«Do you want to taste me?» she whispered. «Is that how you want it?»
But Reno couldn’t answer, for Eve had matched her mouth to his. The delicate explorations of her tongue made him groan.
She lifted her head.
«More,» he said huskily.
Eve gave Reno what he asked for, because it was what she wanted, too. The taste of him was familiar, her own mouth and his combined. His textures lured her, making her feel both dizzy and strangely powerful. She strained against him, needing an even deeper tasting of him. She wanted to hold him so tightly that she became a part of him, never to be wholly separate again.
With an urgency Eve didn’t understand, her hands stroked from Reno’s head to his shoulders as she leaned closer and closer to him. He neither advanced nor retreated, letting her come to him. Restlessly her arms tightened around his neck.
An exquisite sensation shot through Eve as her breasts met the muscular warmth of Reno’s chest. She hadn’t known how she ached for that contact until she felt it. Instinctively she began to twist slowly against him, dragging the hardening peaks of her breasts over the tense muscles of his chest.
The sound Reno made was both encouragement and sensual demand. She sank her nails into the tightly corded muscles of his back, wanting to feel his powerful arms around her, wanting to be held against him more tightly than her arms alone could manage.
When he didn’t respond as she wished, she made a frustrated noise.
«What?» Reno asked in a low voice.
Eve tried to draw his mouth down to hers once more, but he was far stronger than she was. He held his lips just above hers, teasing her with the kiss he withheld just as he was withholding his strength from her passionate demands.
«What do you want?» he whispered.
«To kiss you.»
He brushed her mouth with his lips.
«Like that?» he asked.
«No. Yes.»
«No and yes?»
The tip of Reno’s tongue teased Eve’s lips while she struggled to be closer.
«Yes,» she said, shivering at the touch of his tongue.
And then he withdrew.
«No,» she said quickly.
«Yes and no. Make up your mind, sweetgata.»
«Reno,» Eve said urgently. «I want…more.»
His breath came in as though she had flicked him with a whip.
«Open your mouth,» Reno said in a deep voice. «Kiss me that way. Let me see that you want it as much as I do.»
Sunlight glistened on Eve’s lips and on the tip of her tongue. Reno made a low sound and tightened his arms, lifting her face up to his.
«More,» he said, brushing his parted lips over hers.
Eve trembled and did as he asked.
Reno’s mouth closed over hers, and his tongue slid into the warmth that had opened for him. He took her mouth as he meant to take her body, completely, a seamless melding of flesh and honeyed heat.
The feathering touch of air across Eve’s skin when Reno unlaced her camisole was like the edge of his teeth, an exciting contrast to the satin heat of desire.
Eve didn’t know how much her breasts ached to be stroked until Reno’s hands cupped and his thumbs prodded nipples into proud peaks. She didn’t know he was lying half over her until his fingers plucked the taut nipples and streamer after streamer of fire shot through her, making her arch into unexpected contact with his body.
She would have cried out at the sensual pleasure of her body against his, but the only cries the deep mating of mouths allowed were small noises from the back of her throat. He drank the passionate whimpers and silently demanded more, teasing and kneading her sensitive breasts. Long fingers stroked and shaped and tugged until she twisted almost wildly beneath him.
Only then did Reno shift again, flowing completely over Eve, giving her what she had needed without knowing it. His hips pressed against hers, sinking into her until she moved her legs apart in an instinctive effort to match the aching softness between her thighs with the rigid proof of Reno’s hunger.
Eve didn’t know who made the hoarse sound of discovery when Reno fitted himself against her. She knew only that fire spiraled wildly, burning her. Her nails dug heedlessly into the flexed muscles of his back as she gasped, in the grip of a pleasure that burned.
Reno didn’t object to her nails. He simply groaned his response and dragged his hips over her in passionate reflex. The liquid fire of her response spread between their straining bodies.
Surprise froze Eve until Reno’s hips moved again, sending wildfire racing through her body in a burst of heat she could neither deny nor conceal. When he repeated the movement, his tongue shot into her mouth in a possession that was total yet so tantalizing in its lack of completion that Eve wept.
One of Reno’s hands moved between their bodies. The sound of his pants coming undone was lost in the passionate protests that came from Eve when he lifted his weight from her hips.
«It’s all right, gata,» Reno said thickly as he eased himself from the confinement of cloth. «I’m not going anywhere.»
Eve barely heard the words. She knew only that Reno’s weight was settling back on her, but just missing the part of her that ached for the pressure of his body. She twisted against him, wanting more than he was giving her. No matter how she moved, he managed to evade her.
«Reno,» she said raggedly.
«What?» he asked when she said no more.
As he spoke, he raked his teeth lightly over her neck.
Eve had no words to answer him, for she had never felt as she did now, wild for something she couldn’t name.
Reno smiled darkly, for he knew just what she was missing.
«What is it?» he asked again.
Then he listened to the splintering of Eve’s voice as his teeth closed with more force on her smooth skin.
«I can’t…I don’t…» she gasped.
He caught her nipples in his fingers once more and tugged. Her breath came out in a hoarse sound as she arched like a bow. The motion made him settle more deeply onto her legs, yet still not where she wanted him. Her hands clenched in unbearable frustration. She twisted up against him in unknowing demand.
«Open your legs,» he whispered.
As Reno spoke, he moved his hips just enough to brush against Eve’s fire. The caress drew a ragged cry and a rush of heat from her. She shifted, wanting more of the sweet violence he had teased from her.
«More,» he said thickly. «Let me see that you want me.»
Eve shifted again.
«More, gata. You know you’ll like it. Draw your knees up on either side of me.»
She did as Reno asked, opening her legs until he lay easily between her thighs. Slowly he began teasing her nipples, watching her as he plucked the sensitive, rosy peaks.
«Yes,» Reno said when Eve lifted her hips blindly toward him. «Like that. Tell me you want me.»
The sensual torment of his hands on her breasts was no longer enough. Eve’s head moved as restlessly as her hips, seeking release from the vise of need that was closing around her.
«Reno, I…» Eve bit her lip and shivered.
«I know. I can see it.»
The pantalets had no center seam, allowing Reno’s fingertips to flick over her unprotected secrets, touching
