Beautiful Beginning(21)

“Who came first?”

With a groan, he said, “I don’t know. I wasn’t . . .”

I smacked his chest lightly. “Oh please. I know how specific your

fantasies are.”

Rolling to me in the dark, he said, “You came first. Of course you came

first. Okay? Can we go back to sleep?”

I ignored this. “Did you come in my mouth or on my—”

“In your mouth. Sleep, Chloe.”

“I love you,” I said, leaning to kiss him.

For a moment, he let me take his lip into my mouth and suck on it, nibble

it. But then he pulled away and wrapped his arms around my waist, shifting

my head closer to his chest. “I love you, too.”

“I don’t want to get up and go to the bathroom,” I said, smiling into

the darkness.

I heard his mouth open but it was several seconds before he made a sound.

“What do you mean?”

I rolled to my back and spread my legs so one of them was bent and resting

on top of his thigh.

“Chloe . . .” he groaned.

I found that I was already wet, just from the idea of what he’d done, and

what he’d been thinking. I was wet from the memory of his voice in the

bathroom when he came: it was the sound of relief mixed with regret, and

the fact that I could tell it was more out of necessity than fun made it so

much hotter. I slid my fingers over my skin, rocked up into my hand.

Beside me, Bennett held very still until I let out my first quiet moan, and

then he shivered and melted against me, rolling so he half covered my body,

and ducked to kiss a path from my throat to my breast.

“Tell me what you’re thinking,” he whispered into my skin. “Tell me

every f*cking thought.”

“It’s your hand,” I said, feeling my pulse quicken with my own strokes,

“and you’re teasing me.”

His voice was so deep it was barely more than a vibration when he asked, “

How so?”

Swallowing, I told him, “I want you to touch my clit and you’re just

dragging your fingers in tiny circles all around it.”

He laughed, sucking a nipple into his mouth before releasing it with a

quiet, slick kiss. “Slide just one finger inside. Keep teasing. I want to

hear you beg for it.”

“I want more.” My finger was so much smaller than his, and one of his was

never enough. One of mine was a torment with that voice in my ear and that

breath on my skin. “I want faster, and bigger.”

“Such a demanding body you have,” he said, sucking on my jaw. “I bet you

’re slippery and hot. I bet I know exactly how you taste right now.”

My fingers circled, still teasing, knowing it’s what he would do. What he

wanted me to do. I pressed my head back into the pillow, whispering,

“Faster. Please, more of something.”

“Both hands,” he relented quietly. “Two fingers inside and work the

outside. Let me hear it.”

I slid my other hand down my body and inched closer to him, feeling the

unyielding shape of his renewed erection against my hip. With both hands, I

touched myself, relishing the clean sweat and soap smell of him beside me,

the rough scratch of his stubble on my neck and chest as he kissed me

hungrily, whispering, “Goddamn it, Chloe. Let me hear you.”

My breath caught as he slid his palm over my breast, squeezing it roughly

before ducking to pull the peak deep into his mouth. I loved the sound he

made when he suckled me. It was desperate, and rumbling; a sound so rich I

could feel it behind my eyes, and in the center of my bones.

“Oh, God,” I groaned. “Close . . .”

He released my nipple from his mouth and reached to whip the covers off my

body, exposing my skin to the cool air of the hotel room and the blazing

heat of his eyes.

“It’s my hand you’re f*cking,” he growled. “Show me what you like.” I

lifted my hips from the mattress, wanting to please him, wanting him to

relent and climb over me, claim me as his.

But instead, Bennett slid one of my legs higher up my body so he could

reach down and land a sharp smack on my backside. “I’d do better; my hand

would f*ck you harder than this. I’d make you scream.”

It was a sufficient standin, and with his lips pressed to my ear telling me

he was going to f*ck me so long and so rough on Saturday that the next day

I’d wish it’d been my own hand instead, I managed to come, hot and

pulsing against my fingers.

But it wasn’t even close to what he made me feel.

We fell back against the pillows in breathless, unsatisfied silence.

It wasn’t enough to orgasm, and to feel his breath on my breasts and his

filthy words on my skin. I wanted to feel his pleasure when he came in me,

or on me, or simply with me. I wanted to witness every time he felt that

moment of release. He was mine; his pleasure was mine, and his body was