Erik eased Michelle gently against the mattress, leaned over, and gazed intently into her beautiful, compelling eyes. Eyes through which he could see his future. Children. Grandchildren. The cautious side of him wanted to wait until he got to know her better before telling her how he felt. After all, he’d known her for only three months. He’d known Cassie since high school, and look how she’d deceived him. He still hadn’t really known her. But his mother’s words, when he told her what Cassie had done came back at him.
“Erik, if it’s one thing Cassie’s sudden death should have taught you, it’s that life is short. You must make every second count, dear. If you love Michelle, and I know you do, you should tell her, and start a future with her right away. What’s the point in waiting when your heart knows what it wants?”#p#分页标题#e#
His mother was practicing what she preached. She and his father were already engaged.
Erik smiled down at the lovely naked vixen in his bed. His heart knew what it knew. Michelle was the only woman for him. “Michelle,” he said softly. “I remember yelling out that I love you last night while we were making love. The fact that I can’t get enough of you should tell you how I feel. But to clear up any doubts in your beautiful mind,” he continued, threading his fingers through the short silky stresses of her hair, “I’m helplessly, hopelessly, head-over-heels in love with you. I think of you all the time when we’re apart. When I’m with you, the world and all its pressures just melt away. Your smile gives me hope, courage, and strength. You make me feel like a man who can do anything.
“And this, right here—” He traced a finger down her throat, to her heaving chest, circled her breasts, then down her belly to the soft flesh of her Venus mound, “is the best this side of heaven. I do love you, with all my heart, soul, mind, and body, Michelle Juliet LaCrosse.”
“Oh, Erik.” Tears seeped from the corners of Michelle’s eyes. He’d finally said exactly what she’d been longing to hear for three months now. And she was too choked to respond to his poetic, romantic, heart-rending declaration of love.
Her heart beat heavily with requited love for him, but at the same time she feared what being in love meant. Especially since she hadn’t been completely honest with him about her father. Yeah, she’d fessed up and told him that he wasn’t dead, but she hadn’t told him that he was a drunk, that he was no different from the man who’d killed Cassie. “Erik, I—”
Erik bent his head and kissed the tears from her eyes. “I know you love me. You’ve said it often enough.”
Michelle cupped his chin and gazed into his soft grey eyes. Why spoil the mood with unpleasant talk of her father tonight? This was the moment for her to revel in the aftermath of Erik’s declaration of love. There would be time to talk later.
“I know you want to tell everyone that we’re married,” he said, circling her mouth with his finger, “but I just want to keep you to myself a little while longer. The local press will have a field day with it. I don’t want to share you, yet. Not even with my daughter. We’ll make the announcements shortly after we get home.”
“Okay, when we get home, we’ll announce our marriage.” And I’ll tell you the rest of the story about my father. She had to since they were going public with their marriage. She just wished Robert would hurry up and find something on Dwight Carter.
Erik fell back against the pillow, pulling her on top of him. “No more talking. I need some loving. Can you handle that?”
“I can handle that.” Michelle kissed him deeply and intimately, then feeling empowered by his love, she began kissing her way down his body. His fingers curled in her hair as she circled his nipples one by one with her tongue before tracing slowly down his chest to his belly. His stomach heaved on a groan when she dipped the tip of her tongue into his navel. His sex slapped against her thigh with anticipation, as she kissed the area around his groin.
Smiling seductively, Michelle kissed her way lower. She smelled his heat, his desire. It was poignant and it made her drool with the thought of taking him into her mouth. Just as her lips grazed the base of his turgid penis, he clasped the sides of her head and pulled her up.
Confusion swirled in her mind. Why wouldn’t he let her go down on him?
Gazing at her intently, he positioned her knees so she flanked him at the sides like a stallion. His eyes blazed with passion as his shaft throbbed against the crease of her buttocks like an agitated snake. He took hold of her hips and raised her slightly upward.#p#分页标题#e#