All You Need Is Love (12 page)

She gave him a wry smile when she saw the latter offering. “Oysters, huh? Was that just in case the champagne wasn’t quite enough to seduce me? You had to throw in an additional aphrodisiac?”

He winked as he slurped down one of the oysters. “Couldn’t hurt, I suppose. But, no, I didn’t actually specify what to bring up. Douglas probably thinks we’re here for some sort of naughty tryst.”

Julia’s hand paused in mid-air, an oyster mere inches from her lips. “You’re not serious, are you? Especially since I don’t think the very proper Gregson family would condone any naughty goings-on in their hotels.”

Nathan laughed. “I’m not serious, no. In fact, I made sure that Douglas knew you were my fiancée when he first let me into the suite. As for the other – come on, baby. After seeing Ian and Tessa together and knowing she travels with him on business trips now – do you really believe they don’t do a whole lot of, ah, very, very naughty things when they stay at his hotels?”

She chewed her oyster carefully, savoring the taste rather than bolting it down in one gulp. “I see your point. And since I may have passed on two or three more, er, bits of advice to her recently I’m sure you’re right.”

He groaned. “Oh, God, what did you tell her this time?”

Julia patted his cheek reassuringly. “Relax. No more trade secrets, okay? Nothing she couldn’t have figured out herself by reading Cosmo. Or watching some porn.”

He stared at her in horror until she began to laugh and he realized she’d been teasing him.

“Don’t give me a heart attack, okay?” he growled. “It’s one thing to share some girly tips with Tessa, but if Ian ever thought for a minute that you were encouraging her to watch porn he’d blow a gasket.”

“Considering that
I’ve
never watched porn before, I’m not about to suggest the idea to someone else.”

Nathan gave her a very suggestive smile. “Never watched any, huh? Want me to see if I can find some?”

She wrinkled her nose in distaste. “Uh, no. First, I seriously doubt you’d find any so-called adult entertainment available at a Gregson hotel. And second, I’d much rather have the real thing. So when will dinner be ready anyway?”

He slid a hand to her ass, pulling her in close. “Impatient, are we? You’re not the only one, baby.” He rotated his pelvis against hers, letting her feel for herself just how primed and ready he was. “But to answer your question, dinner will be served as soon as I ring for Douglas.”

Nathan wasn’t kidding, for less than five minutes after informing Douglas they were ready, their dinner was being wheeled in and set out for them on the dining room table. In addition to the beef wellington he’d promised her, Nathan had chosen a number of other dishes that he knew were some of Julia’s favorites – porcini mushroom soup, perfectly steamed baby asparagus, duchesse potatoes, warm buttery dinner rolls – all accompanied by a very fine Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon.

He gave her a lopsided grin while watching her slather butter on her third roll. “Trying to gain back all the weight you lost in one meal, baby?”

She stuck out her tongue, just before popping the entire roll in her mouth. “These are just about the best rolls I’ve ever had,” she declared after swallowing. “Maybe even better than the bread we had in Paris, which was beyond compare. What did you order for dessert?”

Nathan brushed a bread crumb from the corner of her mouth. “This,” he murmured, just before cupping the back of her head and pulling her in close for a wet, devouring kiss.

“Mmm.” She groaned beneath the increasing pressure of his lips on hers, his tongue swooping through her mouth and tasting her as though
she
was the dessert.

They were both breathing a little unevenly when he lifted his head, only to whisper, “I thought we could have dessert later. Douglas said we could ring for it anytime.”

“Did he?” she breathed as Nathan’s fingers traveled slowly across her collarbone before brushing very, very gently down between her breasts. “How, ah, accommodating of him.”

Nathan stood, pushing his chair back impatiently and tugging Julia to her feet. “If it’s accommodating you want, baby, then I’m your man,” he murmured huskily, wrapping an arm around her waist. “I can accommodate you in ways you’ve never imagined. Come on, let me show you.”

“Okay,” she replied breathlessly, ridiculously turned on by the low, deliberately sexy tone of his voice. She let him guide her into the master bedroom, where a single lamp had been left on. The room was enormous, the king sized bed covered with a discreetly striped duvet in shades of cream and gold, and at least a dozen pillows in varying shades and shapes.

