“Are you determined to tease me?”she demanded huskily.
“What do you think?”he murmured, kissing his way down her neck.
“I think you’re stone here…” She touched his chest over his heart.
‘And what’s the cure for that?”he demanded softly.
‘Turn up the heat?”she suggested.
He laughed.“If I’m stone, you’re all yielding curves and needy places.But not in here,” he added, brushing her silky hair back from her face.“In here...”He tapped her head.“You’re as knowing as you are beautiful.”
“Oh, am I?”she whispered.
“Yes, you are, which is why I know you need this as much as I do.”
Her lips pressed down in rueful disapproval.“This is just sex to you, isn’t it?”
“What else would it be?”he demanded softly.
Amber shook her head.“How can you be so cold?”
“How can you allow yourself to reach this level of frustration without wanting to move on?”he reasoned coolly.
“Because satisfaction is never a given—not even with the most sophisticated toy,” she retorted, which made him smile.
“Is that all I am to you?A sex toy?”
And when she shrugged, he said, “You’re no better than me.”
“Accepted,” she gasped out when he lightly cupped her breasts.
Drowning in her wildflower scent, he rasped his stubble lightly against her neck until she exhaled on a soft cry.He pushed her pajamas pants down and helped her step out of them, and then he backed her up until her legs were pressed hard against the bed.
“Don’t you think you’re overdressed, Alexei?”
“My clothes can wait.Open your legs,” he commanded softly.
“And just stand in front of you, while you…?”
“Why not?”he said.
She opened her mouth and said nothing, but she did as he asked.Slipping a hand between her thighs, he explained, “Let me do this.”
She stood still, listening as he worked her, her breathing speeding up as the pressure began to build.“I can’t—”
“You can’t what?”he said quietly.
“I can’t stand here and let you do this.”
She was clinging to his arms.“Stand up straight,” he insisted.“Let go of me.Don’t touch me.Just concentrate on what I’m doing to you.”
“I can’t, I’ll fall over,” she admitted with an edge of hysteria in her voice.“I can’t do this—I can’t hold on—”
“Yes, you can,” he said sternly.“And you will.You will take everything I have to give you, and you will not release until I give you permission to do so.”
Her body was out of her control.Alexei was in complete charge of her pleasure.That thought alone would have been enough to tip her over the edge, if his steely stare hadn’t been so commanding.She wanted to obey him in this alone.She wanted to feel the pleasure that only he could bring.His skillful touches, rapid little brushes growing firmer all the time, were setting up the sweetest, strongest clenches she’d ever known.Her entire body was awash with sensation.
“I’ve got no idea how long I can take this,” she admitted with a healthy dose of pleading in her voice.
