Page 99 of Return to Me Always

My hammering heart threatened to leave my chest as he kissed and licked me over and over, his tongue relentless. I held onto his head with both hands, stunned at the erotic sensations Tyler set off in my body.

He gripped my hips, pulling me in closer to him, then inserted a finger into me, curving it upwards, searching and finding that sweet spot.

Oh, wow. Tyler definitely knew what he was doing. My hips bucked, delirious and wanting even more.

"You like that?"

"Mm-hmm," I moaned.

Between the kisses and licking, he started to suck the most sensitive part of me, and I really thought I might have a heart attack.

"Oh, God," I said, floating near the edge. I lifted my head to watch him, this dream man making my wildest fantasies come to life. His eyes glanced up at me, and he flicked back and forth with his tongue, the repetitive pressure driving me crazy.

I threw my head back and exploded around him, a dizzying pleasure unlike anything I'd ever felt before pulsing through me as I tasted heaven. It was like he knew exactly how to touch me, how to kiss me, to make me see stars.

As I slowly drifted back down, I noticed Tyler watching me, his breathing as heavy as mine, making me think he'd been just as affected as I was.

"That was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen," he whispered. "Do you have any idea how much I want you?"

I shook my head, stunned by the intensity in his voice.

He leaned over me, his breath tickling my cheeks. "Night after night in those bloody sleeping bags, you were so close to me, and I was lying there next to you hard as a fucking tent pole."

Trying to stifle a giggle with my hand, I reached out to caress his beautiful face with the other.God, this man. I sighed. "I had no idea. You acted—well, you acted like you could barely stand me."

He leaned forward to kiss me, slowly, sweetly. "I was fighting it, love."

"But why?" I still didn't quite understand.

"Honestly?" Pulling back, his eyes captured mine, and what I saw there took my breath away. "I was scared."

With both hands, I pulled his face closer. "Of me?"

His chuckle rumbled through me. "Yes,you. You're terrifying."

Laughing, I let those words settle in. I had a hard time believing this big manly man was scared of anything, let alone me. But I'd have to take it up with him later because his hands reached to the bottom of my shirt, his fingers skimming my stomach, making me forget everything else but his touch.

Tyler moved down to lay an open-mouth kiss low on my belly, making me quiver. "I'm scared of what you do to me," he whispered against my skin, moving my shirt up higher and higher, edging it past my bra, all the way to my shoulders.

His mouth near my bandage, he placed kisses in a path all around the gauze square.

"I'm scared of how you make me feel," he murmured softly as he laid a light-as-a-feather kiss on the actual bandage. "Like I'd die if anything happened to you."

My lungs seemed to stop working for a long moment. Had he really just said that, or was I in a passion-induced haze where my ears and brain weren't working properly?

He continued with his hot kisses, making a path down my cleavage as I squirmed in ecstasy. His warm hands reached behind me to unclasp my bra, and I sat up, wanting nothing between his chest and mine anymore.

Carefully, he removed my shirt and bra, more items tossed to the floor, and I held my breath as I watched him look at me, a hunger in his eyes like he wanted to feast on me.

Tyler paused to meet my eyes again. "So damn beautiful, lass. Even more amazing than my dreams."

And then he truly did devour me, leaning down to kiss and caress my breasts, fueling the fire that was building again inside me.

I couldn't even believe how he made me feel. Any encounters in my past were completely forgotten and insignificant in the wake of the inferno building between my dream man and me, just as I had hoped beyond anything else in my life, just as I had imagined in my wildest moments.

As he sucked my hard nipple into his mouth, desire pooled low inside me, and I didn't know how much more I could take. Most of all, the thing that I wanted was to feelhim, feel him inside me.

With shaky hands, I reached for the button on his jeans, needing to see him... all of him. He kneeled in front of me, his breathing heavy, his eyes shadowed, and he pulled down his pants and boxers all at once, revealing himself to me.

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