Pursuing Paige (9 page)

He came down between her thighs. Settling his
hips against hers, he kissed her hard and possessively. Paige
arched her back and moaned when he grasped the edge of her
nightgown and dragged it up over her heated skin.

When he wrapped his beautiful lips around one
of her nipples, she tipped her head back and thanked the universe
for men like him, whatever world they lived in. He laved and sucked
each nipple to a hard, rosy tip, while she moaned.

Taking a moment to pull her nightgown the
rest of the way off, he looked down her body. Now there was nothing
between them. He seemed pretty happy about that—and so was she.

He slipped a hand up her thigh, dragging his
fingertips up her sensitized skin toward her cunt. When he reached
it, he teased her clit gently until she sighed and whispered his
name. “You feel perfect, Paige. I knew you would,” he murmured
right before he lowered his mouth to hers.

“
Please,” she gasped. She tipped her head
up and caught his darkened gaze. “Kaiden,
please
. I need you.”

“Not more than I need you.” He jerked his
pants off and pressed her onto her back, setting his cock to her
entrance.

She gasped, feeling the large crown of his
shaft breach her. Her muscles stretched with his invasion. Jarek
had been really big, but Kaiden was even bigger, and she hadn’t had
sex in a long time. Sure, she’d used a vibrator once in awhile, but
Kaiden was
far
larger than
any toy she owned. Could she even take Kaiden into her
body?

“Shh, Paige. Relax for me, baby. It’s okay.”
He scattered kisses across her cheek and mouth and caressed his
hand up and down her thigh. “I want to be inside you and feel you
all tight and hot. I want you wrapped around my cock, but I’m not
going to hurt you, okay? I would never do that. We’ll take this
slowly.”

She nodded, biting her bottom lip.

He eased himself in a little more, up to just
past the crown. Paige gasped and wiggled her hips. God, he felt
good.

Another inch wrung a long moan from her.
Another and another. Having him slid so unhurriedly inside her was
the most delicious torture.

Kaiden bit his bottom lip, curled his fingers
into the bedding and groaned. “You feel so good. You don’t know
hard it is to go slow.” He pushed in another inch and bit off
another low groan.

She no longer wanted him to be careful with
her. Now all she wanted was him inside her. She grabbed his ass and
thrust her hips against him. The rest of him slid inside until he
was seated to the base.

“
Paige,” Kaiden groaned.
“
Y
es
.”

Paige gasped at the sensation of being
completely filled. She dug her nails into Kaiden’s shoulders and
moaned his name. It felt exquisite to be so stretched, so
intimately possessed by this man.

He shafted her slow, then faster and faster.
She wrapped her legs around his waist and enjoyed the way he
pressed her into the mattress with every thrust. Her climax came
fast and hard, overwhelming her—both in mind and body.

“Paige,” Kaiden breathed above her. His big
body stiffened as he let loose.

Breathing heavily, they collapsed in a tangle
of limbs and clothes. He lay beside her, looking spent. Now that
the frenzy of her lust had been sated—at least temporarily—it hit
her that just down the hallway was Jarek’s room. Had he heard them?
Alarmed by the possibility, she rose and reached for her
nightgown.

Kaiden caught her wrist. “The clothes
should be staying
off
, not going
on, beautiful.”

“Kaiden—”

He sat up and pushed her gently onto her
back. “I know what you’re thinking. I can read it on your face.” He
paused and forced her to look at him. “You’re
mine
right now, Paige. Jarek had you for three whole
days. He knows where you are right now and he’s okay with that. I
need for you to be okay with that, too. You’re mine for this entire
day and Jarek knows it.”

She raised an eyebrow. “Do I get a say in
this?”

A wicked, sexy smile curved his mouth. “I’d
have a mind to tie you to the bed if you denied me, but, yes, you
have a say. You always have a say.”

As he spoke, he rubbed her collarbone
slowly with the pad of his thumb. A moan caught in her throat. The
man was a
troublemaker
.
The mere look in his eyes made her breath hitch.

“You’re not joking about tying me to the bed,
are you?”

“No, baby, I’m not joking. I’m dreaming of
it.”

