Merry Christmas, Paige (7 page)

In unison, they opened the vehicle’s doors and got out. They were both laughing, soaked to the bone, as they stumbled into the house.

A kitchen light gave a soft hue to the room. Her shirt stuck to her chest, giving him a view of the lacy bra beneath. She tossed her hair back and water droplets released. There was something wild and sexy about the way she looked that sent his pulse racing. He released the grip he had on the bags and they fell to the floor.

One step brought him before her. She stared up at him and her laughter died. Their eyes met, hers suddenly filled with questions.

“So beautiful.” He pushed the damp hair out of her eyes before smoothing his hand to the nape of her neck. Slowly he pulled her to him. Their lips touched. He moved his mouth over hers.

She hesitated as if she would deny him. “We should talk,” she murmured.

“We will.” He nudged her nose with his. “I promise.” He nipped her bottom lip. “I need you now.”

He knew the moment she surrendered. Her arms folded around his neck. Her mouth parted to his probing tongue and he dipped inside. She tasted sultry, of dark starry nights and a warm summer breeze. Long, slow kisses stoked the flame inside him until a tingle started in his groin.

She arched her neck.

He caressed the length, raining kisses along her tender skin to the hollow of her collarbone. The hunger to taste every inch of her body grew even stronger. With a tug, her shirt slipped to bare a shoulder. His lips found their way to the moist skin.

He trembled. “I need you naked.”

Tonight he would make all her uncertainty disappear. Tonight he would bare his soul to keep her.

Chapter Seven

“I need you naked.” Nathan’s words rang in Paige’s head. Strong hands buried beneath her shirt. Fingertips skimmed lightly across her abdomen, making her heart beat faster. “Please, baby.”

How could she deny the longing in his voice or her own need that built with alarming speed?

They stood dripping wet just inside the door of the cottage. Scattered packages lay at their feet. Rain pelted the roof and windows. A flash of lightning illuminated the dim room followed by a loud clap of thunder that rattled the glass. While the weather kicked up its heels and raged, the world inside this small bungalow stood still.

Achingly slow, he pushed her T-shirt up to send goose bumps across her arms. It didn’t help that the air currents from the overhead fan caressed her damp flesh.

She raised her arms and he slid the shirt over her head, stealing her sight. When she could see again she peered into eyes so dark with desire her heart skipped a beat.

There had always been an electrifying chemistry between them, a mutual sexual attraction that turned explosive each time they touched, but was it enough? Could they overcome the past and the present to carve out a future?

The catch of her bra popped free. Sensitive nipples drew taut. She closed her eyes and savored the rays of sensation that played havoc with her peaks and quaked through her breasts. His fingertips smoothed ever-so-lightly across the very tips, and she wondered if the caresses might be her imagination. Her eyes remained closed, heightening the feel of his hands moving across her flesh like a feather to tease and tantalize.

“I love you so much.” His deep, sensual voice slid over her skin to push her desire higher and higher. A flood of moisture released between her thighs. The spasm that came next felt sinfully delicious. “Soft.” He made little circles around her nipples, igniting sparks of electricity that made her shiver with excitement.

When he wrapped his warm, wet tongue around the engorged bud, she sucked in a ragged breath. Fiery need shot south. Her pussy clenched and a moan pushed between her lips. She speared her fingers through his damp hair and held him to her breast, before she opened her eyes and glanced down. Her heartbeat went wild. She’d never seen anything as sensual as his heated expression as he suckled.

Taking the other nipple between his fingers, he pinched. Sweet, sweet pain exploded. “Nathan.”

With mesmerizing blue eyes he looked up at her, and she melted inside. He released the hold on her breast. “What, baby?”

“Please.” His touch had reduced her to begging, but she couldn’t help it. Need clawed at her unmercifully. She had no willpower when it came to him.

“Do you want me to fuck you?” His naughty words matched his sexy grin.

The image of him buried deep inside her, thrusting in and out, their bodies locked together, made her groan. “Yes. I need you inside me.” Another wave of moisture released between her thighs. She pulled at his T-shirt. “Off. Now.”

But instead of pushing forward, he took a step backward and slipped his shirt off. “Are you hot for me?” Burying his fingertips into the waistband of her jeans, he tugged, dragging her so close his warm breath caressed her face when he spoke again. “How wet are you?” He didn’t wait for her to answer. Instead he shoved his hand deeper and discovered for himself.

When his fingers caressed her slit, a shiver raced through her. Her legs parted on their own with a need for him to continue the glide of his hand across her slick folds.

“My God, baby. You do want me.”

As he circled her clit she grabbed his biceps and held on. “Please, Nathan. I need you now.”

