Page 21 of No Promises
“Me too.” God, this man was driving her crazy, and yet he was still so sweet, so sensitive she could hardly believe he was the same man who’d roared at her in anger the night theymet.
It wasn’t him then,she told herself,he was in pain.She remembered, in the first days after she had been shot, angry, scared, frustrated in the hospital, she had taken it out on her parents, Beth, the nurses, even Ally. She had, of course, apologized for her angry behavior, but she could understand how he felt, and she was way past forgiveness withhim.
Being with Christo as he showed her around the small farmhouse, she felt closer to him every moment. He made her laugh one moment, and then the next he would look at her with such skin-scorching desire that she felt weak. Right here, right now, if the rest of the world faded away, she wouldn’t besorry.
“Are you hungry? We might have to go to the local farmer’s market to stock up. Like Mom, I don’t have staff here, so it’ll be just us for theweekend.”
Noosh smiled. “Good, and yes, I could eat awalrus.”
Christo laughed. “That’s…random. Let’s go see if the market haswalrus.”
It was weirdly domesticated,but a lot of fun, pushing a cart around the market, choosing fresh produce.This man comes from a mafia family, and here he is discussing the merits of pomegranates over grapes,she laughed toherself.
She let Christo take the lead in buying ingredients; he clearly knew what he was doing, and when they were packing their paper sacks into his car, she asked him aboutit.
“Mom, again,” he said, shrugging good-naturedly. “While Dad taught me the harsh truths of the world, she taught me the finer things. Cooking, painting, evencarpentry.”
“And now you’re a full-timecarpenter?”
Christo nodded, pride in his eyes. “After lunch, I’ll show you the workshop. Get you allsawdusty.”
Noosh giggled at the playfulness in his eyes. “Nutter.”
“Excuseme?”
But she just laughed and he leaned over to kiss her. “I’ll takeit.”
“Drive faster, man, I’mstarving.”
For lunch,they sat outdoors at a picnic table he had set up, enjoying freshly baked bread, soft oozy Brie and sweet peaches, and cold white wine. Christo had arranged their chairs so that she could lean back against him afterward. The view looked out over rolling fields and she gave a laugh. “Only an hour or two outside the city and we could be anywhere else but NewYork.”
He pressed his lips to her temple. “Youlike?”
“I like verymuch.”
“I’mglad.”
She turned to face him then. The desire was back in his eyes, and Noosh gazed back at him, then began slowly unbuttoning her dress. Christo put down his wine glass and watched her, a lazy, sexy grin on his face. Noosh pulled the top of her dress aside, revealing her lacy pink bra. Christo bent his head, and pulling the lace of the cup down, he took her nipple into his mouth, flicking his tongue around the nub, sending shivers of pleasure through herbody.
She reached down to unzip his jeans, taking his cock in her hands and stroking along the length of it. She heard Christo moan. “God, I want to fuck you so badly,Noosh.”
She gave a little chuckle. “Anticipation,baby.”
Christo gave a growl and in one swift movement, swept her into his arms and to his bedroom. “We may not be able to fuck yet, baby, but I’m going to kiss every inch of your heavenly body, and then suck your clit until youweep.”
Noosh felt her sex flood with arousal as he dropped to his knees between her legs. Always checking to make sure she wasn’t in pain, he buried his face between her legs and began to lick and gently bite at her clit until it was rock hard and she was moaning his name over andover.
Christo gently slid two fingers into her cunt as he pleasured her, moving them in and out until Noosh was screaming and crying out as a shattering orgasm hit her. Christo kept his promise and tears of joy, of ecstasy, flooded down herface.
“I want your cock inside me so badly,” she said breathlessly, kissing him. She hooked a leg over his body to test if she could do it, and then winced. “But my bloodyback…”
“Don’t stress out, baby, we have all the time in theworld.”
“There is something Icando for you.” She clambered down his body and took his diamond-hard cock into her warm mouth. She loved the silky feel of the skin over the hardness of him. He was so huge she couldn’t take all of him into her mouth. She kissed, licked, and teased the tip, her hands stroking down the length of him. She massaged his balls gently, then milked him dry as he shuddered and came, swallowing every salty drop of hiscum.
Noosh crawled back to his side as he caught his breath and grinned at her. God, sheadoredthis man, his boyish grin, his devastatingly handsome face, his playful nature that was so at odds with her first memory of him.You would be so easy to fall in love with,she thought with ashock.
Christo opened his arms and she went into them, pressing her skin against his. It was still only mid-afternoon, but they fell asleep together, waking only when Christo kissed her mouth so tenderly that she had to wake up to gaze athim.
