Awaken to Pleasure - By Nalini Singh Page 0,58

wet folds of her body. How could any man resist such a delicious feminine invitation?

Sinking to his knees in front of her, he pulled her bottom to the edge of the leather bench. Continuing to hold her legs high in the air with his hands, he spread her thighs farther apart. Musky heat and the scent of feminine arousal rushed over him like a powerful drug.

"No!" She tried to pull away. "I won't survive."

"Be still, wife. I want to indulge my hunger for you." Slow and deep, his first stroke down her parted flesh made her scream.

"I'm going to kill you!" Her whole body quivered as he stroked again. "Oh ... oh!Jackson!"

Using his strength to tilt her body a little more, he thrust his tongue into her, tasting her, marking her, branding her. Again and again and again. She thrashed and writhed but her body was a fountain for him, giving him the taste he craved - the flavor of her passion for him.

"Again!" He thrust his tongue into her after she went over the first cliff, forcing her to the second precipice. "For me. Come, cara . For your husband." She didn't disappoint him, her spine arching as she trembled in a release that made her skin ripple.

His ownbody roared with triumph at her shuddering orgasm. But it wasn't enough. Not yet. Rising above her, he put his hands under her thighs and pulled her further from the bench, until her entire bottom was off the leather. Her body was on an angle that made his entry deeper than he'd believed possible.

She screamed as he slid into her and he felt her internal walls contract again and again as pleasure ripped through her, without mercy. Pulling out, he thrust deeper, clasping her buttocks in his palms. Forced to remain in position by his body, her legs ran up his chest to point at the ceiling. Her breasts moved as she rode the wave of ecstasy, but it was the sound of her calling his name over and over that finally destroyed any control he might've had. He surrendered to the rampaging heat inside him and thrust so deep, he thought he'd touched her heart.

Sometime afterward,Taylorpropped herself on his chest and said, "I have one question."

Under his back, the exercise mat was cool. "Hmm." He was idly stroking her bottom.

"Did you think this was a one-shot thing? If you did, you'd better invest in some heavy-duty locks because I intend to watch at every opportunity." Her warning was delivered in a tone usually reserved for serious matters.

He thought it over. "You can watch so long as I getpostworkout sex."

She nodded. "Fair enough."

"Lots of sex."

"You get that anyway."

"What did you mean about making a baby?" He didn't want to get his hopes up, not when she had been so honest about her fears.

"Pretty self-explanatorydon'chathink ?" She began kissing his chest.

"Taylor." He fisted a hand in her unbound hair and forced her head up.

"I'm fertile and unprotected," she said simply.

A kind of hesitant wonder lit his face. He touched her cheek. "A baby?"

"Yup."Taylorfelt the impact of that smile deep inside. Tonight for the first time,Jacksonhad totally let go of passion's reins and she'd never felt more powerful as a woman. Yet, the unexpected tenderness of his smile threatened to shatter her.

"Are you sure it's not too soon? I know I have been arrogant in my demands but I can wait."

She felt her heart jump. "You're the only man I can imagine taking this risk with. And now is the time to take that risk, while I have the strength to fight the fear." While she was still floating high on the success of conquering her sexual demons. "Who knows what could happen in the future? I don't want to let this chance go by."

He hugged her tight. "Thank you, cara mia ." After a while, he freed her from his almost bruising embrace.

"We haven't made a baby yet."

"Yes, we have." He touched her stomach. "Our child is growing inside you right now."

"What? Are you in contact with all your little soldiers?" She laughed. "Has one breached the castle walls?"

"Wait..." He curved one hand around his ear. "I've just received a transmission. Castle walls have been breached. Our bambina is on the way." He smiled at her and it was a smile of such pure delight that her heart was shocked into a sort of frozen wonder.

"It might be a bambino ," she whispered, amazed that she was going to have