“I want you.” She forced herself to meet his eyes and shivered at the look of antagonism there. “I love you,” she added for good measure.
“Oh, Lilah. Don’t complicate this. Tonight we are fucking for the sake of it.”
She bit down on her lip to stop from crying but she could feel the tears welling in her throat.
Will didn’t notice. He eased himself into her gently and slowly this time, so slowly that Lilah was driven to a new level of desperation by the slow possession.
“Please, please, please,” she uttered over and over, scratching her nails into his shoulders as he began to fill her once more.
“Seeing as you asked so nicely,” he said, finally thrusting deep inside of her, bringing the weight of his body hard on her. They were completely in contact; his hair roughened chest tormented her over-sensitised nipples as he moved back and forth, making her whole body tingle and ache.
He ran his hands down her body, hooking her legs from behind her knees and lifting them high in the air. He held them aloft as he drove deep into her core, watching as pleasure began to yolk across her face. He felt her give in to the sensations; her muscles surrounded him and massaged him until he felt his own pleasure was about to crest.
He dropped her legs and brought his mouth to her breasts, while with his
fingers he tormented her other nipple, squeezing it and rolling it.
Finally, as she lifted high on the wave of desire once more, he lifted with her, releasing himself with a guttural oath of sensation. He dropped down on top of her. Their breathing was rushed, their skin sheened in perspiration.
Lilah lay beneath him in a state of shock. Her body was floating high in heaven, drifting amongst the clouds. In the cabin, he had made love to her, as he’d said. It had been mind-blowing, but in a lovely, sweet way.
This had been mind-blowing on a whole other level.
Should she be embarrassed that she’d enjoyed his dominance so completely? That when he’d pulled on her hair and flicked her nipples she’d wanted to scream obscenities into the cold night air?
And why had he insisted on saying that they were merely ‘having sex?
Her breathing slowed and sanity began to return. It wasn’t welcome. It wasn’t pleasant.
She lifted her hands to his chest and pushed at him. He rolled off her, so that he could stare at the ceiling.
Lilah turned her head, studying him in profile. His lips were parted and it was only then that she realized he hadn’t kissed her.
Not on the mouth anyway. Colour stole into her cheeks as she remembered the intimacies they’d shared. Confusion was nipping at her heels; reality was not far behind.
She sat up slowly, but her mind was running fast. He was angry with her. And as she’d done nothing wrong, Lilah knew it was an anger born of hurt. She had refused to fall in with his fanciful plans and that had angered him.
He’d seduced her tonight – but why?
Because he’d wanted to, of course. But it was more than that.
Had he wanted her to recant?
To tell him that what they shared was too good to walk away from? Well, it was. By choice, Lilah would never leave him.
But she had no choice.
Not really.
She stood gingerly, but his hand curled around her wrist, pulling her back on the bed. She sat down and turned to face him, but she was no longer his sexual play-thing, begging to be used. She was Jalilah Mazroui, her royal highness.
“May I go now?” She asked with ice in her words.
His expression was impossible to make out. “Sure.”
Lilah stared at him for several beats, but when he didn’t speak, she rose gracefully from the bed.
She had begged him to drive the desire and lust from her body; to satiate the need that had been building since she’d left America. But she would not beg him for more than that.