Cobra slowly broke off the kiss with a low, throaty groan. Not ready to release her mouth completely, he began gently sucking her lower lip, loving the sounds of the moans she made. He knew if they kept kissing, she would have swollen lips, and tomorrow was a workday for her. There was no need to give anyone in the office reason to speculate about what she was doing in her free time.
He was about to get up when she caught hold of his thighs in a firm grip. “I know you said you found pleasure in giving it to me, Cobra, but that’s not good enough.”
Seeing her mutinous look, he swallowed. “It’s not?”
“No.”
He was afraid to ask but did so anyway. “What do you have in mind?”
She hesitated for a moment, and then he watched as she took her tongue and slowly licked her lips. “I want to taste you.”
His shaft began throbbing, and a rush of desire, more potent than before, rushed through his veins. “Where?”
She moistened her lip with a suggestive sweep of her tongue before using her palm to cup his already hard erection. Her touch felt hot through the material of his pants.
He opened his mouth to say that he didn’t think it would be a good idea when she began lowering his zipper and easing her hand inside his boxers to ease out that part of him that was most vulnerable. The moment her hands touched his shaft, he was a goner.
She looked into his eyes. “I’ve never done this before, Cobra, but I want to bring you some of the pleasure you’ve given me. Please let me.”
Then, when he didn’t argue, she took him firmly in her hand and began leading his shaft toward her mouth. The mouth that he loved kissing. That same mouth he had known would one day be his downfall.
He sucked in a deep breath the moment he felt her tongue on him. Then she slowly, methodically, and deliberately began licking around as much of him as could fit into her mouth. Lord! Did she have any idea how she was making him feel? As if it had a mind of its own, his shaft began rocking against her mouth. And she, seeming determined to get as much of him as she could, licked him greedily, like she would a lollipop.
He’d managed to keep control over his reaction…until she started sucking on him hard and gripping his engorged shaft, mimicking the same rhythmic pull he’d used on her when he’d had her nipples in his mouth. It was driving him insane. He had always bragged about his self-control and discipline, but Desiree now had him in a position where he was being stripped of both.
She might have been inexperienced, but her innocent eagerness was driving him to unprecedented heights of pleasure. This was too much.Shewas too much. It felt as if every cell in hisbody had been electrified. When he felt himself on the verge of coming, he jerked his body back to pull himself out of her mouth. He could tell from the surprised look in her eyes that she hadn’t expected that.
“What did you do that for?”
Scooping her up in his arms, he gazed down at her. “We will continue this in the bedroom.”
“No, Cobra, we can’t! You’ll lose the bet with your brothers.”
He threw his head back and laughed as he headed for the stairs. “Sweetheart, I lost the bet when you lowered my zipper and pulled out my rod.”
“Oh, no! I didn’t think! I’m sorry.”
“I’m not. I might have lost the bet, but I gained a lot more in return. Now that you unlocked my zipper, I plan for it to stay that way. Just for you. You are the keeper of the key.”
Entering his bedroom, he placed her in the middle of his bed. She was already naked, so he began removing his own clothes. “I’m not sure what you mean,” she said, rising to her knees in the middle of the bed as she watched him undress.
Cobra had stripped down to his boxers. He had to make sure she fully understood. Moving toward the bed and leaning in close, he said, “You have the key…because you are the woman I love, Desiree.”
She blinked. “Love?” she asked, as if she hadn’t heard him right.
“Yes, love. I love you.”
He hadn’t expected her to break out in tears. Nor had he expected her to cry out, “I love you, too, Cobra,” and throw herself into his arms.
He held her and gently stroked her back. “Why are you crying, sweetheart?”
“Because I fell in love with you and didn’t think you could love me back. You’ve loved a lot of women.”
Cobra wiped the tears from her eyes. “Correction. I loved sleeping with women. There’s a difference.”
“Do you still?”
“No, sweetheart. A woman called Allison brought an end to that.” He shook his head, just realizing something. “How ironic is it that it was a woman named Allison who tried to ruin my life, and then another Allison - Allison Desiree Sharpe -who opened my eyes to what I truly needed in that life. One woman and only her. You are the only woman I want to sleep with. The woman who, from this day forward, holds the key to not only my zipper but also my heart.”
