She’d known that husbands and wives were naked in bed together. However, she’d actually imagined that everything happened under covers and in the cloak of night.
Instead, the late day’s sun came in through the room’s many windows. She could hear the sounds in the house and on the street. No one knew what was happening in here save she and Matt...herhusband.
Willa shook her hair back and dragged it forward out of her way. She reached behind her for the dress’s lacing. His hands ran up and down her thighs. They were warm and knowledgeable. He began to unroll her stocking down her legs.
Where he touched, she grew heated.
She gathered her skirts, lifted them, and pulled her dress over her head. Of course, her hair caught in the material. Willa struggled until Matt rose to sit, moving her into his lap. He easily freed her.
Her thighs now cradled his hips. His lips pressed a kiss on her neck.
Willa didn’t know what he did with the dress. She didn’t care because he’d begun nibbling her skin, working his way up to her ear. She placed her hands on his shoulders. Her breasts were full and tight against her lawn chemise. She wore it and a thin petticoat tied at her waist and nothing more.
All the blood in her body, all the sensation, was flowing to a few key spots, including the juncture where she was snug against him.
She knew he was hard. No one could have missed that. Her body took his measure. Everyone’s prediction was correct: he was not small.
But she was not afraid. Willa might not be certain of the mechanics, however she had a strong idea about what he was going to do—and she had never wanted something more in her life.
Her body began moving with an accord of its own as if anxious to be closer to him. She slid along his breeches, so sensitive she could feel every button and fold of clothing.
Matt bit her ear. The nip was a pleasure. She pressed herself down harder on him. He groaned, meeting her eye.
“You are perfect,” he whispered. “The things you are doing to me.”
He sounded as if she had power, as if she had control. “I think you are perfect, too.”
His smile turned seductive. His hand hooked under the strap of her chemise. Her nipples were like hard buds. Usually she was embarrassed when they tightened, but not now. She let her shoulder slip out of the strap. He pulled it down, revealing her breast. He weighed it, stroked it, and then put his hot mouth against her, and Willa was undone.
Her hand pulled on the tapes of her petticoat, loosening it. She wanted him to touch all of her. Every inch of her body seemed to weep for his hand upon her.
Matt undressed her until she was sitting on his lap naked. He kissed her in places she’d not thought to be kissed. His hands ran over the indent of her waist and the curve of her hips.
She wanted him to never stop. But he did. He rested his palm against her belly, his fingers lowering to the most intimate part of her.
He touched her.
Willa gave a small cry at the exquisite, keen sensation.
He drew back and she followed him. “Is this it, Matt? Is this making love?” She felt as if drugged, as if only he knew what she needed.
“I didn’t hurt you?”
“Lord, no.”
“Shall I go on?”
He was still dressed, and yet, she did not mind. She rather liked it. She felt no shame even as she nuzzled his neck and whispered, “Please.”
Matt touched her again, this time circling the tight nub. She leaned into him, savoring the smell of him, his strength, and the magic of his fingers. Her body was prepared for him. She opened herself wider, letting him have all he wanted, and he took full advantage by slipping two fingers inside her.
Willa paused. She wasn’t certain. His lips brushed her ear. “It is all right.” She believed him, and relaxed.
The strangeness of it left her. Her body eased around him. He began teasing her again, rubbing his thumb against that sensitive flesh while leaving his fingers right where they were. “Is that all right, Willa?” he’d asked in between kissing her forehead, her nose, her cheek, and then her mouth.
Oh, yes, it was.
Heat built inside her. She caught her breath. Her hands slid around his shoulders and then she wrapped her arms around his neck.
