His hands held her waist, easing her closer still, so her breasts were pressed to his chest. Then he took control of the kiss. Deeper… in seconds Beth was completely under his spell. Her body felt hot, and she wanted more... wanted to crawl into him and have him chase every thought from her head but one... him.
“Stop me,” he said into her neck. “I have no control where you are concerned.”
“Don’t stop, Leo.”
“I don’t want to scare you... not now, after what you have told me.”
That he would say those words meant so much to her. He would stop if she asked him.
“I am not scared, Leo, I have no wish for you to stop. Your touch makes me feel alive for the first time in my life. When you hold me like this, I forget everything but what you make me feel.”
He pulled the satin ribbon of her bonnet and removed it, throwing it across the carriage. Opening her cloak, he eased it from her.
“Just kisses, sweetheart. I have no wish to frighten you.”
Beth lifted her chin, and he kissed his way around the front to her chest. “I am not frightened, Leo.”
The feel of his lips on her skin was wonderful, the sensations he was creating inside her, bliss. Beth didn’t know where this was taking them, or if they had a future, only that right now at this moment she needed this. He touched her above the neckline of her dress, tracing a finger around the edge, making her shiver.More, she thought... much more.
She shuddered as his fingers slipped beneath the fabric and caressed her, tracing the swells of her breasts. She arched closer.
“I have only so much restraint, Beth.”
His jaw was clenched, the muscles bunching, and she knew he wanted her as she did him.
“Please, Leo. For so long I have abhorred a man’s touch. Shuddered when they were too near. For some reason that is not the case with you, so I wish now to get closer; please don’t stop.”
“I don’t want to frighten you.” He cupped a cheek. “It would cause me a great deal of pain to see fear in your eyes when you look at me.”
“You won’t.” She turned her mouth into his hand and placed a kiss on the palm. “I will tell you if I feel fear, Leo.”
He looked at her for long, heated seconds, and then kissed her softly, so soft she felt it to her soul.
