‘Lukas...’ She didn’t know what she would have said but he distracted her when he flicked open the buttons on her trousers and yanked them down her legs.
He took a second to admire her silky underwear and then they were gone as well.
Eleanore didn’t have any time to feel embarrassed because he came over her again and brought his mouth first to hers and then to her breasts and then lower.
She couldn’t do anything else but grip his shoulders as he nuzzled and kissed his way around her belly button. Every one of her senses was attuned to where he was going and then finally she felt his light kisses on the outside of her thighs before he moved inwards.
Stunned by the petite beauty of her body Lukas moved his hand between her thighs. ‘Open your legs for me, Eleanore. I want to see you.’
An almost shy expression crossed her face and he had a moment of remembering how he had watched her sleep that first night and thought her so innocent. Like now as she gazed up at him in wonder as if no man had ever touched her like this before. And deep inside it disturbed him to realise that he wanted that to be the case.
‘Lukas...’
Realising he had become caught up on thoughts he’d never had before, he placed his hand on the flat of her belly and moved it lower. ‘Is this what you want, moya Eleanore? Do you want me to touch you here?’
He curved his hand over the neat centre of her femininity and just revelled in the shape and feel of her.
‘Yes, oh, yes. I want...I want...’
Lukas didn’t wait for her to finish telling him what she wanted because he wanted it too and he lowered his head and teased her with the tip of his tongue.
She gripped his hair and Lukas succumbed to the taste and feel of her. Never before had he nearly come from going down on a woman but he was about to now and he lathed her with his tongue one last time before climbing back up her body.
She was whimpering and going crazy beneath him and Lukas quickly lost his trousers and donned a condom with shaky hands. Then he resettled himself in the cradle of her thighs and nudged at the entrance of her body. This...this was heaven and nirvana and paradise and everything a man could ever ask for in life.
‘Eleanore...’ He didn’t know what he’d been about to say but as her silky wetness covered him and prepared him for her body he gave into the force of a need he’d never felt before and drove smoothly into her warm centre.
She stiffened instantly and so did he when he realised that her body was fighting the invasion of his rather than welcoming it. ‘Eleanore.’
‘I...’ Clearly stunned she stared up at him with unfocused eyes.
‘Eleanore, please tell me you’ve done this before,’ he begged hoarsely, knowing that she hadn’t.
‘I... Oh, Lukas.’ She wrapped her arms around his back and groaned softly as she tried to pull him in tighter.
‘Don’t move, moya lyubov’.’ He cupped his hands either side of her face and eased his bulk off her just a fraction. ‘Let your body adjust.’
‘It’s okay. It doesn’t hurt now.’
Now!
In a state of amazement that Eleanore had never taken a lover before Lukas didn’t know whether to continue or to pull out. He knew what he wanted to do but this wasn’t just about him. To say that he was shocked was an understatement. ‘Do you want me to stop?’
She shook her head and he reached down and released her ponytail. She shook her hair out and her lower body gripped him hard.
Lukas bit back a groan and nearly spilled himself inside her there and then.
‘Pull your legs up around my waist,’ he instructed roughly.
She did, her eyes watching him as he started to move in and out of her body with long smooth strokes. ‘Tell me if I hurt you,’ he said, gritting his teeth.
She sighed his name and he felt her tight sheath relax enough to take him all the way into her body. Slick with perspiration and unable to control himself any longer Lukas gave into the animal inside of him and moved more powerfully inside her, watching her face the whole time for any sign that she wanted him to stop.
Fortunately that didn’t happen and when her orgasm gripped hold of her Lukas did something he’d never done with any other woman as his body joined hers in an exquisite release that went beyond the realm of normal: he looked into her eyes and kissed her.
* * *
The first time Lukas woke it was to find Eleanore snuggled into his side, her head on his shoulder and one leg draped over his, both of them buried beneath thick fleecy blankets that kept out the icy coldness of the room.