“I helped install the security, remember?” he groaned as he reached her room, where her favorite perfume drifted all around him.
Setting her on her feet, he wanted nothing more than to rip their clothes off and take her to heaven. But somehow seeing her standing before him in the glorious dress, with her bed as a backdrop, calmed him.
How could he rush this? He needed to enjoy every second of this experience and delight in the beauty of her body. “You take my breath away, Ella. I could die a happy man doing nothing more than looking at you,” he said quietly as he lifted a hand and cupped her cheek. “So beautiful,” he added in awe.
“I need you inside of me, Axel, so I’m not going to be okay with you just looking,” she said, trying to smile, but her lips were trembling and there was a sheen to her eyes.
He leaned down and caressed her lips while his hand still held her cheek and he was so happy to be in that exact moment. “I’m very grateful to get to know you,” he said, not recognizing these strange words escaping his mouth.
“Me, too, Axel.” She sighed as her hands lifted and began undoing his shirt, one button at a time. Her fingers fumbled a few times as his mouth caressed hers and then moved down the side of her neck.
“You smell incredible,” he said, his fingers running through the silky strands of her hair, his mouth moving backward on her neck so he could taste every inch of her like he’d promised.
She groaned her approval as the last button came undone and she pulled his shirt from his pants, parting the fabric, her warm fingers smoothing out across his chest, awakening every sense in his body.
He pulled back long enough to shrug from his shirt, and then pulled her against him to reach for the zipper of her dress. His kiss deepened as he slowly pulled the zipper down, now only their bodies held together keeping it on.
“I want to feel you,” he whispered before stepping back and slowly peeling her dress away, like unwrapping the perfect gift for himself. “Damn, Ella, you’re even more perfect than I imagined,” he gasped as her high breasts were revealed to him, her nipples pink and hard and pointing straight up.
Not able to resist the temptation, he walked her backward and sat her on the bed, kneeling before her as his head leaned forward and he took one perfect circle into his mouth, tasting her, devouring her, loving her tender flesh.
“Ah, Axel . . .” she cried out as he switched sides, his fingers digging into her hips as he tried unsuccessfully to control his arousal.
He was losing control fast despite his best efforts. They had all night to make love, and he planned on doing it over and over again, but right now he needed to feel her walls gripping him, needed to bring their bodies together as one.
Standing, he unbuttoned his pants, his eyes never leaving hers as he unzipped them and pushed them down. When her eyes traveled down his body, then widened in pleasure at his full erection, he couldn’t help but feel pride.
Unable to bear their bodies apart any longer, he grabbed a condom from his pocket before tossing his pants aside and then crawled onto the bed with her, pushing her up so they could lie together. He pulled her dress the rest of the way off, but left on the incredibly sexy heels as he’d promised he would.
He then worshipped her body, his tongue laving across her skin, his lips leaving their mark as he sucked her flesh, and he made her cry out over and over again. His first taste of her womanhood had his head spinning and time lost all meaning as she cried out in pleasure.
Finally, he slipped the condom over his pulsing arousal as his fingers shook with the restraint it was costing him to pleasure her first. But the wait was worth it.
Lying in the cradle of her thighs, his eyes bored into hers as his hardness begged for entrance inside her wet heat.
“Tell me you want me,” he commanded.
“Oh, Axel, I’ve never wanted anyone more,” she moaned.
With a powerful thrust, he buried himself inside her, both of them groaning at the pure pleasure of the moment.
Axel leaned down and kissed her, his tongue slipping inside her mouth while his body lay connected with hers. Then time once again lost all meaning as he began moving, his hips thrusting powerfully as he filled her and then pulled back.
When the walls of her heat tightened around him and she cried out in pleasure, he let go, thrusting a few more times deep inside her core where he found his own release, a guttural groan ripping from him.
When he could finally open his eyes again, he realized he had to be crushing her, but she didn’t have a single complaint as her hands stroked his back.
“I guess I can’t say we’re strangers now,” she sighed when he shifted so he was lying on his back, her body draped over his. “And I’m very glad to know you.”
“Ah, baby, you’ve only scratched the surface of me. Let me teach you so much more,” he said, pulling up her chin and kissing her, excitement and wonder filling him as he felt his body already returning to life.
By morning, they both knew each other quite well.
“I think it’s been at least five years since I’ve actually carved a pumpkin,” Maycie said as she stuck the knife into her bright orange ball—with a bit too much glee, if you asked Ella.
“Maybe there’s a reason,” Reese said with a brow raised at the force with which Maycie was stabbing the pumpkin.
“Hey, I can take my rage out on this vegetable, or on someone else,” Maycie said.
“What rage?” Ella asked as she scooped out her seeds and put them in a bowl. The best part of Halloween was roasting pumpkin seeds after the carving was all finished.