One Second After Another (The After Another Series #3) - Bethany-Kris Page 0,42
of the wine glasses got knocked over in the process, but he didn’t feel all that bad about it.
Her panting, uncontrollable giggles filled the space until he heard, “Oh, my God—stop, please.”
And he did.
Instantly.
Luca wasn’t anywhere near being done with touching her, though. His hand dipped lower, his fingertip grazing her navel on the way by, before he found the hot, damp heaven between her thighs. Still wet—still sensitive to his touch—she opened for him the second he made his intention clear. The second his hand was flush against her sex, she pressed into him harder.
He had to tease her, though.
It was only fair.
He stroked the seam of her sex, circled her clit until she was nearly ready to blow, and even used only the tips of his fingers to fill her while he kept one arm locked around her. Then, she couldn’t get more than what he gave.
“Please,” she gasped, her lips quivering against the underside of his jaw when she tried to turn in his arms. “I need to come ...”
“You will.”
On his tongue. Around his dick. Whatever way he wanted to have her. She would come ... eventually.
Penny’s next words were a whine. “You’re such a—”
“Tease, yeah. Like you.”
“I’ll make sure to annoy you more often if it ends like this.”
Her words were a breath. She’d already lost her air, and he was only playing.
Luca hadn’t expected the weight of her words to be as heavy as they felt, though. Even if it wasn’t her intention. Feeling her tremble around him when he finally stretched her full with three of his fingers, he swallowed hard and muttered, “Be here long enough to do it, then.”
15.
Penny
PENNY could feel Luca’s gaze on her the moment she broke the surface of the pool. Though it was only fifteen feet long, it did have a shallow and deeper end. Standing up and walking through the water to the marble stairs that led out of the pool, she couldn’t help but smile at the sight of the man leaning against the sliding glass doors. Instead of coming closer as Penny climbed the stairs out of the pool, Luca stayed right where he was between the threshold of the pool room and the rest of the basement and wine cellar downstairs.
“Quite a view, huh?” she asked him.
She was talking about the glass wall of windows at the far end of the pool that overlooked the rear of the property and how the tops of the trees lower than their position seemed to go on for miles. Fog still clung to the tops of the trees, not yet ready to let go and drift off while the sun rose higher in the sky.
It was beautiful.
Every morning—three so far—that they spent at the lodge, Penny made sure to include a dip in the pool just so she could watch the fog roll off the trees.
Except he didn’t look at the windows. Hell, he didn’t even look away from her. Penny had long since become comfortable in her own skin, and with sex. Or rather, the fact that in the right circumstances, she could enjoy sex.
Luca made it different.
He didn’t just see parts of her—certainly not the parts she disliked the most about her body. Discoloration, scarring ... everything that made up her. He saw all of her. Each piece that made up an entire puzzle of a human being.
Of a woman.
And he made her feel like that, too. Like a woman who had more purpose than just sex even though he could spend hours devouring her. She was someone desired. He stared at her with hunger, and she felt it on every exposed inch of her body.
Especially walking out of that pool. Water fell down from her breasts and hair in droplets while the cold air pebbled her skin and nipples. Was someone really swimming if they weren’t doing it naked?
Twisting more water from her hair, Penny came to stand in front of Luca with a smile. “Did you just come down here to stare at me?”
“Well—”
“Not that I don’t like it. You give me an ego.”
Luca laughed a sexy sound and leaned over to steal a quick kiss. Penny didn’t even have time to react when she was still trying to wring water from her hair, and the kiss was over before it could begin. Another tease.
“You should have an ego,” he replied, winking, “and no, that wasn’t the only reason I came down here. Thank you very