too!”
She didn’t last very long at all.
Lucas, ever sensitive to her needs, held her up as she shook
through her climax, then provided a convenient landing spot for her limp body
by freeing his erection from his soft drawstring pants. Lena sank onto him,
clutching his shoulders and whispering his name as he filled her, delicious and
slow, and she savored each inch until they were pressed together as tightly as
two people could be. She let her head fall to Lucas’ shoulder. It felt like
coming home.
She would have moved then, but he held her there so long she
grew concerned.
“Lucas?” She lifted her head and looked at his face. His
eyes were closed, the dark fringe of his lashes still against his pale cheeks.
He wasn’t smiling exactly, but he somehow looked ecstatic nonetheless.
“Close your eyes,” he whispered, “and just feel for a
minute.”
Grumpy at being thrown off her stride, not expecting this
shift in mood, Lena sighed softly before she complied.
“What am I feeling?” she asked, feeling silly. She didn’t
know him well enough to know if this was just something he did. Every guy she’d
ever been with had tricks, routines. Maybe the sensitive-guy feeling thing was just Lucas’ second-fuck routine.
She knew she shouldn’t think about how many women he’d done
this with. It should be enough that she would be the last. Maybe if she’d
earned the position fair and square, she’d be easier in her mind about it.
“Everything. That’s what I’m feeling. I just want to
remember everything about this exact moment. The way I can still smell you and
taste you on my lips. The way it feels to be inside you, so hot and good. How
your stomach feels, moving against mine every time you take a breath. I can
hear you breathing too.” He bent her back a little, lowered his head and tilted
it, pressing his ear to her chest. “And I can hear your heart. It’s probably
beating a little slower now than it was a few seconds ago, and you’re sitting
there thinking, ‘What the hell is wrong with this guy?’ If I opened my eyes I’d
probably see you looking at me like I’m nuts.”
He didn’t sound too worried about that. Lena thought if he
opened his eyes right now, he would see her looking at him like a lovesick
fool. That wasn’t a role she felt comfortable accepting just yet, so she pushed
the notion down.
“All the senses, huh? Sight’s a sense too, you know. Don’t
you want to engrave the picture in your memory? Or is it just that with your
eyes closed you can imagine all the ones who got away?” She chuckled and
squeezed her inner muscles on him, feeling smug at the hiss her move elicited.
“No,” he clarified. “My eyes are closed because when I open
them I see you, and I’m torn. I want it to last forever, but you’re so amazing
I know I won’t last five minutes.”
He opened his eyes anyway and looked at her, putting his
hands on her cheeks. Lena lifted hers too, automatically, because she could
feel herself blushing and her first instinct was to hide that. She didn’t want
to give that much away.
Her fingers met his thumbs brushing over her cheekbones. Too
late. He’d gotten there first, and she was revealed.
Lucas stared at her as if she actually was amazing. To her
surprise, she felt amazing.
“I see you, Lena,” he whispered. “This is the picture I’m
engraving in my memory.”
She nodded as if he’d asked consent. After a hushed moment,
he wrapped his arms around her again, clinging tightly, and they finally moved
together in ancient instinct. When he came, a hoarse cry marking his orgasm,
Lena felt his release like a heartbeat inside her body, hot and sweet and deep.
Chapter Six
Lena tried not to count the days, but there was a calendar
on the wall in the lab and she couldn’t help checking it every time she walked
in. Lucas spent some time working every day, but with none of the focus of
those first few days she’d stayed with him. She would have felt
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