Soft with the right amount of force. He kissed her thoroughly and with enthusiasm, nipping at the corners and sucking her bottom lip. He took his time, concentrating as if to get it just right. And it was perfect. The gentle tugging, coupled with his hand drifting down to her lower back, built heated pressure in her pelvis. Her nipples contracted into aching peaks as she drowned in the minty-fresh scent of him.
“Sophie, Sophie.” He hooked his thumbs in the waistband of her thong. “The things I want to do to you…”
Her breath stuttered as he dragged the lingerie past her knees and she stepped out. Then he stood back and looked at her, shaking his head. “Breathtaking,” he muttered.
She delighted in the way he stared at her nakedness. His eyes darkened into deep blue and ran over her as if he’d never been as captivated by another woman’s body.
Reaching for his pants, she whispered, “You’re overdressed.”
They stripped his clothes off until he was as naked as she, and his body was a sight to behold. Simply gorgeous. Even more magnificent than she’d expected, boasting a lean waist, firm biceps, and rock-hard abs. His full-on erection was couched between two thighs the size of tree trunks, muscled and chiseled like the planes of his chest and abdomen.
Colorful tattoos covered his shoulder to the middle of his forearm and over to his left pec. She ran a hand over the designs, but there wasn’t time to explore or examine. They kicked off their shoes, and she fell onto the bed. Ransom followed her down, the welcome weight of him pushing her into the mattress.
His pink tongue rubbed over the tops of her sensitive breasts before claiming the nipple of the left one. His mouth closed over it like a warm clasp, and Sophie moaned low and deep in her throat, arching her back. That seemed to be the constant position of her body—arching and reaching and straining toward him.
Her fingers tunneled into his hair, holding him tight as he sucked and pulled with his lips and teeth. He ravaged the tender flesh and then laved the puckered skin with his tongue, the soothing motion equally erotic. He drove her body crazy. So crazy she could barely stand the heated sensations barreling under her skin.
The sensual onslaught continued, focused on her breasts while his hand dragged in the valley between them, over her stomach and between her legs to the mound of curly hair below.
“Spread those legs for me,” he said.
And she obeyed, her legs falling wide. He fingered her opening and her body jolted. He electrified her skin and sent shock waves to her extremities.
His hand moved between her legs and swirled in the wetness around her moist clit. He circled the nub, going wide at first and playing with the lips. Then he massaged even faster, making the circles even tighter. She wiggled against his hand, whimpering and begging. He stroked and caressed, taunting her until she gasped and her head rolled back into the pillows.
She bit her lower lip and sank her fingers into the muscles of his back. The apex of her thighs became a throbbing mass of hunger.
“I can’t wait to get inside you.”
He whispered the hot words into her skin and removed his hand from between her legs. She lifted her hips high, silently begging him to put it back.
Ransom traveled down her torso, his hands and mouth turning her inside out with soft caresses and moist licks along her waist and hips. A quick kiss to her clit sent a surge of heat to her sex and made her growl in exasperation, as he went lower still, down to her knees, and even ventured as low as the arch of her foot. He bathed her in kisses. Pleasurable, out-of-this-world kisses that made her stretch and preen as she savored each one. She was breathless and boneless and filled with desire for him.
Finally, he offered what she so desperately wanted. Donning a condom, he entered her in a rush, eager to possess her. Long and wide, he hit every spot as he sank deep. The pleasure of