“If you aren’t careful, you might get more than you bargained for, baby,” He growled as he kissed her. He teased her lips and coaxed her to open for him so he could play with her tongue. She tasted like warm chocolate, creamy and sweet and much too addicting.
Adam pulled his lips from hers before ducking under the water. He grabbed her ankle and tickled her foot, careful not to irritate her cut. She squirmed and tried to wiggle her foot out of his grasp. He took pity and released her. When he resurfaced, the sound of her laughter filled the air. She made an attempt to swim away, but he caught her easily. “You want more or do you surrender?”
“I surrender,” she said in a husky voice, sending a very clear signal to his cock that she was aroused.
Adam attempted to tame the beast and released her. She put a few feet between them, he wasn’t sure if that was a good thing or not. “This place is like a small oasis,” he said as he took in the Black-Eyed Susans and mature walnut trees. “It’s so quiet, as if we’re the only people on earth. Do you like living out here, away from everyone?”
Sapphire drifted closer to him, her hands moving back and forth just below the surface. “I get a little stir-crazy sometimes, but for the most part I don’t mind the solitude.”
“I’m so used to having neighbors. Hell, I don’t know what I’d do with all this quiet.”
“I know what you mean. In college I lived in a dorm. It was noisy twenty-four hours a day. Moving here was a serious adjustment.”
Adam moved closer, enjoying the sexual tension growing between them. “I’ve never lived anywhere but the city. I think I might need to change that some day. For now, living a few minutes from my work is handy.”
“I can understand. I miss the city some, but I don’t think I could go back now. I’m too used to having my privacy.”
Adam was close enough now to touch. He reached out and played with a wet curl. “You and I started something last night that we never got to finish.”
“I wanted you desperately,” she admitted. “I couldn’t sleep for the ache.”
“Sending you away wasn’t the easiest thing to do, baby.”
“Why did you?”
“I wanted to get to know you a little first and I didn’t want you to wake up regretting sleeping with me.”
“I wouldn’t have.”
As much as he wanted that to be true, Adam wasn’t sure. He didn’t think Sapphire was the type for casual sex. “I don’t sleep around,” he confessed. “I’m no virgin, but I’m no player either. I want you to know that.”
Her fingers trailed over his chest and Adam had to suck in his breath when her thumb teased his nipple. “I’m not a virgin either, Adam. I’m a grown woman and I know exactly what I’m doing. Stop protecting me.”
“My stay isn’t permanent,” he reminded her. “I can’t offer permanent, Sapphire.” He didn’t want her seeing things that weren’t there. Again he was reminded of the real reason he’d come to Waverly, the real reason he’d been on their land. He pushed down the guilt slowly eating away at him. He’d tell her. Soon. And while he worked to convince her this thing between them would be a casual summer fling, he wasn’t sure he was buying it himself. The thought of leaving, of never seeing her again, already didn’t sit well.
“I know. It’s okay, I’m not asking for permanent.” Her fingers moved below the surface, just barely grazing the waistband of his swim trunks. “I need you. I ache for it.”
Adam’s control snapped. He swung her into his arms, licked a droplet of water from her cheek and kissed her forehead. “Hmm, we certainly can’t have that, now can we?”
“No, it could prove very inconvenient.”
He held her close to his chest as he left the water and covered the distance to the house. He entered through a back door and took the steps to the upstairs bedroom two at a time. Her lips caressed his throat and his knees nearly buckled. Hell, falling down the stairs really wasn’t the way to impress a woman. He forced his feet to keep moving even as her tongue teased his skin. She was so open and uninhibited. It was all he could do to make it to the bed.
He placed her carefully on top of the yellow quilts. The soft light from the lace-covered window illuminated the room. He let her watch as he stripped out of the black swim trunks she’d let him borrow. Her eyes, those magnificent sapphire pools, ate him up. His cock flexed, eager to sink inside the little beauty.
“Come here,” she coaxed, a smile curving her lips.
The outline of her pussy lips and the tempting bud of her clitoris beneath the wet suit had him starving for a sip of her tangy juice. Her succulent tits spilled out of the top half, and Adam’s hands itched to fondle and squeeze.
He moved closer, unable to d
eny her sensual request. “What are you planning to do with me, sweetheart?”
“I think I’d rather show you what I want to do,” she purred as she leaned forward and kissed the head of his cock.
She’ll make him finish what he started—if they live through the night.
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