Page 166 of Deadline

“I was trying to be modest.”

“I was praying for a gale wind and fantasizing this.” He continued the love play until it was unclear whether he was doing it to tantalize her or himself. It was working on both. Easing her onto her back, he kissed his way down her center, then angled himself away in order to take a look. “Beautiful terrain.” His hand skimmed past her navel.

“Thank you.”

Finding a faint white stretch mark on the outside of her hip, he followed it with his fingertip. “Which one gave you this?”

“Grant.”

“And this one?” he asked, finding another in the hollow where belly met thigh.

“Grant.”

He grinned. “Why am I not surprised?” Next he traced the slender white scar that was barely discernible under the soft hair. “Which one?”

“Both. Hunter had to be Cesarean, and after one…”

Her words dwindled to a soft moan when he dipped his head to nuzzle lower and his tongue began gently exploring the furrow. She responded exactly as he’d hoped. Parting her thighs, she clutched his hair, arched up against his mouth, responded to the guidance of his hands as they repositioned her, and gasped his name as the spot, the tempo of his stroking tongue, and the pressure he applied coalesced into a melting orgasm.

He levered himself above her and watched her face as she slowly came down from it. She opened her eyes and gave him a drowsy smile, which he covered with a soft kiss. “Can I make a confession?”

She nodded.

“I’ve fantasized doing that to you.”

“I can’t be less than honest.” Lifting her head, she whispered directly into his ear, “I fantasized you doing it, too.”

They smiled at each other as he settled between her thighs, pushing into her only a little, but enough to cause him to groan softly. “God that feels good.”

“What else have you fantasized?” she asked.

“Hard and fast against a wall. No, wait. We did that for real. It just seemed like a fantasy.” He felt her soft laugh all the way to the base of his cock, and it caused him to grimace with the effort of withholding himself from sinking into her completely.

She trailed her fingers down his spine to the cleft of his butt. His breath caught. “Anything else?” Her voice was as sexy as the feathering motions of her fingertips.

“You taking me in your beautiful mouth. Oh, you did that, too. Or was I hallucinating?”

“If you were, so was I.”

“That’s a fantasy that bears acting out again, don’t you think?”

“Oh, absolutely. Often.”

He gave her a wicked smile, which she matched.

“So, is that it?” she purred. “Have we run out of fantasies?”

“Hell, we’re just getting started.” Sliding his hand beneath her bottom, he tilted her up. “Going real slow, like now.” He kissed her, his tongue sliding into her mouth with the controlled intensity with which he was pushing into her. He pulled out, almost entirely, before sinking into her a little deeper than before. And again.

She made a small, wanting sound and breathed his name. “What exactly do you call this particular fantasy?”

He buried himself inside her fully and, just as he kissed her again, whispered, “Making love.”

* * *

She lay on her side, facing away from him. Replete. Happier than she remembered feeling in…Possibly ever. She slid her foot up the length of his shin.

“Know what first attracted me?”