The things we do for love. (22 page)

The only light source on in the room was a single bedside lamp. “The bathroom is there.” He moved her so that she could see the door that led to the bathroom before turning back towards the bed and then placing her down on the already turned down bed gently.

“Thank you.” She said feeling quite self-conscious. Luke stayed where he was, not moving, leaning over her. “I think I can manage from here.” She said.

“You’ve still got me.” He told her.

“Huh…” she frowned.

“I can’t get up. Your arms are still holding on for dear life.” She heard the note of humour in his voice and something else. Something deep, primitive, sexual.

She swallowed as she felt the heat infuse her cheeks as she noticed her arms were still around his neck. “Oh.” She said but still she did not move them. Her arms did not respond and her brain had stopped working.

She could feel her heart thudding in her chest, it hit against her ribcage painfully as everything fell away apart from Luke.

He was so close, his aftershave filled her lungs as she breathed in the heady scent of spice, vanilla and the natural musk of his skin.

She took a deep breath in as her tummy did a funny flip and a low instinctual noise escaped her before she had a chance to stop it.

“Cassie.” It was a husky deep whisper and she raised her eyes to look up at him, her lips parting invitingly as he lowered his head and his own lips captured hers.

Chapter 29.

She whimpered against him as his mouth nipped gently at her lips. Touching her, tasting her. She felt his tongue slide across her bottom lip and she moaned.

Luke’s hands lifted her into a seated position on the bed as he dealt with the zip at the back of her dress. And she felt her dress lifting, he pulled his lips from hers long enough to lift the dress up and over her head.

A moment later she heard it land on the floor as his mouth captured hers again.

Gently he laid her back down on the bed as he joined her, lying next to her as his mouth hungrily explored hers. She made a soft keening sound as his hand came up to rest on her stomach.

She felt his flesh against hers. His hand moved, sweeping upwards slowly, brushing her skin until he found the swell of her breast.

She drew in breath as his hand kneaded her pliable flesh. She arched her back as he kissed down the column of her throat. Her fingers dug into his hair when his mouth found her nipple. She writhed under the onslaught.

“O.” she breathed on a sigh. She felt her knickers slipping down her thighs, Luke’s hand guiding them down past her knees and to her ankles until he had removed them.

He tore his lips away from her so that he could look down at her. A hand smoothing over her skin as his eyes followed the movement from her shoulder. Down over her breast. Across her stomach. Over her hip bone and down to her knee before starting the journey back.

“Cassie.” He bent his head once more to kiss her, urging her to open her mouth wider for him so that he could dip all of his tongue into her mouth. He filled her mouth completely and she whimpered against him.

She cried out as Luke’s fingers found the sensitive area between her legs. She heard him groan as he stroked her, slowly. Enjoying the feel of her skin.

“Luke.” She whispered his name. she clutched at his shoulders. She wanted to feel his skin and she tugged at his jacket. Luke obliged her and shrugged himself out of his jacket and his shirt followed a moment later.

Her hands were free to enjoy the feel of his skin now, they roamed over the muscled shoulders, down his arm and back again to his back. “O.” She exclaimed as his fingers became firmer. She felt the spiralling pleasure spreading out.

She felt him shrug out of his trousers and then he took her hand and guided her to him. Her fingers wrapped around his hardness without a second bidding and she heard Luke take in a breath.

His lips trailed kisses across her ribcage, down across her stomach before coming to the triangle between her legs. His hand gently parted her legs and she felt his tongue stroking her in the same way his fingers had been just moments before.

She took in a deep breath as his tongue became faster, firmer. Her muscles clenched and tightened. She curled her fingers in the sheet holding on tight as she slipped over the edge and she was left shuddering against him. “Luke.” She cried out.

Luke’s hand found its way into her hair as he rolled onto his back and pulled her with him. She instinctively knew what he was asking and she trailed little kisses down across his chest, his abdomen.

“Cassie.” Luke groaned her name as her tongue gently touched the tip of his penis and she took him into her mouth. He sighed, a long drawn out sound. It excited her and she moved up and down on him getting into a rhythm. Luke’s fingers held on to her hair, stopping it from falling around her face as he looked down to watch her.

That felt so good, it was like sweet torture. She sped up, managing to take all of him into her mouth right down to the base and back up again where her tongue flicked across the head before she came all the way back down again and started the movement again.

He grabbed at her then. Pulling her away. He couldn’t take any more of that. He pulled her up against him, rolling so that he pinned her to the mattress and he rested himself between her legs.

Cassie brought up a hand and touched his face. His hand covered hers and he turned his face to kiss the palm of her hand.

His fingers curled around hers and he held her hand as he entered her. A contented sigh escaped his lips as her warm flesh accepted him and wrapped around him tightly. “Your beautiful.” He told her. “So beautiful.” He thrust himself back and forth in slow rhythmic motions.

Cassie’s hips matched his movements. Moving back and forth and she heard him groan. She felt the kick of satisfaction, the pleasure of knowing that what she was doing he was enjoying and so she did it again and then for good measure she did it again.

Luke’s hand came to her hip. His thumb tracing the curvature of her hip bone as he continued thrusting. His other hand still holding hers in a soothing gesture. Their fingers interlocked.

She wrapped her legs around him, his tempo changed became quicker. His body shifted position so that he could enter her deeper. Her body arched as she felt the wave of another orgasm begin.

She arched her body, she moved her hips. Her nails biting into his shoulder. And then she was shuddering again as she rode the wave to the highest peak and fell over the edge, a few seconds later Luke followed her.

Luke held her in his arms as their breathing returned to normal. He stroked her hair and placed gentle kisses on her shoulder, her face, the tip of her nose.

