Chapter 47
Jack
A good distance away from the snake, I came to a stop, put Thalia down, crouched in front of her and started running my hands up and down her legs.
“Did it get you?”
She just carried on standing, in shock, while I continued to run my hands all over her.
“Thalia, damn it. Answer me. Did it get you anywhere?”
“No,” she answered in a thick voice, I hadn’t realized she was still crying until she spoke.
Standing up, I cupped her face in my unsteady hands then leaned forward kissing her tears away from her face. “I love you, Thalia.” I pulled her against my chest and just held her close to my heart. “For the first time in my life I was terrified I’d miss with the knife. I never miss, but I was afraid I would when it mattered.”
She shook her head and burrowed further into my arms.
“Let me carry you inside.”
Without giving her a choice, I picked her up in my arms and carried her into the house, straight upstairs to my room. I laid her down on my bed and disappeared into her room.
I quickly locked her bedroom door and then walked back into my room engaging the lock in there as well.
“I want to make love to you. I need to know you’re mine.” I walked over to her and gently caressed her face, placing a soft kiss to her lips.
“I’m yours Phoenix…but what about the call on your cell?”
Kissing her briefly on her lips, I told her, “It wasn’t important. I’ll tell you about it later, but for now my attention is going to be totally on you.”
Stepping slightly away from her, I took hold of the bottom of her top and slowly moved it upwards, revealing her stomach and her tattoo of strawberries. She raised her arms as I pulled the top completely off. “You’re beautiful.”
She smiled up at me and it took all my strength not to jump on top of her.
Her bra was made of pale yellow lace, which molded to her breasts. With my finger, I traced the top of one cup, then up the other side. Her skin was so soft. She broke out in goose bumps.
Cupping her breasts in my hands, I rubbed my thumbs over her aroused nipples through her bra. I leaned down and suckled one into my mouth. She shivered, grabbed hold of my head and held me to her, pulling at my hair. There was nothing as sexy as having the woman you loved aroused in your arms.
Growling, I moved my head to the other side and lavished the same attention as I’d just done to its twin.
Thalia gripped my shoulders and tried to pull my t-shirt off, which reminded me I needed to get us skin against skin. I looked at her lying practically under me with half lidded eyes, panting, because of what I was doing to her.
My cock throbbed like hell in my jeans as I started to unbutton her shorts, slipping them down her legs. She had matching pale yellow panties on which looked sexy as hell on her. “I love your panties.” I traced the seam around the top of her legs with my finger. Her thighs quivered.
“Phoenix, you’re taking too long.”
I threw my head back and laughed. “Oh, we’re going slow. I want to lick each and every tattoo I can find on your delectable body, and no dirty talk. This isn’t going to be about hard and fast.”
She groaned as I grinned at her.
“You have too many clothes on,” she stated.
Ripping all my clothes off, I stood at the side of the bed naked as the day I was born with my dick hard as granite jutting towards her.
“Wow.” Sitting up on the bed, she moved to the side putting her feet to the floor. “Come closer.”
Thalia was going to kill me. I knew what she wanted. She wanted a closer look at the piercing at the tip of my cock.
Breathing heavily, I stood in front of her and tried not to look at her soft hands gently caressing up and down my leaking shaft.