Night of the Cougar (9 page)

“So not fair. Your tongue is amazing.”

As he looked up at her, it was impossible to miss the darkening of her gaze to that stunning sapphire. Equally impossible to resist the temptation of her breasts, which he knew would taste even better than the berry.

“Imagine how amazing it would be here,” he said, and reached up to cradle her breasts.

“Why don’t we find out?” She began to lean toward him, then popped back, surprising him by dipping her fingers in the cream and putting a dollop on the tip of each breast.

There was no holding back the growl that rumbled all across his body, but as he met her gaze, he saw no fear there. Only love and need. For him.

She bent slowly and offered herself up to him.

With slow, enticing licks, he swiped the cream off her nipples and then suckled them. Truly the taste of her was far sweeter than the berries. Far more addictive, he thought as he drew the tips and then the softness beyond into his mouth. He caressed her with his hands as well, driven by the soft cries of pleasure spilling from her lips as he loved her.

Inside him came the rumble again as her response dragged forward his pleasure, but this time he let the growl come, embracing it as part of who he was now, allowing himself to live again thanks to her love.

“You feel so good, Galen. So strong,” Jamie said, running her hands along his arms until she was covering his hands at her breasts. Reluctantly she drew his hands away, earning a grumble of protest.

“Easy, tiger,” she kidded, and he laughed freely, a grumbly, growly laugh that had her insides clenching in anticipation.

She stroked her hands everywhere she could on their trip down his body to just below his hips. Hooking her hands into the waistband of his sweatpants, she dragged the fabric down to expose his marvelous cock and beautiful balls nestled in the nest of soft blondish curls. She couldn’t even wait to drag off his pants before encircling him and cupping his balls.

He growled as she caressed him and as she met his gaze, she noted the feline hints of glowing yellow-green in his gaze, but she felt no fear. She felt only love for him and for the challenge he was willing to undertake.

“I need you. Now.” He grasped her hips and dragged her forward until she was poised over his dick. A burst of wetness prepared her, and she sank onto him, taking in his sleek sensitive head. Sighing with anticipation as she shifted downward, she accepted his thick length until she was tight against his body.

It was all heat and wet surrounding him, bathing his cock.

He held her there, his fingers digging into her hipbones to keep her still because he wanted the feeling to last forever. When she looked down at him, he realized she felt the same. That she wanted to hold this moment to her and not let it go.

The firelight washed over their bodies, warming them, not that they needed anything to add to the heat growing in his body and seeping into hers. Her skin was golden from the flames and as she leaned over him a bit, the color highlighted the streaks of gold in the layers of her hair.

He moved his hands then, up to her breasts. Her skin was damp and slick, smooth as the cream he had tasted just minutes earlier. When he cradled them and grasped the nubs between his thumb and forefinger, she moaned and clenched her hands against his chest.

“I need to move, Galen. I can’t wait anymore,” she said, and shifted her hips, dragging the slick walls of her vagina along the length of his cock.

“I can’t either,” he confessed as his mind whirled from the sensations of her all around him. Above him, her strong body rode him, matching his desire as he drove his hips upward. He loved her breasts, using both his hands and mouth until she was quivering above him, near completion.

Slipping one hand between their bodies, he found her center and separated her to find her clitoris. With sure strokes, he spread the juices from her passion across that nub, pressing and circling it until she shattered above him.

Her muscles clenched and unclenched around him, pulling him closer to his own climax.

Jamie sucked in a breath and closed her eyes, savoring her release and grinding down on him to feel every inch of him. But she knew he was still not there. He needed something more.

Bending, she licked his nipples and bit them, working her way up to the shell of his ear where she whispered, “You’re mine, Galen, but I’m yours as well.”

Almost sensing what the animal needed, she kissed and licked her way to the side of his neck, where she bit the sensitive skin between neck and shoulder. She sucked on it until his body was shaking beneath her and a low vibration started in his center and worked its way into a low snarl.

She sucked harder and bit down again, rocking her hips along his cock as he implored her with another sharp growl and the thrust of his hips upward.

Moving on him again, Jamie felt another climax rising inside her and rode it. Rode him. Bit him. Sucked him until he let out a low roar and took control.

Rolling, he nestled between her legs and braced his arms on either side of her, looking down at her.

There was no denying the eerie glow of the cougar in his eyes now, but Jamie trusted Galen to tame whatever part of the animal remained in him.

“I trust you, Galen,” she said, reaching up and running her hand across the thick muscle on his chest before resting it over his heart. “I love you with all my heart and soul.”

Her words pushed him on, and he shifted his hips, driving in and out of her. Driving them both to the edge until it was impossible to hold back.

With a loud roar, he came, and she followed him, wrapping her legs around his hips to keep him with her. She urged him down to her, where she embraced him, calming him as his ragged breaths bathed her face with their warmth.

When some sense of peace had returned, he used his strength to move onto his back, but he kept her joined to him. He lazily stroked a hand up and down her body as they savored their union and their love.

From the distance, the sounds of a cell phone chirping reached them as a call came in.

Jamie tensed, but ignored her phone, recognizing the Darth Vader ring tone she had assigned to her editor.

“It’s Frank, isn’t it?” Galen asked, but didn’t pause in his soothing caress.

“It is, but I don’t care.”

Galen considered the slight stiffness in her body and knew that despite her words, she did care.

“If you want the interview—”

She laid her hand across his lips to silence him. “I don’t. I’ve been thinking that it’s time for me to make a change in my life. Follow my dreams.”

“It was your dream to finally write that book,” he said against her fingers, remembering all that they had talked about a year ago.

She propped her elbow on his chest and looked at him. “Definitely the book—and you, if you’ll have me.”

He thought about her being here with him. About the trust she had placed in him and the love she could bring into his life.

A purr of pleasure flared from his center, and she smiled brightly, her crystal blue eyes glittering with delight and with love. “I guess that’s a yes.”

“A big yes. I love you, Jamie. I want to spend the rest of my life with you,” he said, rising to drop a kiss on her lips and seal the promise for their future.

Jamie smiled and returned his kiss, loving him and the contented purr of the big cat inside of him.

Much as Caitlin had tamed Jack in Galen’s book, she had no doubt that, together, she and Galen would handle the beast and find their happily-ever-after.

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ISBN: 978-14592-3115-3

Night of the Cougar

Copyright © 2012 by Caridad Piñeiro Scordato

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