felt some of her nervousness fade at his quick laughter.
“I’m afraid I’m going to do my best to stoke that fire,” he said in a husky voice that made her blood feel like warm honey sliding through her veins. “But I promise if we go up in flames it will be together.”
Cole moved his arm so her hand slid down to his and he gently locked their fingers together, tugging her to the bed. Once there, he pulled her up against him, linking his arms lightly around her waist.
A sudden look of tenderness crossed his face. His grin was a little lopsided, his fingers not quite steady as they touched the curve of her cheek and trailed along the line of her jaw.
“You won’t regret this,” he said and his voice was like a promise.
Meg met his gaze. Could he hear her heart pounding? When he looked in her eyes, could he see her desire reflecting back at him?
Once again he seemed to know what she was thinking. He began to remove his clothing, cursing when his hands fumbled with the brace. She shrugged out of her dress, letting the soft fabric fall to the floor before unfastening the last of the Velcro straps for him with shaking hands.
In a matter of seconds, their clothes lay in a pile at their feet and Cole’s gaze was riveted to her now-bare breasts. But thankfully he wasn’t content to look and not touch. His long fingers lifted and supported the yielding flesh as his thumbs brushed across the tight points of her nipples.
Shock waves coursed through her body with each touch. Moaning, she reached out and wrapped her hand around his hardness.
“I have protection,” he groaned, gesturing with a short jerk of his head toward the dresser.
“I’ve got it covered,” she managed to say.
“Yes, you do.” A tiny smile touched his lips as he glanced at her fingers stroking him.
He couldn’t seem to get enough of her breasts, kissing and licking each pink peak thoroughly, dragging his teeth across the sensitive skin.
Meg squirmed, whimpering in frustration. She pushed her hips against him, rubbing his erection. She wanted, no, she needed…
Cole’s answer to her unspoken demand was to catch her mouth in a hard, deep kiss and pull her down beside him on the bed. His hand flattened against her lower back, drawing her up against the length of his body.
Conscious of his knee, Meg draped herself across him, body on body, his arousal pressing into her thigh while she rubbed herself against him, her breath coming in short puffs.
While she wanted to prolong the pleasure, she couldn’t wait. Running her hands up his chest, she pushed him back down, guiding him inside her as he nuzzled her breasts. He was thick and hard and stretched her to perfection.
She moved her hips against his in a sensual rhythm as old as time, shivers of desire traveling up and down her spine. Cole held on to her hips, guiding her up and down in a steady rhythm she couldn’t resist.
Just when she thought she couldn’t stand any more pleasure, he captured her mouth in a deep, hot, tongue-tangling kiss that mimicked the fast, hard, frantic mating of their bodies. Meg surged against the pleasure swelling like the tide inside her.
Her body trembled and she tried to hold on, but he continued to pump his hips up and down, again and again, every thrust harder than the one before until she cried out, her body convulsing around his shaft, milking him, shuddering with the force of her own release.
Cole opened his eyes the next morning to the feel of Meg’s soft lips against his neck. He stretched and slid a hand up her bare arm. “Now, this is the way every day should begin.”
Meg chuckled and rested her head against his shoulder, her fingers toying with the hair on his chest. When she brushed the small bud of his nipple, Cole’s breath hissed between his teeth and his body jolted.
“It’s only six—” she found his other nipple buried in the curling mat of hair and rubbed her thumb over the tight bud, the edge of her nail scraping ever so lightly “—and I thought if we were really quick we might have time—”
A wave of heat swept through him. “I like the way you think.”
Reaching up, he grasped her arms and pulled her to him for an openmouthed, intimate kiss. Though they’d already made love several times during the night, he was ready to do