The ride from the airport had been full of unspoken electricity. A small gap separated them in the car. He held true to his promise that one of the first places he would touch was the soft skin on the back of her left hand.
After months and months that seemed like an eternity, the odds stacked so enormously against them, they were finally sharing the same space. He had ignited her soul from the other side of the globe, fanned and cared for the flame through vast distances. She had been his before she knew it, now she was just waiting for him to own her completely.
Slow it down. He always told her that, when her mind would run away.
They had both had their fair share of doubts coming into this. However as they sat in the car talking casually, music punctuating the air, she wondered if they ever really mattered.
Like a true gentleman he helped her take her luggage inside, she had maybe over packed but isn't that what being a woman was? He showed her around and left her to her own devices for a few minutes, mostly because he knew how nervous she got and that she needed time to process. She scanned the room, taking in bits of his life. His world that she had somehow become part of. Music started playing in another room, and she followed it to find him.
"You okay hon?"
She smiled and nodded, nerves choking her. He gave her a knowing look, he wasn't buying her brave façade. He motioned her over to sit beside him on a couch. He allowed her enough space to not feel forced, but was close enough she could feel his heat.
"I'm going to kiss you," her eyes widened in mild uncertainty. He brought her fingers to his mouth and kissed each fingertip, exposing her wrist he left gentle bites there. With each pass of his lips, she visibly relaxed. And by the time he had turned her wrist into his mouth, her eyes were filling with the heat that started this whole thing.
He looked at her and smiled, a dashing smirk she had come to adore. Her face turned pink and he broke into a full lip smile.
"I wanted to have a sufficient tease, but I've waited months to taste your lips," he said coming closer. In front of her, he was more intoxicating that she imagined possible.
By the time his lips met hers she was ready to come undone. His lips were soft at first, but sure. He was trying to kiss away her insecurity. He slid his hands along her chin, to the back of her neck, down her throat...he stopped at her throat. Her hair was up, as usual. He groaned against her lips. She knew he would be back.
His fingers continued exploring her while his mouth gradually became more demanding. She yearned for it. She risked opening her eyes and found another promise, to explore her with closed eyes but kiss her with eyes open, was being filled.
He bit her lip. She gasped. His tongue snaked inside. She quietly moaned against his mouth. That was the sound he needed to be encouraged forward.
His hands magically found their way beneath her shirt. Where his calloused fingers touched, goosebumps rose. Along her sides, her tummy, the god forsaken pouch she hated so much. When her shirt hit the ground she was barely aware of the break in kisses. His mouth kept hers busy and her mind was reeling as he traced her soft skin.
Reaching out she laid her hands against his chest and ran them over the material of his shirt annoyingly covering his skin, keeping him from her. She pulled at the buttons, fumbled, growled a little frustratedly as she blindly worked at them while he made her hands tremble. He smiled against her mouth placing his hands on hers to still the trembling. With his reassurance she undid the remaining buttons and he shrugged free from his shirt.
Her mouth swollen she let her heated gaze trail a blazing path across him. She followed the line of his belt, up the center of his abdomen, down each side, across his chest and shoulders. She traced her fingers across his biceps. He watched her intently, his patience paper thin but watching her drink him in was sexy in its own right.
From his biceps she trailed fingers to his chest, in the thick of his chest hair she laced her fingers and tugged. He sucked in a breath his control breaking. She heard it and with a glint in her eyes, pulled harder.
