with anything he didn’t understand. Instead, he swooped her into his arms to carry her into his home.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
EVEN AFTER TANNER placed her on his bed, Lyric felt as if she was still floating in the air and her body was refusing to come in for a landing. It seemed every single cell in her body had gotten pulverized into one sensuous ball of fire.
She felt like she was in another world, but wasn’t too far out in the universe not to notice Tanner was stripping off his clothes to reveal a body she’d only seen a hint of in his workout attire.
Now she was getting a total, unobstructed view, and what she was seeing was arousing her all over again. His body was magnificent. Not for the first time she thought the man and his body should be on the cover of a fitness magazine.
She bit down on her bottom lip thinking she could probably have an orgasm just from looking at him. She’d gotten three already. Or had it been four? Maybe even five? She had lost count. Her first ever without the use of her battery-operated toy. That was pathetic, but the truth.
Totally naked, Tanner headed toward the bed and intense heat throbbed between her legs with every step he took.
Her gaze moved all over him. The amount of hair on his chest was sparse, but created a trail that led all the way down to his groin. And speaking of that area...
Lyric sat up in bed, estimating that she would have to wrap both hands around what he was packing. Oh, my. Just looking at him while he rolled on a condom was getting her wired to the point that she just might blow a fuse. How could any man be so perfectly built? She needed to get an eyeful and sear it into memory because she was well aware after today he would walk away and not look back.
He placed his knee on the mattress and reached out, then after sliding her bra off her shoulders and tossing it aside, he drew her to him to rest his forehead against hers. “Your scent is powerful, Lyric. It reached out to me all the way across the room, letting me know you wanted me again.”
She pulled away from him and knew she had a baffled look on her face. “What?”
He smiled. “It doesn’t matter. But you want me again, right?”
Oh, yeah, he was definitely right. “Yes.”
His smile widened. “No reservations?”
How could he ask her that after she’d shared her first oral sex experience of any kind with him. “None.”
“Good.” When he looked at her breasts fully uncovered, he actually licked his lips, sending a rush of blood through her veins.
“Before we leave here today, I plan to make another meal out of you.”
She swallowed knowing that was his way of letting her know they would be engaging in oral sex again. “I’d like that.” No need to lie about it when she’d liked the feel of his tongue inside of her. And since this would be their only time together, the memories would help sustain her.
“You tasted good. Real good.”
She wasn’t sure what she should say to that, but since she took it as a compliment, she said, “Thank you.”
“And,” he said, humming close to her ear, “I plan to suck your breasts again. Your nipples taste good, too.”
His words caused a sensual pull in the area between her legs. He was totally different from Westley and any other guy she’d had sex with. They never told her what they planned to do. They just did it and expected her to keep up.
Tanner was making her feel like a sensuous woman for the first time...ever. She liked the thought that she was embarking on doing some things she’d never done before with him. Sure, this wasn’t her first rodeo with intercourse, but she had a feeling Tanner was about to take her on the wildest ride of her life and what she’d done in the past wouldn’t compare.
Tanner leaned in and kissed her. Soon she was purring in his mouth from the intensity of the kiss. Closing her eyes, she was swept away in a sea of earth-shattering sensations as he deepened the kiss, with long, intense strokes of his tongue. When she felt her back touch the mattress, he released her mouth. She opened her eyes to see him straddling her body.
“Tanner...”
She wasn’t exactly sure why she said his name at that very moment. Maybe