But Nathan didn’t lead her directly to the beckoning bed as she would have imagined, pausing instead in the middle of the room. Julia closed her eyes as his arms encircled her waist from behind, his lips brushing a series of light, almost teasing kisses along the side of her throat. His hand was splayed over her belly, rubbing slow, soothing circles.

“Ohh.”

Her moan was long and low as his hand slid up over her ribcage to cup her breast, his thumb brushing over the nipple. Then both of his hands were squeezing her breasts, her head falling back in surrender onto his shoulder.

“Nathan,” she whispered as his tongue traced an erotic little pattern around her ear, his teeth nipping lightly on the lobe.

“Easy, baby,” he soothed. “We’ve got all night, okay? Just give yourself over to me now, Julia. You know how much you like it when you just let go.”

He lingered over her, taking his time, seducing her as slowly and deliberately as he’d promised to. He unzipped her dress carefully, easing it down past her hips until it pooled at her feet.

“Let me see you, baby,” he murmured, his gaze devouring her as she stood before him in the provocative, lacy lingerie he’d bought her.

She shivered as his finger traced along the exposed upper curves of her breasts where they swelled above the low-cut bra.

“Beautiful.” His lips traveled from the base of her throat to the top of her cleavage. He lowered one bra strap slowly until her breast popped out. “God, I’ve missed seeing these boobs. Not to mention other things I enjoy doing to them.”

“Oh, that’s so good,” she groaned as he lazily licked around the areola before he drew the rosy pink nipple into his mouth and sucked hard. She clutched his head to her breast, feeling herself growing wetter with each seductive pull of his lips.

Deftly, Nathan unhooked the fragile lace bra and tossed it carelessly across the room as her bare breasts tumbled into his waiting hands. He claimed her mouth in a devouring kiss as he groped her breasts roughly, his fingers pinching the nipples until she was gasping in half-pain, half-pleasure.

He was taking her over, taking charge of their foreplay and giving her no opportunity to offer up any sort of objection. Not that she was even thinking of doing such a thing, as surrounded as she was by him and the ecstasy he was heaping upon her body. Her arms clung to his neck as he kept kissing her, his hands sliding down her naked back to cup her buttocks through the tiny pair of lacy panties.

Julia hadn’t even been aware that he’d been gradually walking her further into the room, not until the backs of her knees hit the side of the bed and she wobbled a little in her heels.

“Easy, baby. I’ve got you,” he murmured. “Lay back now, hmm? Yes, just like that, with your back on the bed and your feet on the floor. Mmm, just right, I’d say.”

He sunk to the carpet, kneeling in front of her as he smoothly slid her thighs apart. He ran one teasing finger along the crotch of her panties, barely touching her, but it was more than enough for her to gasp in reaction, her hips bucking up off the mattress.

“Ah, none of that,” he scolded gently, pressing a hand on her belly to hold her still. “Don’t rush it, Julia. Just go with the flow and enjoy it all. Let’s try this again, shall we?”

This time Nathan pushed aside the crotch of her very damp panties and slid two long fingers as deep inside of her body as he could reach.

“Hot and juicy,” he purred in a husky voice, as his fingers began to slide in and out of her wetness with slow, calculated thrusts. “Just the way I like it. I don’t know about you, baby, but this delicious pussy is my favorite dessert in the whole world. Let me have a taste now.”

He slid the tiny pair of panties down her legs and over her shoes, grasping one of her ankles as she would have kicked off a stiletto.

“Uh, uh. Keep these on for now,” he ordered. “You know how much I love to fuck you when you’re wearing these cockteasing shoes. Not to mention the stockings. But first.”

Julia couldn’t help the almost violent way her back bowed off the bed at the first touch of his wickedly arousing tongue between her thighs. She groaned, her hands threading into his hair and pulling him in closer as he ate her out slowly and skillfully, his tongue tracing the delicate folds of her inner labia while his fingers continued to fuck her pussy.

She was panting, her hips moving in sync with each thrust of his fingers, their tempo increasing rapidly until she was like a wild thing. It took barely two swipes of his tongue against her clit to bring her to a screaming orgasm, but he only sucked harder on the ultra-sensitive little nub, prolonging her pleasure for as long as possible.

