he growled against her lips, making Amber both shudder and throb harder between her legs.
“God yes.”
Raphek gave her another deep kiss that stole her remaining breath and then pulled away and up onto his knees, straddling her body. He pulled his T-shirt over his head and tossed it onto the floor. Amber watched almost in a daze while he unbuttoned his jeans and pushed them down his hips, boxers and all. Her eyes widened when his cock sprang free. Had she really thought it large before? Erect, it truly was impressive—and a bit intimidating.
After his jeans and boxers joined his shirt over the side of the bed, he reached down to grasp the hem of her own T-shirt. Amber tore her gaze away from his member and hastily lifted her arms over her head as he removed it. Her jeans were unbuttoned and yanked halfway down her legs before she could even blink.
When only her socks and panties remained, Raphek paused and just seemingly drank her in from head to toe with his eyes. Heat instantly invaded her cheeks, and Amber had the sudden urge to dive under the blankets beneath her. She fisted the comforter tightly. Her mind had been swimming with so much pleasure that she had completely forgotten about the handful of stretchmarks from her pregnancy that stood out quite vividly on her lower belly. She knew that they shouldn’t bother her; they were just a natural part of motherhood, but then Garr—
No.
Amber slowly released the comforter that she had been clenching like a lifeline. The doubts, the self-castigation that asshole’s words had caused her. That part of her life was over. The final nail would be driven in once she talked to her lawyer tomorrow. She would not allow any of those destructive feelings from her old life ruin things for her here with Raphek.
Raphek was still watching her keenly, only now his eyes were less dark with lust and more—wary. Damn. No doubt her scent had betrayed her sudden anxiety.
Amber held out her arms to him. “I’m just a bit shy about my body,” she admitted. “That’s all.”
Raphek leaned down and gave her a sweet kiss on her mouth. “Your body is beautiful,” he said, “so soft and flushed with the color of Terran roses.”
The intensity of his fire-colored eyes was almost too much to bear as he complimented her. She wanted to look away, but his gaze seemed to catch and draw her in like a moth to a flame. The arousal that had almost dimmed to nothing flared back bright and needy under that heavy gaze.
Slowly, Raphek lowered himself down even farther until their chests were almost touching, propped up with a forearm on either side of her head. Amber reached up and clutched at his shoulders, her breath catching in anticipation.
“Maybe you taste like a rose, too.”
Raphek took her lips again, his kiss just as thorough and passionate as before her little freak-out. When she was breathless and panting again, the silky fire of his lips left her mouth and slowly set a path ablaze down her chin, neck, until they finally stopped to latch onto her right nipple.
“Raph!” Amber moaned as he sucked hard before drawing back to swirl is tongue over the hyper-sensitive bud teasingly.
Amber tangled her fingers in his thick hair and tugged a few times in encouragement. She then arched up with a cry when Raphek unexpectedly pinched her other nipple. He chuckled against her breast, the vibrations sending pleasant shivers throughout her chest. After nipping playfully at the little bud he had been tonguing, he gave the other a final pinch as he resumed his journey down her belly with his mouth. He paused to dip his tongue into her bellybutton a couple of times, making her flinch and gasp as it both tickled and made adrenaline shoot up her spine.
Then as she gazed down at him with heavy-lidded eyes, Raphek began to trace a couple of her more reddish stretchmarks with his tongue. Self-consciousness started to rear its ugly head again but then her panties were suddenly sliding down, and Raphek’s tongue licked over a different bud.
…and Amber didn’t give a damn about the marks anymore.
Oral sex was something she had never experienced but had always been curious about. That it was happening finally was enough to almost short-circuit her brain. Then Raphek twirled his tongue in some incomprehensible way, and her brain did short-circuit as a lightning bolt of pleasure shot up her spine from