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It wiggled a bit under my weight, but held tight.
“I think it would do,” I told Aurelio as he stepped closer, something deep and gooey in his eyes that I didn’t quite understand.
But it only intensified that ache in my core, that warmth rushing through my veins.
“Seems like it,” he said.
Then, suddenly, his hands were lifting, grabbing me at each of my sides, over my ribs, fingers so close to my breasts that suddenly felt heavy and desperate for touch.
We were both well aware that I didn’t need help down. I was only dangling a few inches off the ground.
But neither of us seemed to care about that fact as his fingers held me tight, as my fingers loosened, as I let him take my weight.
He didn’t pull me right down, though, didn’t just drop me onto my feet.
He pulled me closer toward him, so that my body slid against his as he lowered me down.
I swear he did it in slow motion. But maybe it was just the wine and the anticipation sizzling across my nerve endings that made it feel that way. My breasts—free of a bra because I felt too weird asking him for them when I’d given him my list—pressed against his wide, strong chest, my arms falling to my sides.
There was no stopping the little shiver that moved through me as my feet touched the ground, but I still found myself pressed tightly against him.
“Cold?” he asked, his hands moving from my ribs to my arms, chafing the skin.
“No,” I admitted, my gaze holding his, finding his lids as heavy as mine felt.
“No?” he asked, head tilting to the side a bit as his gaze triangled from my eyes, lips, then back.
Did I lean in first?
Or was it his hand sliding over my shoulder to rest at the side of my neck that happened first?
I couldn’t say for sure.
All I knew was that time slowed, and my heartbeat felt hard and slow, even as a that warm feeling in my veins caught fire.
Aurelio exhaled hard, the last of his restraint leaving his body, and then his lips were on mine.
Just a gentle pressure at first, waiting to see if I was going to pull away.
But as that fire caught and spread, there was no way I could deny myself the warmth.
My hands slid up his arms, over his shoulders, then wrapped around his neck, pressing my body more securely against his.
The scent of him, woodsy with a slight hint of citrus, flooded my system, mingling with the taste of wine and sugar on his lips, the combination almost overwhelming me as his lips pressed harder, as mine met his, just as needy.
Aurelio’s hand slid up to the back of my neck, fingers curling in, a possessive touch that somehow didn’t feel dangerous as it would have in the past, instead filling me with the sensation of safety.
A low moan escaped me as his fingers shifted into my hair, teasing across my scalp as his tongue teased between my lips, and claimed mine.
Desire pinged off every nerve ending, making my pulse beat harder, making my skin warm and my clothes feel scratchy and uncomfortable.
My breasts felt heavy, my nipples twisting into tight buds as the aching sensation in my core grew to something close to pain.
Aurelio’s other hand traced down my spine, then wrapped around my lower back, crushing me against him.
I should have felt trapped.
Instead, I felt, I don’t know, cherished.