Rain continued to ping off the roof. Another flash of lightning and burst of thunder followed on its heels. The overhead lighting in the kitchen flickered once, twice, before casting them in a veil of darkness, but that didn’t deter them. If anything, the lack of sight heightened the moment with the mysterious lure it induced.

Paige’s pulse stuttered and then sped when Nathan exerted pressure against her clit. Her inner muscles pulled tight. She shuddered. The delicious sensation lingered before dying slowly when he moved away. She inhaled and relaxed, waiting for his return. When he touched the bundle of nerves again, she rocked her hips back and forth, riding his hand. Seductive fingers worked her into a sexual frenzy.

She was ready, so ready. Her hand fell to the button of her jeans and she unfastened them. The zipper went next, falling with a whisper. She was about to push down her pants when he started to scoot his feet. They took little steps in the dark until the couch pressed against her knees. She sat, while Nathan moved the coffee table out of the way. Then he knelt before her. Hands on her hips, he eased her jeans down. When she was naked, he tugged her legs to guide her hips off the couch. He supported her legs by draping them over his shoulders.

His soft growl sent chills up her spine.

Oh God. Yes.

Paige loved his cock deep inside her, but nothing compared to the raw intimacy of him going down on her. She craved the feeling of his mouth on her clit, licking and sucking, like he had done so many years ago. Just the thought of his tongue and lips teasing her pussy sent liquid heat surging through her veins.

The stream of warm air against her wet folds made her skin prickle. But he didn’t touch her, almost as if he wanted to prolong her anticipation, and it was working. Add the ache low in her belly which was increasing with every second, and the thought of his touch was like a drug.

He sighed, the gentle timbre one of longing. “Damn, baby, I’ve missed you. I can’t wait to wrap my tongue around those beautiful lips of yours.” His tongue slid across her clit and she flinched, hips coming off the couch. “Sensitive?” He chuckled.

“Don’t tease me, Nathan.” She shuddered with the sensual pleasure streaking through her body. “Do me now.”

That sexy rumble in his throat sent her senses reeling. Her fingers curled into the sofa. She couldn’t wait much longer. The moment he flattened his tongue and smoothed it over the length of her slit, her mouth parted on a soft cry. A burst of tingles erupted in her core, shooting in all directions.

“Sweet,” he hummed against her flesh. “Tastes so good.”

With his wicked tongue he licked slowly around the engorged organ and fluttered over it once again. Every nerve ending jumped, raw and sensitive. Her heartbeat increased, her breaths short and quick pants. He parted her folds and a throaty groan pushed from her lips.

As he fucked her with his mouth, she squirmed, loving the feel of his face buried against her core. He paused briefly to inhale her scent. “Mmm.”

She trembled. “Nathan, please.”

He lowered his head and once again began to ravish her. The sensual sounds he made lapping at her flesh drove her desire higher. Low and husky, his moans made her body vibrate with excitement. In and out he thrust, sipping at her juices. When he captured her nub in his mouth and sucked, her head fell back on a cry.

Blood rushed her tender folds, setting them to burn hotter. “Yes.” Every caress was heightened. Even the whisper of his breath on her wet skin stoked the flame. Her breasts were full and swollen, her clit throbbed.

Nathan’s loving was even better than Paige remembered.

She tightened her grip, fingers twining in his hair as she held him close. Her reaction had the most incredible effect on him. He jerked her forward and sucked even harder. His tongue went wild against her clit. The pressure was unreal, drowning her in white-hot pleasure that seared her body.

Her climax rose swiftly. Every muscle tensed. She writhed against him, his name a scream upon her lips. An inferno of heat spread like a wildfire from her core up her length to set her cheeks on fire. Her entire body shook as her release exploded.

Nathan didn’t offer her a break. Through it all he unmercifully devoured her. Each stroke of his tongue, the suction of his mouth, pushed her closer to the edge of insanity.

A broken cry escaped her parted lips. “No more. Nathan.” It was too intense.

“Please, baby. I don’t want to stop. You make me ache for more.” The raspy plea in his voice was a sensual caress to her senses. “Do you have any idea how hot and sweet you taste?” He didn’t wait for a response. Instead, he dipped his head and pushed his tongue along her slit, careful not to touch her pulsing nub.

“Nathan. I can’t… Ohhh.”

He licked a long, slow path against her skin, blowing softly on her wetness to steal her objection in a single gasp. Noninvasive strokes allowed her the time she needed to come down from one orgasm, before his tongue pressed more demandingly against her flesh. He parted her folds, delved deep to rekindle the heat between her thighs.

He played her like a fine instrument, strumming every chord to make her moan and writhe beneath his assault. Lightning lit up the room. The sight of him loving her, his head bobbing, sent her mind spiraling. Another climax broke on a clap of thunder that she felt throughout her entire body. Hot male groans washed over her. The fierce contractions of her womb stole her breath. One after another, the spasms clenched and released.

