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His skin was smooth, and he was so warm that she revelled in every path she took across his body, so different from her own and yet equally responsive. Every tug of his lips on her nipple sent an arrow of electric heat straight down into her pelvis. His hands roamed deftly over her curves and then he pulled her back into his arms to ravish her mouth again with a wild intensity that thrilled her. He was exploring now, tracing her inner thighs, locating the most tender spot of all and circling there gently before dipping a finger between her slick folds.
‘Oh...’ she moaned, the hollow ache between her thighs now joined by an inner clenching sensation as excitement and anticipation built.
‘Are you on contraception?’ he asked her without warning.
‘No...’ Claire stilled to stare up at him. All of a sudden, he sounded very serious and yet anxious too.
Raif groaned and began to pull back from her. ‘I don’t have a condom. We should’ve talked about this sooner.’
Claire’s brow had furrowed. ‘You don’t carry anything?’ she said in surprise.
‘I don’t have any reason to...well, I didn’t until now.’
Claire sat up, her cheeks burning. ‘Well, I have a condom.’
‘That’s a relief.’ Raif watched as she scrambled out of bed and dug into the battered wardrobe to extract a handbag from which she took a small foil packet. ‘My mother insisted I carried one round...just in case,’ she explained uncomfortably. ‘She thought I was weird because I’m still a virgin and she didn’t want me to—’
Raif froze in shock. ‘You’re a virgin?’
Claire wrinkled her nose in embarrassment. ‘You think it’s weird too, don’t you? But in the household I grew up in, where premarital sex was a hanging offence, I didn’t dare experiment. I couldn’t face being accused of being promiscuous like my mother. I was too scared of my father...and then as I got older, it got harder to cross that bridge. Gosh, I’m gabbling!’
‘You don’t need to be embarrassed.’ Raif caught the tiny packet she tossed at him and sat up to reach for her hand and pull her back to him. ‘I’m not very experienced either...for reasons I prefer not to go into right now.’
It was Claire’s turn to still, gazing up into those stunning golden caramel eyes of his, accentuated by spiky black lashes. He was gorgeous. How could he possibly be inexperienced?
‘So, you’ll have to make allowances for me,’ Raif told her gruffly.
Claire smiled. ‘As long as you do the same for me,’ she whispered shyly.
He curved her back into his arms, tumbling her back into the pillows with renewed confidence. ‘I don’t need to make allowances. All I need to do is fully appreciate you,’ he declared with a roughened sound low in his throat as he ran his big hands over her.
He kissed her and her heart started beating insanely fast. Her hands crept up the back of his neck to tangle in his luxuriant silky hair and smooth over his skull. A curl of heat snaked through her, swiftly followed by another, the same hunger tugging at her again. He traced the hot liquid centre of her again and it was almost unbearable, her body ramping up tension and need faster than she could control it. She squirmed, a gasp parting her lips, wanting more, not even quite knowing what more was but knowing that the way she felt she wanted it yesterday.
‘I know,’ he groaned, running his mouth down the valley between her breasts. ‘But you’re not ready yet.’
‘I feel ready,’ Claire said unevenly.
‘I don’t want to hurt you,’ Raif muttered thickly, sliding down her restless body, pressing his mouth gently to her writhing length, pausing and lingering at the most sensitive place of all.
Shocked by that sensual assault though she was, she was instantly plunged into a world of intense sensation. Halfway through demanding that he stop, she realised that if he stopped she would probably kill him because exquisite sensation had destroyed all resistance. Now she was twisting and jerking and moaning, the hollow ache between her thighs merely strengthening in intensity. And then the tension pushing up through her tightened every muscle in her body and the surge of her climax blew her away. She literally saw stars, cried out as the sweet convulsions of pleasure engulfed her and the aftermath of peace flooded her.
‘Now you’re ready,’ Raif told her raggedly.
And she couldn’t have spoken at that moment to save her life. He tipped her back and slid into her, slow and sure; her body seemed to accept the fullness of him. She stayed very still, wildly conscious of his every movement, tilting back her knees, feeling the push of his lean strong hips as he gathered power and sank deeper into her resisting flesh. And resist her body did.
He paused, melting dark eyes holding hers levelly. ‘I’m worried about hurting you.’
‘I always expected it to hurt the first time,’ Claire confided fatalistically.
Raif was incredibly tense.
‘Don’t stop,’ she urged.
And that galvanised him into action. He drew back and surged into her once more and a sharp, tearing pain made her cry out.
‘I guess this isn’t quite a fantasy experience for you,’ Claire quipped, gathering her breath again, hoping he hadn’t noticed the inadvertent tears that had filled her eyes. Raising her hips to his and angling back, she locked her legs round him in encouragement.
With a ragged groan, he succumbed, pushing deeper. ‘You feel so good,’ he bit out rawly. ‘Like hot liquid silk enclosing me.’
