“And built to scale,” she said.
“Changed your mind?” He shot her a look.
Her lips curved in a smile, and her green eyes danced with laughter. “If anything, I’m only more determined,” she told him.
Dragging her close, he brought her beneath him. Driving his mouth down on hers, he kissed her, and kept on kissing her until she was completely in tune with him and completely ready for whatever came next.
“What was it you said?” she asked him, mischief glinting in her eyes. “You’re going to make me come so hard, I won’t be able to stand?”
“Well, could you?” he asked.
“Earlier? That was cheating. You didn’t even touch me—and I was standing up.”
“Until you fell down,” he reminded her.
“Thanks to you,” she murmured, eyes shining.
By now, he was frustrated to the point of pain, but his pleasure would have to wait. He removed what remained of Amber’s clothing: a small thong and her pajama jacket, but then he lost patience. The urge to be skin to hot skin consumed him.
“I had thought about binding them,” she said, as he stared at her breasts with frank approval. “Especially when I was working at Hard News, where the men were like excitable puppies.”
“And I’m not?”
“You’re more of a wolf,” she said.
“Which makes it okay?” he queried.
“Which makes everything okay,” she told him with a sexy smile.
She cried out with pleasure when he chafed her breasts by rubbing his chest against them. He could feel her nipples tightening beneath him and loved that feeling. Wanting more, he increased her arousal with teasing, brushing kisses and the rasp of his stubble against her neck.
“I can’t stand this,” she complained in a voice that shook with tension when he paused.
“And what are you going to do about it?” He laughed as he stroked her some more.
“Try this…”
Amber had the satisfaction of hearing Alexei groan when she took him in a firm grip with one hand and clutched his buttocks with the other.
“Not yet,” he whispered when she moved her hand steadily up and down. His erection was magnificent. She marveled at its length and girth and at the deliciously smooth domed head that sprang so hungrily against her palm.
“It’s perfect, and I need you in my mouth.”
“Amber,” Alexei warned, but she ignored him. Her mouth was full. She couldn’t reply.
He tasted so good. She laved him with her tongue and then sucked rhythmically for the pure pleasure of feeling him flex against the roof of her mouth. He was so clean and smooth, and so salty at the tip. He was big…huge. The practicalities of inserting this part of Alexei’s body into the hidden part of hers was a process yet to be explored, though her body was already clenching repeatedly in anticipation.
Take it slowly was the best advice she could give herself, and so she cupped his balls, loving how smooth and cool they were. She nursed them as she took him deeper into her mouth. His groan of approval told her she’d gotten that right. And then he shifted position so they were top to toe. Parting her legs, he moved between them. His hands cupped her buttocks as he worked. Reciprocal pleasure was pleasure intensified, she discovered, though when he plunged his tongue deep, she almost lost control.
“No,” Alexei instructed firmly, raising his head to stare fiercely at her. “You mustn’t—”
She could. And she had. And the pleasure more than made up for her rebellion. It was so incredibly, excruciatingly good, with powerful pulses that raged on and on.
“Bad,” Alexei scolded when she was ready to listen to him. “I should put you over my knee for disobedience—”
She wriggled involuntarily.
“Is that what you want?” he asked.