Page 51 of Love in the Wild

Thorne smiled. “That is good.” Then he tossed the damp towel on the bathroom counter.

“So, you’re here.” She still couldn’t believe it. A strange shyness overcame her as she realized that he was here in her hotel room, wet with rain, a hungry look in his eyes that belied his now somewhat civilized appearance.

“I am.With you.”

The muscles of his body were molded by his black shirt, and he lifted it off himself, moving slowly and purposely toward her. Eden backed away, but the backs of her knees hit the bed and she fell onto it. He stopped in front of her, his chest bare, his breathing slow and measured, unlike her own quick breaths and pounding heart.

She knew what was coming, knew what he wanted. She wanted it too, but he needed to know that his uncle and aunt knew he was alive and that they wanted to see him for themselves. Eden put a hand on his bare stomach, which was level with her face as he reached up to undo his cargo shorts. His hard, chiseled abs were beneath her fingertips, teasing her with all the wicked things she wanted from this beautiful man.

“Wait. We have to talk,” she said, but even she didn’t sound convinced.

Thorne cupped her chin and gazed down at her. “We can talk after we mate,” he murmured softly. He leaned down and kissed her soundly, his lips conquering hers in a way that made her dizzy. How he had gotten better at kissing in just a day she had no idea.

“Mate,” she said, echoing that wonderfully primitive word. “Have sex, you mean,” she corrected.

“Have sex,” he said with a slow smile.

“We also say wemake love.” She knew she was starting to ramble a bit, but she felt oddly shy with him here in this modern world. Before he’d fit right into the dark-green leafy expanse of the jungle, but here he was almost too dominant, too big and real.

“I likemake love. I wish to make love with you, always.” His words melted her heart and made it race wildly all at once. Despite the sensuality coming off him in raw waves, there was a tender vulnerability in his blue eyes that shook her. That same vulnerability echoed deep within her too. Was this what it meant to fall in love with someone? To crave him so madly, to long for him with all her heart and feel laid bare like this? If so, she wasn’t just falling—she was tumbling, crashing, cartwheeling down the cliff that led to love.

“How did you get up to my room? I’m on the second story.” She tried to distract him as he removed his shorts. He wore black boxers that were a tad too small, and his erect shaft was far too obvious in them. “You didn’t climb, did you?”

“I did.” Thorne removed his boots and socks, chucking them away, completely uncaring about them as he leaned over her.

Eden scooted back on the bed, trying to put some distance between them, even though she knew sex with him was inevitable. They both wanted it too much.

“Climbed? Thorne, don’t do that again. You could have been seriously hurt.”

He raised a brow, his sensual mouth hardening into a hard line. “I did not fall.” He looked insulted by the suggestion that he could have gotten injured.

“This isn’t the jungle. You aren’t familiar with the buildings or the materials they’re made of. You could get hurt.”

“You worry about me?” he asked. His gaze softened as he got on his hands and knees on the bed and slowly crawled over her prone body.

“Of course I worry,” she replied before he silenced her with a kiss.

His body lowered over hers, and she spread her thighs, welcoming him between them. She was still dressed in her pajamas, but it didn’t stop her from feeling his cock rub against her core as he slid against her, torturing them both with a hint of what was to come. She wrapped her arms around him, surrendering to the moment and to him. They could talk after.

Eden abandoned herself to his hard, scorching kisses and tumbled through spirals of ecstasy. He instinctively knew what to do when he kissed her, which made her forget everything else. She responded eagerly, her body set aflame by his. Deep down she knew it wouldalwaysbe like this for them, they were an inferno together. Her heart thundered as he gripped the button-up top she wore and ripped it open.

Buttons scattered everywhere, plinking on the floor, and she began to laugh, but his mouth covered one sensitive breast, sucking on her nipple, while his hand gently explored the other. She could barely breathe. He was so tender yet urgent as he explored her body. When he tugged her shorts and panties off, he kissed his way down to her mound and knelt between her parted thighs, gazing at her body with wonder and appreciation.

“You are incredible,” he murmured before he lowered his mouth to her sensitive folds.

It was just as she’d thought—he was a masterful lover, licking her wet slit, laving at the taut bud of nerves until she was writhing desperately beneath him. If he didn’t stop, she would die. If he did stop, she would die. There was just pleasure, wild, mind-blowing pleasure as he made love to her with his mouth. His tongue sank deep into her channel, and she groaned as he licked deeply at her. She clawed at the sheets, near animalistic in her aroused excitement.

“Oh God. Oh my Gawwwwd! Where the hell did you learn that?” She couldn’t think. When the climax exploded through her, she had only a second to cover her own mouth with one hand.

“You are beautiful when you feel pleasure,” he said as he slid back up her body and kissed her lips. “And Bwanbale told me some ways to take care of you. He knows much about pleasing a woman.”

Eden tried not to laugh, despite the fact that she was incredibly aroused. “You and Bwanbale had the birds and bees talk?”

He tilted his head. “There were no birds or bees.”

“Oh, never mind—that’s a discussion for another day.” She curled her arms around his neck.

She shivered as her heart quickened with other, deeper emotions that would worry her later. She drank in his sweetness. He moved above her, shifting, and she felt his cock free of his boxers, pushing deep into her. She groaned at the sudden fullness thrusting inside her, and his tormented groan was a heady invitation to her.

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