felt glorious to be in command of his pleasure. More importantly, last night he’d apologized for his behavior and opened up to her. He’d reaffirmed his desire to marry her.
