He felt the fire washing through her softness, fire overflowing at his touch, and he made a husky, triumphant sound. “I’ve spent three weeks trying to figure out how to get you to fly back to me.”
“All you had to do was—” Her words ended on a gasp of shocked pleasure.
He raked his teeth not quite lightly over her nape and stroked deeply into her, glorying in her untamed response. She strained into his imprisoning, caressing embrace in a sultry dance that made him want to eat every inch of her and then sink into her until sweet annihilation consumed them.
“I thought of using Lisa,” he said, “of telling you how much she loves you, needs you. But Lisa will be grown up in the blink of an eye, and I’ll just be beginning to know how much I want you, need you.”
“Chase, I—” Her voice broke as his hands moved skillfully, taking her to the edge of fiery release.
Holding her there.
“I’ll take whatever you want to give me,” he said, pressing her tightly against his hungry body, stroking her, feeling the sultry rush of her response. “Just don’t fly away from me. Stay and drink from me. Let me drink from you. Don’t ask me to let you go. I can’t.”
She cried out and fought to hold back the waves of pleasure melting her. Trembling, her hands closed over his, stilling his caressing fingers.
“Nicole,” he whispered hoarsely, “don’t you want this?”
Slowly she turned in his arms, stroking his rigid erection with every languid movement of her body. Her hair spilled over both of them, veiling them in fire.
“Nicole?”
She unbuttoned his shirt, pushed it aside, and sighed as she tasted his hot, salty skin.
He couldn’t stop a shudder of pleasure and relief. Her teeth scraped lightly over his nipples, her tongue stabbed, and her hands finished undressing him. When he was naked, she stroked him hungrily, holding him between her palms, enjoying every bit of his arousal as he smiled darkly and moved with her touch.
“I love your taste,” she said, bending down to him, “your textures, the heat of your body. I love your words when you talk about the land and your smile when Lisa falls asleep in your arms. I love you.” Her voice trembled with the emotions that were sweeping through her, melting her body into his. “Be part of me. Now. Always.”
As he took the gift of her body, he gave her the words that burned within him even more fiercely than his passion for her.
“I love you, Nicole. I’ll die loving you.” He caught her mouth in a consuming kiss and sank deeply into her, becoming part of her.
Completing both.
Around them fountains of molten stone danced and pulsed. The fires of Eden burned, washing everything with the incandescent light of creation.
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