My heart leapt. I licked my lips, practically tasting him already. “I assume you’re planning on correcting that horribleoversight?”
His smile grew. “Less of a plan, more of a ‘let’s see where this takesus.’”
He tipped his head and brushed his mouth against mine. Barely a ghost of a kiss, but it woke up every nerve in my body. It woke up my spark, only just dulled from Damon’skiss.
But Jin didn’t kiss like Damon at all. He didn’t do anything like Damon. He took his time, easy and languid, kissing a little harder, a little deeper, building my longing without touching me anywhere except my waist and mymouth.
By the time his tongue teased over mine, I was already breathless with wanting. I kissed him back hard, gripping the front of his shirt, as if I could pull him into moving faster. But there was something exquisite about the slow, sure escalation. I was so sensitized just from his kisses that the moment his fingers eased up my side, every inch of my skin quivered withexcitement.
“No need to rush,” he murmured, the heel of his hand grazing the side of my chest. “I want you to enjoy every second ofthis.”
“Oh, believe me, I am,” I said in a voice so husky I barely recognizedit.
Then he palmed my breast, and Imoaned.
Chapter Twenty-Six
Jin
Rose’s eyelids fluttered. I loved the way the flush in her cheeks deepened when I stroked my thumb over her hardened nipple. I loved the little noise she made in her throat when I nibbled the corner of herjaw.
Even better than all of that, though, was knowing that with each shiver of pleasure I gave her, I was lighting that fire of magic inside her. Joy and power all inone.
“Jin,” she murmured, tilting her chin to give me better access. I moved my mouth down the side of her neck with a flick of my tongue for good measure. God, she tasted as gorgeous as she looked, sweet andflowery.
My thumb swiveled with steadily increasing pressure around the peak of her breast. She whimpered, her hips arching toward me. Our Briar Rose had woken up, all right. And I wanted her welcome to be the headiest experience of herlife.
I released her breast just for a moment to slip my hand up under her shirt and unclasp her bra. As the cups fell loose, I nudged them up, caressing her sensitive skin directly. Rose’s breath stuttered against my mouth as I caught her lips for anotherkiss.
I kissed her until I felt drunk from the taste of her, like some kind of rose wine. High from the gasps she made as I stroked her nipple to an even stiffer point. I dipped my head, slicking my tongue over the tip of her neglected breast through the textured fabric. Rose quivered andmoaned.
Her hips swayed toward me again, hungrily. I didn’t want to rush through this interlude, but I didn’t want to leave her unsatisfied too longeither.
I fondled her breasts until her breath had turned into panting. One of her hands had balled against my shoulder. The other had tangled into my hair. She whimpered in what sounded like protest when I straightened up, but only for a moment. Then I kissed her again, lingering but deep, as my fingers trailed down her belly to herjeans.
She trembled at the loosing of the button, pressing her mouth more insistently against mine. I eased my hand down. First teasing over the soft skin of her lower belly. Then the silky curls of her mound. Then that little nub that made her cry out the second my fingertips brushedit.
I pulled back to watch her as I explored even lower. Her delicate folds were so slick with arousal my cock hardened painfully. As if sensing that, Rose reached down my chest. I caught herwrist.
“No,” I said, brushing a kiss to her cheek. “This, right now, is all foryou.”
I curled one finger inside her hot, tight center, and then another. The heel of my hand rubbed against her clit. Her hips bucked. We found a rhythm together, between the rocking of her body toward me and the pulse of my fingers insideher.
Her breath spilled, jerky and searing, over my chest. Her head had tipped back against the wall, her whole face flushed now, her lips parted and eyelids low. An ache filled my chest. I pumped my fingers faster, wanting to give her the release she was craving sobadly.
“You’re beautiful, Rose,” I said under my breath. “Absolutely stunning. No matter what happens after today, I want you to know that. You don’t deserve anything less from anyone than how I’m making you feel right now. So never, ever settle forit.”
“Jin,” she mumbled. “I almost—oh.Oh!”
Her body outright quaked. Her core clamped around my fingers. I wrapped my free arm around her, bracing her against me as she unraveled. Her limbs went limp against me, her head sagging so her forehead rested against my shoulder. A sigh tumbled out ofher.
After a moment riding out the last tremors, I slid my hand out of her panties. She touched the side of my face and drew my mouth back to hers. Her kiss sucked me in, making my head spin. It took all my willpower not to press her back against the wall with my hips and release some of the pressure straining inside mypants.
Her arms tightened around me. “I don’t want to go back,” shesaid.
I eased away far enough for her to see my smile. “Just one more day, right? Tomorrow you can tear down their plans and kick them to thecurb.”
“Yeah,” she said, determination flaring in her eyes. But the worry still lingeredthere.