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He’d never felt anything like this. Anything so primal. He needed her as much as his next breath. Maybe more. Let him die if it meant he got to continue kissing his beautiful Cassie.
She broke the kiss, nodded furiously and cupped his face to kiss him again. The nod was all the permission he needed. She felt the same, he was certain of it.
He guided her clumsily over to the loveseat where the back of her legs met the furniture and she collapsed upon it, bringing him with her. He paused to eye her, her hair spilling loose and spreading across the floral fabric, her lips swollen, her lashes sweeping across her cheeks.
He didn’t deserve this. Did not deserve her.
None of that mattered right now, though. She wanted him—the viscount, the friend, the rake, and he could not deny her.
Braced with one arm upon the rear of the chaise, he curved a hand around her face and swept his lips over hers. Her fingers twined into his hair and tugged lightly.
“I love your kisses.”
The words made his heart jolt. Love. The utterance made his movements shaky when he swept a hand down her body and gripped her slender waist. It was no confession. But the word lingered there, haunting his mind. How easy it would be to love this woman.
How easy it would be to give in and let it happen, to finally accept what he’d known for far too long—what he’d been avoiding.
The words should have acted like a cold bath of reality, but she rose up into him, offering herself.
“I had better give you more then,” he murmured and brought his mouth down upon hers once more.
He dragged his lips from hers, across her cheek, to her earlobe where he nibbled briefly and felt the little shivers of pleasure in her body. Continuing down, he lavished attention on her neck and décolletage while she grabbed fistfuls of his hair and writhed against him.
Luke scrabbled to draw up her skirts and the back of his fingers grazed the soft skin at the top of her stockings. A primitive sound rumbled up from inside him when he finally reached the sweet, wet heat of her.
She sucked in a breath and he lifted his head to watch the pleasure cross her face when he began stroking her. To think she had known nothing of this pleasure until him. It seemed practically criminal that this passionate woman had gone to waste. Itwaspractically criminal that she was experiencing her firsts with him, but he’d be damned if he wanted her having it with anyone else—anyone who did not feel how he did about her.
No one loved her like he did, he realized that now.
By God, he might be the biggest fool in Christendom, but he was too far gone now.
Cassie moved a hand between them and ran a bold hand over his arousal. He gritted his teeth and concentrated on his ministrations and drawing all the pleasure he could from her. Her strokes paused and her eyes scrunched closed while he moved his fingers faster, drawing little cries from her that would likely haunt his sleep.
She tensed beneath him then her whole body released abruptly. Her lids finally fluttered open and a sinfully smug smile crossed her lips.
“More,” she begged.
More. Good God, the woman was going to drain his very soul.
“I can deny you nothing, Cass.” He eased his fingers inside her heat, and she drew him down to kiss her once more. He pushed his fingers in and out with deliberate thrusts and she lifted her hips while his tongue tangled with hers.
She put hands to his shoulders and shoved him slightly back before he could bring her to completion. Biting into her bottom lip, she eyed him. Even in the dim lamplight he saw the flush on her cheeks and the gleam in her eyes.
“I’ve decided I want it,” she declared softly.
Luke swore his heart shuddered to a stop. The request did not shock him—he knew where they were headed—but to hear her utter the words out loud made him want to punch a fist in the air at the same time as run for the hills.
Conflict roared through him, stiffening his limbs. If he did this, there would be no going back. He’d be proving he had not changed since his youth. He’d be proving himself that rake everyone thought he was once and for all.
“Please, Luke.”
“I can deny you nothing.”
Breaths rasped in his throat as he shoved her skirts higher. He curved hands around her rear, sinking his fingers into the soft flesh that greeted him there. She rose up into him, offering herself.
Jaw tense, he settled between the cradle of her thighs and took in the picture that greeted him—Cassie willing and wanting. A siren to be certain. She had lured him to his doom, and he went to crash upon the rocks of their desire with complete eagerness.
A flare of heat pulsed through him when his cock touched her wet heat. He closed his eyes briefly to the sight of her, from the eager expression on her face to the utter innocence that he was about to ruin. This was his last chance.
