Page 19 of Under Her Skin

“Oh?”

“There’s a moonlight boat trip out on the water tonight. There will be other couples there, but I thought you might likeit.”

Hero smiled. “I would love that. This really is a beautiful town,Arturo.”

“I’m glad you like it.” He kissed her again. “Hero…I don’t want to come on too strong and scare you away, but I would really like to see where this goes. You and I. Cards on the table…I haven’t felt like this, perhapsever.”

Hero smiled, but the desire to ask him about Flavia was in the forefront of her mind. She had to be the girl in the pictures she had been sent, and even Hero could see the likeness between them. Knowing Arturo had loved the dead girl, and now someone was threatening Hero’s own life…could she trusthim?

Was Arturo the man behind the threats? Hero knew she should end this thing between them and yet she couldn’t. “What time is the boattrip?”

“Nine.” Arturo’s green eyes were intense on hers. “We have a few hours tokill.”

Hero felt his fingers stroke the inside of her thigh and she moaned softly. God, why did he have this effect on her? He was addictive. She nuzzled his ear and whispered, “Arturo. Take me home and fuck me into nextweek…”

Arturo grinned widely, and in twenty minutes, he was stripping her dress from her body as they kissed, clawing at each other. “Don’t wait.” Hero gasped, and Arturo thrust his cock deep into her cunt, fucking her furiously until they both fell from the bed, laughing and teasing each other. Arturo gathered her to him and slid back into her, and their lovemaking slowed. They took their time, building the intensity between them until Hero came, her back arching up, her belly against his, her head thrown back as she criedout.

“God, you’re intoxicating,” Arturo groaned as he came, then they collapsed together, panting for air. “Hero…il miaamore…”

There was such tenderness in his voice that Hero kissed him and rolled on top of him. “I want to tasteyou.”

He grinned up at her. “Darling, I would like nothing more. Just let me deal with thiscondom.”

As he used the bathroom, Hero waited, stretched out luxuriously on the bed. Every time she was naked with him, she felt so…what was the word…? Sensual, feminine…he made her feel beautiful. As he came back into the room, his magnificent cock already half-erect again, she gazed at him, blatant lust in her eyes. He approached the bed, and she sat up, taking his cock into her mouth, running her tongue along the length of it, feeling the hardening muscle under the silky skin. Arturo groaned as she began to suck, tease, and draw on the sensitive tip, her fingernails digging into hisbuttocks.

As he came, shooting thick creamy cum onto her tongue, she swallowed it down and then smiled up at him. Arturo pushed her back on the bed, and hitched her legs around his waist, kissing her passionately. “You drive me crazy,Hero.”

His cock nudged at the entrance of her cunt then buried itself deep inside her. Arturo’s lovemaking was almost frenzied now, his domination over her body complete, and Hero came again and again as he fucked her, his cock pounding at her until he, too,came.

As they recovered, Hero groaned. “We did it again.Shoot.”

“What?”

She sighed. “Forgot the damn condom.Jesus.”

He stroked her back as she sat up. “Cara mia, you do not have to worry. I have a clean medical record as far as STDs go. If you don’t believe me, I can have you call my physician forconfirmation.”

Hero relaxed a little. “It’s not just that, though. There’s pregnancy to considertoo.”

Arturo sat up and kissed her shoulder. “Would that be the worstthing?”

She gaped at him. “A week, Arturo. Aweek. No, don’t.” She wriggled away as he tried to wrap his arms around her. “This is all too much.” Hero rolled out of bed and shook her head. “First, you mention marriage and now this? Slow the helldown.”

She ran her hand through her hair, pacing up and down. Arturo watched her. “I’m sorry, Hero. I get a little overexcited sometimes, and I guess…I’m spoilt. I’m used to getting what I want when I want it, and sometimes I forget about other people’s feelings. I’msorry.”

Hero was taken aback by his honesty and her panic, so overwhelming just a moment ago, faded.Talk to him. She sat back down on the bed. “Arturo…I’m just not ready for something so serious, so…final. There’s a lot going on in my life and, well…I just got here. That’s not to say I don’t love being with you. I do, I really do, but we need to slow down.Please.”

“Of course. I really am sorry.” He sighed, but gave her space, not reaching for her again immediately. “I never thought I could feel like thisagain.”

“After…Flavia?” Hero saidquietly.

A long silence. “Yes. So, you also Googled me, I takeit?”

Here wego.

“No.” She looked at him. “I had lunch with George Galianotoday.”

She watched his expression go from shock to anger to jealousy to acceptance. “Isee.”