Her eyes shift up to mine, widening in shock as I openly adjust myself. I step closer then, my voice dropping an octave. “You never need to wonder about how you make me feel,Stellina.”
I trail off as I reach her, extending my hand to gently pinch her chin between my thumb and index finger.
“How I feel for you multiplies by the day. By the hour. By the damn minute. Every time you smile for me, it’s a shot of adrenaline through my veins. Each time you look at me, I feel alive in a way I’d never imagined possible. And every time your skin touches mine, I’m electrified right down to my fucking marrow.”
My eyes flicker between hers, close enough to count each individual eyelash ringing those beautiful stormy eyes now searing into mine.
“My desire to fuck you, to taste your pussy when you explode on my tongue, to feel you shatter around my cock as you scream my name in desperate pleasure…” Then I lean closer enough until I’m tasting her rapid breaths as they ghost over my lips.
“That’s a desire—a need—that Iwillfulfill when the time is right.Onlywhen the time is right.”
I dust my lips over hers, just the barest touch, and her eyelids flicker closed as she inhales sharply. “So you need to be careful,Stellina. I want you more than I need air to breathe, but I’m just a man. A man who’s desperate to make you his…” My voice drops to a hoarse whisper that’s almost a plea. “And I’m hanging by a motherfucking thread here.”
A shiver wracks her lithe body as I step back with a smirk and a rock-hard dick in my pants, forcing myself to behave. Sheopens eyes that are glazed with arousal, and I force myself to put more distance between us, giving her my back.
I stare out at the turquoise water of the bay as I’m once again struck by how this woman can make a man lose his mind. Because, despite what I’ve just said, I’mthis closeto making her mine on the grass right here in the middle of broad fucking daylight.
Suddenly, I’m flat on my back, staring at the sky as Elodie’s delighted face pops into view above me. “Wow! I did it.”
Her smile widens seeing the confusion on my face. “Did you just knock me on my ass?”
She nods with delight. “Mm-hmm. First time I’ve done it, too. Sasquatch is much too broad.” I chuckle at the pout pursing her pretty lips. “Needs to stay off the late-night cookie runs.”
I grin as she extends a hand to help me up, and I take it softly before yanking her down on top of me. She yelps as she falls, and I bark a laugh when she lands on my chest. Without missing a beat, I smoothly flip us so that she’s beneath me, eyes filled with surprise that soon turns to unmistakable desire.
“If you keep looking at me like that, I’ll be forced to take things faster than I think you’re ready for.”
ELODIE
I swallow mutelyas my eyes dip to his full lips, a feeling I’ve never felt before swarming within my stomach.
And despite that, I recognize it instantly.
It’swant. It’sconsent. It’s the overwhelming desire to have this man take me and remold me ashis.
In the days since remembering that lost weekend, and everything that came about in the aftermath, I realize now that I was in a constant state of Swan Mode. Desperately working to stay afloat.
But since I’ve been in Sicily, despite the circumstances of getting here, I’ve never felt more free. That isalldown to this man. Because of how he makes me feel.
Because when he looks at me, I feel whole. In a way I don’t think I can ever remember feeling in my whole life.
Rafe’s lips look obscenely soft, and I can’t stop myself from bringing a hand up to track my fingertip along his full bottom lip. I run it over and back before he stops me when he draws the digit inside his mouth to lightly bite the tip.
My gasp is low as my eyes shoot up to his. I’m so close I can see small creases on the corner of each eye. A hazel fleck in his right eye that’s missing from his left. Thick, silky lashes ring each eye as he blinks slowly, his eyes never moving from mine.
His mouth sucks my finger deeper inside, and he swirls his tongue around and around, making me tighten my thighs around his hips before he releases it with a low growl.
“Fuck it.”
In the next second, his mouth closes over mine, and I reach up, palming both his cheeks to hold him closer. His tongue teases the seam of my lips, and I open to him, inviting him in.
I moan in blissful relief when our tongues collide, and his answering groan of pleasure sends a surge of desire soaring through me.
My senses are on overload as Rafe claims not only my mouth, but my damn soul. The caress of his silken tongue tastes sweet, and his body feels hard pressed firmly against me, while his indelible scent fills my nostrils, taking me even higher.
I release a whimper as his tongue searches the depths of my mouth, alternating in light and rough strokes that flood my whole body with desire.
My body melts into his, becoming one being, one entity, and even so, I pull him desperately closer because it still feels like we’re not close enough.