Julia’s body was still quivering in reaction, even as she propped herself up on her forearms and stared at Nathan in slack-jawed admiration as he undressed with what might have been an all-time speed record. The last article of clothing remaining on his tall, leanly muscled body were the snug fitting dark blue briefs that barely contained his rampaging erection. As he peeled the garment off, Julia licked her lips in anticipation, as though she could already taste the thick beads of pre-cum that were oozing from the tip of his cock.

She reached for him as he stood between her legs, but he shook his head, clamping a hand over her wrist.

“Not this time, baby,” he uttered rawly. “Only one place my cock is sliding into right now. And as much as it loves being deep inside your pretty mouth, it has a different destination in mind tonight. A place it hasn’t been inside of for a fucking eternity.”

He slid his hands beneath her buttocks, dragging her closer to the edge of the bed and lifting her slightly off the mattress.

“Legs. Up around my neck. Now.”

She complied instantly, locking her ankles behind his head just seconds before he wrenched a long, low scream from her throat as he rammed his cock fully inside of her.

Nathan gripped the cheeks of her ass almost painfully, forcing himself not to move for long seconds as he allowed her body to get used to him. Sweat broke out on his forehead as he shut his eyes tightly, gritting his teeth while struggling for control.

“Nothing – has ever – ” he paused, his breath escaping in short, staccato pants, “felt this – fucking good – before. This – right here – being inside of you this way, Julia. Heaven. Absolute fucking – heaven.”

And then he couldn’t hold back any longer, couldn’t be gentle, as the multiple days of abstention took their toll on his body and emotions. He took her hard, his cock slamming inside of her over and over, until he felt her tight core convulsing around him, heard her cry out with the force of her climax, and that was all it took to trigger his own orgasm. He came so hard that he saw black spots dance in front of his eyes, felt his legs threatening to give out from under him, and he collapsed on top of the bed, Julia pinned beneath his much larger body. Dimly, over the roaring of the blood in his ears, he felt her pull him close, her legs wrapping around his hips as he continued to shudder in the aftermath.

“Jesus,” was all he could manage to croak, his body sprawled limply across the mattress. Neither of them moved or spoke for what felt like a half hour or more, but was really just a few minutes.

Julia was the first to speak, her voice barely audible and more than a little shaky. “I think you’re going to have to feed me dessert in bed. ‘Cause there’s no possible way I can walk after that. Maybe not for a couple of days.”

He chuckled, lifting his head off the bed with a little groan. “What makes you think I can? Hmm, I wonder if Douglas would wheel a tray in here for us.”

She smacked him on the arm – hard – and smiled in satisfaction as he grimaced in pain. “You wouldn’t dare. And I guarantee we’d be barred from this hotel – no, make that
all
the Gregson hotels – if you even tried.”

“Chill out, baby.” Nathan leaned over and kissed her. “I think I can manage to limp out to the living room. Just give me a few more minutes to recuperate, okay?”

She snuggled against him happily as he wrapped her in his arms. “Okay. But don’t wait too long. I’m kind of starving again.”

Nathan grinned, dropping a kiss on her temple. “Good to see that things are back to normal with you. And I guess since we just took care of my appetite – at least for the moment – we can go tend to yours.”

Julia cupped his face between her palms, giving him a sweet, soft kiss. “I love you, Nathan,” she whispered. “And I’m so sorry for these last couple of weeks. I know I’ve been a - ”

“Hush.” He kissed her again, harder this time. “You’ve been stressed and overworked and emotional. But it’s going to be better from here on, okay? I promise. There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for you, Julia. Including,” he added teasingly, “giving up sex for food. At least for a few minutes. So let’s go order up dessert so we can get back to breaking that dry spell.”

Chapter Five

June (one week before the wedding)

“So tell us again who decided about not having strippers at the bachelor party. Sounds to me like
this
bachelor has been thoroughly pussy whipped.”

Nathan threw his former college roommate an evil look. “Fuck off, Jonathan. Should I remind you that a stripper is the reason
you’re
a bachelor again?”

Jonathan gave a careless shrug. “Technically, she was a pole dancer. And my marriage was already beyond the point of salvation by then. But you’re not married yet, Nate, so you might as well have one last wild night. How about it, dudes?”