Not that Ezra let that stop him, of course. A second later he dived on top of her and his fingers got busy carrying out the threat.
Ellie squealed and dissolved into fits of laughter. She tried to push his hands away, but the only reprieve she got was when he stopped momentarily to pull her t-shirt out from her waistband and whip it over her head while she was still convulsed with laughter.
His busy fingers played over her ribs and down her flanks and Ellie squirmed and wiggled, helplessly laughing, as he somehow managed to pull her jeans and panties off, tickling down the backs of her knees at the same time. Her wild kicking only helped him with his mission by flinging her boots off.
In next to no time, she was laying there in just her bra. She might have felt self-conscious about it if Ezra hadn’t irreverently snapped the back of her bra strap before undoing the catch. Seriously, did he just do that? It was so deliberately playful and un-sexy that it took away any tension that might otherwise have seeped in at him getting her naked.
There didn’t even seem to be any time to consider the state of their nudity before he had shucked his own boxers, hauled her up over his shoulder in one sweeping movement, and took off.
Ellie was still chuckling hysterically as he jogged down to the water’s edge, slapping her backside intermittently as he went, which only caused her to shriek louder. Two minutes later she was flying through the air and before she landed with an undignified splash in the pool.
At least she managed to hold her breath before she submerged. She had just come up, spluttering and still laughing, trying her best not to choke on the water, when a gigantic splash showered her as Ezra jumped in to join her.
She treaded water as she waited for him to surface. She should have known better. She had turned a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree circle and was just starting to panic when a sharp tug on her leg had her under the water for a second time. They came up together, Ellie coughing and spluttering and trying to curb her helpless laughter because it stopped her from getting the air she needed, and the hilarity was making her sink.
Ezra came to her aid. At least that was his excuse for hauling her back up against his chest and holding her tight against him. The laughter died on her lips as their limbs tangled and the heat of his naked body suffused her skin, making her suddenly overheat, despite the coolness of the water.
One arm was banded underneath her breasts and she felt his lips, hot on her chilled skin, draw a string of goosebumps along her flesh that had nothing to do with the cold.
He was gentle as he turned her to face him; different. He gazed down at her in the half-light, and his dark brown eyes held an intensity that she had rarely seen. He pulled her tight against him and first peppered her lips with brief butterfly kisses that never lingered long enough for her to catch them but had her frustration building enough that she felt like taking matters into her own hands, before he finally covered her mouth with his own. Ellie grabbed hold of his hair and gripped it in her fingers to keep him there. Now she finally had him, and sank into the kiss, thankful that he was keeping them both afloat. She could feel the long length of his erection pressing against her belly and had an overwhelming desire to crawl on top of him. It would be so easy, here like this in the water. Just a bit of maneuvering and he would be inside her. His hand went to her ass, squeezing and molding the flesh there while one hard thigh found its way between her legs. She rubbed up against it, desperate to relieve the ache she was feeling in her throbbing, neglected clit. Damn, these men were driving her insane with lust!
She hooked one of her knees around his waist and might just have taken that final, irrevocable plunge, if it hadn’t been for the water swirling over her head that brought her back to her senses.
Ezra propelled them both to the surface, and they spluttered and laughed together as they caught their breath.
“I think we to need to finish this on dry land,” Ezra chuckled as he towed her towards the shoreline.
They climbed out of the pool and flopped onto the towels. But the intensity of the moment had passed, and Ellie felt suddenly subconscious. She tried to cover up, but Ezra was having none of that.
“Don’t.” He pulled her hands from where she was shielding herself, lay down on the towel and pulled her against him. She shivered against the chill of the water drying on her skin, and he wrapped his arms around her and held her close.
His lips found hers again and his hands smoothed across her skin, stroking away the water droplets so that the heavy night air could warm her. It wasn’t quite dark and a fat, yellow moon had started to rise above the distant hills. Desire warmed her far quicker, sparking in her veins and heating her from the inside out.
He left her lips bereft and trailed his kisses down her throat and along her collarbone. Ellie arched into him, and Ezra was quick to take advantage of what she was offering. His lips closed around her beaded nipple and he pulled it into his mouth, sucking hard and then grazing it with his teeth until she was frantic underneath him. He offered the same attention to its twin and Ellie felt as if there was some invisible chord that directly attached to her girlie bits, because with every suck and nip she felt a corresponding clench down there.
He took his attentions lower, peppering her skin with open-mouthed kisses and little nibbles. His tongue circled and dipped into her belly button, lapping up the last remaining water droplets that clung to her skin, and he placed open-mouthed kisses across her midriff and hip bones. His fingers skated over her skin along with his mouth, and the dual sensations were driving her insane… right until he reached the apex of her thighs.
Ezra gently pushed her lags apart and made room for himself, but as much as the first swipe of his tongue down her denuded folds had her bucking beneath his touch, she couldn’t shake the rush of guilt that obliterated the need she had been feeling just seconds before.
He obviously felt her stiffen, because he raised his head, cocking it to one side as he asked, “What’s the matter baby? Too fast for you?”
Ellie took a couple of steadying breaths to get her head together. Her pussy still pulsed, and she was sure he must be able to smell her arousal, so there was no playing coy in that respect.
“No… I mean yes, but…” She huffed out audibly. “It’s not that exactly.”
“What is it then?” he asked easily, and Ellie relaxed slightly since he appeared to be neither irritated nor upset that she had more or less cock-blocked him.
“It just kinda feels wrong… like I’m cheating on the others. I know you all agreed you were going to, umm, you know…” she trailed off, unable to put their wooing of her into words without it sounding awful, but luckily he seemed to understand. Well, she hoped that was what his nod meant.
“What I’m trying to say is that I didn’t make a choice yet, so sex - actual intercourse - seems like, I don’t know, one step too far, I guess.” She flung her arm across her eyes and made a growling noise. “Urgh! Am I making any sense at all?”
Ezra leaned up on his elbows and pulled her arm away from her face. She gave a silent sigh of relief to see that playful grin of his beaming at her.
“Actually, you made perfect sense, and you know what? I admire that about you,” he admitted seriously. “Oh, I’m not saying that I would have thought any less of you if you had sex with all three of us before you made your mind up, but the fact that you’re not prepared to go that far makes me appreciate your moral values and I totally respect them.”
He placed a chaste kiss on her belly, and she was struck by how sweet he was; how much like Syrus. Then he blew a noisy raspberry in the same place, and it reminded her who he really was.
As her laughter subsided and the heaviness of the interlude lightened, Ezra gave her a wicked wink.