you… God.”
Not God. Master. He was her master in this moment, taking her over with the slightest pulses of his hips and the rubbing of her clit and the command of his gaze on her.
“I want…” She gasped as he twisted her clit lightly between his fingers. “I want more. I want—” This time her fingers were the ones that twisted, pinching her nipples hard. “More, damn it!”
His gut clenched, a shot of sensation racing down his spine to his sac. He couldn’t wait any longer.
The next thing he knew, he was pumping into her hard, in and out, his fingers busy on her clit, his gaze latched on to the rising crest of hunger and fear and wonder in her eyes. He watched until her breath stopped, until she bore down against him. Until the tiny nub beneath his touch pulsed, her body clenched around his, and he knew she’d gone straight to the heavens between one moment and the next. Only then did he follow her.
Chapter Twenty-Four
The water hit her square in the face, shocking her dazed brain awake in an instant. She stood beneath the shower and shivered, waiting, repeating every curse she’d ever heard her coworkers say, until the water slowly warmed to an acceptable temperature. Until her body stopped shivering and the heat began to seep into muscles that ached like she hadn’t known they could ache before. Hell, if she’d had a handheld, she’d have that sucker between her legs in a minute, right where the ache was worst.
But she’d asked for it, right?
The thought brought a grin to her face. A big, wide, sloppy, stupid grin. She’d done a lot more than ask—she’d demanded. And she’d gotten everything she demanded, plus so much more.
Fionn hadn’t let her sleep for a long time this morning. Between the lack of sleep and the sex, she felt like a zombie, but there was work to do. Fionn and Mack were scouting a possible location for Ferrina tonight, and she was launching the new program she’d written, one that would sift through the mounds of financial records she’d collected faster than she could, find the patterns buried there. Hopefully find the money Robert had hidden.
Without warning the door to the shower opened, letting in a wash of cool air and one very big Irishman. A shot of adrenaline hit Lyse before her brain registered who her guest was. “Fionn?”
As if it would be anyone else, but…zombie. She sagged against the wall, then let out a yelp when the cold tile chilled her skin. “What are you doing in here?”
His grin offered no apologies. “Joining you.”
Joining her. Of course he was. Stupid question.
She hadn’t realized her hands were covering her breasts till Fionn grasped her wrists and dragged them down. “You’re spoilin’ the view.” Holding her hands to either side, out of his way, he bent to run his stubbled cheek along her nipples, which came to hard points just for him.
A wave of heat rose up her neck, her cheeks. Fionn chuckled, the vibration sending a tingle through her breast and down between her legs.
Before he could see just how much his touch affected her—though wasn’t it a bit late for that?—Lyse moved back into the stream of water, closing her eyes as it poured over her head, trying to ignore Fionn’s hands as they began to roam. Except he didn’t go for the obvious spots; he went for her hips, her butt, her thighs. All the places he’d made ache throughout the day, he was massaging. As if he knew…
Well, of course he knew. He’d done this often enough.
Stop thinking about it, Lyse.
She couldn’t hold things he’d done before he was with her against him. Well, she could, but that wasn’t who she wanted to be. Who she wanted them to be. She had a past too, albeit nothing to do with sex—much worse, she’d almost gotten him blown up. She didn’t want him holding that against her, and she needed to do the same.
But right now she needed to hurry. There were things to do. Important things.
The scent of her shampoo hit her at the same time as the click of the lid on the bottle. “Tilt your head back for me,” Fionn said. His voice was rough after sleep, gravelly, like he’d used it all night—or like he’d been growling and groaning and calling her name. And he had. She shivered at the memories even as she obeyed him.
No one had ever washed her