Page 19 of A Lady of Means (Roses and Rakes #1)

Chapter Fourteen

Devyn felt the scrape of her fingernails digging into his shoulders as she kissed him, in his whole body. Her mouth collided with his and her tongue scraped the back of his teeth. He let out a hiss, leaning closer to her onslaught.

One hand gripped her small waist, fingers clasping to hold onto her.

The other traced down her decolletage to the strap at her shoulder.

He pulled it down gently, his mouth following the exposed skin down to her breast. Her skin was so gloriously soft and glowing under the glow of a candle on the piano.

He felt her head tip back at the contact.

His tongue brushed a circle around her nipple, and the fucking whimper that came from her throat made him swear.

“Don’t forget the other one,” she demanded.

“Yes of course, my lady,” he murmured, moving his mouth to the other nipple in a slow stripe.

“You’re teasing me. Take them in your mouth. And be quick about it.”

She needed to be taught a lesson, his lady. His fingers in her coiffure tilted the back of her head so that he could speak his next words into her eyes.

“You don’t set the pace, my lady. I do. And I want to take my time,” he palmed one of her breasts tightly in his grasp, and she let out a gasp. “I didn’t imagine you could have tits this perfect and expect me not to give them the attention they deserve.”

He felt her pulling him up her body, her arms caging him closer, her legs wrapping around him.

Her mouth wrapping around his and stealing his air.

He didn’t need air, he could sustain himself on drinking the sighs and sounds she made.

The tight space between her legs notched with his arousal, he felt his erection pulse against her.

“You want me?” she pulled back from his kiss to ask.

Why did she need to ask? He’d spent his concentrated efforts making sure she knew it and could feel the level of his want.

“I’m going mad with wanting you,” he breathed.

The exquisite contact of her hand snaking beneath his shirt pulled a groan from him. He arced into her touch, her hand traveling the taut planes of his torso, her body writhing against his own.

He swore. He leaned to take one of her breasts into his mouth.

The attention his mouth gave to her breast and nipple in a rhythm with the strokes she gave him through his breeches.

Her tight fingers making him sigh around the orb in his mouth.

He could feel her spasm around him as he worked her other breast, his teeth lightly grazing over the bud like some sort of wild berry.

He was the instrument of her unmooring. Oh, but she was his too.

Working him so artfully and deftly he could feel how close he was to release.

And then there was the sight of her. Her pupils blown wide, her back arched, her bottom lip between her teeth.

She’d given up part of her power over to him, but he’d given up all of his.

But slowly, he found it again. He licked his way up her neck and pulled her mouth into his possession. While she was distracted, he pulled up her bodice, tightened the strap on her shoulder, and brought her hand to his hair.

She pulled back to look at him. “I told you, Moria. I want you, but not like this.”

“You are…a terrible tease.” She gave the thick tendrils of his dark hair and affectionate tug he felt echo through his whole body, but mostly his cock.

“Me?” he laughed, pointing a finger at his chest. “Your hand was…”

“Occupied with something quite large and hard?”

He kissed her, his laugh echoing into her mouth, small, staccato kisses punctuated by roaming hands and sighs.

“When I make you come,” he said, grasping her face to whisper the words into her ear. “You will come with my ring on your finger.”

She pulled back to look at him, the words he wanted that she couldn’t say, wouldn’t say, reflected in her eyes. There was an awe in the way she looked at him, in her fingers trailing over the lines and planes of his face.

“We shall see about that, won’t we?”

Devyn leaned to kiss the small, feminine hand at his jaw. “It’s a promise.”

When Devyn walked her home, all he could think about was how necessary she had become while there were six blocks and a whole world between them.