me to resist her. I managed it for a moment. But she was a goddess, my goddess. There was no way I could keep my promise to War, and to her brother.
My nostrils flared, teased by her vanilla perfume. A dark hunger arose, one that I’d attempted unsuccessfully to sate with others.
Seeming to sense the razor’s edge I teetered on, Lace gave me a triumphant smile. Reaching back, she released the hook on her dress and lowered the zipper, leaving a black and pink pool of chiffon puddled at her feet. With her slender shoulders back and her proud chin lifted, she stood before me nearly naked in a strapless blush corset, matching panties, and gartered stockings.
God, she was more beautiful than I’d imagined. More beautiful than any woman I’d ever seen.
On fire, I reached for and claimed her, crushing my lips and my body to hers. She wrapped her arms around my neck like she had when we’d been dancing. The connection didn’t extinguish the flames, though. It fueled them.
My hands in her hair, I twisted and tugged it. Her lips parted, and I plunged my tongue between them. The touch of her tongue to mine made my cock lengthen as if she’d stroked it.
“Babe, you’re so hot,” I rasped, breaking the seal between our mouths to rain worshipful kisses across her cheek and to her ear. “Looking at you is foreplay. Dancing with you was agony. Kissing you sets me on fire.”
“Oh, Bry.” She mewed my name like I’d dreamed of her doing.
“I have to have you,” I whispered heatedly.
She tugged on my neck. Removing the bow tie, she brought my ear to her lips. “Then have me.”
Fuck yeah. I scooped her into my arms and carried her up the stairs. On the landing, I glanced around. There were several doors. “Which one is your room?”
“First door on the right.” She worked on releasing the buttons on my shirt while I strode down the hall.
Stepping inside her room, I pushed the door closed with my foot, then set her down, reveling in the softness of her sleek skin.
“Dammit,” she said softly. “These buttons are so small. They’re driving me crazy.” She’d only managed three of them.
“Let me do it.” I sat on the edge of her bed and beckoned to her. “I’ll get the buttons, if you get the laces on my shoes.”
Her expression serious, she dropped to her knees on the rug in front of me. “Teamwork.”
I nearly spilled in my trousers at seeing her like that. Her mouth was inches away from my cock. Her tits were pushed up in her corset, so high I could almost see her dusky nipples from my position.
“You’re so beautiful, Lace.”
“You’re beautiful too.” She glanced up at me through her lashes, her lips slowly curling.
“I want to kiss you again.” I wanted her pretty pink lips wrapped around my shaft. I wanted her mouth on my skin. Mine everywhere on her. So many fantasies and not enough time. My heart raced like crazy.
“Stop distracting me,” she said, holding her bottom lip between her teeth as she tugged on my laces. “Get your shirt off.”
I did as she instructed and then gripped her arms, lifting her to her feet just as she whipped the second sock away. I went right for her mouth, tasting and taking each moan, and feeding her my hot groans.
“Bry,” she whispered as I licked my way across her lips. “So good. You taste so good.”
“You taste like vanilla and sunshine.” And warmth I wanted to bask in. Sweetness I wanted to swallow.
“Your skin is like velvet.” She smoothed her hands over my shoulders and down my arms. “Your muscles are hard like steel.”
“That’s not the only part of me that’s hard, I assure you.”
Her gaze dipped, and my cock gave an eager leap.
I tucked a curled finger under her chin and lifted it. “I want you,” I said, not messing around. “All the way.”
“All the way is what I’ve always wanted with you,” she said softly, yet without guile or artifice.
“I’ve dreamed of touching you like this.” I brushed her silky hair forward and started working on the tiny fastenings of her corset. “I’m taking your things off, but just so you know, I’m keeping my pants on until the last moment.”
“Why?” she asked, looking perplexed.
“Because I’m only a man, not a superhero, and I’ve never been so fucking turned on in my entire life.” With shaking hands, I tucked her hair behind her ears while