“You ever brought anyone else here?” he asked, his hand dragging up and down my back.
I shook my head.
“Really?”
“Really.” I lowered my lips to his.
His tongue entered my mouth as his hand slid to the small of my back, pushing against it so that I came even closer to him.
He sipped at my lips, drinking all that I offered him.
I gave him everything I was feeling. My worry, my pleasure, my joy.
His free hand cradled the back of my head, and he held onto me as he switched our positions, so that I was the one sitting on the bench. We continued kissing, our hands caressing one another.
My body temperature skyrocketed from the heat of the water, the heat of him.
He lifted me up and set me on the edge of the pool, widening my legs and stepping between them.
“I want to make you come,” he rasped. “I want to make you come underneath the stars.”
“Yes,” I breathed. “I want that too.”
“Lay back, Hadley.”
I did as he commanded, my back hitting the earth. Declan lifted my legs and placed them on his shoulders, raising my body so that my core was near his mouth.
I gazed at him, heavy lidded, my nipples taut from desire and my skin steaming in the cool air.
Declan licked me; slow, long, perfect.
His hands gripped my ass, holding me to him. My body wanted him, and I felt myself grow even wetter from his tongue.
“Sweet. So fucking sweet,” he growled before he went back to his purpose.
My eyes flew to the sky. Stars winked above. The sky streaked with the faintest traces of pink and green. So subtle you could almost miss it if you didn’t know what you were seeing.
With Declan’s tongue between my legs, my back bowed underneath the aurora borealis in the sky.
There was no one to hear me cry out my pleasure, just the wind in the trees and the two of us alone in this magical place.
When I came, I yelled from the depths of my soul. And while I was still shuddering, Declan lowered my legs from his face.
He grasped his erection and lined himself up at my entrance and then he slid home.
We curled around one another, thrust for thrust. He was so deep inside me I felt as though we’d become one person.
When I came for the second time, I couldn’t stop the tears from streaming down my face. I couldn’t stop the rush of emotion swirling around my heart.
He looked into my eyes, his gaze saying he understood, but he remained quiet. Instead, he used the talents he’d been given, wringing another round of pleasure from me.
Declan angled his hips, driving into me, and gave me his release.
I felt it inside me, and in the warmth of it I found solace in my body.
He gathered me in his arms and pulled me back into the hot spring. We were still joined, and it was as if neither one of us had the desire to be separated ever again.
I buried my face in the crook of his neck and cried. I cried for all the things I’d lost. I cried for a second chance at happiness, and I cried even more for the fear of losing it.