Call It Destiny

Slow and soft.“ But it will be thorough, he vowed silently as the fierce desire stoked the fires that had been simmering in him all evening. It would be thorough; complete. And when it was over she would belong to him.
    Holding her mouth gently captive he began to explore the alluring curve at the place where her throat and shoulder merged. There was an intriguing vulnerability about her there. At his touch she twisted a little, whether in invitation or reaction he couldn’t be certain. But it felt good. The gentle curve of her breasts pressed against him and quite suddenly he was certain that the daring gown had no built-in bra.
    But the lecture about her dress would have to come later. At the moment he was enjoying the garment too much. He moved more heavily against her, wanting to feel the length of her body under his. She seemed to sink obediently in the leather love seat, her softness accommodating the hard planes and angles of him.
    Opening his mouth on hers, he invited her inside, and when her tongue hesitantly accepted the sensual invitation, Jake’s pulse pounded in reaction. Reining in his impulse to shred the light silk of her dress, he carefully drew his hand down its surface to find the sweet roundness of her breast.
    He heard the catch in her breath as he let his palm graze enticingly over the hardening nipple.
    „You feel so good,“ he muttered. The urge to see the taut tantalizing curve he was caressing made him reach for the sleeve of the silk dress. It slipped down her arm with satisfying ease and a moment later Heather was naked to the waist.
    Jake felt the abrupt hesitation in her and raised his lead to meet her questioning, half-concealed gaze. „Do you like my touch, Heather?“ He used his thumb very gently on the revealing nipple.
    „Isn’t it obvious what your touch is doing to me?“
    „I’d like to hear you say it,“ he rasped, aware of the frency in himself.
    „Yes,“ she breathed throatily. „I like your touch.“ She rapped her arms around his neck with abrupt demand, a low moan parting her lips as she pulled his head back to hers.
    His head spinning with anticipation and skyrocketing need, Jake buried his lips against her throat and caught the tip of one of her breasts between his thumb and forefinger. She flinched at the caress and he knew it was because she was rapidly becoming gloriously sensitized.
    „If you’re this sensitive up here,“ he growled, „I can’t wait to find out how sensitive you are down here.“ He freed her breasts for a moment to trail his hand down to her waist and beyond.
    „Jake! Oh, Jake….“ Her head arched back over his arm as he deliberately allowed the heat of his palm to blend with the heat of her body. The thin silk barrier of her dress could not shield either of them.
    „My God, lady. You’re going to drive me crazy. Feel what you’re doing to me!“ He moved his hips against her thigh, letting her know of the throbbing hardness in him. „I want you, Heather. I want you very badly.“
    „Jake, I – “ Her small tongue emerged to dampen her parted lips as she struggled for words. „We can’t. Not yet. Too soon. Much too soon.“
    „How can it be too soon when we want each other this much?“ Intent on making her acutely aware of both him and her own building passion, Jake boldly inserted his leg between her thighs, crushing the silk upward into the warm juncture of her body. The action bared the creamy softness of her upper thighs and he traced a small erotic pattern on the inside of her leg. She gasped and shifted beneath him.
    „Jake, you promised you wouldn’t rush me,“ she managed tightly.
    „We have the rest of the night. No rush. I swear.“
    „No, Jake.“
    He felt her willpower as it began to reassert itself over her growing passion. Felt it and respected it even while he longed to overwhelm it. He could do it, he told himself. He could kiss the protests back into her throat, pull away the crumpled silk dress and take her. She would respond. She had to respond eventually. All that passion buried in her would surge to the surface if he could get past the barriers of her uncertainty. Even now her skin was hot and moist to the touch. A little longer….
    „I mean it, Jake. Please let me go.“ She spoke as if she really expected no opposition. She sounded as if she knew she only had to be firm to make him back off. She had complete confidence in her ability to make him act the role of a gentleman.
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