Your Alluring Love (The Bennett Family 6)

“Thank you. When did you get so good with words?”

“It’s easy with you, Alice, and I took a page out of your own book.”

She pulls away, inspecting me. “What do you mean?”

“You said it’s important to share things, and that if I’m mad, you want to know why. It’s a two-way street, and if you push, I push back harder. What we have is beautiful and solid.”

I have no idea where this is coming from, but I need to say it and she needs to hear it, so I don’t hold back at all. She’s everything, and all that was before her was nothing.

***

Alice

He cradles my neck, peppering my face with kisses: my forehead, my temples, each of my cheeks, then the tip of my nose. “You and me. This right here is real. So damn real.”

Everything in my field of vision blurs but him. I can see him clearly.

“You have no idea how much you mean to me, Alice. No idea.”

“Then tell me,” I whisper, and his breath catches. I clasp his wrists with my hands while he’s still touching my neck. Intertwined like this, I look him straight in the eyes. The walls have come down, the last wisps of wariness gone, and he’s laying himself bare in front of me.

“I’m in love with you.”

“That’s a good thing because I’ve been falling for you for a while now.”

A long while, if I’m honest, but it’s only become clear to me tonight how much I love this man. I love him with an intensity that scares me and fuels me at the same time.

The corners of his mouth lift in a heartfelt smile. “I love you, and I can’t believe I’m lucky enough to have you, my Alice.”

My Alice. The words fill me with warmth and emotion. Rising on the tips of my toes, I plant my lips over his, desperately needing to kiss him. When he slips his tongue in my mouth, loving and exploring, I grow even greedier. I want to become one with him. I want to climb inside him and live there. Heat spears me, concentrating low in my body. It’s as if his words lit a fuse and his kiss brought wildfir

e. I ache for him to touch me intimately, to kiss and love me.

“I need you inside me,” I murmur between kisses.

“You read my mind.”

In a tangle of limbs, we rid each other of clothes. I’m shaking slightly, and with surprise, I notice that he is too. When we’re both buck naked, he lifts me in his arms, carrying me like we’re newlyweds. Once we’re in my bedroom, he carefully places me on the bed, parting my thighs. Instead of climbing over me right away, he peppers my entire body with kisses. He starts with my neck, paying special attention to the sweet spot at the base, then descends to one of my shoulders, kissing his way over my chest to the other.

He touches my breast, moving his palm in a circular stroke over my nipple until it turns so tight it’s almost painful. Heavens, this man knows what he’s doing. His mouth moves to my stomach, stopping at my navel, kissing it once before continuing the descent. Naively, I thought he’d go down in a straight line, directly to the prize. Instead, he veers off to one side, nibbling my hip. My fingers tug at his hair, gentle but desperate enough to show him I’m ready for more. That I need more.

When he hooks one of my knees over his arm, lowering his head, my sex clenches. Nate licks me where the cheek of my ass meets my upper thigh and my hips buck off the bed. Needing to grasp something more firmly, I move my hand from his hair to the bedsheet. Nate lifts his mouth, and for a few excruciating seconds, I only feel his hot exhales caressing my skin. I’m holding my breath, anticipating his next move. Leaning forward, he runs his lips over my clit.

“Nate!” I fist the sheets, all the muscles in my body contracting. I’m so wound up I might explode from foreplay alone. He teases my skin with one hand, moving in small circles on the outside of my thighs before shifting to the sensitive skin on the inside.

“You’re so beautiful, my Alice.”

Licking my lips, I draw a deep breath. “I like how that sounds.”

“Then I’ll keep saying it until it sounds silly.”

“I don’t think it ever will,” I admit. My next words are unintelligible because Nate parts my folds with his fingers, blowing a breath on my heated flesh. I feel so very exposed right now, but I also don’t feel the need to shield myself. Tonight is more raw and real than ever before.

With the first stroke of his tongue across the opening of my sex, my body turns to putty. I feel every lash of his tongue everywhere, as if every nerve in my body is wired to my core. I explode in an orgasm so powerful my entire body arches, and even my fingers and toes curl.

“Fuck, I’ll never tire of making you come apart like this,” Nate says.

Raising my head, I notice he’s stroking his erection, and the realization that he was touching himself while pleasuring me with his mouth turns me on to no end. Though desperate to have him inside me, I move onto my knees, pushing him on his back, and say, “My turn. Keep your hands to yourself.”