The Billionaire's Second Chance (37 page)

Letting her head fall back in order to see him more clearly, Shannon searched his
face
for reassurance and was warmed all
over, all hesitation wiped away
by the look of pure want blazing at her from his heavy lidded eyes. She wanted to say something but the moment was too profound for mere words so she told him with her hands and mouth how she felt.

Leaning forward she set
shaking
hands to the buttons of his shirt to expose his chiseled abs and lightly furred chest to her sight
.
S
he immediately moved in to set her tongue moving
along
his collarbone to his chest until she found a tight male nipple just waiting to feel the
f
lick of her tongue.

He shuddered when that naughty tongue of hers licked and sucked at his chest
,
while
she moaned softly with each sweep of her lips
. He was delirious for her touch and found his kne
es shaking
,
so great was his desire for her
. Only she had ever driven him to the exquisite point where the
ir
passion
was so
boundless
that he lost
some of his legendary control.  He let her have her way with that hungry mouth against his highly sensitized skin until he was sure his heart was going to thump right out of his chest.
While h
e loved
her teeth nipping at him,
there was something else he wanted more.

With slow deliberate hands he moved her mere inches away
.  S
till close enough to feel each other’s heat
but
far enough that she groaned at the loss of contact
.
He smiled as a
surge
of intense satisfaction
and
lust fueled
his
brain.

Running hands down her uncovered arms he moved behind her to attend to the zipper on her dress. Having him where she couldn’t see him caused Shannon’s breath to hitch in her throat. Relying on her other senses
,
she felt his fingers trace a line across her neck before moving
slowly
to
draw down the zip on her classy
,
vintage dress. H
is
warm
breath on her exposed skin
brought a
shudder
of
awareness.

Stroking
his large hands across her bare shoulder blades
he eased
the dress off her arms
. H
is hands follow
ed
the path of the dress
as
he grasp
ed her waist and swe
p
t
the dress down over her hips until she was standing with her back still to him in naught but bra, panties and a
dainty
pair of
kitten-heeled
sandals. Shannon was pretty sure Nick’s hands were quaking slightly when he brushed her long tumbling locks aside and
leaned in,
raggedly inhaling
the scent of warm skin
mingling with a
deepening excitement.

“
I’ve dreamt of your scent
. Yearned for it against my skin, infusing my senses like drug
.
” he said
while pressing
his body along her back so she could feel for herself the
proof
of his excitement for her.

With hands that could not disguise their trembling he turned her toward him and stepped back so he could look at her. Nick’s mind went totally blank when his gaze met a mouth-wateringly skimpy lace bra and a pair of sheer panties in smoky pink which exactly matched the tell-tale body blush she wore along with the sexy lingerie. He’d asked her to bring something pink and like a gift from the heavens that something was her.

He experienced a tightening in his groin so sharp and insistent that
he
was forced to drag in a series of deep breaths that left his chest heaving.
He
remembered how he’d compared her to
Botticelli’s
Venus and marveled at the delicious sight of his own pocket version standing before him, golden waves of long hair falling about her shoulders, voluptuous
curves;
she was
so
feminine and lovely as to rob him of his senses. She stood there silently as he feasted hungrily on her fair-skinned beauty, the nipples on her perfectly luscious breasts beading before his eyes under the sheer pink lace.

Shannon
posed
somewhat shyly
before him in
skimpy
silk and lace while he indulged in a long and torturously slow
inspection of her ample curves that left her
in
little doubt that he was as on the edge as she was. His hazel eyes had turned smoky while still glittering with leonine intensity
and stood
out on his sculpted face which was tense with undisguised desire
. Slashes of color, not too dissimilar from the color of her panties, shown on his chiseled features as he gulped air into his lungs.

She let him look and then look some more, not feeling any great rush to consummate what was rapidly feeling like a sacred moment. There was something raw and exciting about the way he looked at her
. Shannon was glad now that she had worn the dusty pink lingerie. Judging by the large bulge behind his zipper, she was pretty sure he was glad too.

If he could look, well, she wanted
some of
the same. Stepping forward Shannon came into his body space and swept the unbuttoned shirt still hanging from his broad shoulders to the floor. He was just so damn perfect
,
she all but whimpered as soft hands moved with infinite slowness across his hard, muscled chest. He felt magnificent under her fingers a
n
d she lost herself for a
while in a tactile exploration that reawakened a se
aring physical connection that
neither time nor heartache
had erased.

He let her satisfy
the
need to touch him for as long as he could take the sensation of her
exploring hands running up and down his torso with a thrumming awareness that set his nerve endings on fire. Her breathing had become shallow and rapid as their mounting excitement created a powerful energy that swirled around and through them. When trembling fingers moved to the buckle of his belt and started struggling with what under normal circumstances would be a simple task, he batted her hands aside and
efficiently unhooked both the belt and the button on his trousers. Now it was her turn to swat his hands away as she took over from there, eagerly reaching for the zip on his pants, easing it carefully over an impressive erection.

