“All…all year?” Her voice trembled as he pinched the sides of her panties and pulled them down her hips inch by agonizing inch, savoring the view as she was revealed to him.
“Mm-hmm.” He made a low sound of appreciation in the back of his throat. When the last scrap of fabric was gone, he trailed his fingers lightly over her bare mound. “So pretty.”
She huffed out an awkward laugh. “It’s more for convenience, but whatever you say, you beautiful man.”
He shot her a grin, then slid out of his own underwear so they were both completely naked. Settling between her thighs, he traced a finger down her crease, appreciating the soft moan she made in response.
“It took me a while to recognize what I wanted. It wasn’t until I saw Mitya and Tash that I knew.”
She threw a hand over her eyes. “Are you really talking about your brother at a time like this?”
He kept going, sliding his index finger inside her just enough to tease. She was so smooth, so beautiful, and already wet. “I saw them and thought, maybe settling down can be an adventure, too. And it made me think of you.”
A hitch in her breath was his only answer. He looked up.
“Jeshka.”
“Huh?”
“Uncover your eyes.”
With a groan, she pulled her arm from across her face and gazed down at him. Her dark eyes were drowsy, her brown skin warm with pleasure.
“I want you, Jeshka. Not just for now.”
Did she understand what he meant? Could she see the love shining in his face? Her eyebrows shifted the barest fraction, and something like fear flitted through her eyes. Yes, love was scary.Foreverwas scary. But he was willing to face it, with her. For her.
He wouldn’t push, though. Sliding her knee up, he kissed down the inside of her thigh. “Ah, milochka. You take my breath away.”
Her voice was muffled, like she’d turned her face into the pillow. “Don’t say things like that.”
“Like what?”
“Sweet things.”
“Why not?”
“I don’t...I don’t know. I’m not used to hearing them.”
At that, he crawled up her body so he could kiss her lips and look her in the eye. “I’m not those other guys, Jeshka. I’m not gonna hit it and quit it. Okay?”
When she nodded, he moved back down her body and resumed what he’d been doing.
“You don’t have to say anything now,” he continued. “I’m just letting you know, because my mouth is about to be very busy.”
Then he parted her sex with his thumbs and got to it.
* * *
Jess threwher head back on the pillow. This man was impossible. Saying every kind of thing a person could want to hear, and then, without wasting another second, lowering his head and eating her pussy for all he was worth.
That mouth. If she’d known he was that skilled with his lips, with his tongue, she never would have given him such pushback.
Stupid Past Jessica. She should have pulled him into Rhianne’s office, stripped out of her clothes, and told him to do what he did best. Because as amazing as he was as a dancer,thiswas his true calling.
But the things he’d been saying… Such simple words, yet they’d affected her like the filthiest of dirty talk. Except instead of only arousing of her body, they also roused her heart.
And now that treacherous thing was fully, irrevocably involved.