And then he moved to her side and pulled her up against him. Wrapping his arms around her and curving his body around so that his front was lying tight up against her back.

Cassie slept better than she had in a very long time. Curled up beside Luke until she woke as the sun was slipping through the curtains.

Already her body riding towards the highest point of an orgasm. She groaned as the sleep faded from her brain as she realised that Luke’s hand was the reason for her aroused state.

She felt his breath on the back of her shoulder and she whimpered as her body tensed and then she was shuddering against him, calling out to him as he entered her from behind.

She moved her hips to accommodate him, his hand never leaving her as he thrust, taking her higher towards another orgasm.

She heard him moan, a deep vibrating guttural noise that matched her own. And then she was shuddering as she felt him convulse behind her, in her.

Their breathing haggard as Luke wrapped an arm around her and she clung to his arm as though it were a life raft. She felt his lips kiss her shoulder, tracing a line to her spine at the back of her neck.

“Now that is how to say good morning.” Luke’s deep sleepy voice spoke softly in her ear.

“Good morning.” She said on a little giggle. Luke’s hand stroked her arm as his lips kissed her throat.

“You smell good.” He told her.

“Oh…” She felt the heat in her cheeks.

“Especially just here.” He said as his tongue gently touch the soft skin just behind her ear.

“Oh.” She sighed.

“And here.” He said as his teeth nipped the curve of her neck just where it became her shoulder.

“Oh.” She groaned.

“And don’t get me started about just here.” And she felt his lips kiss each vertebra in her neck from the top of her shoulders to where it disappeared at her skull.

“Luke.” Her fingers dug into the arm around her waist.

“How are you feeling this morning?” He asked her.

“Um…” His hand skimmed over the curve of her hip. “I feel surprisingly spritely.” She told him.

“Spritely. Mm, I like the sound of that.” He said as he sucked on her earlobe. “We really should see about getting up or there will be no chance of getting any breakfast.”

“And I am starving.” she admitted.

“It’s all that exercise. I’m going to take a shower and then I will be back. Don’t go anywhere.” He leant over and kissed her cheek. And then he was gone.

Cassie stretched lazily as she heard the sound of the shower and then Luke padded back into the room and eased the covers from her.

“What?” she moved her head to look at him. Without a word her scooped her up into his arms. “U…” she squawked and then he was padding back across the room and into the bathroom where he stepped into the shower cubicle with her and eased her feet to the ground and wrapped her close to his body.

The warm water caressed her skin as Luke stroked her before he washed her hair. She was too bemused to say anything. She had never had a man wash her hair before.

Luke carefully washed the last of the dried blood from her hair before he soaped her skin. And then with a devilish grin he handed her the shower gel.

Dutifully she took it and washed him in the same way he had washed her. When she had finished he took her into his arms and kissed her. Holding her tight against his body. Cupping the back of her head as he devoured her lips in unhurried fashion.

They made love again, unhurriedly, taking their time until finally, Luke turned off the water and wrapped a towel around her as he dried her and then carried her through to the bedroom where he laid her on the bed gently and kissed her again.

“I can walk.” She told him. “There is nothing wrong with my legs.” Luke reached down and kissed her ankle and then up the side of her calf to her knee and up her thigh. He lifted his head and looked at her.

“You’re right. There is nothing wrong with your legs.” Cassie blushed and Luke laughed as he watched the colour infuse her cheeks.

“You know what I meant.”

“Yes I did.” And then he kissed her mouth. “There’s nothing wrong with your lips either.” He told her when he lifted his head.

“Oh.” She blushed even harder and Luke kissed first one burning cheek and then the other.

“I don’t think I will ever tire of that.”

“That’s not fair.” She said as she felt the heat in her cheeks.

“I don’t play fair.” He told her.

“You don’t.”

“When it comes to you, no. I want you.”

“O.”

“I’m prepared to do what it takes to get you.” Luke said.

“Oh…I” what could she possibly say to that?

“Don’t go anywhere. I’ll be back in two seconds.” He told her and he strode from the room with just a towel around his hips.

Cassie smiled and hugged herself tightly as she stretched. She couldn’t believe how happy she was and she sighed deeply. “You sound very contented.” Luke said as he came back into the room.

“I am.” She told him truthfully.

“I am glad.” And he laid some of her clothes and her hair brush on to the bed and she sat up as she watched him. He leaned down and placed an ear on her chest.

“What are you doing?” she asked him.

“Listening to see if you are purring yet.” He said softly.

“And am I?” She asked.

“Not yet. But I know how to rectify that.”

“How.”

“By stroking you of course.” And she felt is hand slid up the inside of her leg and then when he had reached her sensitive place she sighed and moaned as he stroked her until she purred.

He kissed her then as he held her in his arms as the last of her orgasm rocked her body. “Do you have any idea?” Luke said huskily.

“About what?”

“How damn sexy you are.”

“Probably not.”

“Then that is something else we have to sort out.” He sighed as he placed a kiss on her forehead. “In the meantime.” He motioned a hand towards the clothes he had placed on the bottom of the bed.

One of her tops, a pair of jeans and underwear were there for her. Luke kissed her again. “I’ll give you some privacy to get dressed.” He said. “Only because I think you would rather that. I would love to watch you.” She gasped in shock and he laughed, a rich deep sound. “But that will have to wait until you are more comfortable with that idea.” He promised her.

“I…” she shook her head.

“I’ll go get dressed and be back soon and we can go raid the kitchen for food.”

“A proper hunter gatherer.” She joked.

“Be careful I might just drag you back to my cave later.”

“Do you promise?” she asked breathlessly and Luke laughed before dropping a kiss on the tip of her nose and leaving the room to allow her to get dress in private.