She looked at the sensual curve of his mouth. ‘No, I’m not angry.’
‘So what are you feeling?’ he asked after a two-beat pause.
‘I’m feeling like I’m sinking in over my head,’ she confessed as his breath caressed her face. ‘I want to step forward but I’m scared I’m going to make another big mistake.’
‘Don’t be scared, sweetheart,’ he said, cupping her face with his hand. ‘Let’s just take things slowly.’
‘Slowly sounds good,’ Georgie said as he kissed her neck again, each whisper-soft press of his lips making her shiver all over again.
‘Is this slow enough for you?’ he asked, as he began a leisurely exploration of her bottom lip with the tip of his tongue.
Her belly exploded with desire at the exquisite touch, her legs sagging beneath her. ‘Maybe we could speed it up a tiny bit,’ she said as her tongue brushed against his.
‘How much?’ he asked, pulling on her top lip this time with his mouth, in a tug and release action that sent a hot river of sensation rushing down her spine.
She pressed herself closer, the heated trajectory of his erection sending her into a tailspin. She opened her mouth as his came down, whimpering softly as his tongue swept hers up into a toe-curling duel that left her totally breathless.
His hands cupped her bottom and pulled her into his hardness, the pulsing urgency of his body making her wonder how she had resisted him this long. Was it possible to fall in love so rapidly? she wondered. She had made the mistake before of allowing physical attraction to take precedence, but somehow with Ben she knew her feelings for him were not just physical. He was everything she most admired in a man. He might come from a completely different background from hers but he had qualities that made every other man she’d dated seem shallow and self-serving in comparison.
‘Am I going too fast?’ Ben asked as he cupped her breast with the warmth of his palm.
‘No,’ she said, looking dreamily into his smouldering gaze. ‘Not fast enough.’
He rubbed his thumb over the tight point of her nipple, back and forth in a caressing movement that made her ache to feel his hand on her without the barrier of clothes. ‘If I speed up, I might not be able to stop,’ he warned. ‘You have this amazing effect on me, Dr Willoughby. I can’t seem to control myself around you.’
She smiled as she nestled closer to him. ‘You have the same effect on me. I feel like ripping that towel off your body and kissing you all over.’
‘Don’t let me stop you,’ he said, holding his hands up in surrender. ‘Go ahead, make my day.’
She trailed her fingers down his chest, lingering over each dark brown pebbly nipple, pressing her mouth to each one, rolling her tongue over them in turn, her stomach kicking in excitement when she heard his groan of pleasure rumble from deep within his chest.
‘Am I going too fast for you, Mr Blackwood?’ she asked playfully, tiptoeing her fingertips to the trail of dark hair that went from his navel to beneath the precariously hung towel.
‘Not fast enough,’ he growled, and, picking her up in his arms, he carried her to his bedroom, knocking over a lamp in his haste.
Georgie helped him remove her clothes with fumbling fingers that shook in anticipation. She gasped when his hands found her naked skin, the feel of his palms on her breasts as he explored them making her breath catch in her throat. His touch was gentle but determined, tender and yet urgent.
‘God, I can’t believe I’m doing this,’ he groaned as he brought his mouth to her breast, his hot breath dancing over the aching point of her nipple. ‘You should be pushing me away.’
She arched her body as his mouth closed over her nipple. ‘Do you want me to push you away?’
‘No,’ he groaned, as he moved to her other breast. ‘You’ve got the most beautiful body. I’ve been lying awake at night, thinking of how you looked in that barely there bikini of yours. Just as well my sister was there otherwise I would have been doing this then.’
She gasped as his hands moved to the final lacy barrier that shielded her femininity from his burning gaze. He hooked one finger in the elastic of her knickers and pulled them down, his hand cupping her gently as she pulsed with longing against him.
She gasped again when he slowly inserted one of his long fingers into her silky warmth, the tantalising movement mimicking what he longed to do with his aroused length. She reached down between them to pull away the towel that was still covering him, her stomach tilting in delight when she felt his naked body pressing against her skin. Her hands skated over him, touching him, exploring his hard contours, her fingertip encountering the bead of moisture that signalled how very aroused he was.
He pulled her hand away and covered her mouth with his, the weight of his body on hers making her feel utterly feminine and totally desirable as his hard thighs wrapped around hers. She could feel his body probing for entry but he kept control, his kiss deepening until she was writhing beneath him.
He tore his mouth off hers long enough to reach across her to the bedside drawer in search of a condom. He rustled around the drawer for ages before he finally found one, holding it up with a victorious grin. ‘For a moment there I thought we were going to have to suspend proceedings while I dashed out to the pharmacy down the road for supplies.’
Georgie was somehow touched that she was the first woman he had considered making love with since his break-up. It was a nice feeling to know he hadn’t been bedding every woman he could in the past nine months. It made her feel incredibly special.
She ran her hands over his flat stomach as she watched him put on the condom, her belly flip-flopping all over again at the sight of him fully aroused.
He kissed her again, his mouth full of sensual promise as it moved down her body, until he came to her tender folds hidden behind a tiny landing strip of dark curls. She drew in a sharp little breath when his tongue parted her, the sensation of his mouth on her most secret place sending her heart rate way out of her training zone. She clutched at his silky dark head as he subjected her to a passionate assault on her senses, every nerve jangling and screaming for release. The tension built and built until with a cut-off cry she came, her body arching and jerking beneath his exquisite c
aress.