Reaching inside she covered
him with the
whole
of her hand
and felt his hungry manhood twitch in response. From there it took mere seconds for Shannon to send his trousers
to the floor
before
she pushed
the soft clinging cotton of the sexy molded boxers he favored
down muscular thighs which at the moment were very much poised in that swashbuckling stance that made her mouth go bone dry.

Running her hands reverently up hair covered
legs
,
Shannon was momentarily transfixed by the sight of Nick’s manhood as it stood out from his amazing body, bobbing slightly under her intense perusal. He must have taken
this
distraction as an opportunity to toe off his footwear and kick away
his forgotten clothes because the next thing she knew he was pulling her into his powerful
naked
embrace while whispering, “To new beginnings my only love, and fresh starts.”

When his lips touched hers, tentatively and with reverence, Shannon sighed from the perfection of his warmth pressed up against her quivering softness and the devastating effects wrought by sweet, teasing kisses that
thrilled
while promising so much more.
Opening her lips in invitation Nick quickly accepted, launching a gentle invasion of her hungry mouth.  She sucked on his swirling, wickedly exciting tongue in a sensual feast of delight.

While she lost herself in the exquisite sensations Nick’s lips and tongue were
w
reaking on her senses
, Shannon hadn’t noticed straightaway when gentle fingers slid beneath the straps of her delicate, sheer bra, lowering them down her arms. Without support her breasts plumped up and spilled over the flimsy
pink
lace bringing a low, primitive growl from him when he moved to cup her ample bosom with shaking hands. Arching he
r back in response, Shannon let instinct and raw, unfettered desire guide her actions.

Nick was swamped by desire when her bountiful
breasts were bared to his touch, moving
swiftly to unhook the sexy pink bra so he could enjoy the rosy tipped orbs without impediment. He was aching to taste the hardened nubs on his tongue while he suckled like a starving man. Feeling the weight of her glorious breasts
in his hands brought a growl from deep in his chest that had Shannon arching and quivering under his touch.

Swooping in on his target
Nick swirled his tongue around
a
beaded nipple before kissing it sweetly while his labored breathing against the wet path he left on her breast caused Shannon to shudder from head to toe.
Lifting the prized flesh
,
he pulled her deeply into his hot mouth and sucked hard as he
greedily
devoured her aching flesh.

Hanging on to his shoulders lest she collapse from the pleasure he was giving her, Shannon mewled softly as Nick feasted on her woman’s body. Desire,
basic
and primal rushed at her senses making her writhe sensuously against his rock hard frame. She speared desperate fingers into his hair holding his head and hungry mouth at her sensitive breasts. Feeling his mighty staff against her quivering belly, Shannon fell deeper and deeper into a sense of erotic thrall that stole her breath.

Moving to her other breast Nick repeated in exquisite
detail t
he same oral assault he’d
visited
on the first while Shannon shook and moaned in his arms. She was on fire, of that there was no doubt and while he could have stayed at her magnificent breasts till the end of time there was so much more that he wanted to do to her, so much more that he needed to share with her
.

Suddenly abandoning her breasts, Nick slid to his haunches and hooked his fingers into the sides of her tiny panties before Shannon realized what he was doing. With a firm tug the sheer fabric peeled away leaving her completely naked
and vulnerable to his gaze. When he leaned in and breathed deeply she knew he was picking up on her unmistakable arousal and wantonly tilted her pelvis in his direction. Dazed and more turned on than she ever thought possible, she watched with labored breathing as his nose disappeared in the blonde curls at her thighs as he kissed her aching mound with firm lips. The feel of his big hands holding her backside so he had complete access to her woman’s center was more exciting
than anything she’d known to this point. Shannon felt feminine and incredibly powerfu
l
by
the unmistakable
affect
that
her arousal
had
on his response
when she
was guided
onto the big bed while her cowboy pirate enjoyed her sensual dishevelment with glittering male satisfaction.

Nick had wanted to lo
ve her slowly this first time; t
asting every inch of flesh and drinking in her arousal until she was mindless and out-of-control under his masterful plundering of her senses.
Unfortunately
, he hadn’t
considered
the siren’s song her naked body was subjecting his one-track mind to. How he kept from simply dropping her to the floor where they stood and plunging into her heated core until the powerful ache her presence in his bed evoked was a mystery to him. He had more control than he thought but the sight of her naked and panting on his bed and
with
the tangy aroma of her excitement invading his brain, Nick’s determination to go slow was effectively shot to hell.

The big man looming over her made Shannon’s sense
s
go haywire. What
e
ver
poise
she hoped to bring to their reunion was long gone as was her ability to do any more than moan and writhe under his appreciative gaze and sensual touches. Her chest was heaving from the deep, excited breaths she needed to keep her
brain
functioning and while she wanted to take her time and enjoy what this second chance had given
them;
her greedy senses over-rode that
resolve and whipped her response level to a fevered pitch that could only end one way.