Page 14 of Christmas Replay
I snuggled in even deeper, and when my ass pressed against him, I could feel his erection hard against me.
“Alissa,” he hissed, trying to shift his hips away from me.
I followed him back, keeping myself locked against him, wiggling on purpose to create a little friction against him.
“You’re a monster,” he growled, leaning down to nip at my earlobe.
I turned in his arms, meeting his gaze with a playful smile on my lips. He wiped the smirk away with a kiss that was at once tender and full of passion. When we broke apart again, I stared into his eyes and sucked my lower lip between my teeth nervously.
“What’s the matter?” he asked, reaching up and brushing a strand of hair from my face. “Alissa, we don’t have to do anything right now.”
“No, it’s not that,” I assured him. “I want to. I do. But…” I blew out a sigh and closed my eyes, not wanting to see any kind of disgust or pity on his face when I made the confession I knew I had to make. “I’ve never had sex before. I…I’m a virgin.”
“Hey, I kind of figured that, since I was your first kiss,” he whispered, holding my chin between two fingers until I met his gaze again. “So am I. Why would you worry about telling me that?”
“I just assumed that someone as handsome as you had been with dozens of women before. That you’d be turned off by my inexperience.”
It had never once occurred to me that he might be as inexperienced as I was. Yes, he’d said I was his first kiss, but I’d heard some guys just didn’t kiss, thinking it was too intimate. The thought that I would be his first as well helped to calm me in an instant. In fact, I suddenly wanted him even more than I had before.
“I think it’s amazing that I’ll be the only man to ever touch you,” he said, leaning down to press a soft kiss to my lips. “And that you’ll be the only woman I ever touch in return.”
“I don’t understand how this is happening,” I admitted. “How can we already be…?” I trailed off, not wanting to put words to anything that he may not actually feel for me.
“In love?” he offered. “I guess because we’re both incredibly lucky.”
“That must be it,” I agreed, blinking back tears. “I do, you know? Love you.”
“I love you, too,” he said, his gaze locked on mine. “But we still don’t have to do anything right now that you’re not ready for.”
“I’ve been ready for you since you walked out of my shop last Christmas Eve,” I promised him. “Plus we’re already here, in this big cozy bed.”
“So we can chalk it up to good timing?” he teased.
“Something like that.” I smiled. “I do want you. Now. Next week. Forever. Take your pick.”
“I think I’ll pick all three,” he said, his tone going hoarse and his gaze visibly darkening.
Our bodies came back together again, his rolling onto mine as our lips met, tongues dancing along one another’s, hands roaming every inch of skin we could reach.
Clothes went flying around the room as we basically played tug of war with each other’s shirts, jeans and underthings, until finally we were both naked.
“Christ, you’re beautiful,” he whispered on a heavy exhale as his gaze raked my body.
Heat bloomed over my cheeks and my chest at the compliment, but I forced myself not to try to hide from him. I was just as enamored by his body. The hard planes I could feel when we’d touched through clothes did not do justice to the rock hard abs on display for me now.
I wanted to ask him when he even found time to work out for the amount of hours it had to take to keep that physique, but the words stalled as he lowered his hips between my thighs and kissed me once more.
We may not have ever had sex before, but nature seemed to take over where lack of experience would have failed us. I canted up into him just as he pressed forward, and we both inhaled sharply, our mouths still connected as his shaft slid inside my channel.
My eyelids fluttered open, and I found him staring down at me, the wonder in his gaze reflecting the way I was feeling inside. We stayed frozen like that for a moment, our bodies locked together. Then my muscles contracted around him, and he pressed deeper with a guttural moan.
We began to move together, our bodies finding a rhythm that increased in speed until stars exploded in my vision, my body writhing as waves of pleasure raced over my skin, his name tearing from my throat on a scream as I fell over the edge of orgasm.
Cliff followed close behind, his cock jerking inside of me, heat filling my channel as he too cried out before collapsing to the mattress next to me.
He gathered me into his arms, his mouth finding mine once more, the kiss deep and passionate and filled with all of the love that I felt in my heart for this amazing man.
When we broke apart to catch our breaths, I lay my head on his chest and listened to the steady thumping of his heart against my ear. My eyes closed, and I sighed happily, knowing that not only could I spend the rest of my life like this…but that I might actually be able to.