She shivered. “Jarek told me you’d want to do
something like that.”

“Do you have a problem with it?”

“Uh. I should probably say that I do.” In
fact, the thought excited her.

He grinned and leaned in, nipping at her
lower lip. “Stay with me,” he whispered.

“I-I guess I can stay.” When he grinned at
her like that there wasn’t a possibility she’d leave.

“Ah, good.” He smiled that wicked,
heart-stopping smile again. The one that made her stomach flutter.
“Can I tie you to the bed?”

She shivered. He could do anything he wanted
to her.

“Mmmm. I felt that shiver and I don’t think
it was from fear or revulsion.” He took the wadded up nightgown
from her hands and pitched it across the room. “I’ll remember it,
too.”

“Remember what?”

He pushed her back and fastened his luscious
lips around one nipple. His smooth, hard chest rubbed against her
stomach. The sensation had her closing her eyes in ecstasy. “That
shiver of anticipation.”

Oh,
man
,
she was in trouble.

He stood and took her hand in his. “Get up,”
he said. He helped her up off the bed and guided her to an oval
mirror in the corner.

Pushing her hair to the side so he could kiss
her neck, he stood behind her and put his hands on her hips. She
looked at her reflection. Tall and slender, she had the body of a
dancer. Narrow hips and hardly any breasts at all, her body was
corded with muscle and her feet were less than beautiful from years
of punishing treatment. Her toenails were damaged, toes
misdirected. Yes, they were ugly feet and she loved them. She
considered every flaw a mark of successful dream realization.

“Every inch of you is gorgeous,” he breathed
into her ear.

She was one of the few women in the world
who could look at themselves and believe she
was
beautiful. That was because her body was shaped by
something she loved, even if her body wasn’t society’s idea of
classic beauty. By anyone’s else’s definition, she was too angular,
too muscular, breasts too tiny.

But not to herself, and not to Kaiden or
Jarek.

He rubbed his hands over her hips, stroking
his fingertips over her skin, bringing his hands over her abdomen
to her breasts. Paige watched his large hands cover her. He rolled
the nipples between his index fingers and thumbs, making heat pool
between her thighs.

As if he could feel the needy ache in her
sex, he rubbed her clit. “Does this feel good?”

“You know I like the way you touch me.”

He increased the pressure at her clit,
deepening and increasing. At the same time, he leaned down and
kissed and sucked on her earlobe. He parted her thighs, inserted
two fingers deep inside her and ground his palm on her clit. “I
want to feel you come.”

Her breathing hitched as she watched him
stroke her between her thighs in the mirror’s reflection. His hand
was so big, so callused and so strong…and it gave her such
pleasure.

He thrust his fingers in and out of her cunt
as she watched. His other hand cupped her breast and toyed with the
hard red nipple. Vibrations of intense sexual pleasure pulsed from
her clit, growing stronger.

Kaiden nipped her ear lobe. “Do you want me
to tie your wrists and bend you over, Paige? Do you want my cock
here instead of my hand?”

“Yes.” She slurred the word, her knees
growing weak.

“Come for me.”

Her climax tore through her as if on his
command. The pleasure rippled through her as her muscles convulsed
around his fingers.

“Oh, hell, that was good,” she breathed once
the intense waves had passed.

He drew a finger up her stomach to trail
around one of her hard nipples. She watched his gaze follow the
path of his hand. His gaze was dark, taut, and hungry. He wanted
her again.

A flicker of confidence curled through her
stomach.
He
wanted her
. This
astoundingly beautiful piece of manhood wanted her.

Kaiden stepped in front of her and her gaze
roved his six-pack abs and the dappling of dark hair across his
chest. She ripped her gaze to his face. “So, what now?” It was hard
to sound cool when you couldn’t breathe, and the sight of him took
all the air from her lungs.

He gave her a look of wicked sexual
intention. “Been wondering what you taste like, Paige,” he
murmured. “I have a mind to satisfy my curiosity.” He positioned
himself a bit lower, wound his hands to cup her buttocks, and
pulled her to his mouth.

