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I backed us up a few steps, until the terrace wall met her back and the soft cushion of her body moulded my front.
‘And this mouth. Christos, you have the most divine mouth,’ I confessed, rediscovering that sensitive spot in her neck where her pulse throbbed before returning to reclaim her mouth. ‘I haven’t been able to stop thinking about kissing you since that unsatisfactory sampling at the altar.’
My free hand slid down her body, stopping briefly to mould one plump, mouth-watering breast, before travelling lower, to cup her hot feminine centre.
‘Haven’t stopped thinking about this special place either. Imagining you wrapped tight around me again, taking me inside you.’
She whimpered against my lips. ‘I...I shouldn’t be doing this,’ she murmured, almost to herself.
And I shouldn’t crave you this much. And yet here I am...
Through the damp material of the bikini bottom I caressed her, my thumb circling that engorged bead I craved to have between my lips. When the need grew beyond containment I slipped my fingers beneath the stretchy fabric. Touched her where I needed to touch her.
Her knees sagged and she whimpered again. Muttered words against my lips I was too incoherent to absorb.
Which was why it took a moment to realise that the hand curled around my wrist, and the other flat against my chest, were both attempting to push me away.
‘Neo...we can’t...’
The protest was feeble, the look on her face as I drew back a touch torn between hunger and rebellion.
I fought the voracious need gripping me and started to withdraw my hand.
Her thighs clamped around it, holding me prisoner.
‘You say we can’t while looking at me with yearning in your eyes. Your body clings to mine while you deny me what I want. What we both want. You think I don’t feel how wet you are for me, Sadie?’
Heat rushed into her face. Her thighs parted with an abrupt jerk and she swiftly dropped her hands. ‘This... It’s just chemistry.’
‘There’s no such thing as “just chemistry.” Especially not when it’s this powerful. When it creates this response.’
My gaze dropped tellingly to the tight furling of her nipples, clearly visible against the damp bikini top.
‘It means nothing,’ she protested. ‘Besides, sex is what got us here in the first place!’
The cold compress of her words washed away a layer of blazing arousal. ‘And it’s a place you do
n’t wish to be? Is that it?’
‘Don’t put words in my mouth. I may not have been prepared for this baby but I’ve vowed to give it the best life possible. That doesn’t mean I want to mess up my life with sex. So if you’re looking for a way to scratch your itch you’ll...’ She stopped, her throat moving as she swallowed her words.
‘I’ll what, Sadie?’
She shook her head, sending wet tendrils flying. I caught a strand, tucking it behind one ear. Her pulse jumped beneath my touch.
‘You can’t say the words, can you?’ I taunted, deriving a little devilish satisfaction from it. ‘Did you fool yourself into thinking giving me liberties I didn’t want would be easy?’
She turned her face to the side, avoiding my gaze. ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about.’
My grating laughter earned me a ferocious glare. I caressed her cheek, unable to resist touching her even now. ‘Do you not? Really? Then let me posit a theory. Perhaps this marriage isn’t as clinical as you wish it to be? Perhaps this itch you speak of isn’t a one-sided thing?’
Watching her gather her frayed composure was a thing of unwanted awe.
‘I’m a grown woman, Neo. With independent thoughts and needs I can choose to indulge or deny. While the last few minutes have been pleasant, it’s not worth sullying my life for. So, no, the itch will remain a one-sided thing and no amount of temptation will sway me. Goodnight.’
For the second time I watched her walk away from me, leaving even more chaos behind. Acknowledging that I wanted her much more than I’d wanted any other woman in my life, that I might never have her, disarmed me enough to leave me propped up against the wall long after she and her voluptuous curves and her stubborn defiance had disappeared behind her suite doors.
But when the realisation hit that I, Neo Xenakis, was being denied a woman’s attention for the first time in my life, I surged away from that wall, determined to rid myself of this...infernal need.
