Brazen (Brazen #1)(36)

“What if I told you that the only way I could be happy is if I was with you both. If you both loved me and were willing to accept that I loved you both?”

She saw an odd mixture of relief as well as something else she couldn’t quite name in his eyes.

“You’re not holding out for which of us makes a move first?” he asked gruffly.

She was a little stung by the question even though she recognized how it must look. What she was proposing wasn’t everyday run-of-the-mill.

“I love you both,” she said simply. “I want…I want a life with both of you. It’s why I came home. Is that something you can accept?”

She regretted the question. It was too soon. She hadn’t given him time, and she shouldn’t be pressuring him.

“I don’t know,” he said honestly. “I came to you tonight because I wanted you in my arms. I wanted to make love to you. I wasn’t prepared—”

She put a finger over his lips to shush him. “Then love me,” she said softly. “Everything else can wait.”

Chapter Seventeen

Zane looked at Jasmine with hungry eyes. Her heart fluttered and rolled as he leaned in to kiss her. His hands cupped her face, and his thumbs brushed across her cheek bones as his tongue found hers.

He pushed forward, leaning her back until she settled against the pillows. He kissed her lovingly, so gently, her chest swelled and ached.

His hands skated down her body until they reached her hips. He lifted his weight off her long enough to pull her down the bed until she was lying flat on the mattress.

He settled above her, looking down with fierce eyes. “Did he hurt you, Jaz?”

She swallowed at the concern in his voice. “It was my first time. Carmen said if he had known, he could have made it better for me.”

“I’ll take care of you, baby,” he murmured, his words a promise that brushed across her skin, a caress she felt to her soul.

He lowered his dark head to kiss her belly. His hands inched up from their grip on her hips. He inserted his fingers under the band of her T-shirt and pulled, the soft material rubbing across her taut ni**les.

He emitted a sound of male satisfaction when her br**sts bobbed free of the shirt. He yanked it the rest of the way over her head and tossed it to the floor.

For a long moment, he cradled her there in his arms just looking at her. He nudged her legs open and settled his big body between them, his head positioned at her ribcage.

He pressed soft, tender kisses to her belly and up and down the ridge of her ribs. She shivered as his tongue lapped at the underswell of her breast. It moved closer to her nipple until finally, the bud balanced on the end of his tongue. He let it rest there for a moment before sucking it strongly between his teeth.

She arched into him with a cry.

He continued to suck with rhythmic motions as he reached down to tug at her panties. She elevated her hips in an effort to help him.

He released her nipple for a moment as he pulled the underwear free of her legs. She couldn’t help the sigh of disappointment.

He chuckled and glanced back up at her, his eyes fiery with desire. “Don’t worry, baby. I’m not going anywhere. I plan to give you everything you could possibly want and more.”

Her pu**y clenched as his words sent lust blazing through her core. “I want you,” she said simply.

“You’ll have me.”

Their gazes met, and she saw promise in his eyes. Determination. Did this mean he was okay with all she’d told him? For now, she didn’t want to dwell on it. What she wanted most was to be in his arms, his body over hers, him driving into her, making her his. God, she wanted to be his. She’d spent so long dreaming about this moment.

She reached for him, wanting him, all of him. He went willingly into her arms, and she held him close as his muscled body covered hers.

He kissed her neck and nibbled at the sensitive skin. He nipped at her ears, sucked at the lobes, alternating between the two.

She could feel his hardness cradled between her legs, her pu**y cupping him. She wasn’t afraid. She hadn’t been afraid of Seth, just unprepared. She widened her legs and curled them around his body, wanting him inside her.

“No baby, not yet,” he murmured in her ear. “You’re not ready.”

She moaned. “Yes, I am.”

He chuckled again. “No, you’re not. But you will be before I’m through.”

He began to slide down her body, slowly, showering kisses as he made his way down. He stopped at her br**sts and gave each equal attention. He lapped at the buds and sucked them until she was restless and aching with need. But he didn’t stop there.

He moved lower to her belly and traced the area around her navel. He played with her belly ring for a while before he finally pressed tiny kisses down to her pelvis.

He placed his head between her legs and kissed the insides of both thighs. With an impatient nudge, he pushed her legs further apart so that her pu**y was completely bared to him.

“Please,” she whispered.

He parted her folds with a gentle finger and then pressed his tongue to her opening. Her hips convulsed as tiny spasms radiated from her pelvis.

He licked upward, and she jumped again when the tip of his tongue slid across her clit. He lapped repeatedly, working the quivering button into a firestorm of sensation. He swirled around and over then sucked it into his mouth to tease her some more.