She urged him back down to her breasts, crying out when he took her deep into the heated cavern of his mouth again, suckling and drawing mercilessly on one nipple while he stroked the other with his thumb. This exquisite torture went on and on until both her nipples were flushed and peaked for him, and Cecilia was squirming against the bed, unable to contain her breathless cries and whimpers.
She might have blushed at her wantonness if Gideon hadn’t been as wild as she was. By the time he relinquished her breasts with one last lingering stroke with his tongue, he was moving against her, thrusting subtly. His chest was covered with a fine sheen of sweat, and his breaths sawed in and out of his chest. He didn’t appear aware he was doing it, his hips moving in mindless, desperate arousal until she reached down between them and, with one careful flick of her fingers, slipped open the buttons on his breeches.
He froze then, swallowing. “Cecilia, are you sure you’re…is this what you want?”
She smiled and reached up to tug gently on a disheveled lock of his dark hair. He looked so young and boyish with it falling into his eyes, and it was so soft, she wanted to play with it forever, to wake up with her fingers buried in those thick waves. “Yes. I want you, Gideon.” She didn’t hesitate, but took his hand and dragged it down her thigh to the hem of her night rail, and closed his fingers around it.
He paused just long enough to draw in a deep breath before he caught a handful of the fragile linen and drew it up her legs, the fluttering cloth tickling her belly and dragging across her tender nipples before he drew it over her head and tossed it over the side of the bed.
Cecilia fell back against the pillows with a shy smile as Gideon gazed down at her, his breath not quite steady as he took her in with feverish blue eyes. “Is that a blush, sweetheart?” A soft smile crossed his lips as he touched gentle fingers to her cheek. “Here, and here, too.” He followed the sweep of pink from her face down her neck, his smile fading as it swept over her breasts and lower, lower…
“Such perfect skin,” he murmured as he splayed his big hand over her lower belly. “So soft and white, but for that sweet blush.”
Cecilia couldn’t speak, couldn’t move, could only gaze up at him, mesmerized by his murmurs and the gentle stroke of his hands over her skin. He couldn’t seem to get enough of her, touching her everywhere—her neck and shoulders, the tender skin under her breasts, the soft swell of her belly, until at last his hands settled on the inside of her thighs and he eased them gently apart.
He caught his breath as he looked at her center, his big, strong hands holding her open for his gaze. Cecilia felt her blush deepen, but it never occurred to her to try and cover herself, or push him away. She wanted him to look at her, wanted to see the desire in his eyes as he gazed down at her.
“God, look at you, so pink and beautiful here.” He toyed with the dark curls between her thighs, his blue eyes hot, and then, before Cecilia realized what he meant to do, he brushed his thumb over her damp center.
“Ah!” She arched underneath him as heat pooled in her belly.
Gideon’s gaze darted to her face, and a small smile rose to his lips. “Yes, that’s right. No, don’t do that, sweetheart.” Cecilia had pressed the back of her hand against her mouth to smother her cries, but he reached up and tugged it gently away. “I want to hear you cry out for me.”
Cecilia’s blush seared her skin. She didn’t know whether it was embarrassment or arousal, but when Gideon took both her wrists in his hand and drew them over her head, she kept them there, and soon enough whatever embarrassment she felt gave way to a desire unlike anything she’d ever known before.
Gideon dragged his thumb through her folds again, then again, watching her face and crooning to her as he slowly drove her mad.
His touch was light at first, soft—just the tip of his thumb brushing against the tender bud at her center, but as her soft moans grew desperate, he touched her with more deliberation, circling the straining nub over and