“Nathan. Oh my God.” A light sheen of perspiration covered her brow, her skin felt alive, her insides a conflagration. Life without him had been hell. She didn’t know until this moment just how much.

The storm continued to hammer the cottage to the rapid beat of Nathan’s heart. His body hummed with desire. He could smell Paige’s heat. Her sweet scent was an aphrodisiac that threatened to drive him insane if he didn’t take her now. His cock ached, pulsing and throbbing beneath the restriction of his jeans. He removed her legs from his shoulders and pushed to his feet, while she scooted up into a sitting position on the couch.

Fast and shaky pants made her chest rise and fall rapidly. Shadows and light from the storm filtered over her beautiful face, giving her a mysterious air that thrilled him. She had come apart beneath his touch. Together they made music that no musician could compete with.

How had he ever gotten along without her?

“You’re mine,” he said firmly. He just had to make her believe it.

“I’ve always been yours.” Her words tightened his chest. “I never stopped being yours or loving you.”

Selfish bastard. While he had gone forward with his life to carve out a family for Cami, Paige had not. How badly had she suffered from his mistakes? Guilt slowed the progress of him removing his jeans.

Still, he hadn’t lived a life without cost. Five miserable years of hell lying beside a woman who knew he loved another. It had been their undoing, so basically the failure in their marriage had been his fault. He had destroyed two women’s lives.

“Nathan?” Paige’s tender voice brought him back to the moment. “Are you going to finish what you started here?” Her laughter was light and airy.

His body burned for her, while his heart ached. As he pushed his jeans over his hips and past his legs, he wondered if he would ever be able to make it up to her. Thunder cracked, a flicker of lightning allowing him a brief look at her beautiful face flush with arousal. Before the brilliance died he reached for her. She stood and went willingly into his arms.

Her body was warm against the chill of his. Her heat went straight to his bones to fill him with the love her surrounding arms offered.

“I love you.” His words came so naturally. “You have no idea how much.”

She tipped her head up and he captured her lips, so soft next to his as he slanted his mouth across hers. When his tongue caressed the seam of her lips, she opened and he swept inside to taste her. No bitterness or anger or regret existed in her kiss, only the nectar of love and forgiveness for the errors of his ways. He didn’t deserve her, but he would take what she offered.

What started out tender quickly turned fervent, a desperate need to right the wrong he’d done. His cock grew even harder, aching to feel her snug around him. He thrust his tongue in and out of her mouth, mimicking the rhythm of his hips against hers. She whimpered beneath his assault as their tongues dueled for control. He couldn’t get enough of her—never would.

“I need you now.” Her heart beat against his chest. “Nathan, please.”

He loved it when she begged for him to take her. “How do you want me, baby?”

“In the bed, on the couch or table or floor…” she slid her silky body up and down his, sending his arousal skyrocketing, “…against the wall. I want it all.” Her hands moved restlessly across his skin, setting off white-hot sparks wherever she caressed.

A smile of male satisfaction crept across his face. They had christened every place in this small cottage that summer so many years ago. They had plenty of time to reenact the warm, lazy days and savory nights spent together, starting now.

He shuffled his feet, guiding her away from the sofa. Electricity zinged between them when he pinned her against the wall. She mewled, the soft cry so arousing that he shoved his hands beneath her knees to raise her legs. Parting her thighs, he spread her wide and moved between them. So wet. So ready. Her warm pussy pressed against his cock. With an upward tilt of his hips, he slid between her moist folds, burying himself to the hilt.

She gasped and pushed against his shoulders, her head falling back against the wall with a thud. “You feel so good.”

Her body surrounded him so tightly that blood roared to his groin. His sensitive balls drew taut. His hands moved from her legs and stroked down her back until he cupped the smooth globes of her ass. She locked her ankles around him, drawing him snug as he rocked against her sex. He squeezed her naked skin, his fingers flexing and gripping to part her rounded cheeks. The little squeal she released was so fucking hot.

“Harder,” she demanded. “Take me hard and fast.”

Hard and fast he could do, it was the slow and easy that would give him a problem tonight. Liquid fire surged throughout him with the sounds of moist, suckling flesh. The musky scent of their lovemaking filled his nostrils along with the soft feminine scent of Paige.

He loved her so much it hurt.

A hard blast of semen exploded through the small slit in his cock, ripping him asunder. He cried out as the ruthless pleasure/pain washed through him. Like a loud drum, his heartbeat filled his ears, nearly silencing her scream. Stars burst behind his eyelids. Each spasm of her precious pussy triggered another tremor, another jet of come. Her sweet muscles contracted and released, wringing every bit of energy from his now-listless body.