the bed, Sia still high in his arms, pressed against his chest, but able to look down on him, her hair coming about them like a curtain, cutting them off from the rest of the world.
He teased them both as he lowered her slightly, knowing she could feel the press of his erection through his trousers against her core. The way her eyes widened with expectation and want... He held her there until once again her eyes drifted closed and her body took over, her legs tightening their hold around his waist and leaning further into him to increase her own pleasure. The gasped inhale sharpened his arousal and he wanted to bury himself in her until he couldn’t tell where he ended and she began. But Sia deserved, needed more than that.
Gently he laid her down, ruefully accepting the groan of disappointment that fell from her lips. He leaned back enough to remove his trousers and boxers, feeling her eyes on him the entire time. He stood there for a moment, allowing her to take him in, taking her in, in turn and marvelling how she reminded him of a Dante Gabriel Rossetti—her flowing auburn hair, pale skin...
His lips lifted gently as he saw the moment she began to grow self-conscious beneath his gaze and looked forward to the day she wouldn’t. Until he realised that in all likelihood he would never see it.
He ignored the way his gut clenched at the thought and turned his attention to her feet. Picking one up, he kissed the arch of her foot and nipped at the soft flesh there when he heard Sia giggle. He lifted her leg gently, smoothing his hands along her calf, guiding her legs to either side of his to make room for him. The laughter left her lips and her eyes grew heavy with arousal as his hands swept further up. He relished the hitch in her breathing, mirroring his own, as he gently drew her legs further apart and settled his attention on the dusting of auburn curls at the apex of her thighs.
‘Sia, I will stop any time,’ he promised.
‘Thank you.’
It was an exchange, an offer that had been accepted and it felt as if it was weighted with a trust that stretched beyond this moment and Sebastian refused to squander it. He placed open-mouthed kisses across her hip and downward until he found the soft, wet, enticing heat of her.
His tongue swirled around her clitoris and her hips bucked beneath him in euphoria. He placed his forearm across her hips, gently holding her in place, and sucked against her just as he entered her with his finger. Sia’s breathing became tinged with small moans of delight, which only served to spur him on.
Her body shifted to welcome more of him, more of the pleasure he was bringing her and he relished it. Her body, her pleasure...it was more to him than his own. He could tell that she was on the brink of orgasm—the flush of her cheeks, the unseeing gaze—there was just a slim tether holding her back and he resented it as much as he imagined she did. He deepened his kiss between her thighs, brought two fingers to her entrance and thrust into her as he sucked on her clitoris and nearly came himself when he felt her orgasm against his mouth.
Sia came back down to earth gradually, but beneath the flickering moments were the traces of a feeling that had overwhelmed her entire body. She felt outside of herself, a giddy joy that almost made her laugh to think that such a feeling existed. She watched Sebastian through heavy-lidded eyes as he leaned back from the bedside table with something in his hand.
He put it aside and came down to lie beside her, running his palm from her hip up to her ribcage, over her breast and nipple and towards her neck to smooth away her hair from her shoulder, before placing kisses on the exact spot that made Sia want to hum with pleasure.
She leaned into the kiss as his arm came around her, pulling her back against the length of his body and the hardness of his arousal. Shocked by how much it turned her on, she couldn’t help but shift against him, loving the way it felt to have his body encompassing hers.
‘We can stop.’
‘I don’t want to.’
He gently pulled her round onto her back and when she looked him in the eye she could see