Lover Awakened (Black Dagger Brotherhood #3)(79)

“But when I took you out…I saw these.” His hand captured one of her breasts. “I couldn’t help it. I swear. I tried to allow you your modesty, but you were…I couldn’t stop my eyes. Your nipple was tight from the chill of the air. So small and pink. Lovely.”

He moved his thumb back and forth across her hard tip, scrambling her mind.

“It’s all right,” she mumbled.

“It wasn’t. You were defenseless and I was wrong to look at you.”

“No, you—”

He shifted, and his erection pressed into the top of her thighs. “This happened.”

“What hap—Oh, you got aroused?”

His mouth tightened. “Yeah. I couldn’t stop it.”

She smiled a little. “But you didn’t do anything, right?”

“No.”

“So it’s okay.” She arched her back and watched as his eyes clung to her breasts. “Kiss me, Zsadist. Right where you’re looking. Right now.”

His lips parted, and his tongue led the way as he dipped down. His mouth was warm on her flesh, and so very tentative, kissing, then sucking her nipple inside. He tugged, then ran a languid circle around her, then drew her in again…and all the while his hands stroked her waist and her hips and her legs.

How ironic that he’d worried he wouldn’t be gentle. Far from brutal, he was positively reverent as he suckled, his lashes down against his cheek as he savored her, his face worshipful and rapt.

“Christ,” he murmured, moving to her other breast. “I had no idea it would be like this.”

“How…so?” Oh, God… His mouth…

“I could tongue you forever.”

She grasped his head with her hands, pulling him closer. And it took some wriggling, but she managed to split her legs and get one out from under him so that he was almost lying in the cradle of her body. She was dying to feel his arousal, except he just hovered over her.

When he pulled back she protested, but then his hands went to the insides of her thighs and he moved down her body. As he spread her legs, the mattress began to quiver underneath her.

Zsadist’s whole body shook as he looked at her. “You’re so delicate…and you glisten.”

The first stroke of his finger down her core nearly threw her over the edge. As she let out a hoarse sound, his eyes flashed to hers and he cursed. “Goddamn it, I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m trying to be careful—”

She grabbed his hand before he could take it away. “More…”

He looked doubtful for a moment. Then he touched her again. “You’re perfect. And God, you’re soft. I’ve got to know…”

He leaned down, his shoulders bunching up hard. She felt a velvet brush.

His lips.

This time when she jacked up off the bed and said his name, he just pressed another kiss to her again, and then there was the wet stroke of his tongue. As he lifted his head and swallowed, the growl of ecstasy he made stopped her heart in her chest. Their eyes met.

“Oh…Jesus…you’re delicious,” he said, going back down with his mouth.

He stretched out on the bed, looping his arms under her knees and overflowing the space between her thighs…a male who wasn’t going anywhere for a long while. His breath was hot and needy, his mouth hungry and desperate. He explored her with an erotic compulsion, licking and probing with his tongue, sucking with his lips.

When her hips bucked, one of his arms moved across her stomach, holding her in place. She lurched again and he paused without lifting his head.

“Are you okay?” he asked, raspy voice muffled, words vibrating into her core.

“Please…” It was the only thing that came to mind.

He pulled back a little, and all she could do was look at his glossy lips and think of where they had been.

“Bella, I don’t think I can stop. There’s this…roar in my head telling me to keep my mouth on you. How can I make this…okay for you?”

“Make me…finish me,” she said hoarsely.

He blinked as if she’d surprised him. “How do I make you come?”

“Just keep doing what you’re doing. Only faster.”

He was a quick study as he figured out what made her go wild, and he was ruthless once he discovered how to give her an orgasm. He drove her hard, watching her as she shattered apart once, twice…many times. It was as if he fed from her pleasure and was insatiable.

When he finally lifted his head, she was limp.

He looked at her gravely. “Thank you.”

“God…I’m the one who should be saying that.”

He shook his head. “You let an animal into the most beautiful part of you. I’m the one with the gratitude.”

He pushed away from her body, that flush of arousal still in his cheeks. That erection still straining.

She held her arms out to him. “Where are you going? We’re not done.”

As he hesitated, she remembered. She rolled over onto her stomach and braced herself up on all fours, a shameless offer. When he didn’t move, she looked back at him. He’d closed his eyes as if in pain, and that confused her.

“I know you only do it this way,” she said softly. “That’s what you told me. It’s okay with me. Really.” There was a long silence. “Zsadist, I want to finish this between us. I want to know you…like this.”