“You said you didn’t have lessons. How do you know that?”
I wasn’t sure how to answer. Would he believe me if I said I didn’t know? Because that was the truth.
“Music class.” I stood quickly.
Good answer. A big lie, but he’d buy it.
He did.
“You want anything? I’m pretty sure there’s some soda and wine in the fridge.”
I inhaled. “Just some water would be great.”
“You got it.”
I followed him to the kitchen, where he poured two glasses of water and handed one to me. Then he clinked my glass. “To us.”
“To us,” I echoed and took a long drink to ease my dry mouth.
“We don’t have to do this,” he said.
I put my glass down on the counter. “I want to.”
“You just seem a little…hesitant.”
“It’s my first time, Brad. I’m a little nervous. Wouldn’t you be?”
He smiled but didn’t respond. I picked up my glass, took another long drink of water, and then set it back down.
“Now what?” I said.
“Funny thing,” he said. “I wasn’t nervous at all my first time or any time after, but I’m nervous as all hell right now.”
I lifted my brow. “Why?”
He smiled and fingered my braid again. “Because it’s you.”
“I don’t want to make you nervous.”
“That didn’t come out right, but I don’t know how else to say it.”
I broke through with courage and reached toward him, touching his stubbly cheek. His skin was warm, so warm. “I don’t want either of us to be nervous.”
“Me either.” He placed his hand over mine, turned his head, and kissed my palm. “You’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever laid eyes on.”
“You’re the most beautiful man I’ve ever laid eyes on.”
“I don’t want you because you’re beautiful, Daphne. I want you because you’re you. I know that doesn’t make any sense.”
I smiled, warming inside. “It makes perfect sense.”
He kissed my palm again. “I’m going to take you to the bedroom. We’ll go as slow as you need to go.”
I nodded.
But I wasn’t going to go slowly.
Chapter Forty
Brad
The master suite in the guesthouse was large and decorated in neutral colors. Not that I was an expert in decor, but Daphne brightened up the boring room.
Hell, Daphne brightened up the most intricately decorated room.
I took her in my arms and pressed my lips to hers. I was hard as a rock but determined to go slowly. For Daphne, I’d do anything.
She surprised me when she opened instantly and pushed her tongue out to meet mine. Yes, we’d done quite a bit of kissing in the week we’d known each other, but I’d planned to go a bit more slowly.
Instead, I decided to follow her lead. I took her soft and sweet tongue and twirled it with my own, deepening the kiss until a soft groan hummed from the back of her throat.
I broke the kiss and inhaled a much-needed breath. Then I slid my lips over her cheeks and jawline and then to her neck. “I’m going to undress you.”
“Please,” she whispered.
I lifted her shirt over her head and tossed it onto the floor. Her breasts were already swelling inside her bra. I made quick work of the undergarment and tossed it as well. Then I stared.
Though I’d seen her breasts before, they were even more beautiful to me now. Her brown-pink nipples were hard and taut and surrounded by tight, wrinkled areolas. I cupped each breast and flicked my thumbs over her nipples. She closed her eyes and jerked slightly, sighing.
Quickly I removed my own shirt and crushed her into a hug. God, her skin, her flesh. I’d wanted to feel her against me, and it was heaven. I tilted her chin upward and kissed her again, even harder and deeper this time, showing her with my tongue what I’d do to her virgin pussy.
My dick strained against my jeans. I wanted to go slow for her, but I wasn’t sure how much longer I could hold out. I needed to get inside her, needed to feel every part of her.
I wanted everything. I ached to feel her swollen lips on my cock, but I couldn’t ask that of her, not when she was so inexperienced.
Then the words I’d said to her the first time we tried this edged into my mind.
I want to rip your clothes off your body, shred them into tiny pieces if that’s what it takes. Then I want to sink my cock so far into you that our bodies never come apart.
I’d been blunt then, and she’d wanted to keep going. I’d stopped because I felt she wasn’t ready.
Her body was responding to me now. When I inhaled, I could already smell the musk of her desire. This was going to happen tonight, and this time, I wouldn’t stop.
I broke the kiss, panting. “Sit on the bed, Daphne.”
She obeyed me without question.
I met her gaze. “Remember when I said I wanted to rip your clothes off and sink my cock into you?”