Surrender 01 - Surrender

just that.
    Knowing he’d let her leave made her want to stay even more. Why, oh why, was this happening to her? But it was, and he was so hard to resist.
    So what? She could handle one more night in his bed, or at least at his dining table. She forgot about his staff, who could just wander in, as well as his family members, who were somewhere nearby. She practically forgot her own name as his lips overtook hers, and his tongue thrust inside her mouth.
    Rafe’s hands slid through her hair, untying the band at the base of her neck and releasing the dark strands. He moved his hands gently across her shoulders, grasped the straps of her sundress and pulled them down her arms.
    The material rubbed against her sunburn, making her gasp, but the pleasure warming her body far outweighed the discomfort.
    She felt the air hit her breasts, the bikini top barely covering her now. When Rafe stopped moving the straps as they reached her elbows, she struggled against him. She wanted the dress taken all the way down; she was desperate to pull her arms up and clasp his head, but he was trapping her arms against her body, making it impossible for her to move them.
    “What’s the matter, Ari? Are you feeling trapped?” he whispered as his mouth moved across her cheek and made contact with her ear.
    “What are you doing?” she gasped as he sucked her lobe into his mouth.
    “Pleasuring you…”
    His hands next ran up to the front of her neck and splayed across her chest bone, before his fingers slipped inside the material of her bikini top. He edged first one side over, and then the other, causing her breasts to slip free of the material and press together.
    As the cool air hit her nipples, a stinging sensation rushed from the dusky pink peaks all the way to her core. They tightened even further when she opened her eyes and saw the lust burning in his expression as he gazed at her body’s charms.
    She moved on his lap, arching her back, silently begging him to take her breasts into his mouth and ease the ache throbbing inside her.
    “Patience, Ari,” he teased as his fingers circled the dusky peaks but didn’t touch her the way she needed.
    She didn’t like this new game. She wanted satisfaction, and he wasn’t giving it to her. Almost panting, she struggled to move closer to him, need burning her, impatience evident in her every action.
    “Don’t you know that it’s the anticipation of what’s to come that heightens the pleasure when I eventually do touch you…just…like…this…?”
    Finally, he bent his head forward and licked her nipple, pulling back quickly to blow his warm breath across the wet surface. She cried out at the exquisite pleasure, but still he took his time, slowly moving his tongue up her breast and across her neck, swirling its moist tip around her quickly fluttering pulse, and scraping her skin lightly with his teeth.
    Every place he touched soothed her for the barest of seconds before the raging fire within her leapt higher, making her squirm on his lap, her core pressing against his rampant manhood.
    Knowing how badly he desired her sent her own passion through the roof. The sight of her, not her touch, had caused his incredible erection, and that made her dizzy with euphoria. If she could have spoken, she’d have demanded that he take her, but no words came out, only heated gasps of pleasure.
    Rafe trailed tender, light kisses down her neck to the top of her swollen breasts, then circled his tongue around one of her nipples. With a gentle pressure, his teeth gently bit the sensitive skin before he moved to the other side to offer equal attention. She wriggled her back, trying to lead him to take her tight buds into his mouth, but he was in no hurry, and no amount of whimpering seemed to have an effect on him.
    Just when she was ready to scream out in absolute sexual agony, he latched on to one tight nipple, and the sensation that traveled through her made it all worth the wait. The sensual peak he’d brought her to nearly sent her over the edge.
    She shook in his arms as his tongue laved her nipple, then his teeth lightly nipped the swollen bud. He feasted on her breasts, making her head light with the pleasure, before he eased back up her throat and once again connected their mouths.
    “You taste so good, Ari. I could dine on your body all night long.”
    Ari moaned into Rafe’s mouth as his tongue caressed every crevice. Her throat caught when his hands moved down her sides, brushing