forward, wrapping his arms around her and lowering her to the bed. His clothes rubbed against her skin, reminding her that she was totally naked and he wasn’t. That she was at his mercy.
His lips found hers, and she drove her fingers through his hair, sliding her tongue eagerly into his mouth and kissing him with all she had. The weight of him pressed her into the bed, his knee easing her thighs open.
“You drive me wild,” he rasped, his hand sliding up the inside of her thigh. “You drive me so fucking wild that I have no idea what’s going to happen once this is over.”
“Don’t think about that.” She cupped his face, letting her gaze bore into his. “Just be here with me now.”
His hand found her sex. Letting out a harsh groan, he ran his fingertips through her wetness, finding her entrance and pressing forward. Audrey gasped as he slipped one finger inside, then two, and she arched against his hand. If she didn’t shatter into a million pieces tonight, then it would be a miracle.
“Feels good?”
“So good.” Her head pressed back against the soft duvet, shadows dancing on the roof from the trees swaying in the wind outside.
“Can I taste you?” The words were whispered against her ear, his facial hair tickling her while his fingers worked in and out.
Audrey felt the breath leave her lungs, and she nodded, eyes locked onto Ronan’s. He pressed his lips against hers—such a sweet, almost chaste, brush that in the midst of everything else they were doing felt like him reassuring her. Or maybe he was seeking reassurance for himself. But she didn’t have time to wonder, because the second his lips started moving down her body she was lost to sensation.
He kissed her breasts again, then down the side of her ribs, around her belly button, and lower, lower, lower. When his tongue brushed softly over her sex, parting her, she let out a deep sound that came from somewhere long-buried. It was primal and human, because that’s how he made her feel—like a woman who deserved life’s pleasures. Like someone who had every right to be here.
Ronan set his mouth on her, nuzzling her sex and seeking out the tight bundle of nerves at its apex. Her clit throbbed. And when he concentrated his tongue there, flicking back and forth…Lord. Audrey flung her arm across her eyes and arched, tremors ripping through her. He kept his fingers working inside her, all the while drawing her closer to the edge of release with his tongue. The scratch of his beard against her sensitive area made it even better.
“Ronan,” she gasped, her hand finding his head and her fingers tightening in his hair. “Oh God.”
The ripples of pleasure grew closer together until she couldn’t tell them apart anymore. It was like one continuous, shimmering stream of sensation.
“I’m—” Her words were cut short as her orgasm hit for real, making her thighs quake and her sex clench. Suddenly aware that she was probably alerting every single one of Ronan’s neighbors to their nighttime activities, she grabbed one of his pillows and held it over her face, letting the down and cotton absorb the sound of her cries until she had nothing left to give.
For a moment, there was a void, sound and light and feeling all blotted out by the wave a rightness and release that ebbed through her. She discarded the pillow and looked down into the dim light to see Ronan resting his cheek against her inner thigh. His eyes were like fire. The light shifted as the rain swelled outside, showing Audrey the details of him in flashes—the lips that had brought her to the brink, the eyes that she wanted to drown in, the hand he rested on her leg.
“Good?” he asked quietly.
Audrey’s lips tilted up into a smile. “You have no idea.”
“I have some idea.”
“Your neighbors might, too.” She cringed.
He crawled up onto the bed beside her and drew her against him so that her back lined his front. The soft cotton of his T-shirt was pleasant against her skin, and the way he hooked his arm around her waist was both comforting and possessive.
How could it feel like they’d been doing this forever when it was only the first time?
“I love that you’re vocal,” he said.
She rocked back against him, teasing the hard ridge of his erection with her butt. “Are you noisy, too?”
He laughed, and the sound was deliciously raspy. “You’ll have to