nodded. “Yeah. That makes sense. I mean, you smelled like a big juicy steak when you came into the bathroom. But after that bag of blood . . .” She inhaled briefly and then nodded. “Not as hungry. You still smell good, but more like meat loaf than a steak. Steak I’d crawl around naked for. Meat loaf.” She shrugged. “Not so much.”
“Meat loaf?” he asked with dismay. Magnus had heard the mated men he worked with complain about meat loaf meals. According to his comrades, they were all right, but simply couldn’t compare to steak.
Allie leaned down to pat his arm sympathetically, leaving only the one arm to cover her breasts, and then straightened again and contemplated him with a frown and again asked, “So, how do we keep you excited, but not too excited?”
Magnus was considering the question when she said, “In porns, the men seem to get turned on when the women play with their breasts and stuff.”
“You watch porn?” he asked with disbelief.
“I’m a thirty-four-year-old virgin who works on the computer. What do you think?” she asked dryly, and then raised her eyebrows. “So, do you want me to caress my breasts or something?”
The question the first time had startled him. This time he imagined her doing that and immediately began to swell inside her again.
“I’ll take that as a yes,” Allie said dryly and, after a hesitation, moved her arms to the sides until her hands covered her breasts. He didn’t even get a peek of nipple, but it didn’t seem to matter and he watched, fascinated, as she began to knead and squeeze her own flesh. But it was when she squeezed her breasts close together and let her head tip back, her mouth opening and her tongue running across her upper lip, that he felt his cock jump in her.
Growling softly, Magnus sat up at once to cover her mouth with his own and thrust his tongue out to rasp over hers. The change of position shifted her slightly in his lap, moving her on top of him and sending another jolt of excitement shooting through them both, and Allie kissed him eagerly back. She released her breasts then and slid her arms around his shoulders to hold him close as his tongue thrust into her. It pressed her breasts closer to his chest, and he felt her excitement as his chest hairs fanned over the sensitive nipples. In the next moment, he slid his hands between them to urge her back a bit so that he could cover her breasts and squeeze and knead them as she had been doing.
They both groaned at the excitement that sent through them, and then Magnus began to pluck at her hard nipples with his thumbs and fingers, tugging and twisting lightly as he thrust his tongue into her mouth with increasing demand. When she then raised and lowered herself on his shaft, he gasped with pleasure and released her breasts to catch her hips and urge her on before he realized what they were doing and how close to the fire they were dancing.
Tightening his hold on her hips then, Magnus made her stop and muttered, “Too much.”
“Yes,” she gasped, but couldn’t seem to help herself and tried to move again. The hell of it was, he wanted her to. But he also didn’t want to hurt her again the next time they made love. Cursing, Magnus wrapped his arms around her and dropped back on the bed, taking her with him. Then he tightened his hold on her, preventing her from moving again.
They lay like that for a moment, both breathing heavily until the throbbing in his erection eased a bit, and then he asked the first question to pop into his head. “Why are you still a virgin?”
Allie stiffened in his arms and he was guessing the question washed away a lot of her desire, because his own quite suddenly receded like a wave pulling back from the shore. Finally, she shrugged against him, and muttered, “I don’t know. I guess I never met anyone I was interested in sleeping with.”
They were both silent for a minute, and then she said, “That’s not true. I guess . . . while I was interested a time or two, I was afraid.”
“Of sex?” he asked uncertainly.
“No. Of getting involved with someone,” she admitted quietly.
He considered that briefly, thinking that while it was causing them difficulties right now, he was actually quite pleased that he was