Bravely, Jade grasped the waist of his boxers. Chase nodded and lifted his hips. She took a breath, slid his shorts down his legs, and off his feet. He was rock hard and ready but reminded himself she had been a virgin until a short time ago. When she hesitated as if not sure what to do next, he crooked a finger. Ever so sensuously, she crawled on top of him. Her mouth touched his, and her arms slid under his neck. Her naked breasts molded to his chest, and he hooked his thumbs into her boxers. She didn’t stop him, so he pulled them down to her thighs. But she didn’t move to slip them the rest of the way off.
“Strip me, cowboy.”
Chase rolled her to her back and swept the boxers off. His mouth covered hers as he palmed her right breast. Her nipple beaded in his hand, and their tongues played as he kneaded her left breast. Kissing her sweet lips, he trailed his hand down her flat tummy. Slipping his fingers between her slender thighs, he found her petal soft folds warm and wet. He explored inside, and she purred in delight as he nibbled her neck. Taking her with him, he rolled back to where he had been with her on top again.
“Sit up,” he whispered, his hands on her narrow waist.
“I can’t.”
“Try,” he coaxed. “I want you to be in control.” When she nodded, he slid his hands from her waist up her ribs and helped her to sit. Her head bowed forward, and her silky, long hair brushed his chest as she straddled his hips. “Hey,” he said softly. When she looked at him, he asked, “Do you have any idea what you do to me?” She hiked up her shoulders in a bashful shrug. Placing his hands underneath her thighs, he lifted her up, and she held herself there. When she gave him a shy grin and bit her lip, he said, “Put me where I need to be.”
“I’ve fallen in love with you, Chase.”
He smiled. “I’m in love with you, too, Jade.”
Jade’s delicate right hand wrapped around his manhood, and she raised higher still. As the hard tip of him brushed her soft velvet, with the fingers of her left hand, she spread those enticing folds. He watched and groaned. But before seeking the pleasure and release he so badly craved, he looked her in the eye and waited. She smiled and nodded. Placing his hands on her tiny waist, he gently pressed her downward. She lowered herself onto him, and he helped her lift upward and then slide down again. He knew it wouldn’t take more than a few plunges as she gripped every inch of him with internal muscles.
“Mmm, yes, Chase,” Jade moaned his name as only she could.
Faster and faster, they rode until Jade gasped, fell forward, and molded her breasts to his chest. Chase thrust all the way into her, and ecstasy reined. As his seed pumped out of him and into her, her orgasm squeezed him over and over, pulling him in deeper and deeper.
It was noon before they left his bedroom.
CHAPTERTWENTY-EIGHT
“Iguarantee you she will not have sex with him,” Mateo assured Franco.
“Obviously, you can’t guarantee anything.” Franco splayed both hands as he reclined on the white sofa with a cold compress on his forehead. “I want you to explain why your hypnosis didn’t work on Jade.”
“You don’t know that it didn’t work,” Mateo said, perched as usual in the chair beside theDavidstatue. “My hypnosis was designed to trigger the pain and terror of Chase supposedly raping her if and when he touched her.”
“I guarantee you he’stouchedher by now, Mateo.”
“If he has, it’s not my fault. It’s her fault. You witnessed how resistant Jade was to my hypnosis.”
“She was supposed to come running back to me. Well, I don’t see her!”
“I warned you the running back to you part was only a remote possibility,” Mateo admitted, swirling bourbon in a tumbler. “For instance, it’s nearly impossible to hypnotize a person to rob a bank or kill someone who would not ordinarily be prone to theft or murder.”
“I’d like to murder Chase.”
“Yes, well, what this teaches us is that Chase’s effect on Jade is a helluva lot stronger than the power of my hypnosis and your drugs combined.”
“This wasn’t a damn learning experience, Mateo!” Franco sat up and threw the compress at Jade’s painting. He stared as the compress hit her belly button, slid down her right thigh, and dropped onto the fireplace mantel. “He has that sensational naked body in his bed while I’m left here suffering without her.”
“Chase won, and you lost. Like I said before, let Jade go.”
“No!” Franco smacked the sofa cushion. “Jade Taylor belongs to me. Iwillhave her.”
“She ran to him the other night like her life depended on it, Franco.”
The corners of Franco’s mouth turned down as he sneered, “I have eyes.”
Mateo began rubbing his goatee. “I told you to lock her up in the basement bedroom instead of lodging her upstairs.”
“Next to the room where you stashed the hypnotized twins?” Franco asked incredulously.
“They were so high they thought it was just another homeless shelter.”