Paige let out a sharp breath as his tongue
darted out skillfully to lick her inner thigh, then moved to her
clit. After making a sound of deep satisfaction in his throat, he
parted her folds with his thumbs, and then settled in to drive her
insane.

His tongue flicked out to toy with her
sensitive clit. Her fingers curled into his shoulders as his mouth
moved over her. He groaned deep in his throat and yanked her
closer. “Mmmm, Paige. I knew you’d be sweet.”

He rubbed her clit back and forth with his
tongue while he stroked up her inner thigh with his hand and slid a
finger inside her. After a moment, he added a second. She gasped as
he thrust slowly in and out.

Paige broke apart in another climax as warm,
sweet, pleasurable convulsions made her intimate muscles contract
around his broad fingers. Kaiden’s name gasped from her throat as
her body shook. When the waves of ecstasy had passed, he stood and
scattered kisses over her face. “You taste as good as I thought you
would. Irresistible.” He paused. “I want you again.”

“I’m yours,” she said right away.
“Completely.”

He grinned. “Words I love to hear from your
sweet lips. I’m going to get us something to eat. Then I’m going to
make love to you.” He winked. “And then again after that.”

She watched him leave, her eyes on his
gorgeously formed male ass. Shivering now that his body heat was
gone, she hurried to the bed and pulled the covers over
herself.

Soon Kaiden returned bearing a plate of cut
fruit and cheese. He stopped in the doorway and stared at her.
“I’ve been waiting a long time to see you in my bed.”

And she was happy to be there.

Handing her the plate, he crawled in next to
her, and then balanced the plate on his lap. The length of his leg
kissed hers and his big body warmed her. Kaiden placed a thin slice
of sharp, aromatic cheese on slice of tart fruit and raised it to
her lips. The tangy sweet combination spread over her tongue and
she closed her eyes in ecstasy.

The whole situation—being in his bed,
under the covers and having him feed her—was so intimate. She
sighed. It felt so good, so
right
.
Quiet euphoria filled her. She hadn’t been this happy in a long,
long time.

He eased his hand down the plump of her
breast, over her stomach, and let it come to a rest on her waist.
“I enjoy making love to you, Paige.”

Her brows drew together. “Why do you call it
making love?”

He went silent. “It wounds me that you
would say that. Being with you is
making love
to me. Deep down I believe you don’t consider me
just a fuck, either. You know as well as I do what this is. Don’t
delude yourself. This goes deeper than that.” He paused. “Maybe I
just need to show you. Maybe I need to make you vulnerable to me,
to take away your excuses and show you what total and complete
pleasure truly is.”

“Make me vulnerable. Take away my excuses.
That sounds a lot like you want to tie me to this bed.” She
couldn’t squelch the flare of excitement the notion brought
her.

Fierce hunger lit his eyes. “I want that so
much, Paige.”

“Why?”

“Because I know you’re excited by it. By
being tied up, you would be unable to stop me from doing anything I
want. I know this is one of the fantasies you hold within you.”

He was right, but she didn’t know how he knew
that about her. She bit her bottom lip, and then let it go as she
thought about what he’d said. Kaiden leaned over and sucked her
lower lip into his mouth. She let out a small moan.

“You would enjoy being vulnerable to me,” he
murmured against her mouth. “I would be able to do anything I
desire to your sweet body, and wouldn’t be able do a thing to stop
me. I know you trust me not to hurt you, only to bring
pleasure.”

“Kaiden,” she whispered. “Why do you affect
me this way? You and Jarek, both.”

He smiled. “I’m glad you can admit I affect
you at all. Now admit this is a fantasy of yours. Admit what I
already know, that you’re aroused by this conversation.”

* * * * *

Kaiden pulled back to watch her face. Her
eyelids were heavy and her lower lip was plumped and rosy from his
attention. She ran her tongue over it and he watched with rapt
attention.

“Maybe,” she answered in a throaty voice.

Maybe?
He gave a short laugh. Right now, she was
every bit as aroused as he was.

He straddled her legs and brushed his
knuckles along her satiny skin. “I think it is past time I showed
you just how much you’re mine.”