Page 63 of Close to the Edge

Her breathing picked up, her pulse racing against my fingers. “Yes, please.”

Before the words were out of her mouth, I was sliding my tongue between her lips, giving her a vivid taste of what was coming.

A moan rolled from her throat as her fingers dug into my back. My dick jerked, homing in on that place between her open thighs. When her eager wetness greeted it, my vision blurred.

For the first time in my life, I wondered what it would be like to take a woman bare, to glide skin on skin. To come at the gateway to where a new life could be created—

Christ, what the hell is wrong with you?

I dragged my mouth from hers, scrambling for sanity before I did something unthinkable, like ask if she was on the pill. If another man had ever been with her the way I suddenly craved to be.

Irrational jealousy bubbled up, joining the deranged carnival going on inside me. The hand fondling one gorgeous breast tightened.

She inhaled sharply. “Caleb?” Bewilderment laced her lust-soaked voice.

Get yourself together!

I dropped a contrite kiss on her mouth. “Shower or pool?” In the hour before she woke, before perplexing thoughts ruined my mood, I listed all the places I wanted to fuck her.

She blinked, then murmured, “Shower.”

Thank fuck. I didn’t think I’d make it to the pool.

I scooped her out of bed, grabbed a condom before walking us into the bathroom. Like mine, there was a huge copper roll-top bathtub and a separate shower stall.

I held her against me as I turned on the shower and adjusted the temperature. When my hands slid from her ass to her waist to set her down, the arms around my neck clung, forcing me to look into her face.

“Caleb, are you okay?” she asked, still a little hesitant.

Hell, no, I wasn’t. But I wasn’t going to attempt to explain something that puzzled the shit out of me. “You took your time to wake up. I’ve been rock-hard for you for over an hour,” I deflected, cupping her breasts and mercilessly teasing her nipples.

The tactic worked. Her head dropped back and she whimpered. I continued to fondle her as I nudged her against the wall, watched the spray hit her chest and cascade down her body. I’d never seen anything more beautiful.

She made another innocent, dirty sound and I couldn’t help but press my mouth against her, gliding my tongue against hers to devour the sound.

My hand slid down her belly, through the trimmed thatch of hair to her sweet, soaked pussy, before inserting two fingers inside her.

Her hand fisted my hair as she gasped.

“Good?” I demanded against her mouth.

“So, so good,” she moaned.

I finger-fucked her slow and steady, until her eyes rolled and her thighs shook. Until her cries echoed through the steam.

Only then did I slide on the condom and flip her around. “Brace your hands on the wall and arch your back for me, my dirty little angel.”

A smile laced her arousal. “I see you’ve started with the pet names again.”

“I never promised I would stop. Besides, you could lead a man straight to his doom.”

She sent me a sultry glance over one shoulder. “Just a man?”

Something bit hard inside me. “Fine. You could leadmestraight to the gates of hell. Is that what you want to hear?”

Her eyes searched mine. “Maybe.”

I hooked one finger into the choker, using the leverage to bring her head back to align her face with mine. “That back still isn’t arched. Do I need to spank obedience out of you?” I growled against her throat.

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