at his side, and prayed for patience. He wanted to lay claim to her, but she was new to this type of intimacy, and if she wanted to explore and learn his body as he intended to do with hers, he’d give her a few moments before he took control. They did have a lifetime ahead of them.
The back of her hand rose again to caress him from collarbone to sternum. “We are so different.”
Her innocent comment brought a cocky grin to his lips. “I should hope so, love. We are made for very different things.”
He reached for her, unable to hold back from touching her a moment longer. Hand around her back, he pulled their bodies flush together. Being that Kate was tall, they were nearly eye to eye on the bed. The soft plumpness of her breasts crushed against his chest. His hand wandered lower, feeling the slight roundness of her derriere, and the firmness of her thighs as he guided one of her knees up to rest over his hip.
“The contrast is not what I expected.” She wrapped her arms around him, tracing the muscles that lined his back and shoulders.
One hand on her rear, he tilted her pelvis toward his so he could thrust into the warm vee where their groins were perfectly aligned. She released a sound of surprise with the new sensation.
He pulled her lips between his. “Herein lies the greatest, most intriguing difference, darling.” He rolled her hips in his hands and let her feel the steel length that would soon be buried between her pretty thighs.
Her fingers were tangled in his hair, her neck arched back so he could lick and nip at her there. His mouth moved lower, kissing her chest through the light material still covering her. Cupping one breast gently in his hand, he sucked the distended tip of her nipple into his mouth. His teeth gently played with the tip, making her mewl in surprise and delight.
Her legs fell open and she pressed herself closer to him. Kate couldn’t believe all the feelings bombarding her sanity right now. She wanted something she had no words for, so she followed her instincts and let George do very wicked things to her body.
Gently laying her atop the covers once again, he caressed her thighs as he stood from the bed and released the buttons holding up his breeches. Kate put her arms behind her head and watched him. She didn’t know the first thing about breeches and wouldn’t have found the hidden buttons he was revealing. She swallowed when the material was pulled away to reveal the stiff standing manhood at his center.
Kate’s eyes widened. How had he walked around with that gigantic thing in his trousers all the times they’d been together? It stuck up well past the dark patch of hair that surrounded it. Good Lord, did he mean to put that part of him inside her?
He must have read the worry in her expression for he chuckled. “Don’t worry, we’ll get you good and wet before we consummate our union.”
“Wet?” Her voice was husky and unrecognizable to her.
His grin was pure wickedness as he stepped out of the last stitch of his clothes and joined her on the bed once again. His hands wrapped around her ankles and slid up her calves. As he trailed his hands upward, the material of her chemise was raised bit by bit higher, revealing pale flesh that had never been seen by another person. Oddly though, she didn’t feel shy at his slow perusal.
When he uncovered her knees, he leaned over her and pressed a kiss against each kneecap before brushing his lips over the inside of her thighs. While his light touch tickled, it also had a rush of butterflies spinning in her stomach and creating the oddest, most pleasant sensation between her legs.
The higher the material was inched up her body, the more nervous she grew. Even though she could hardly be considered dressed, wearing a chemise that you could see through in decent light, she felt as though he were stripping her bare of her modesty inch by slow inch. She raised herself up on one elbow and reached out to grasp his