Stolen Heart - By Bennett, Sawyer Page 0,43

stomach laughing.

“So not funny,” Annika pouted.

Walking toward the shallow edge, she stood in waist deep water. Kieran stopped laughing long enough to look at her and then instantly sobered. Her white shirt had turned practically see through. He eyed her breasts hungrily but she didn’t notice.

Still complaining, Annika started taking her clothes off. “I can’t believe you didn’t at least let me get out of my clothes before we went swimming.”

Kieran just watched as she took off her clothes and threw them in a sopping heap on the bank. Flipping onto her back, she pushed off from the shallows and floated to the middle of the pool. “Aren’t you coming in?”

Kieran jumped up from the ground. Shedding his clothes lightning fast, Kieran dove in the water beside Annika. He surfaced right beside her, all intents to kiss the hell out of her. Instead, he got a face full of water as Annika started splashing him. Then she leapt up putting her hands on his head. Using her weight and leverage, she dunked him back down under the water.

Rather than coming up again, Kieran grabbed hold of her legs and pulled her under. They both surfaced at the same time, hands furiously pushing walls of water at the other in an effort to drown the other out. Annika was laughing so hard, he was afraid she might go under and drown on her own.

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Running out of steam, Annika let Kieran send the last face full of water her way, then she propelled herself in his arms. Wrapping her legs around his waist and her arms around his neck, she lightly kissed him on the mouth. He pulled back and looked at her with something in his eyes that she couldn’t quite read. But it made little butterflies start to circle in her stomach.

“Kieran?”

“Ssshhh….let me just kiss you.”

Locked around Kieran as he stood in the water, Annika felt herself being kissed as she had never been kissed before. Kieran ran his tongue leisurely around her mouth, skimming along her teeth, rolling around her piercing, nipping at her lips. Annika wrapped her arms more tightly around him and returned the kiss for all it was worth.

Whether it was minutes, hours, Annika didn’t know, but Kieran started walking with her out of the water. She almost protested as she felt she could go on kissing him like that for the rest of her life. Shame on you Annika for thinking that. Sounds too much like commitment.

Annika shook her head of those thoughts and went back to concentrating on Kieran. Exiting the warm pool, Kieran walked over to the soft, spongy grass and knelt down, Annika still plastered to him. He laid her back on the grass and pulled her legs from his waist, laying them down on the ground on either side of him.

The rose-tinted sun made the water drops on Annika’s skin sparkle. It made her lavender eyes swirl with iridescence. He was captivated and just looked at her.

“You are the most beautiful woman I have ever known.”

Annika’s breath had caught in her throat. She had heard compliments and platitudes before from men, but this is the first time that she gave credence to what a man told her. She truly believed, at that moment, that she was the most beautiful woman in the world. Kieran was looking at her with such reverence, a lump formed in her throat. Was that emotion, or was it panic? Just enjoy, Annika.

Reaching out her arms, Annika beckoned Kieran to her. He moved forward, settling between her legs and covering her body with his. Holding himself up on his elbows, he looked her in the eyes.

“It has occurred to me on more than one occasion that there is a part of your body that I have seriously neglected.”

Annika smiled at him. “Is that so?”

“It is and I apologize profusely. I’m going to rectify that right now.”

Kieran leaned his head down and proceeded to pay the most exquisite homage to her breasts that they had ever known. He licked off every drop of water with his tongue, taking extra time to swirl around her nipples. Then he moved up and down her body, paying it equal attention. He took his time and his efforts to drink the water from her body left her a squirming mess. When Kieran finally sank a finger into her core, he groaned over the heat and wetness that surrounded it.

“Tell me you want me, Annika.”

“You can feel I do.”

Moving his finger deep inside