Her moans fusing into one litany of need, she shut her eyes when Zufar lowered himself over her. His breath washed over her face as he lengthened his thrusts, drawing even more exquisite pleasure from her body.
‘Wrap your legs around me,’ he instructed.
An instant after she obeyed, she gasped as his next thrust drew a sharper, more intense sensation from her. With a grunt of carnal satisfaction, he fused his mouth to hers in a bold mimic of what was happening below.
Dear heaven, she’d had no idea it could be this incredible. The thought barely registered before another charge lanced through her, sending her spinning even higher.
‘Oh... Zufar...’
As if his name on her lips had triggered madness inside him, his thrust grew wilder, pushing her relentlessly towards a pinnacle that far surpassed the one she’d crested only minutes ago.
Her world began to tilt again.
‘Niesha, open your eyes,’ he demanded.
She pried her eyes open to meet with burnished gold ones. Something about that sizzling connection was enough to send her over the edge.
With a strangled scream, she tumbled from the highest peak of sensation, falling into a never-ending sea of bliss that drew tears to her eyes.
* * *
Zufar al Khalia couldn’t believe the woman beneath him was the same person he’d met only this morning; the woman he’d dismissed so carelessly. He’d gone into this believing he had his eyes wide open to every angle. Not for one single moment had he believed enjoyment would come into the undertaking. But here he was, unable to deny the surfeit of pleasure rippling through his body. He’d bedded many women in his life, but none came close to the responsiveness of his new wife.
His virgin Queen.
He wondered if it was her complete innocence that added to the thrill of the conquest. More than likely, he concluded. He’d never bedded a virgin, never felt inclined to be the first to stake a claim on a woman. To be honest, the thought of tutoring one to please him had been a deterrent rather than a draw.
But as he thrust into his new wife, Zufar thought of all the ways he could mould her to his liking. How he could teach her to take pleasure in her own body, even as he planted his seed in her womb. They were archaic, primitive thoughts that should have shamed him, but only intensified his pleasure as he let the sounds of her pleasure fill him up. She was his in every way. He stared down at her as her sweet lips parted on another pleasurable gasp, her beautiful eyes glazing over as he crested his own pinnacle.
With a raw shout, he let the sweet taste of nirvana sweep through his body.
It was only as he came down from the unparalleled high that the full effect of his thoughts began to settle in.
Shock ripped through him when he recognised how quickly he’d let temptation sway him from his purpose.
How quickly, like his father, he’d been prepared to set aside his priorities to succumb to desire.
How, for a handful of heartbeats, he’d completely lost sight of just how affairs of the flesh had ripped his family apart.
CHAPTER SIX
SO THIS WAS what true desire felt like. This endless cyclone of sensation. This exceptional feeling of touching heaven.
This—
Niesha’s thoughts ceased abruptly as Zufar wrenched free from the arms she hadn’t even realised were locked around his shoulders, anchoring her to the present.
The thought that she’d been clinging to him like a limpet doused her with a wave of chagrin. Luckily, he wasn’t looking at her. In fact, his whole body was turned away from her, and he was getting out of bed.
Heart still racing a little wildly, she watched him walk, gloriously naked and arrogantly assured in his own skin, away from the bed. But there was tension in his broad shoulders and back that chilled her with each step he took away from her. Her heart rate slowed, a little of that magic leaching from her, then fading completely as he firmly shut the bathroom door behind him.
Okay, what had happened?
> She hadn’t said anything. Had she done something to provoke that reaction? Minutes ago, he’d seemed...into it. Even now, the animalistic roar of his release echoed in her ears, making her blush anew at the memory. Niesha would have felt ashamed at the throb of feminine power she’d experienced in that moment, if she weren’t overcome by his masculine beauty.
But that was ten minutes and a lifetime ago. The aftermath was turning out to be a different story.
Her thoughts ceased abruptly when the door opened and he strode back to the bed. She was so busy searching his expression, she didn’t read his intent until he scooped her up.