He picked me up in his arms. His body became the entire world. Dark silken curls tickled my cheek. A strong hand caressed my right breast. An aching heart beat against my own.
“Patience, darling,” he whispered onto my lips. He pulled out a brass key and held it up. “Your first time will not be in front of a crowd.”
Derrick’s quick footsteps echoed through the palace halls. His heartbeat pulsed under my lips as I kissed his throat. My hips wriggled against his chest as he held me.
I needed himnow.
“Derrick,” I whimpered against his skin. My body burned with so much desire it hurt.
He shoved his shoulder into a door and the latch clicked open. He set me down on the closest table. My heart pounded against my ribs. My inner thighs were slick.
But I was stillburning.
He tore his mask off, then his gloves. I let out a little gasp as he grabbed my jaw and forced me to look up at him.
“Take that damn mask off.” His lips were stained scarlet from my smeared lip paint. “I want to seeallof you.”
My hands flew to the ribbon on the back of my head, but they were too heavy to untie the mask.
“Damn it!” I cried. “I cannot get it—!”
He deftly untied my mask with his free hand and threw it across the room.
With a smirk, he grabbed my right wrist. He bit the fabric on the tip of my middle finger and slowly pulled the glove off with his teeth. I closed my eyes as the fabric slid off my arm, then my hand—the sensation was overwhelming.
He kissed me gently on the inside of my wrist. My arm trembled as he placed kisses all the way up my arm before biting me on the inside of my bicep. Stamps from his red-stained lips lined my arm like tiny rose petals.
Every kiss was like another shock straight to my hips. I was going to tear my skin off if I did not get some satisfaction soon.
“Derrick,” I panted. “I need—”
He grabbed the back of my neck and brought my lips to his, kissing me like he shared my fire.
“So impatient,” he scolded, his breath hot against my lips. “I waited for this forseven years,but I can wait a little longer so I can play with you. Would you like that?”
“Yes.” My heartbeat pulsed between my legs. “But—”
He kissed me again and silenced me. He pulled away and left me gasping.
“I want to take my time, darling.” He wrapped his hand around my left wrist. “Little Rabbit diestonight.”
I squirmed as he worked the glove off my left arm. I bit my tongue and whimpered as his hot breath made the skin on the inside of my arm tingle.
He released the glove from his teeth and his hungry eyes flicked down to my bodice that strained under my heaving breaths.
He eyed the thin laces criss-crossing on the front of the bodice and leaned down. His teeth scraped the skin in the center of my chest as he bit down on the laces, loosening them as he slowly pulled away.
Cool air kissed my breasts as the bodice fell away from my sticky skin. His lips found mine, his tongue gently sweepinginto my mouth as his hands massaged my breasts. I arched my back and raised my chest. The organza of my skirts crinkled as I locked my legs around his hips, feeling his hard bulge press against my pulsing center.
Fuck,I was going to die if I did not get him inside me.
“I cannot take it!” I pushed my hips against his. “I need you now!”
Derrick slid his hands under my thighs and picked me up. “As you wish.”
He turned me around and walked a few steps, his hands gripping my ass for leverage. I caught the sight of his harp in the corner of the room as he gently laid me on a chaise.
He kissed me, his chest pressing into mine. My hands gripped his silken curls and explored his back as his hand ran up my leg. His fingertips stroked me between my legs as he gently discovered what the most intimate part of my body felt like.
