There was a storm gathering inside her and it grew under Ares’s appreciative gaze. He bent his head and answered her silent plea, capturing her mouth with his, fingers tracing her jaw and angling her head so that he could make the kiss deeper.
Cassie explored Ares, wrapping her hand around a bicep and glorying in the strength of him, then up and around his shoulder and neck, fingers funnelling through silky hair, holding his skull.
She touched his chest, and down, fingers trailing over rock-hard abs and that slim waist and then to the potent evidence of his arousal. Instinctively she wrapped a hand around him, revelling in the sensation of all that power and strength under hot silky skin, the way it slipped up and down his shaft with her movement. Suddenly Ares reared back.
Cassie stopped. ‘Am I doing something wrong?’ Now she felt exposed.
His eyes were glittering and his cheeks were flushed. As flushed as Cassie guessed hers were.
‘No, you’re not doing anything wrong, but this will be over very fast unless you stop doing that.’
Cassie unpeeled her fingers from Ares’s erection. She bit her lip and put her hand on his ass. ‘Is this better?’
He huffed a laugh, making his whole face transform. Cassie wanted to make him laugh all the time. It made him look years younger. Less severe. Less…haunted.
Before she could dwell on that little revelation, Ares was squeezing the firm flesh of her breast and rubbing a thumb back and forth across one nipple. Cassie’s head fell back and she let a moan come out of her mouth. It felt…exquisite. As if a wire were directly connected from her breast to between her legs.
And then, as if reading her mind, Ares’s hot mouth closed over her nipple as he smoothed a hand down over her belly to between her legs. She opened them, tacitly giving him permission, and her insides burst into flame when his fingers delved between the folds of her sex to find the throbbing core of her body.
Cassie opened her eyes as Ares’s wicked fingers explored how desperately ready for him she was. He lifted his head from her breast and watched her as he struck up a rhythm, fingers moving inside, massaging her body and then out again. His thumb circled her clitoris and Cassie’s hips jerked.
‘That’s it…’ Ares breathed. ‘Let yourself go, Cass.’
This man had already given her an orgasm without even penetrating her body and now his fingers were inside, where she’d wanted him that first night, and suddenly a wave of sensation exploded outwards, suffusing Cassie in a haze of pleasure, her muscles clamping against his fingers.
‘You’re so responsive,’ he said with obvious satisfaction, a look of stark hunger on his face.
Cassie was too dazed to do much more than let the waves of pleasure lap through her as Ares disappeared momentarily and then came back, rolling a protective sheath onto his body.
He came back down onto the bed, and pushed Cassie’s legs apart. She’d never been more splayed, more exposed…more vulnerable. And yet she felt strong and powerful. Ares knelt between her legs and ran his hands up over her legs, up to the juncture of her body where she was still sensitive.
‘OK?’
She nodded, and looked at his erection again. Had it grown? She suddenly felt trepidation that it would—
‘It’ll fit,’ came Ares’s amused voice.
Cassie scowled at him and he came down between her legs, nudging them even further apart. ‘Don’t worry, Cass. You’re ready to take me.’
His hair-roughened thighs rubbed against hers, creating delicious friction. Everything about him was so unashamedlymale, and Cassie had never imagined a man like him would turn her on so much, but right now she felt as if she’d been made just for him. For this moment. Even if it was in a tiny cabin on a rocking boat.
‘Please, Ares…’
He came closer and the head of his erection teased the folds around her sex, where she was now aching for more.
‘Patience… I’ll have to take it slow.’
Cassie felt frustration and she growled, ‘I’ve been riding horses and motorbikes for years, I think I’ll be OK.’
Ares’s eyes widened and his amused look was back. ‘Greedy little thing, aren’t you?’
But before she could say another word, he was breaching her entrance and spreading her wide. Cassie watched him as he slowly entered her fully, her body protesting at the invasion but then softening in increments around him. It wasn’t painful, so much as uncomfortable. She moved to try and ease it and wasn’t prepared for the flutter of pure electricity that shot all the way up to her brain. ‘Ooooh…’
‘That’s it, just breathe, Cass…’
Cass.She melted and Ares went even deeper. She felt impaled, full. She couldn’t speak. She could only feel. And then Ares pulled back out and her body didn’t want him to go. She gripped his arms. But just as he was almost out, he slid back in again, and so began a slow and leisurely priming of her body to accommodate his.
And then as her body grew more fluid around him, an urgency built, unlike anything Cassie had ever experienced before. Building from her core and tightening inexorably. Brokenly she begged for Ares to do something to relieve this building tension and he bent his head and kissed her, saying, ‘Not long now,agapi mou…stay with me.’
