“No problem,” I said suavely, handing him over to her.
She hugged the wet creature tightly to her body. “Oh you poor baby. Are you alright?” Then she tried to lift him up to her, but with the slippery ease of an eel, he wriggled out of her arms and landed on the tiled floor, where he began to ferociously shake the water off his body. Bianca squealed and tried to shield herself from the hail of droplets, but with another great shake, he calmly wandered away towards the house.
Smart guy, knew his job was done for the day.
She glanced at me as she rose to her feet. “I better go grab him. He’s going to mess up the house.”
“Help me out, first,” I said before she could hurry off.
Without thinking, she reached for the hand I held out.
I grabbed it and pulled her into the water with me.
She shrieked with shock all the way into the water, then shot back up a moment later with a gasp. “Levan!” she shouted, kicking furiously to stay afloat. “What the hell? It’s the fucking deep end.”
I grabbed her by the waist.
“Damn you,” she cursed, but to keep herself afloat, she held onto me tightly.
I pulled her against me until our bodies were glued together and so were our gazes.
She brushed her hair out of her face. “You’re going to pay for this,” she breathed unsteadily.
“You have to put a bit more rancor into that kind statement to make it work,” I murmured. My eyes ran over her breathtakingly beautiful face, my hands were twitching with the need to undress her. I had always been careful around her, to ensure I kept myself in check against the train-wreck of lust I devolved into whenever I was near her.
But today, I was absolutely done with any kind of restraint. Today, I refused to hold myself back. For all I knew, this moment would never come again. I could be dead tomorrow.
I slanted my head and captured her lips. I was immediately engulfed; ruthlessly and by a pleasure so intense, it caused pain. She tried to pull away, but there was no escaping me. Her taste was like no other, the perfect ignition to my madness and my complete loss of control.
Her hands continued to push half-heartedly at my shoulder, while my mouth went on ravishing hers, sucking on her tongue as I drank her in hungrily. My insides felt as if they were being torched. If I did not have her …
Then it happened.
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Her hands stopped pushing and snaked around my neck. Not breaking the contact, I moved us to the shallower part of the pool. Her back met the edge and her feet settled on the floor.
She whimpered helplessly into my mouth.
I tore my mouth away and stared deeply into her eyes. I wanted to see this moment. Just in case, I never got this chance again.
She was beyond beautiful. Her mouth red and swollen and her cheeks looking flushed. Her pupils were so dilated they were amazing to see. Her breathing was as ragged as mine.
“Tell me you don’t want me.” I dared her, or perhaps I needed her to stop me since I had completely lost control. “Tell me you don’t feel as consumed as I do.” I pressed my nose to her neck and breathed her in. “I’m addicted to your scent … your flavor …” I traced wet, sensual kisses along her jaw, then lifted her right out of the water, so I could suck on a clothed breast.
She cried out, her grip on my shoulders tightening as her head fell back in wonder.
Underneath her clothes, I could feel how hard her nipple was. I brought her back to eye level. “Tell me you don’t want me and I’ll stop. Right this moment.”
Her eyes misted over as her gaze locked with mine, searching. She opened her mouth to speak but no words came out. Eventually, she gave up on any attempt at speech, we both knew it would only be lies, and crushed her lips to mine. Her kiss was hard and desperate. We needed each other in a way that neither of us could fully understand yet, or was willing to acknowledge.
The rush of joy bursting through me in this moment was intense, so intense I felt light-headed. “Hold on tight,” I rasped as she wrapped her legs around mine. Grabbing the edges of her blouse, I yanked it off her head. The sports bra underneath joined the blouse somewhere in the bottom of the pool. My hands covered her beautiful swollen mounds, her pink nipples, hardened and ready for my touch. I gazed at them, taking my fill of the part of her body I had imagined and yearned for more times than was possible to count.
I sucked hard on the beautiful buds, even grazing the erect peaks with my teeth.