She bit down on her lower lip and he felt the minute movements of her hips as she tried to move his touch to where she needed it.
He was beyond teasing her or prolonging anything. He needed her now. He carried her to the bed and fell on it, bringing her down on top of him before rolling over so she was beneath him.
He looked down into her face. Her eyes were closed for a second as she shifted her hips and rubbed herself against him.
“Hurry, Christos.”
He didn’t need her to ask twice. Reaching between their bodies he freed himself and covered her with his body. Their naked loins pressed together and he shook under the impact.
Now. He adjusted his hips, positioning himself, and then entered her with one long, hard stroke.
She moaned his name and her head fell back, leaving the curve of her neck open and vulnerable to him. He bit softly at her neck and felt the reaction all the way to his toes when she squirmed in his arms and thrust her hips back toward him.
A tingling started in the base of his spine and he knew his climax was close. But he wasn’t going without Ava. He wanted her with him.
She moved more frantically in his arms and he moved deeper inside her with each stroke. Breathing out through his mouth, he tried to hold back the inevitable. He slid one hand down her abdomen, through the slick folds of her sex, finding her center. He stroked the aroused flesh with an up and down movement, circled with his forefinger then scraped it very carefully. Then he penetrated her as deeply as he could. She cried out his name.
“Look at me, Ava. Open your eyes.”
She did, and in that instant, as everything in his body tightened and he started to climax, he wanted to love her. Wished there was a way he could forgive the past, because he knew he held the future in his arms.
Christos rolledover in the middle of the night and felt the warmth of Ava’s body. They’d made love once more before falling asleep, and he’d carefully stripped the silk slip from her body and taken the time with her he’d wanted to the first time.
He’d opened the drapes to let the light of the moon into the room, and the balcony doors so that a cool night breeze stirredthe air around them. Goosebumps were visible on Ava’s naked skin. He traced his finger down the line of her body.
He came to the small bump of a belly left from her pregnancy, the small trace that Theo had left on her body. The trace of a child who was at the root of their marriage—and at the root of his distrust of her. He knew he had to do something about that.
He’d tried hard over the past few weeks to allow himself to see the woman that was Ava. And to be honest, he didn’t believe the woman she was today would cheat on him. But that girl in the past…he wasn’t as sure about her.
She stirred in his arms, rolling onto her back. He propped himself up on one elbow and continued to caress her, finding the tiny stretch marks left by her pregnancy, and everything within him solidified. He wanted to mark every part of Ava as his own. He wanted to plant his seed in her womb. He wanted to watch her grow heavy with his child and then be there from the first breath that child took.
It didn’t change the way he felt about Theo…that boy was his now, and nothing on earth could change that.
“Christos?”
“Hmmm?”
She touched his face with soft fingers and he realized that she always did that. “What’s the matter?”
“Nothing.”
“I wish…I wish I were the slender girl I was the first time.”
“I don’t.”
She tilted her head. He continued tracing over the stretch marks left by her pregnancy. “Did you like carrying the Theakis heir?”
“You mean your son?” she asked.
He shrugged. “Did pregnancy agree with you?”
She looked as if she were going to pursue the topic but then stopped. “Yes. I had morning sickness at the beginning but then…yes, it was very pleasant.”
He didn’t ask her any more questions, lowering his head to trace the lines with his tongue. Her hands fell to his head, caressing his scalp with her fingers.
“You know what I liked best about it?” she asked in a soft tone.
“What?” He lifted his head looking up the length of her naked body to meet her sea-blue eyes.
