He couldn’t remember her name! Tessa’s heart flipped a few times and reality gave up trying to put the dampener on hope.
‘All I’ve succeeded in doing is drinking more than I should, storming around the office like a bear with a sore head, bellowing at anyone who crosses my path, not that I’ve had much of an audience, thank God, and staring at computer screens without managing to achieve very much.’
‘Oh, I see,’ Tessa said weakly.
‘Do you? Can you? See, I mean? How much I missed you? I don’t think you can. If someone had told me six months ago that I’d be running towards commitment as if my life depended on it, I’d have laughed them out of court.’
‘You’re saying…’
‘I’m saying that…’ He looked around uncomfortably and cleared his throat. ‘I’m saying that I love you. Not just lust after you, although I do that as well, excel at it in fact, but need you and want you and can’t bear the thought of you not being by my side. In fact…’
Their eyes tangled and Tessa smiled slowly back at him, reading his mind. ‘I don’t think anyone would miss us if we had a bit of a breather before the main course…’
They slunk out of the dining room like two teenagers, with Curtis just about managing to mutter something to their host on the way out about needing to fetch something before they carried on with the meal, that they would be back very shortly.
‘Very shortly?’ Tessa quizzed, half running up the stairs with him to her bedroom.
‘Oh, yes. Remember what I said about lusting after you…? Well, it feels as though it’s been years and I don’t think my body is capable of behaving itself properly right now…’ To demonstrate exactly what he meant, as soon as the key turned in the door he pushed it open and pulled her to him with a low groan, pressing her against the door to shut it, muttering thickly against her pliant mouth.
And his urgency matched hers. Hands collided as they tugged to free each other of unwanted clothes. Actually making it to the bed was not an option. ‘We can spend all the time we want in bed later,’ he promised roughly, ‘but I want you right here and right now…’
With perfect understanding and feeling shockingly debauched, Tessa coiled her hands around his neck and groaned as their bodies found the perfect position. Her legs wrapped round him and, with a gasp of absolute fulfilment, she felt him move strongly inside her, thrusting and manoeuvring her with expertise so that her breasts bounced against his chest.
They came as one, shuddering on that final thrust, and Tessa curved lovingly against him as he carried her to the bed.
‘Next time, my darling, we’ll take all the time in the world, but I just couldn’t wait…’
‘Nor could I…’ she murmured. She ran the palm of her hand against his chest and, with a smile, he did the same to her, pausing to cup her swollen breast in his hand and eliciting a tiny moan when he began rubbing her stiffened nipple between his fingers.
‘You’re the most beautiful creature on the face of the earth,’ he said solemnly. ‘Next to you, every woman seems to fade into the background.’ As if unable to help himself, he lowered his head so that he could take one nipple into his mouth and suckle on it and Tessa was more than content to let him stay there, feasting, with her hand resting lightly on his head. She smiled when he finally looked up at her.#p#分页标题#e#
‘My life only has meaning with you in it,’ he told her, and she tugged him up so that their faces were once more on a level and she could gently kiss his mouth, pressing her body against his and moving sinuously against his already stiffening member.
‘You don’t know how I’ve longed to hear you say that,’ she confessed, smiling and arching back as his hand curved along her thigh, seeking and finding the wetness that spoke of her desire. She drew her breath in sharply as his fingers rubbed insistently, sending shooting stars through her. ‘What about the meal waiting downstairs?’ She giggled, moving against his hand and then, reaching down, guiding his hardness against her sensitised softness.
‘Mmm. Good question.’ He grinned and rotated the tiny bud of femininity, loving the way she squirmed in response. ‘I just had to touch you, Tessa…had to tell you how much I love you…how much I’m committed to a lifetime with you. I want you to have my kids, brothers or sisters for Anna, and I want you to grow old with me. And, yes, I really want you to ask me how my day went when I get back from work and arrange dinner parties with people when I’d rather just stay in and have a meal with you.’