Sweet Everlasting by Patricia Gaffney

Author:Patricia Gaffney [Gaffney, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4532-3750-2
Publisher: Open Road Media Romance
Published: 2011-11-22T05:00:00+00:00

16

HE WANTED TO LOOK a little longer at their reflection in the bureau mirror, because the view of his big, suntanned hands sliding across Carrie’s stomach and stretching the white fabric of his shirt tight over her hips was an erotic pleasure he wasn’t ready to relinquish. But she pivoted in his arms and embraced him, and then kissing her seemed like an even better idea.

For Carrie, it was as if they’d never kissed before and this was their first, or at least their first free, uncomplicated kiss, with neither of them holding back or trying to ignore a guilty conscience. Her mouth opened under his gentle probing and welcomed his warm, sleeking tongue, sucking on it softly until he growled low in his throat and pressed his hands against her spine to bring her nearer. “I don’t want to hurt you, Carrie,” he whispered, “and I might, inadvertently. So you must tell me if I do. Promise.”

She ran the tip of her index finger along the furrow between his dark eyebrows. “I promise,” she said dreamily.

“I mean it.” He frowned harder at the spreading, blue-black contusion at her temple. “How do you feel?”

She licked her lips delicately, tasting him. “How do you think?”

He couldn’t help smiling. “Seriously.”

Her arms around his neck tightened. “Oh, Ty. I think you must’ve given me happiness medicine.” She laid her head on his chest and closed her eyes, to enjoy the feel of his fingers soothing the hair back from her forehead. He had the cleverest hands. “We’re going to make love, aren’t we,” she said on a long sigh, a statement more than a question—but needing to make sure.

“Yes.” It didn’t feel like capitulation to him anymore; it felt like a gift. He pressed his mouth to her hairline, letting stray wisps tickle his nose.

She lifted her face. Behind her shining eyes lurked a question, shy but also bewitchingly matter-of-fact: Well, what now?

What, indeed. Of course he must handle her with great care and utmost tenderness, go slowly, lead her along this new, risk-strewn path with deliberate consideration, for in every way but technically Carrie was a virgin. But behind her, in the mirror, his hands had hiked the nightshirt up to the tops of her long thighs, and he could see the narrow white crescents of her buttocks gleaming like smooth marble under the hem. In the unexpected flash of lust that scorched him, he wanted more than anything to strip her bare and take her where she stood.

Instead he took her hand and led her to the bed; they sat down on the edge, side by side. He smiled at the prim straightness of her back, and trailed his fingers up and down to relax it. She smiled back, enjoying that, but behind her sensuously drooping lids blinked the eyes of a very alert and attentive pupil. He slipped his fingers inside the square neck of the shirt and stroked them softly across her chest, discovering that her skin was as smooth as warm glass.

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