He lowered his face to the inside of my knee, dropping more soft, teasing kisses while his fingers skated up the back of my leg.Shivers racked my body as he touched me.The scruff of his short beard scraped my skin—a delicious contrast to the gentle heat of his lips and tongue—as he kissed a path leading straight to my centre, to where I was already soaking for him.
His fingers hooked into the waistband of my panties, and then—I froze.My stomach clenched.A sense of overwhelming panic weighed heavily in my chest.
“Wait.Stop,” I croaked, hoping my throaty tone disguised the edge of hysteria creeping into my voice.
Liam stopped, lifting his head from between my legs, concern flickering in his electric blue eyes.“You want me to stop?”He sounded curious, not frustrated, which was a relief.“I mean, of course.Of course we can stop.”He sat back, bringing my legs together and moving them to the side.“Is everything okay?”He crawled up beside me and wrapped me in his arms, the comforting warmth of his embrace helping to melt the knot of confusion in my belly.
“No.I mean, yes.I mean, I’m fine.”I shifted farther up the bed, dragging him with me.“It’s just, you know, you don’t have to do …that.”I gestured vaguely toward my crotch, mortified at the turn this evening had taken, my face burning as I avoided his gaze.“We can skip right to the, um,sex.”
Jesus, Maya.Where is the confident woman who was wrestling this man’s dick out of his pants a moment ago?Speaking of his dick—I glanced down, and yup, still out.And looking more majestic than ever.My gaze shot to the ceiling.
Majestic, Maya?Really?What is wrong with you?
He tilted his head, regarding me curiously.“You want to have sex, but you don’t want me to go down on you?”His face was a mask of confusion as he studied me.
God, this was humiliating.I pulled my knees up, pressing my palms to my face.“It’s just…”Just say it already.My stomach burned with embarrassment.The rest tumbled out in a rush.“Noone’severdonethattomebeforeandIknowmostguysdon’tlikeit.”
Liam stilled.“Want to try that again, but slower?”He took my wrists and pulled my hands away from my face.My gaze, unprompted and without my express permission, immediately fell to his lap again.
He followed my line of sight.Pulling his lips between his teeth, he fought back a smile.“Hold on, let me put this away.”He tucked his dick into his underwear, leaving his pants undone, and pulled me into his arms.“There.That’s better.Less distracting this way.”
I sank into him, soaking in his warmth, his comfort.
“So, what were you saying?”He squeezed me tighter before adding, “But slow it way down.My ears don’t hear as fast as you speak.”
“Ha ha.Very funny.”I blew out a breath.Here goes nothing.“I said it’s been a long time … and no one has ever done that to me before.”I paused, eyes trained on my lap, fingers twisting the sheets.“Guys don’t like it.They want to get to the good part.It’s okay.You don’t have to—”
Liam jolted upright.“Don’t like it?Thegoodpart?”
I pulled away.Why was he upset?
“What do you mean ‘the good part’?”
I shook my head, still refusing to look at him.
“No one’s ever done that to you?No man has ever tasted you?”His voice dropped to little more than a growl.He shifted closer, lips brushing my ear, his breath hot against my skin.“No man has ever groaned at the first taste of your arousal on his lips?”
My body trembled as a throb of desire blasted through me at his filthy words.
He kissed the hollow behind my ear, his voice thick with suggestion.“No man has ever writhed at your feet, so fucking lost in the scent, the taste of you on his tongue, on his face, that he just had to grind into the mattress?Or take himself in hand, desperate for relief?”
“Heeeeeee.”An inelegant, keening whimper seeped from my lips.My body was hot, achy, volatile, and ready to explode at any second.Words caught in my throat as he grazed my neck with his teeth.
He trailed a path of fervent kisses to my mouth, teasing my lips with his tongue before thrusting in to meet my own, a groan slipping from his throat when I kissed him right back.
The fire in my belly ignited.I wanted him with a frantic desperation I’d never felt before.Wrapping my arms around him, I pulled him down on top of me, deepening our kiss, spreading my legs to make space for him.He thrust his length against me, the head of his cock bumping my clit, and I whimpered.
“I know I don’thaveto do it, Maya.What you need to realize is … I want to.Ineedto.”He nudged my nose with his own, his lips brushing mine as he whispered, “You don’t understand how badly I need to devour you until you scream my name.”
How had I gone so long without this?Without someone wanting me this fiercely?Without wanting someone else this desperately?Had I ever?
“Liam,” I moaned.“Please.”
“I know, sweetheart.I know.”Liam shifted to the side, one hand cupping my head while the other slid down my stomach, stopping at the waistband of my underwear.He traced the elastic edge with a finger, dipping beneath before retreating to tease me again.
My hips bucked, chasing his touch, needing more.But he continued his slow torment, each fleeting pass under the waistband bringing him closer.But not close enough.
Couldn’t he tell I needed more, damn it?
