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Her eyes flew open and she felt her face burn when she discovered that Jace had entered the shower and was watching her pleasure herself. She hastily snatched her hand away, and his throaty laugh was rough with sexual hunger.
‘Don’t stop on my account. It’s pretty evident how much you turn me on,’ he muttered as her eyes widened at the sight of his jutting erection. ‘You drive me crazy.’ He pulled her up close to his naked body. Rivulets of water from the shower spray ran down him, plastering the whorls of black chest hairs against his torso. ‘Just when I think I’ve figured you out, you surprise me again.’
She hadn’t imagined that he had deliberately created an emotional distance between them, and perhaps it was not surprising after the rapture of their lovemaking, Eleanor thought. Jace was worried that she might overstep the boundaries he had put in place.
‘You’re gorgeous, but you are not irresistible,’ she told him lightly. ‘I won’t lose my head or my heart over you.’
His eyes narrowed and she sensed he was frustrated because he could not read her thoughts. ‘But you did lose your virginity to me,’ he reminded her softly. ‘I’m honoured, Eleanor.’
Why was she playing this game when what she really wanted was to be in his arms and in his bed? she asked herself as Jace lowered his head and covered her mouth with his in an achingly tender kiss that became increasingly erotic. He trailed kisses down her neck and over her breasts, paying homage to each nipple until she squirmed and rubbed her hips sinuously against his burgeoning arousal.
‘Let me finish what you started,’ he murmured, pushing her back against the shower wall and dropping to his knees in front of her. She made a choked sound, half protest, half plea when he clasped her hips with his big hands and pressed his face between her thighs.
He used his tongue with an artist’s skill and licked his way inside her while she writhed against his mouth, her shock at his intimate caresses forgotten as pleasure swiftly built to a crescendo. It was too much to bear and her orgasm was sharp and intense, making her cry out as aftershocks ripped through her trembling body.
When Jace stood and lifted her into his arms, Eleanor felt boneless and her head lolled on his shoulder as he strode down the corridor to his bedroom. The closeness she felt with him, the connection she had always sensed between them was just sex, she told herself firmly. She was not going to fall in love with Jace again because it would end in heartache. He had reminded her that their marriage had a time limit and, when all was said and done, he’d married her to claim his family’s share of the Pangalos hotel.
Eleanor was so incredibly responsive, was Jace’s first thought in the hazy moments before he was fully awake. The previous night he had carried her out of the shower and, in his urgency to make love to her, they hadn’t had time to grab towels and dry themselves. He had taken her back to his bed and tumbled them both down on the black satin sheets.
She had been as eager as him for sex. If he had not felt the fragile barrier of her womanhood the first time that he’d made love to her, he would find it hard to believe she had been a virgin. The shy young woman he had wooed in Oxford, a lifetime ago it seemed now, had turned into a siren and he could not resist her lure.
But he’d long suspected that Eleanor had suppressed her sensuality. Last night had been a revelation. She had been uninhibited when he’d lifted her on top of him and she’d straddled him, supporting her weight with her hands on his chest as she’d lowered herself onto his swollen length. He had played with her breasts while she rode him, shaking her dark blonde hair over her shoulders and leaning forwards so that he could take one pebble-hard nipple and then the other into his mouth.
He had come hard and fast and his groan of satiation had mingled with her cries of pleasure as they’d climaxed simultaneously. Jace had found himself oddly reluctant to withdraw from her. When he had finally rolled her off him she was already asleep, and he had succumbed not long after her.
Now he stretched and felt the delicious heaviness of muscles that had not been used for too long. He had a healthy enjoyment of sex but, on the few occasions that he’d invited a woman to dinner in the past year, his libido had been worryingly non-existent and he’d made an excuse and dropped his date home at the end of the evening.
Jace frowned when he discovered that he was alone, and wondered if Eleanor had returned to her room during the night.Theos, she could be infuriatingly independent. Obviously, he was relieved that she understood the rules of their marriage. He had been concerned that she might hope for more from their relationship than he was prepared to give.
He was sure his fascination with her would fade in a few months. When they divorced, Eleanor would be able to search for a man who would love her as she deserved to be loved. Of course, there was no danger that she would fall in love withhim,after he had emotionally blackmailed her into marriage.
Guilt twisted in his gut as he thought of his original intention to seize complete control of the Pangalos from her. Just before the wedding, he had changed his mind and asked his lawyer to draw up a new prenuptial agreement, which Eleanor had signed. There was no way she would find out that he had planned to betray her a second time, he assured himself.
Unsettled by the heaviness that dropped like a lead weight into the pit of his stomach, he rolled onto his side just as she pushed the voile curtain aside and stepped into the room from the balcony. Jace’s breath snagged in his throat and he had no explanation for the sensation of his heart being squeezed in a vice as he studied her lovely face. Her wide hazel eyes sparkled with excitement.
‘Oh, good, you’re awake. You have to come and see the most spectacular sight.’
‘The sight I’m looking at right now is spectacular,omorfiá mou.’ Hell, he sounded corny, Jace thought ruefully, but his beautiful wife blew him away.
Eleanor blushed. ‘You are just trying to persuade me back into bed.’
‘Guilty as charged. If I throw back the sheet, you’ll understand why I want you to take off my shirt and get your naked little derrière over here pronto.’
She gave a husky laugh. ‘I will. But first come outside; there’s something I want to show you.’
With a deep sigh, he grabbed his robe and padded after her. The lodge overlooked a watering hole where a herd of elephants were gathered. Jace counted at least twelve adults and several babies. In the early morning sunshine, the close-up sight of the magnificent creatures was awe-inspiring.
‘Aren’t they wonderful?’ Eleanor whispered. ‘Our honeymoon in Africa is the most incredible experience.’
He loved her enthusiasm and her joy for life. Her smile did strange things to his heart rate. When their eyes met, he was aware of a connection that he did not understand and refused to acknowledge as anything more than white-hot sex.
‘I can promise you another incredible experience,’ he murmured as he tugged her by her hand back inside. There he removed his shirt from her delectable body and shrugged off his robe. He kissed her lips, her breasts, pushed her down on the bed and spread her legs so that he could put his mouth on her and taste her feminine sweetness. Her husky moans made him harder, hungrier, and he hooked her legs around his waist and entered her with a powerful thrust, over and over again, until she tensed beneath him and his control shattered and they tumbled together into the abyss.
CHAPTER EIGHT
‘HOWDOESITfeel to be back at the Pangalos?’ Jace asked his mother. ‘It has taken a long time, but finally our rightful share of the hotel has been returned to us.’
‘It has changed a lot since Dimitri co-owned it with Kostas. The refurbished hotel is almost unrecognisable, and the clientele are very glamorous.’ Iliana sighed. ‘Kostas was the visionary in the business. Your father was happy to keep it as a small hotel for families, but the truth is that it did not make much profit. Now the Pangalos Beach Resort is regarded as the best five-star resort in northern Greece.’
