A sudden thought tore a gasp from her throat. “He nestled down into the sweet valley and drank God’s dew. You weren’t referring to the countryside when you wrote that line. After your expert attentions this evening, the words take on an entirely new meaning.”
Noah stood. He ran his tongue over the seam of his lips and sighed. “Tasting you was beyond heavenly.”
Her sex pulsed in response. This man knew how to say all the right things. “Then remove your clothes and let’s skip to the end of the poem.”
With a look that made her core muscles clench, he tugged off his boots. “I have no intention of rushing. I intend to thrust slow and deep into your welcoming body.”
Eva’s breath caught in her throat.
He held her in his emerald gaze as he unbuttoned his breeches. “I should warn you, I’m so hard it might come as a shock.”
It came as a huge shock.
A highly aroused shock.
Noah Ashwood stood naked, bathed in a candlelit glow. Shadows danced over every chiselled contour. His muscular thighs looked as strong and as powerful as a gladiatorial champion. The lean planes of his abdomen drew the eye to the tantalising trail of hair leading down to his jutting manhood—smooth and as hard as marble.
“You’re not afraid?” he said with a teasing glint in his eyes as he stroked the length of his impressive erection.
“Afraid and excited.”
“We don’t have to do this now.” He glanced at the door. “We don’t have to do this at all.”
A fierce panic surged to her chest at the thought of him leaving. Her heart ached to join with him. Complicated emotions were at play. Too complicated to understand while her body thrummed with need. She doubted she would feel this way about any man again, and she was hardly a girl in her first bloom.
“You cannot tease me with mouth-watering confectionary and then close the box.”
He laughed. “You have the look of a woman who wants to devour every last one.”
“With such delights on offer, a lady is bound to be greedy.”
He climbed onto the bed, crawling over her with panther-like grace, stopping to kiss her breasts, to take her nipples into his warm mouth, to suck, to tease, to drive her insane.
“Open your legs, love.”
She opened for him and took him between her thighs.
“You’re certain you want this, Eva?” He came down on top of her, his manhood pressing against her intimately.
“I’ve never wanted anything more.” Every inch of her body burned.
He rocked his hips, breaching her entrance. “Do you think you can handle my intrusion, Miss Dunn?” he said, reminding her of the words spoken at their first meeting.
“I welcome your intrusion with bated breath
, sir.” She ached for it, yearned for it.
The mischievous twinkle in his eyes became something more profound as he eased himself into her body. “Then know that I shall treasure this gift always.”
His endearing words caused an intense flurry of emotion. The sensation of being stretched, of their bodies joining, fed a need so deep it almost brought her to tears.
“You can touch me, Eva.”
“Yes,” she whispered, releasing the coverlet. She knew what would happen the moment she set her hands to his bare skin.
He was so hot, so hard. Her fingers throbbed as she stroked his back, grabbed hold of his hips.
“I’ll try not to hurt you.”