‘So do you.’ She shifted beneath him and he sank deeper between her thighs, heat meeting heat.
Suddenly Angelo couldn’t wait any longer, despite his best intentions to take his time.
Kneeing her thighs wider, he stroked her breast and felt her quiver. He kissed her there, feeling her move needily beneath his mouth as he slid his hand between her legs. Gently he explored, finding that tiny nub, smiling against her breast as she tensed beneath him.
He explored further, deeper, and she responded with a rise of her hips that spoke of an urgency that matched his.
No more foreplay. Not when they were both so needy.
Lifting his head so he could watch Ally’s expression, he hooked one of her slender legs over his hip and positioned himself. Her eyes weren’t wide now. They were slitted and slumbrous, pure invitation.
Angelo smiled as he tilted his hips and pushed.
It was all he could have hoped for and more. Ally’s expression, the soft embrace of her body, that searing, close heat enfolding him. He felt like some conquering hero about to claim the world’s greatest prize.
Angelo gave himself up to beckoning bliss and thrust, hard and smooth, into paradise. Only to freeze, a split second too late, as he felt a barrier that was there one moment then gone the next.
Ally stiffened, her lovely, limber body turning rigid.
Stunned, he looked down into wide eyes and a mouth drawn back in pain. He saw her pulse pound frantically, felt her fingernails dig into his shoulders as a great tremor passed through her.
Some part of his brain was still working, trying to tell him something. But it couldn’t be.
Yet, as Ally’s eyes welled with unshed tears and she gulped in a shuddery gasp of hurt, he realised it was true.
Ally was a virgin!
CHAPTER TEN
THROUGHAHAZEof shock, Ally saw Angelo frown and felt him pull back.
‘Stop! Don’t move!’
She clutched at his shoulders and tried to hold him to her.
The pain was starting to ease. She drew an unsteady breath, grateful for Angelo’s stillness as her body adjusted to this strange new sensation.
Ally’s brow crinkled. How could it feel that way when they’d done this before, and when she’d wanted it so badly? Even if she hadn’t been sexually active for a while, surely it wouldn’t feel like this.
The answer was obvious but too perplexing to take in now. For, as she relaxed a little under his weight, the uncomfortable tightness changed to anticipation.
Ally would make sense of it later. For now what she wanted,needed, was the pleasure that had beckoned so brightly.
She drew a deep breath that didn’t seem to fill her cramped lungs. ‘You can move now.’
To her consternation, Angelo withdrew totally, leaving her bereft.
‘Not like that,’ she gasped.
‘What do you want, Ally?’
He spoke through gritted teeth, the tendons in his neck standing proud and his features stark, as if his skin had shrunk. He looked like she’d felt a second ago, hurting and holding it in.
‘I want you, Angelo. Please don’t stop.’
He was shaking his head before she finished. ‘We can’t. You’re not—’
‘None of that matters. I want you, Angelo.’ She swallowed the last of her pride as she reached for him. ‘Ineedyou. Don’t leave me like this.’