Holly couldn’t believe it. Even a one-night stand with a man like Stavros seemed like a dream. But he wanted to marry her? Have a baby with her?
Tears came to her eyes.
“I’ve shocked you,” he said grimly.
“No...yes.” Lifting her chin, she whispered, “It’s like all my most impossible dreams are suddenly coming true.”
Exhaling, he ran his thumb lightly along her cheekbone, brushing a tear away. “Is that a yes?”
“Yes,” she breathed.
He smiled, and it was brighter than the sun, even as she saw a suspicious sheen in his black eyes. “You’ll never regret it. I swear it on my life.”
“I’ll do my best to make you happy...”
“You already have.” Lowering his head, he kissed her. “I want you, agape mou,” he groaned against her lips. “I’ll want you until the day I die.”
She held her breath as he kissed down her throat, to her breasts, then her belly. She shivered, lost in a sensual dream. He wanted to marry her. He wanted to fill her with his child...
He slowly pulled her white silk panties down her legs, and tossed them away. Kneeling between her legs on the bed, he pushed her thighs apart. She felt the warmth of his breath against the most sensitive part of her body, a place no man had ever touched.
Lowering his head, he spread her wide with his hands. For a moment, she couldn’t breathe, as he teased her with the warmth of his breath.
Then he tasted her, delicately with the tip of his tongue, swirling against the core of her pleasure. Even as she gasped in shock at the intensity of the sensation, he moved, deepening his possession, reaching around her to hold her tight, as he lapped her with the full width of his tongue.
She cried out, grasping the bed beneath her as electricity whipped through her, causing her back to arch, lifting off the mattress.
He moaned, his hands tightening on her thighs, holding her down as her whole body strained to fly. Her breasts felt tight, her whole body aching with need. Then he pushed a single thick fingertip inside her, stretching her.
Pleasure built inside her, whirling her in every direction, pleasure she’d never imagined. She held her breath, closing her eyes as her head tilted back. Her body arched off the bed as he worked her with his tongue—then, just as she tightened with pleasure almost too great to bear, he pushed a second fingertip inside her. And she exploded into a thousand chiming diamonds, in a million colors, soaring through the sky.
She was only dimly aware as he reached for a condom from a nearby nightstand. But as he started to tear it open, she covered it with her hand.
“No,” she panted, still dizzy beneath waves of pleasure.
“No?” He looked stunned.
“You don’t need that.” She smiled. “Live like you’re alive.”
Savage joy lit up his dark eyes as he threw the condom to the floor. “This is my first time without one,” he whispered, lowering his head to kiss her. “My first time ever.”
“For both of us,” she breathed, closing her eyes with a delicious shiver as he gently bit the corner of her neck. Prickles of desire raced through her body.
“I’ll end the pain as quickly as I can,” he said huskily.
Pain? What pain? All she felt was bliss—
Gripping her hips, he positioned himself between her legs. In a swift, deliberate movement, he sheathed himself deeply inside her.
She gasped as he broke the barrier inside her. But he held himself utterly still, holding her as the sudden pang of pain lessened, then disappeared. His weight was heavy on hers, his hard-muscled chest sliding sensually over her breasts as he lowered his head to kiss her, gently at first, then with rising passion as she started to return his embrace.
Only then did he slowly begin to move inside her, thrusting deeper, inch by inch. And to her shock, a delicious new tension began to coil, low and deep inside her belly.
Reaching up to his shoulders, Holly pulled him down tighter against her, wanting him deeper, wanting more. Wanting everything.
CHAPTER FOUR
HE WAS ALREADY deep inside her, so deliciously deep. Stavros fought to keep control as she gripped his shoulders, pulling his naked body down against her. He felt her move beneath him, tightening with new desire.