“We hadn’t really decided. Honestly, we’ve barely been here.” He dropped his mouth to my shoulder, and heatflared.
I was out of sight, ensconced in a private space, and my instincts were done waiting. Feverish warmth spiraled through me, followed by pain. The kind of pain that could only be fixed by a knot.
“Fuck. It hurts.”
“Can I undress you?”
I kicked off my shoes in answer. The zipper on my dress came down, and I let it pool around my feet. My panties fell on top of the high heels and the bra followed. All that was left was my jewelry.
I spun back to Jack, who was frozen, staring at me, still fully clothed. The way his eyes took in every piece of me felt a little like worship and matched the inferno inside me. No, it made it hotter.
“This is what I felt,” he whispered, stepping in and dragging long fingers up my thigh to the gold chains there. “I wish I’d noticed it earlier.”
“I’ll wear it again.”
“You’ll wear it now.” Jack backed me toward the bed, hands on my ribs. Tension gripped him, muscles straining as he tried not to unleash himself, and that wouldn’t do. I loved that he wanted to be careful with me, but I needed them feral. “I want them to see it. I want to taste you while you sparkle.”
I felt my skin turn hot with a blush as my legs hit the edge of the bed. He was still fully clothed, and it didn’t even feel strange to be naked with him, because it was right.
“I want to see you too,” I managed.
“You will,” he promised. “Just one more question.”
I waited, realizing I had to look up so much further without my heels.
“Do you want to nest before or after my head is between your legs?”
All my words disappeared. It felt like there was an open fire in the room the way my temperature spiked. I couldn’t answer because all I felt wasneedandnow.
A soft chuckle came from Jack as he sank to his knees in front of me and began to open the dark button-down he wore, sleeves rolled to the elbows.
There was something tantalizing about having a man kneel in front of you like it was theonlyplace he wanted to be. Slick and perfume surged, and there was no way to hide it. “I think your body just answered for you.”
“Yeah.”
I couldn’t move as he tossed his shirt aside. He’d clearly toned it down for the DCAs, but this was what rock stars were made of. Sleeves of tattoos rounded over his shoulders and crawled up to his neck. Hard, wiry muscles that did nothing to cool my arousal.
Fuck, he was beautiful. Where were the rest of them? I needed to see them too.
Fingers traced up the outside of my calves and then my thighs. I was still standing. “Lie back, princess.”
“Princess?” My fingers ended up in his hair, gripping it. He leaned into it, gaze coming closer to the unhinged Alpha I needed. “Not sure I’m a princess.”
“We can negotiate nicknames later. Now lie back so I can discover my new favorite flavor, or I’ll do it for you.”
I still didn’t move. There was a deep part of me that wanted to see what he would do. Play with these new instincts I’d never had. How far could I push and how would he react?
Jack’s mouth curled into a smirk. Where his hands were still on my legs, they curled around the back of my thighs andpulled.
My back landed on pure softness, but all I felt was the hard, unyielding strength of his hands pushing my legs apart.
Jack moved without hesitation. His tongue dragged up the skin of my inner thigh where I was already soaked, and his hands tightened on my skin so hard I felt him shake. His groan at the first taste had megushing, his own scent strengthening. I could almost taste oranges on my tongue. I wanted it.
That was definitely on the list too.
“Fuck, Eva,” the words were muffled as sealed his mouth over my clit and made me see stars. One stroke of his tongue and I came. From the moment I first scented them, this was what my body had wanted. Along with the pleasure, there was pure fucking relief.
Jack laughed softly again and kissed my inner thigh. “That was fast.”
