Page 58 of A Relentless Rake

Need blazed low in her belly, and she panted out, “Alec…please…”

With a low groan, he slipped his hand between her thighs. The whimper on her lips turned into a low moan as he gently parted her folds and teased his fingers tantalizingly against her core. She melted against the tree behind her for support. Only her hands on his shoulders kept her from falling into a puddle on the ground.

“Is this what you want?” he whispered as his fingers explored deeper. “To be touched like this?”

In answer, she shifted her hips to widen her stance and give him more room to pleasure her. She wanted this touch—wantedhim—too much to stop. Soon he would be inside her, filling her with his strength and warmth, but for now she gloried in the long, deep strokes that left her shaking.

“Or do you prefer this?” He pressed against the hard little nub nestled in her folds.

Her hips bucked. “Alec!”

“I know,” he murmured as his lips kissed tenderly at her temple. “You want this.”

He slipped his finger deep inside her tight warmth.

She shuddered with pleasure and clung to him. The sensation was wonderful, so wonderful that her folds began to quiver around him as if attempting to draw him deeper through their own volition. But when he slipped a second finger inside, stretching her wider and filling her even more—

Oh, that was simply divine!

“Harder,” she choked out as the pressure building inside her demanded release. “Oh, please…”

He did as she asked, stroking into her hard and fast. Liquid fire nipped at her toes, licked at her thighs and breasts, and threatened to consume her.

Still, it wasn’t enough. She craved more of him.

She arched into him to beg with her body what she couldn’t find the words to utter. In answer, he shifted his weight into her. A solid wall of male hardness pressed against her, all focused right there at the pulsing nub beneath his thumb—

A spasm of release cascaded through her, and she buried her face in his shoulder to muffle the noise as she cried out. Her body electrified, losing all awareness of everything around her, everything but him.

A muffled growl of pain tore from him. “Damnation, woman!”

Her hand flew to her mouth, and she pulled back, appalled at herself. “Oh no—I bit you!”

He laughed wickedly, the sound a low warning. “Revenge is sweet,” he said hoarsely, then brought himself to his knees in front of her and pushed her skirts out of his way. “My turn to bite.”

He lowered his head and claimed her with his mouth.

She tensed for a fleeting moment at the shock of what they were doing, outdoors and hidden only by shadows. But the delicious sensations he spiraled through her chased away all reservations until she was lost in the moment. With Alec.

If only she could strip away all the clothes between them and bring warm skin against skin, have his sculpted shoulders bare to her fingers and eyes as his head lingered between her legs. Yet even fully clothed, he brought her such pleasures that she could barely keep her breath in her lungs and a scream from escaping her throat.

Raw need coursed through her. She arched her back and rocked her pelvis against him.

He groaned, and his hands clasped tighter at her buttocks, his tongue driving deeper inside her. He wasn’t giving her pleasure now; she was demanding it from him, and he eagerly complied.

Release flooded over her, and she shuddered with a cry as she convulsed against his mouth.

Every inch of her tingled with pleasure. It took all her strength to capture back the breath that had been ripped from her, while the man who had stolen it continued to worship between her legs, but now with tender kisses and soothing licks.

Yet all too soon, he climbed to his feet and gathered her into his arms. As he held her, his hard erection jutted into her soft belly, and fresh desire pulsed through her.

He placed a soft kiss to her temple. “We have to stop now.”

She pulled back to look up at him, confused by the need that fogged her mind. “Why?”

“Because I want you too much.”

“I want you, too,” she admitted, her voice no more than a breathless whisper. “All of you.”Too much…