Only 03 - Only You

utterly still, fighting against the need to join her. He didn’t want that yet, not before he had plumbed the depths of her ability to respond to him.
    The lure of Eve’s body was too great to withstand. When she twisted slowly, repeatedly, against him, Reno felt the world unravel in a series of soft explosions. With her name breaking on his lips, he came undone a single heartbeat at a time,giving himself to her in a long, rippling current of fire.
    Eve’s breath caught and sighed out in wonder as she held Reno, savoring the gentle shuddering of his body. For long, sweet minutes, her slender fingers caressed his back and shoulders. The breadth and power of him were obvious even now, when he lay with his head between her breasts, breathing slowly, utterly relaxed.
    Smiling, Eve stroked Reno’s back with slow sweeps of her hands, savoring the strength of him and the knowledge that she had never been so close to anyone.
    It was more than the fact of their interlocked bodies. She loved Reno as she had never loved anyone in her life.
    Eve didn’t know she had spoken her thoughts aloud until Reno lifted his head and turned it from side to side, stroking her breasts with his cheek as he spoke.
    “Love is an illusion, sugar girl,” he said. “But passion isn’t.”
    She felt the slow drawing of Reno’s tongue over her nipples. With each delicious movement, his body stirred within her, redoubling the effect of his caresses. An answering heat splintered through her, making her breath break audibly.
    Reno heard Eve’s response and felt it in the swift rise of her breasts. His laughter was velvety, dark, exultant.
    “Passion is very real,” he said, biting delicately at Eve’s taut nipples. “We’re good together, you and I. Hell, we’re better than good. There’s no word for what we have when we’re like this.”
    “What do you mean?” she whispered.
    “Little innocent,” Reno murmured, drinking the tender shivering of her flesh as his teeth rakedlightly. “You don’t even know, do you?”
    “What?”
    “This.”
    His hips moved and he drove into her as though he would fuse their bodies into a single seamless whole. A throttled cry and an urgent twisting of her hips answered him. Laughing with sheer pleasure, he twisted against her in turn and listened to his name come from her lips in a rush.
    “Yes,” Reno said. “It’s me. Again. But don’t blame me, gata. I’ve never been like this before in my life.”
    Another twist, another cry, another sultry wave melting through Eve to lick over Reno, fueling his passionate fire, driving him higher, urging him to drive her higher as well.
    Reno moved heavily, sparing Eve nothing of his power. Nor did she ask for less. She moved in urgent counterpoint, meeting strength with fluid grace, hunger with desire, fire with searing fire.
    When sweat misted her skin, he bent his head and licked salty drops, bit flesh that strained to become part of him. He seduced her breasts with his teeth and tongue, demanding and receiving a hard bud from each while his hips moved relentlessly, demanding a different kind of flowering.
    His hand slid down between their slick, hot bodies until he found the satin bud. He circled, pressed, raked with shattering delicacy.
    “What are you…” Eve said brokenly. “Dear God… Reno. ”
    Pleasure burst in her with the force of a blow, arching her body as fierce currents swept through her, driving her even higher.
    Reno held Eve wild and shivering while he moved over and within her relentlessly, riding the fierce passion he had called from her. He punctuatedeach heavy thrust with a savagely restrained caress that demanded everything of her, plucking at the delicate bud until it began to flower one dark petal at a time.
    Eve cried out as her body experienced an ecstasy that had no beginning and no end, shattering her, transforming her. If there had been room in her for fear, she would have been terrified; but there was room only for Reno’s driving body and the dark words of desire and demand he poured over her.
    She cried out in abandon, sinking her nails heedlessly into his back as she arched like a drawn bow, succumbing to the sweet violence he had called from her.
    Reno’s smile was as untamed as Eve’s cries. He held himself utterly motionless, absorbing her violent trembling into his strength. When she was still once more, he bent his head, drew his teeth over her shoulder in a fierce caress, and began moving inside her