Page 149 of Love Among the Ruins
Slowly snaking her hands into the waistband of his swim shorts, she wrapped her fingers around him. He groaned even more as she slid her thumb over his slippery tip, but he caught her hand in his and stopped her. “No, Eleni.” It sounded like a man’s last dying breath.
He was stopping? Why? Confusion ripped through the haze of her arousal. “But ... I want to ...”
Did he not?
Because his body said otherwise.
Dominic pressed his forehead against hers, looking more weighed down than she’d ever seen him. “We can’t.”
He lifted his head, tiny spots of moisture lining his brow. Even now she could feel him poking against her hip. Hard as steel.
“I need you,” she moaned.
“I can’t do this. It would be wrong …”
“For whom? I want this, Dominic. Please, don’t make me beg for it.”
