“You are so beautiful,” he breathed.
A different kind of warmth bloomed in her chest and she smiled down at him. “Touch me. Please.”
Lucien nodded eagerly and together they pulled the nightgown off her overheated skin and his warm hands immediately closed over her breasts. Then she showed him how to fondle her nipples just the way she liked as a new wave of pleasure crashed over her. He began thrusting upward and it felt like stars were gathering behind her eyes.
“Harder, Lucien,” she gasped and he readily obliged, both with his thrusts and with his fingers. Alex let out a gasp, then moved her hand to the sensitive bundle of nerves and began to touch herself. She was close now.Soclose.
Lucien let out a reedy curse. “Alex,” he said, his voice sounding both rough and weak at the same time. “Ican’tlast. Not when you’re doing that.”
She failed to hold back a smile. “Then we’ll just have to come together.”
Lucien threw back his head and pumped into her even harder while Alex rode him until her orgasm suddenly crashed over her in a blinding light. Alex’s deep moan seemed to push Lucien over the edge. As he came inside her, the feel of his hot seed filling her set off a second, deeper orgasm and Alex saw stars. White hot pleasure fanned out through every limb and it took several moments for her to fully come back to herself.
Well, that hadcertainlynever happened with Benjamin.
She collapsed on top of Lucien, laughing at the thought, while he bound her in his arms, holding her with a fierce tightness she had never experienced before.
Twenty-Seven
She was dazzling.
The persistent thought would not leave Lucien’s addled mind and mirrored the rhythm of his racing heartbeat. Alex’s cool command in bed had been intoxicating to watch and made the moment she fell apart all the more satisfying. Though Lucien knew he owed a great deal to her explicit instructions, he still couldn’t help feeling absurdly proud that she had found such pleasure in his body.
He gave her one last squeeze, reveling in the sensation of their sweat-slick skin pressing together, then released her.
“Oh God,” she said with a start and scrambled off him. “Have I hurt you?”
“No, not at all.”
She watched him closely and Lucien basked in the concern in her dark eyes. “You’re certain?”
He cupped her flushed cheek. “Entirely.” Then he slowly dragged his fingertips down her jaw and the column of her throat, lingering along the lines of her collarbone. “In fact,” he began, “we could do that again very soon.”
Her eyes went wide. “Already?”
“Oh, yes,” he assured her as he continued to drag his fingertips along the silky skin of her shoulder. Alex shivered under his touchand his cock began to stiffen. “I’m quite certain I was made to do nothing but pleasure you.”
Alex let out a surprised laugh and smiled. “I’m sure you have a fewotheruses.”
“Well, I’m not interested in finding out.”
“Come here,” Alex murmured as she pulled him closer.
This kiss was slower and more deliberate, but no less arousing. Lucien sank his hand into her thick mass of hair and cupped the back of her head, pulling her even closer, until there was no space between them. Her lips parted on a gasp and he thrust his tongue into her mouth, which she accepted with an eagerness that shot straight to his cock.
This woman was a marvel. A wonder. All that cool control she presented to the public hid a veritable fire just below the surface. And Lucien wanted nothing more than to watch her burn. How he loved that this side of her was a secret only he knew.
Chisolm was either a liar, an idiot, or both for ever letting her go. He should have been on his knees begging her to stay, willing to make any concession to keep her. But his fumble was Lucien’s gain.
“Alex,” he panted by her ear. “I want you again.”
“Yes,” she said with a furious nod and began to move onto her side, but Lucien stopped her.
“No. I want you under me this time.”
Her brow furrowed with worry. “You’re sure?”
“It will be fine. And I’ll stop if it isn’t.” Then he cupped her breast and sucked her rosy nipple into his mouth.
