‘That’s it,’ he growled, licking and sucking, burying his fingers inside me. ‘You like that?’
I bucked and writhed underneath him in answer, until he had to put one hand on my chest to hold me down. It didn’t take long until I was shuddering and convulsing as an orgasm like nothing I had ever experienced before ripped through me, sending white-hot heat into every corner of my body. Stars exploded behind my eyelids, as moans rippled out of me in disbelief that it could ever be as incredible as this.
‘You taste amazing,’ he said, crawling back up my body to kiss me. I whimpered, waves of pleasure still rolling over me. He took one of my hands and placed it along his shaft.
‘Can you feel what you’re doing to me?’
I nodded, stroking it with him, feeling it harden even more under my touch.
‘Roll over onto your hands and knees,’ he murmured into my mouth.
‘But I want to return the favor,’ I told him.
‘Another time,’ he replied shortly. ‘I can’t wait to be inside you any longer.’
I obliged, rolling over and offering myself to him.
He grabbed my hips. ‘Do you want this?’
‘I want this.’
He buried himself completely, and this time I did scream, because it was the most intense moment of my life.
‘Oh, Mae,’ he groaned.
I moved with him, starting out slowly, taking his time, but it wasn’t long until he lost control and his movements became erratic, more desperate.
He cried out sharply, just once, and then he was coming too, holding on to my hips as if they were his only lifeline.
We stayed like that for a minute or two, his chest against my back, our sweat mingling as we panted, trying to catch our breath. He managed first, wrapping an arm around me and rolling so that we were on our sides.
‘That was…’ he said, his breath on my ear, kissing my shoulder.
I snuggled in against him. ‘I’d say sensational, but that seems inadequate.’
‘I might have got a bit carried away.’
I wriggled inside his arms until I was facing him. ‘It couldn’t have been more perfect,’ I reassured him. ‘And my ankle is feeling much better already.’
He winced. ‘I totally forgot about that.’
‘I’m glad you did. You might have treated me with kid gloves and honestly, I wouldn’t change a thing.’
He kissed me on the nose. ‘Neither would I.’
32
JONAH
I lay there with her in my arms, her head against my chest, and I knew, Iknew, that my life had changed irrevocably that night, and nothing would ever be the same again. I wasn’t a virgin by any stretch of the imagination, neither was she. But my first time with her felt like the first time I’d experienced lovemaking the way it wassupposedto be. We’d connected in a way that I didn’t know was possible.
Outside, the storm had eased, the thunderstorm blown back out to sea, leaving only gentle rain behind to lull us to sleep. Exhausted, we did sleep. For a few hours anyway. At some point in the night we woke to find that we’d started to make love again, this time from above so that I could stare into her eyes as I moved inside her. Our second time was slower, more measured. When I came, I saw my own sense of wonder reflected back at me in her eyes.
‘I’m scared,’ she murmured into my chest afterwards.
I held her tighter. ‘Of what?’
‘Of what will happen when we leave this tent. It’s become our little sanctuary.’
