Page 35 of Claimed Gem
She skimmed her mouth over his collar bones, moving a step closer so that his erection brushed against her lower stomach, making them both groan with need.
Stephanie let her fingers brush the waistband of his boxers, and when he released one of her breasts and delved beneath the shirt, she followed her instincts and started pushing his boxers off.
Ries answered her move by unbuttoning her shirt and sliding it off her shoulders and gently removing her thong, leaving her completely naked, just as he was.
Stephanie slowly worked him back toward the mattress, using her hands, teeth, lips and tongue to seduce him as he did the same to her.
Their breaths were mingling and when his thighs hit the mattress, he deftly turned them and then lowered her down, coming up over the top of her and settling between her thighs.
Her wet center surrounded him, and Stephanie arched up against him, but Ries wouldn’t be hurried. He whispered Greek words in her ears, starting at her temple and working his way down her body with kisses and caresses.
“Ries,” she murmured when he ventured down and latched onto one hard nipple, sucking on her so that she felt the movement of his mouth to her core.
“Shush, let me love you. I know these last few days have been hard, I wanted to keep you safe.”
Stephanie arched against him as he moved his hand between them and sought entrance to her wet heat. “That feels so good.”
“You are everything that is sweet, and good…much too good for someone like me, but I can’t let you go. You are so sexy.”
Stephanie soaked up his praise, letting it soothe her battered soul and smooth the doubts away. She started to reach between them, thinking to learn more about his body but Ries chuckled and then grabbed her fingers before she could touch him.
“Not yet,agapi_méni_. I want to make this last,” Ries whispered near her ear. He continued moving her arm up until it was lying on the pillow above her head. He kissed her and murmured, “Leave your arm right there.”
“Ries?” she questioned him, when he did the same with her other arm, crossing her wrists and then sitting up so that he was on his knees between her thighs.
He skimmed his hands up and down her sides, moving his thumbs and palms ever closer to her breasts, but circling them and never quite touching her where she wanted his touch most. Not until he had her writhing in pleasure.
When he placed his hands on her nipples, squeezing the tips just until she arched and began to moan in pain, pleasure arched through Stephanie and she was sure she could orgasm just from his touch alone.
Ries seemed to sense how close to the edge she was and he backed off, skimming his hands over her torso again, this time his aim was much lower. He moved his body down with his hands, spreading her thighs until the back of her knees were riding on his shoulders.
“Ries, I don’t want to hurt you,” she reached for him, starting to move her legs, but Ries gave her a stern look and nipped the inside of her thigh. “Stephanie, put your arms back and hold still. You won’t hurt me.”
“But…”
“Trust me to take you where you need to go. To where we both want to go,” he watched her until she returned her hands over her head and relaxed her leg muscles.
Only then did he use his mouth and fingers to drive her to the brink, time and time again, always pulling back just before her body was ready to splinter into a million pieces.
Stephanie was on a rollercoaster and each time he pulled back from letting her come, she grew more frantic with need until she was a shivering mass of pleasure mixed with the pain of denial.
“Ries, I don’t want…”
“Shush,” he moved back up her body and kissed her roughly before sliding to the side of her thigh and abruptly turning her over so that she was lying on her stomach.
When Stephanie automatically pushed her hands against the mattress, Ries slapped her butt and then covered her with his body, pulling her back so that she was on her hands and knees, and holding her with firm hands when she tried to change position.
Stephanie was so shocked that Ries had spanked her, she couldn’t even find her words. Whenhe pulled her hips back to his own and entered her roughly, she gasped and all thoughts about his actions were pushed aside as he took them both to paradise.
He moved within her, setting up a pounding rhythm and urging her to let go and come with him.
Stephanie, on a tight wire of emotion and pleasure for the last hour, was helpless to do anything but comply and a few thrusts later, she screamed his name as she rocketed toward the stars and shivered in his arms.
Ries held her up as he thrust a few more times, groaning her name as he too found his release in her body. They stayed that way for a long time.
As her wits came back to her, she felt him gently clean her up with a warm washcloth, ignoring her feeble protest and urging her to rest for a bit. Stephanie was still on a pleasure high when Ries quietly left the bedroom and she lay there for a long time.
Her mind slowly coming back to reality as doubts and questions surfaced.