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to kiss her throat, but she turned, captured his mouth…then squeezed soap into her own hands.
Never in his life had he felt anything like this. Her hands were warm, slippery, foamy, searching, sliding…stroking. She moved in against him, used her shorter, smaller stature to tease his nipples with her teeth, her tongue, while sliding her hands around his hips, sinking her fingers into the rounded cheeks, careful not to stroke his back, even while trapping the throbbing length of him between them.
He groaned, long and loudly, tipping his face up to the spray as she slipped her hands around the front, and moved enough so that she could stroke the length of him, again and again. He ached to feel her mouth on him, or better yet, bury himself inside of her again. But their confines made both an impossibility.
She stroked and kissed and nibbled her way across his chest. He sunk his fingers into her hair, framed her face, and then finally reached up and gripped the circular shower rod over his head as her hands worked their magic on him. He wanted her, to do this for her, but hadn’t expected the tables to turn so swiftly, so erotically, so…
Her grip tightened, oh so perfectly, and he didn’t even have a chance to prepare. Climax surged up, ripped through, and was upon him before he could even catch his breath. He grunted, growled, and shook as he came. Her hands never left him, her mouth shifted to soft kisses to the center of his chest. Just over his heart.
His knees were weak, but he pulled her to him, into his arms, and just held on. She slid her arms low around his waist and held on just as tightly, her face buried in the crook of his shoulder.
He could feel both of their hearts thundering, but neither spoke. The water gradually turned cool, and he somehow found the wherewithal to grope behind him and spin the antique lever knobs to off without freezing or scalding them.
She started to move, but his hold on her instinctively tightened. He wanted to say…something. Let her know what he was feeling, find out what the tears were all about, and about a million other things he’d never once been compelled to want to find out. Easy enough to say that it was the mind-blowing climaxes doing the talking, but it felt like a cop-out, even now.
“Kirby—”
The damn phone chose that moment to start ringing again.
He supposed he should be happy it hadn’t lit up five minutes earlier.
But this time she did move, did reach through the damp curtain for the towels folded on the rack just beyond the side of the claw foot. “I really should—”
“Kirby,” he said, a little more insistently this time, tipping her chin up to his.
She didn’t avert her gaze, but what he found there didn’t answer any of his questions. The tears were gone, but in their place was something he couldn’t see through, couldn’t read. “Please,” was all she said.
He let her go.
She didn’t flee, exactly, but it was close to it.
He stepped out, dried off, and wrapped the towel around his hips. He wasn’t exactly sure what to do next. He could hear her in the next room, her office, talking quietly on the phone, too quietly to hear the actual conversation. He could only assume it was business. He thought about waiting, but maybe it was best to give her some room. So, after giving a quick scan of the foyer, making sure no one had suddenly shown up looking for a room while he was having the time of his life in a little claw-foot tub, he ducked through to the kitchen, scooped up his clothes, and hers, left hers draped across the back of the kitchen chair, and found the back way up the service stairs to the third floor. Handy to know, he thought, as he made the climb carefully in the tight little turnabout and high, stubby wooden steps. Good thing he wasn’t claustrophobic.
He entered his room, saw the remnants of the kitty supplies, and thought it felt like about a million years had elapsed since containing demon kitty had been his immediate concern. “Amazing what can happen in a single day.” And he knew. He’d won millions in less than twenty-four hours. Lost a bit, on occasion, too.
He couldn’t be entirely certain until some time had passed for him to think on it properly, for it to sink in