With a groan, she tugged at his cravat, untying the knot so it could fall to the floor. Pushing his shirt off his massive shoulders, he shook himself the rest of the way out of it. Her hands splayed across his pectoral muscles, huge and bulging under her palms. She feathered her fingertips across his skin. She smiled when he shivered, a groan escaping his full lips as he nuzzled her neck, nipping at her skin.
His fingers grabbed the ends of her sash bow and pulled, letting the material pool around her feet. He straightened, looking down at her, trailing his index finger down the column of her throat when she arched her neck back. He dipped the finger into her bodice, finding her nipple and teasing it into a taut peak.
Her breath hitched, and she bit her lip.
Pushing the sleeves off her shoulders, Gunn kissed her skin as he bared it. It pimpled, at first from the coolness in the air, but then from his lips. The feeling was so foreign. Such admiration had never been doled upon her.
She slipped her dress off, letting it fall to land upon her satin sash, and she stood there, in front of Gunn, her shift the only covering she had left. In the past, she’d felt embarrassed in such a situation. But with Gunn? She felt empowered.
Strong.
Sexual.
He toed off his boots and she watched him as he finished undressing. He stood naked in front of her, a feral look in his eyes, as he licked his lips.
Her eyes dropped to his chest, tracked down, following the rippled muscles of his abdomen. She reached out, trailed her fingers along his skin. Smiled when it pimpled under her fingertips. Lower, lower, to the vee of his hips. Down to his manhood. Like the rest of him, it was massive, standing tall. Proud, the tip angry and purple. She touched the tip, and it jerked violently.
Gunn grasped her hand. “I canna have ye doing that, Joss. This night will be o’er much too soon if I do.” He smiled wickedly, his eyes flashing.
He released her hand and clutched her shift. His eyes focused on hers, he lifted the gossamer material slowly. It tickled as it drifted over her legs, her hips, her breasts. She lifted her arms, and he pulled it over her head, casting it away.
His eyes blew wide with approval as he looked at her.
“I’ve said it before, but I will say it for the rest of my life. I’ve ne’er seen aught more beautiful.” His voice was low, gravelly with barely contained passion.
She smiled shyly. Though she didn’t know why she suddenly felt shy after being so forward. Deciding to throw her shyness through the window, she wrapped her arms around Gunn’s neck, pulling him down to her.
He reached an arm out, drawing down the duvet, and gently eased her back onto the mattress, covering her body with his as he settled between her legs.
“Are ye certain this is what ye want? Ye only have to say nay, and I’ll stop. Leave. Find someplace else to sleep tonight.”
She shook her head. “I won’t allow you to do such a thing. If this wasn’t something I wanted, I would not have started it.”
He growled, dropping his lips to her neck, nipping at the sensitive skin, causing her to yelp with a giggle.
“I dinna think I’ve e’er wanted something so bad in my life as I want ye right now.”
“I must confess, I feel the same,” she whispered, running her fingers through his short hair, scraping her nails across his scalp, making him shudder.
“E’ery touch from ye is heaven, but hot as fire.” He kissed his way down the column of her neck, down to her collarbone, then lower until he finally sucked a nipple into his mouth.
She let out her breath on a hiss. His lips were searing. He teased and nipped. Suckled and pinched. Worked her into a frenzy until her nipple was hard as glass. His teeth grazed the taut skin, gently biting, just enough to cause a sting, then he licked away the pain.
As he teased her breasts, he trailed his fingers down her stomach, burying them into her nestle of curls, and found her wet core. His fingers explored. Dipping into her, then retreating, circling the bundle of nerves, that had her thrashing her head from side to side. Her heels dug into the mattress, and just when she thought she couldn’t take any more, he shifted his hips and sank himself into her fully. In one long thrust.
She gasped at the fullness, feeling herself stretch around him, to accommodate his entry.
It felt divine.
