Pride (In Wilde Country Book 1) by Sandra Marton

Author:Sandra Marton [Marton, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-09-29T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Luca was as much a product of his time as any other twenty-first century male.

He knew the protocols of after-sex behavior, the things women liked.

Women liked to be held. They liked to indulge in pillow talk. They liked to… What was that word? Cuddle. Even the word was awful. It made him think of teddy bears, and who wanted to think about teddy bears at the same time he thought about sex?

On the other hand, what a man wanted most after sex, even terrific sex, was to get up and get on with his life.

He’d once been unfortunate enough to overhear his sisters discussing the topic.

He and Matteo, Bianca and Alessandra had all been gathered in the house they’d grown up in, trying to organize their mother’s things a couple of weeks after her death. He’d been heading out to the porch when he heard the sound of Alessandra’s voice.

“Men can be so stupid,” she’d said. “They think it’s only about the big bang.”

At first, he’d thought she was talking about an American TV series. Then, just as he was about to open the screen door, he heard Bianca say that one of her psych profs theorized that evolution had designed men to spread their seed as fast and as frequently as possible.

“Women, on the other hand,” she’d said in her best academic voice, “were designed to require post-coital relaxation. There’s nothing romantic about it. It’s just that lying still may increase the odds for pregnancy.”

Luca could have sworn he’d felt the tips of his ears redden.

Whoa, he’d thought, and he’d turned on his heel and gotten the hell out of there.

What man wanted to think his sisters knew anything about sex, even when they were grown women?

And what man wanted to think about his sisters at a time like this, when he lay sated in his bed with a woman still wrapped around him…and yes, Cheyenne was wrapped around him, her arms around his neck, her legs around his hips, and Dio, he was still inside her and what he was thinking had nothing to do with his sisters and everything to do with their ideas about men and sex, with his ideas about men and sex.

He could only remember one or two times when getting on with life had not been his after-sex goal.

This was one of them.

What had just happened… It had damn near turned him inside out.

He was an experienced lover. Over the years, he’d had good sex. Great sex. Mind-blowing sex. As for games… He’d played them before. Every now and then, they were fun. They were exciting.

But this—this had been different.

He hadn’t planned to take her this way. Binding her hands. Tearing away her gown. Not permitting her to touch him. Sure, teasing like that could be exhilarating, but what had had changed everything had been her response to him.

He was not given to wasting time philosophizing, but he didn’t have to be a student of Zen to know that something had happened to Cheyenne tonight.

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