Автор: Jennie Lucas
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Зарубежные любовные романы
isbn: 9781408975268
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Finally, when she could take it no longer, he pressed inside her, inch by agonizing inch. But he didn’t close his eyes at his own wave of pleasure.
Instead he watched her.
Watched the way she sucked in her breath, biting her full bottom lip. Her mouth was smeared with red lipstick, bruised with hard kisses.
He watched the way her eyelids fluttered. Her beautiful face turned up blissfully as if she heard choirs of angels. He watched the fervent movement of her lips as she soundlessly gasped his name.
With each slow thrust, sliding his hips in rhythm to the center of her pleasure, he watched her. Until she started to tense and shake beneath him. Then he rode her. Deeper. Faster. He never closed his eyes. He never looked away from her. When she finally cried out her release, their eyes locked, and lightning went through Roark’s body, exploding him into a million chiming pieces.
His angel.
Being with her was like nothing he’d ever felt before.
Afterward, he held her. He wanted to be close to her. He stroked her as she dozed in his arms.
He’d never wanted a woman to sleep in his bed.
He himself had never been unable to sleep because he wanted to just stare at the woman he’d bedded.
Lia’s beauty and power and goodness held him. He watched the slanting warmth of the afternoon sun leave a glow on her closed eyes, on her lips curved in a gentle smile.
She was perfect, he thought. The perfect woman. The perfect mistress. The perfect wife.
Wife?
He’d never thought he would marry, but looking at her now, he had the sudden desire to possess her forever. To keep her solely for his own use and pleasure. To make sure no man could ever, ever touch her. Permanently.
For the first time in his life, he could understand why a man would want to take a wife.
He’d never wanted any woman like this. Roark had always been determined to stay free.
Now, for the first time, ever, he suddenly had found a woman who wouldn’t commit to him. And all he wanted to do was pin her down.
He tried to push the thought away. He couldn’t get married. He wasn’t the marrying sort. And even if he was, Lia wouldn’t marry him.
She wanted a home. She wanted a child. She wanted love.
What could he possibly offer her to compensate for everything he wouldn’t—couldn’t—give her?
“Lia,” he whispered, stroking the inside of her bare arms. Her eyes fluttered open, and he saw her face light up with a smile on sight of him. And something inside his heart beat faster.
“Lia,” he repeated, then swallowed.
Marry me.
Give up your desire for home and a family and love. Be mine. Give yourself to me.
“Yes?” she said, stroking his rough cheek and looking up into his eyes tenderly.
But he couldn’t speak the words. Him, marry? Roark, take a wife? The idea was ridiculous! He’d spent his whole adult life avoiding commitment and emotional attachment. He wouldn’t give that up now for some momentary lust.
Asking Lia to travel with him was already more than he’d ever asked any woman. It would be enough. It had to be enough.
He would make it be enough.
And he lowered his head to kiss her.
Lia had barely caught her breath from their first lovemaking session when he woke her.
But as he kissed her now, moving his hands against her naked breasts, she felt her body tense with instant desire. He was already rock solid against her. She timidly reached down to explore the most masculine part of his anatomy in a way she never had before, and he jumped beneath her touch. With a growl, he picked her up as if she weighed nothing at all.
Sitting up in bed, he placed her on his lap facing him. Sliding on a condom, he lifted her up in his strong arms, then lowered her over him, impaling her slowly, inch by inch. He held her tightly in his lap, with her legs wrapped around his body. He rocked back and forth, causing her breasts to brush against the dark hair of his chest. She felt her sensitive core slide slickly against his lower belly as he moved deeply inside her. Almost immediately, she tensed and cried out.
“Thirty seconds,” he said, sounding amused as he brushed away the strands of hair stuck to her sweaty forehead. “Let’s see if we can make you last longer than that.”
For the next hour he tortured her with pleasure.
He rolled her on top of him on the bed, showing her how to find her own rhythm, to control the pace and the intensity of his thrust. He tipped her back onto the bed and lifted her leg over his shoulder to show her how deep he could be inside her. He tasted her with his tongue. Played her with his skilled fingers. Made her writhe … made her beg.
But every time she would start to tense and feel the deep shake coming from within, he would abruptly stop. And he would move away, changing the rhythm. Until she was nearly weeping with the frustration of agonized desire.
He teased her like this for a full hour. And the entire time, he was rock hard and huge for her. How could any man last like this? How?
And how long did he intend to torture her?
“Please,” she finally begged, tears streaming down her face. “Just take me!”
He looked down at her with dark eyes full of tenderness and gave her a wicked half grin. “I think you can handle another few hours.”
“No!” she said fiercely, and then with sudden strength, she pushed him back against the bed. She climbed over him and lowered herself upon him. She held his wrists back against the pillow as he gave a soft gasp.
“My turn,” she whispered in his ear. Using all the skills he’d taught her, she started to ride him. He tried to protest, but she ignored him, forcing him to thrust inside her again and again until he, too, started to tense and writhe.
Finally he breathed, “Lia, stop. Lia, I can’t keep on like this. Slow down … oh, my sweet girl …” But against his protests, she kept riding him, moving her hips faster and forcing him deeper inside with every thrust. Until finally he tossed his head back and with a mighty roar he exploded inside her, shaking and trembling beneath her. In the exact same instant, she cried out as the spiraling pleasure took her so high that it nearly made her pass out.
With a shuddering breath, she collapsed against him.
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