But I Need You - W. Winters Page 0,12

my neck.

“He likes to kiss you here … I understand the desire.”

Marcus

I’m ever so careful with my little mouse. The corners of my lips tug up at the nickname that’s been buried so long in my conscious. It’s been a lifetime since I thought of her like that. Which is quite different from what I imagine she’s thinking right now.

Her shyness and timidness are … more appealing than I ever dreamed. Although my illicit fantasies that included playing games didn’t hold an ounce of wavering. Not on her part and certainly not on mine.

“Touch for a touch, little mouse,” I whisper and let the promise … or threat … linger before I add, “I go first this time.”

The hitch in her breath is accompanied by her eyes shutting tight. The light lays there on the delicate hollow at her throat and unlike what I planned, I graze my teeth along her slender neck, noting how her back arches and her heartbeat pounds. My bottom lip tips just slightly before lifting away, leaving a small bit of moisture just beneath the tender side of her ear.

I can’t resist blowing ever so slightly and my reward is a sudden, sharp intake of breath.

“Your turn,” I tell her, but she’s still for far too long. Doesn’t she know what she does to me? How everything twists with her around. Black and white bleed together and all that remains are gray blurs, bringing only her into sharp focus.

“Whatever you want,” I say, practically pleading with her as I drop my lips to the shell of her ear. “Take it, ask it, do as you please.” Everything about her threatens to make me lose control.

“A question,” she says and the words rush out of her. “A touch for a question.”

Disappointment is a heavy weight, but I should know better than to push her too soon. My scared little mouse.

“My touch, your question,” I respond although I don’t agree.

“What do you want after?” she asks and I smirk, my lips grazing her ear as I admonish her, saying, “So expectant.”

Goosebumps flow down her caramel skin and I’m eager to touch, lick, and cover them in every way I’ve dreamt. “After what?” I practically dare her to say it.

Her bottom lip quivers ever so slightly and those long lashes stay down, covering her gaze I’m desperate to see.

She doesn’t answer even though her lips part. I have mercy on her. She deserves that at the very least.

“Don’t be afraid. No matter how much I want to fuck you, I won’t until you beg me.”

I hate how her body relaxes even if she doesn’t do it purposefully. It’s a tangible sense of relief and that tells me many things. For one, she thought I would take from her. Pressing my hand against her lower belly, my fingers would play along the seams of her panties if the shirt wasn’t in my way. I push her back to my front and make sure she feels how hard I am for her before telling her, “Your body may want me now, but you’ll be begging me to fuck you, Delilah. You will feel deprived without me inside of you.”

A huff of amusement leaves me as the sound slipping from her lips mimics both a moan of pleasure and tortured agony.

“Another question?” I ask her. “My next touch will be lower.”

With my warning lingering, she surprises me. Lifting her arm slowly and whispering, so low it’s almost not audible, “A touch.” Although her eyes stay closed and her body remains as it is, her arm moves behind her head and then behind mine.

Closing my eyes, I let her press her palm against my neck, certain the rough stubble will grate along her soft skin. Her fingers linger there, feeling every inch of the back of my neck and then move higher, up my jaw. When she trails them to my lips, I can’t resist the urge to nip them.

Shock ignites within her and she rips her hand away, her eyes opening for just a moment. A moment where perhaps she felt the danger once again.

She’ll learn, she’ll grow to be at ease around me. I’ll make sure of that.

With her breathing erratic still, she forces her eyes closed and I make my next move obvious. Slipping my left hand under the thin fabric of her sleep shirt, I slide all the way up to where it was just a moment ago and then lower, lower still, slipping beneath the elastic of