it. He came with a growl, his eyes closed as pure pleasure washed over his features. He dropped his head on her shoulder, his rapid heartbeat matching her own, and when he lifted his face to her, he was smiling. “Let’s try that again, but with a bed.”
“Good idea.”
They lay in bed an hour later completely spent. Lucien had Darcy tucked in his arms with her back to his chest, his fingers idly running up and down her stomach.
“I was coming to see you,” he said.
“Really?”
“Yeah, I was being gentlemanly by suggesting we take it a day at a time, but I’m not much of a gentleman.”
She looked back at him and his grin was boyish and wicked all at once.
While watching him, she saw his expression turn serious. “Tell me about the visit to your mom.”
She turned into him. “Your comment about what was in it for her to get involved in my life again was rattling around in my brain. When I arrived at her apartment, there was a delivery man dropping off a case of vodka.” Anger surged through her again just thinking about her mother, and Lucien, being so attuned to her, noticed it.
“What’s that look for?” he asked.
“I think she was delighted to tell me about the role she played in what happened to our child; I think she actually got off on it.”
She saw the fury burning in his eyes, but his voice was soft, almost tender, when he replied, “As sad as it is to say, I’m not surprised by her behavior. Are you?”
“No.”
His arms tightened around her and he spoke with conviction. “We will find our child.”
“I know.”
“Do you think it’s a boy or a girl?”
It was almost too much to bear, knowing their child was out there and they didn’t know him or her. Lucien seemed to sense how painful it was for her when he added, “Too soon.”
“Yeah.”
She needed to lighten the mood because she was dangerously close to losing it. She rested her head on her hand. “I was at Allegro when your fan club arrived. They were talking about you like a piece of meat.”
Seeming to sense what she needed, Lucien replied. “Really?” He wiggled his brows at her. “Do tell.”
Her response to that was to elbow him in the stomach, which earned her a laugh.
“I didn’t like hearing them talk about you as if you were public property. They even mentioned me and how they wouldn’t mind a threesome.”
Lucien leaned up a bit at that and Darcy thought he was going to say something provocative and was prepared to hit him again, but she was completely taken by surprise by what he did say.
“Sharing you? No way in hell.”
“What?”
“It’s not really my thing to begin with, but my focus is completely on you, now that you’re back in my bed.”
She straddled him at those words, taking him into her hand. She settled onto him, moving down his hard length, which earned her a moan of approval. His hands found her hips as she started to move, slowly, like he had done with her earlier. It started off as lazy and teasing, but as the orgasm tightened in her belly, she threw her head back and rode him hard until she came.
Lucien sat up to suck her breast into his mouth before he flipped them, lifted her hips, and started to really move until he followed her with his own release.
Darcy’s eyes closed as complete contentment filled her. She felt herself slipping into sleep when Lucien rolled her nipple and tugged.
“Let’s go out.”
“What?” she answered, but couldn’t bring herself to open her eyes.
“Come on, I’ve a need to take my lady out.”
Darcy was tempted to roll onto her side, but she liked what he was doing to her and how her body was responding to it.
“Where do you want to go?”
“Allegro.”
There was a note of something in his tone, which made her lift her heavy lids to look at him. “What are you up to?”
“Nothing. Come with me and then we’ll come back and start round two.”
“Let’s skip the middle part and go right to round two.”
He pressed a kiss on her belly before he climbed from bed. “Come on.”
“I need a shower.”
“No.”
She sat up in time to see him pulling on his jeans, and knowing that he wasn’t wearing anything under them was going to be very distracting.
“Why can’t I shower?”
“Because I want my scent on you as a reminder of how it got there and how