“Harder, Liam,” she urged. “Harder.”
He’d been holding back, not wanting to hurt her, but her broken plea snapped his internal restraints. Like a tiger slipping a leash, Liam charged. Again and again, he pounded away at her until both of their bodies were screaming with desperation.
Outside, the storm seethed in counterpoint to the storm raging between them. He looked into her eyes, watched them glaze over as she shrieked his name and her internal muscles clamped around him. He felt her climax as if it were his own and an instant later, he let go and emptied himself into her, riding that wave of release like a triumphant warrior.
Half-blind, breathless, he rested his forehead against hers and fought for air.
“Oh,” she said on a rush of breath, “that was...”
Liam nodded. She couldn’t find a word to describe what they’d just survived, and neither could he. It was enough to know it had happened. And would happen again. And again.
“Yeah,” Liam agreed. “It was.” Keeping their bodies locked together because damned if he wanted to pull away yet, he turned around, walked to the bed and sat down with her on his lap.
She tossed her head, throwing her hair back, and grinned at him. “Cowboy, if you can do that against a wall, I have to wonder what you can manage on a bed.”
Liam smiled back. Damned if he’d ever had a woman as sexually in tune with him as Chloe Hemsworth seemed to be. And that grin of hers was infectious. But his smile died away when she twisted her hips, grinding her body against his. He groaned tightly at the friction she created between them. His body burned anew, and in seconds he was ready to go again.
“Well, ma’am,” he drawled, staring into those magic eyes of hers, “why don’t we find out?”
He dropped one hand to her bottom and the other to the hot, wet center of her where their bodies were still joined. She jolted the instant his thumb stroked across that tight sensitive bud of flesh.
“Liam...” She moved on him, against him.
He stole a quick kiss and continued to use his hands to push her higher. “Damn, you feel good.”
Her eyes locked on his. “You know, I really do.”
He grinned. Hell, he’d never had this with a woman. The smiles, the laughs, the...connection. He liked it. All of it. But now wasn’t the time for thinking that through.
“Get out of those jeans,” she ordered on a whisper.
“Right.” Shifting slightly, Liam laid her down on the bed, pulled away from her and in seconds was out of his jeans and grabbing her up again.
“Oh,” she said softly, stroking her hands up and down his thighs, “that’s better.”
“Yeah, now I want a taste.” He dipped his head to take one of her nipples into his mouth.
“Oh, you can taste me as much as you like. You have a magic tongue, Liam...” Her fingers speared through his hair, holding his head to her, silently insisting that he not stop, that he take more. So he did. His lips, teeth and tongue worked that hardened, dark pink nipple until Chloe was writhing beneath him. He slid one hand down the length of her body and dipped one, then two fingers into her heat. Instantly, her hips came off the bed and rocked into his hand.
“Two can play this game,” she whispered. Then she did a little torturing of her own. She reached for him, curled her hand around his hard length and stroked him lightly until his eyes were burning from the fires within. When she curled her hand around him, rubbed her finger across the tip of him, Liam nearly lost it.
“No more games.” He pulled away, sat back on his haunches and drew her up and onto his lap. She went up on her knees and then slowly lowered herself onto him. Inch by agonizing inch she took him inside, and the whole while their eyes were locked, each of them watching the reactions of the other. That fire within him erupted into something wild and out of control. And he didn’t bother to try to stop it. Instead, he threw himself into the flames, dragging Chloe with him.
When she’d taken him in fully, she ground her hips against him, twisting, turning. He lifted her high enough to be able to take one hard nipple into his mouth. He wanted the taste of her filling him as completely as he was filling her.