The Sheikh's Christmas Present (Shadid Sheikhs 2)

“Round two?” she asked faintly as he slid down her body. When she felt his tongue sliding over the skin of her inner thigh, she shivered. “Oh, God.”

Jarik continued to torment and tease her. Knowing how hard he was, she couldn’t believe his patience with her. Her body came back to life, desperate for what she’d just tasted.

More. She didn’t think she could ever have enough of him. When his tongue touched her clit, still sensitive from her last orgasm, she jack-knifed up and grabbed his head. “Enough,” she gasped. “Please. I need you again.”

“Maria,” he whispered as he moved back up her body. Kissing her, he gripped her hips and pulled her over until she rolled on top of him and straddled him. Without any hesitation, she gripped his cock and took him deep inside her again. Although she’d just experienced him, she still couldn’t get over how they fit.

Perfectly.

“Ride me.” His voice was strangled and desperate, but she couldn’t keep her body still if she tried. Staring into his eyes, she began to move over him. It was slow and sensual at first. She felt like her soul was bared to him, and she struggled to put up a boundary. She tried to focus on the pleasure and remember that this was temporary, but the more she stared into his eyes, the faster she fell.

“Jarik,” she whispered. Breaking eye contact, she focused on the white-hot desire coiling inside her.

“Maria?” Jarik asked questioningly.

“Just this,” she whispered. “Please.”

“Just this,” he echoed hollowly. He leaned up to capture her mouth, and as he took control of her hips, he moved her harder and faster against him. Soon, there was nothing but the desperate search for release. She could see the concentration in his face as though he

was trying to hold back, and she knew that he was waiting for her.

He didn’t have to wait long. Arching her back, she practically sobbed his name as the damn broke inside her. Harder, more intense than the last orgasm, this one seemed to shatter her from the inside out. For a moment, she felt dizzy. The warm sands and the sound of the water disappeared, and there was only Jarik, still possessing her body.

Dimly, she heard him shout her name and felt him as he arched even deeper inside her.

“I can’t,” she whispered, but she knew that she was lying. She could, and she was.

She was losing her heart to Jarik Shadid.

10

I can’t. Even though it was nothing more than a whisper, Jarik heard it and he had a strong feeling that Maria didn’t realize that she’d said it aloud.

What couldn’t she do? What fear was so strong that it had distracted her right before he’d felt her fall apart around him?

Lazily, he stroked the bare skin of her back, which had been warmed by the sun but flushed by him.

He liked that.

“I’m hungry,” he said softly after a few minutes. Despite the crazy heart-pounding sex, they’d both experienced, he knew that she was awake. He could feel her uneven breath on his neck.

“Again?” she asked hoarsely as she lifted her head to stare at him. “I think I need some time to recuperate before we do another round.”

Chuckling, he reached up and pushed her hair from her face. “No. I meant that I’m actually hungry. For food. It has to be well past lunch time.”

“Food?” she shook her head. “Right.”

“Believe me, I certainly want another chance to love you but I definitely need some time to rest. How about we have a quick lunch, and then we can come back for another go.”

Narrowing her eyes, she rolled off him. “I thought we were meeting someone here.” When he didn’t answer right away, she closed her eyes and sighed. “You lied to get me here.”

“I didn’t lie,” he said quickly. “There is a donor here who wants to help out Christmas Crates, but that donor is me.”

“You?”

“You were so upset about the snow, and there was nothing that I could do to help you. I remembered you saying that you wanted to spend Christmas on a sunny beach, and I figured that this was the only way to get you here.”

There was still suspicion in her eyes when she reached for her clothes. “So you bribed me with money so you could have sex with me?”