Summer Sins

Hayley smiled a secret smile and bent her head to take him fully in her mouth, her stomach kicking in excitement when she felt his jerk of surprise and delight as her tongue moved in circular movements over him. She drew on him boldly, the sensation of his power and strength against the softness of her mouth totally enthralling.

‘Oh, God, I can’t hold back …’ Jasper gasped and tried to pull away but she splayed her palm on the flat, hard plane of his belly and kept him where she wanted him.

It was the most erotic experience of his life to have her receive him in such an intimate way. He shuddered his way through it, his whole body shivering with the mind-blowing pleasure of her m

outh.

He lay back with his eyes tightly closed, trying to get his breathing under control, wondering when he had ever felt this totally perfect physical connection with another lover. It was almost visceral the way her body responded to his and his to hers. He had never experienced anything like it before, the fine-tuning of their bodies producing such harmonious accord he felt as if every other sexual encounter he’d experienced in the past had somehow robbed him short.

He opened his eyes to see her looking at him, a tentative, almost shy smile playing at her mouth. He reached out his hand and brought her silky head to his chest, the feel of her cloud of dark hair against his naked skin making something constrict almost painfully deep inside him.

‘No one’s ever done that before,’ he said into the silence.

‘What?’ The movement of air from her mouth as she spoke danced over the indentation of his belly button.

‘Without a condom, I mean,’ he said, lacing his fingers through her hair. ‘It’s totally different; amazing, in fact.’

Hayley stroked his thigh with her fingertip, her cheek so close to his heart she could feel it beating, and the pulse of his body ricocheting through hers. She ran her fingers up and down his thigh for a moment before turning away to get off the bed.

‘Where are you going?’ Jasper asked.

‘I’m going to have a shower,’ she said, scooping up her wrap from the floor and covering her nakedness with a modesty he found rather ironic. ‘If we’re going to make that flight in time we should get a move on.’

‘You still want to go?’

‘Do you feel up to it?’ she asked.

‘I’m surprised you even felt the need to ask that,’ he said, throwing his legs over the edge of the bed and getting to his feet. ‘I thought I had rather convincingly assured you that, in spite of last night’s aberration I was once again in the best of health.’

Her gaze fell away from his. ‘I was so worried about you.’

He closed the distance between them with two strides and lifted her chin. ‘I must say I like the way you show your concern,’ he said with a wry smile.

‘It was just sex, Jasper,’ she said crushingly, more to remind herself of their arrangement than anything. ‘Nothing more.’

His hand dropped from her face. ‘Is that all you want from me? Just sex?’

Her blue-green eyes were steady as they held his gaze. ‘That’s all you have to offer, isn’t it, Jasper? Just sex. No commitment, no long term future—just sex.’

‘Are you going to be happy with that?’

Hayley had to fight to control her expression so she didn’t give away her longing for more than he could offer. ‘This thing that’s happening between us will burn out over time. It might not even last the month.’

‘You think so?’

She gave him a world-weary smile. ‘I know so, Jasper. You haven’t had a relationship last longer than a month or two. I’m not your type, for one thing, and then there’s the issue of our separation in a month’s time. I want kids and a house in the suburbs. You want a playboy lifestyle with no attachments.’

‘But we could do this for now,’ Jasper ventured, gauging her reaction closely. ‘Just for the time being, to see how it goes. What do you think?’

‘We could,’ she said, her expression for once giving him no clue. ‘But wouldn’t that be asking for complications when the clock runs out?’

‘We could extend the time,’ he suggested. ‘We don’t have to separate right on the dot at the end of the month.’

‘For what purpose? I want totally different things from life. You’d only be holding me up from what I want in order to continue a relationship that in the end is really going nowhere.’

‘I want you, Hayley,’ he said as she turned for the bathroom. ‘And you want me.’

She turned back to look at him. ‘But for how long?’