“Have you kissed other women before?”
He turned his face slightly, kissing my lips again. His breath was unsteady, his voice low and deep, “No.”
“So… you’ve never slept with a woman either?”
Jonathan cupped my face, his thumb gently brushing the moisture from the corner of my lips. “That’s right.”
He was tall. Even with my high heels on, I only reached his chin. My hands, which had been tangled in his hair, slowly slid down to the open collar of his shirt.
When my soft fingers grazed his Adam’s apple, his reaction was startling.
It bobbed sharply, and the warmth of his palms against my cheeks suddenly felt searing.
The swirl of emotions inside me–bitterness, confusion, desire–all screamed for an outlet. I craved release. I craved indulgence.
I closed my eyes and pressed a soft kiss against his alluring Adam’s apple.
His slender fingers, which had been cradling my face, slid into my thick black hair, holding me tighter. Our lips were forced even closer together.
His breath grew ragged, but he restrained himself, refusing to let out even the faintest gasp.
“Dr. Clayton,” I whispered softly, “aren’t you forgetting something?”
His elegant fingers traced the outline of my face, his lips brushing the corner of my eye. “What am I forgetting?”
“I’m in pain. Shouldn’t you check me, just to be sure?”
I reached for his left hand, guiding it down until his fingertips rested over my chest.
The moonlight was silver and cool, but against my bare skin, it felt as delicate as frost.
I tilted my face upward, clearly seeing the dark, intense desire clouding his eyes.
Then, still pressing his hand against me, I tightened my grip slightly. “Dr. Clayton, can we start now?”
Jonathan’s palm was burning hot. It felt like his heat might scorch right through my skin.
His Adam’s apple bobbed again violently.
Beneath the overwhelming desire in his gaze, there was something even more terrifying an intense, consuming possessiveness that seemed ready to devour me whole.
We were pressed so close together that I could feel every change, every reaction in his body.
