Page 23 of The Spinster's Secret Scoundrel
“Now, it’s my turn.”
He sat back on his heels, sinking into the too-soft bed with its creaking frame. Ada lay back on her elbows, creamy skin bare from her flushed face to the trim curve of her ankles, settled on either side of his haunches. Tension kept her knees next to his shoulders.
“Shouldn’t we—” She exhaled in a shuddering gasp. “Go beneath the blankets?”
“Not my preferred method.” Thierry skimmed his hands up her marvelously smooth thighs. Later, he would track down her first lover and throttle the arsehole. For now, he inched back, encouraging her to part for him. Cautiously, Ada let her knees fall wide. His breath hitched at the sight of her dark curls and the glimpse of glistening pink within. Grinning wolfishly, he lay on his stomach.
“What are you doing?” she asked with alarm.
“Has no one ever done this, kitten?”
“Why do you keep calling me that?” she demanded. Shallow breaths made her gorgeous breasts tremble like twin Christmas puddings, and just as delectable.
“Because you’re small, soft, and fierce. Just like a little cat.” Thierry stroked one fingertip up her center. “If you’ll allow me to, I’d like to please you.”
Swallowing visibly, Ada nodded.
“Lay back,” he commanded, which seemed to put her at ease. She lay on the pillow her hair fanned out around her face. Thierry took one long look, memorizing the glorious sight, before dipping his fingers inside her wet, tight heat. Then, he bent his head and licked.
Ada’s back arched. Thierry would’ve grinned with satisfaction were his mouth not otherwise occupied with the glide up her center. Worrying the little bud above the place where his fingers pumped with his teeth and lips. Like kissing, only more intimate, with the essence of her desire on his tongue.
Three days were not enough time to fall in love, yet Thierry feared he had. Instead of fear, he felt the way he had the first time he completed a successful run across the Channel. Exhilarated. Full of excitement for the future. This time, with an added desperation to be inside her that had him grinding his hips against the counterpane.
The moment Ada’s thighs tensed, her back arched and her hips seeking sent need crashing up his spine. He could come from the taste and feel of her against his mouth, pulsing around his fingers and her muffled cries as she tried to bite back the sounds of her pleasure.
Only when her body turned soft and pliant beneath him did he press his mouth to her thighs, one at a time, then kiss his way up the rounded rise of her belly to the perfect slopes of her breasts and taste the tender peaks.
How had he ever thought them insufficient? Pure perfection, filling his mouth with one and his hand with the other.
“You taste divine,” he whispered against her skin. Ada’s fingers tangled in his hair, holding him to her. “I could spend the rest of my life making love to you this way.”
The thought simply popped out of his mouth, fully formed.
“Flatterer,” Ada chuckled huskily. The sound alone was enough to drive him to the edge. He needed to be inside her. Immediately.
But first, he needed to kiss her again. She met him tenderly, without the shyness that overtook her at intriguing moments when she seemed poised to freeze and coil into herself. Only to overcome it a few seconds later. Thierry curled his tongue into her mouth. Held her face between his hands, while pressing against her center. Ada’s bare legs came up and around the backs of his thighs.
“Are you ready?”
“Yes. But promise me something.”
“Anything, kitten.”
“Don’t…you know. Finish.” She inhaled. “Inside me. I can’t afford to fall pregnant.”
Her words twisted his guts.I want to see you round with my child.But she’d asked him not to, and since this was so new and sweet, and he didn’t want to ruin it, Thierry didn’t hesitate to agree.
“I’ll protect you, Ada. Come what may.”
She smiled a bit sadly at that, but before the note of wistfulness could ruin the moment, she slid her hand down between them and placed him at her entrance.
Thierry pressed his hips forward with a groan.
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ADELINE
A RUDE AWAKENING
