“I thought it might be time to test the strength of the toughened glass.”
“Liar,” she murmured, staring at him with a mix of pity and disappointment on her face at the idyll so quickly lost.
“So?”he pressed with an unrepentant hum.
She shook her head and gave him a wry smile.“So, I’m totally up for a challenge.”
“You can still watch the sea life,” he promised.
“Like I won’t be distracted?”she said as he removed her towel and made a start on her bikini.
She wanted Alexei so much it hurt, and not just physically.Her feelings had changed toward him, and she didn’t know how to hold them back.
Murmuring what she had no doubt were outrageous suggestions in Russian, far too advanced for her sparse understanding of the language, he was steadily backing her toward a viewing bench.He was so sexy and she was so hot for him.But… “No,” she said, holding back at the last minute.
“No?”he queried.Stepping out of his swimming shorts, he stood in front of her, utterly beautiful and completely unabashed.And he certainly didn’t need to tell her that there was nowhere else he would rather be.
“I want you,” she said softly, wishing this could be enough for her.
“I know,” he murmured.“I feel the same.”
“So I see.”
And then they were smiling into each other’s eyes with the type of understanding that only lovers have, and everything was all right again.
He lowered her down to the bench and arranged her legs over the wide spread of his shoulders.She came the moment he touched her.That was how she felt about him.Alexei moved deep to take her completely.Throwing his head back, he lost himself in pleasure, while she was completely possessed by him, body, soul, and mind.
What am I doing?Where is this going?
Ever sensitive to her smallest change of mood, Alexei forgot about his own pleasure and stopped moving.That made it worse.She wanted this too much.She hadn’t realized how deeply embedded he’d become in her heart.And she knew he shunned close relationships.Sheknewthat, so what was she doing?
“Amber?”Searching her eyes, Alexei kissed her, and he kept on kissing her until she relaxed, but inside, she knew.He was like an island.He was like the fabled Isla Celeste, a destination to enjoy for a short time before moving on.That was how she should be thinking about him, but she was having a major fail in that department—
“Do I have your full attention,myshka?”
She smiled ruefully.“Stop with the mouse.”
“Stop with this too?”he queried, moving his hands so they cupped her buttocks.
She groaned with pleasure as he slowly rolled his hips from side to side.“You don’t play fair.”
“Do you want me to?Why don’t you just let go, when you know you want to?”
He knew her too well.It was so easy to do just that—too easy.
Alexei took her from one peak to the next and showed no interest in slowing down.He was devoted to her pleasure, and her ecstatic cries rang around the viewing room while the marine life provided a silent spectacle behind them.
“Isn’t it your turn?”she asked at last.She didn’t wait for Alexei to reply.She arranged herself on the bench with her hips held high, tempting him.Her reward was his ragged groan of pleasure.Much later when they were still entwined, she teased his lips with hers for the pleasure of watching his hard mouth soften into a smile, and when he kissed her back, there was so much feeling between them, it overwhelmed her.
“Tears,myshka?”
“Exhaustion,” she lied, brushing off her reaction and the tears with a smile.If she said too much, she’d drive him away, and whatever time they had left, she was going to hang on to it with everything she’d got.
“Bed?”he suggested.
“Yours or mine?”she asked as they kissed and kept on kissing.
“Mine,” Alexei whispered.
