The Ties That Bind by Jaci Burton Read Free Book Online Page B

and brushing his erection with the backs of her fingers as she drew the zipper down. She shuddered a breath, dizzy from nervousness, from excitement. This was all happening so fast. She wanted to slow it down and speed it up at the same time.
    “Are you nervous? Should I slow down?”
    He was teasing her. She cocked a brow. “I’m hardly a virgin.”
    His brows waggled. “Don’t I know it, since I’m the one who took your cherry.”
    She snorted. “As I recall, you were rather adept at convincing me you were the one for me.”
    Once he was naked, he pushed her onto the bed and climbed on after her. “As I recall, you didn’t put up too much of a fight.”
    She worked her way up onto the pillows. “So you’re saying I was easy?”
    They lay side by side now. Rick palmed her stomach. It rippled under the warmth of his hand. “Nothing about you has ever been easy, Lisa.”
    That might be the biggest compliment he’d ever paid her. Or was it a compliment? Did he mean she was difficult? She opened her mouth to ask the question, but Rick placed his finger against her lips.
    “Shut up.”
    She thought about objecting, but he was right. She always thought too much, and now wasn’t the time to think. Instead, she threaded her fingers through his hair. Dark as a moonless night, and so thick her fingers got lost in its depths. It felt good to touch him again, to lie side by side together in bed like this, not to feel the rush of having to fuck like they did when they were kids. There was so much more to lovemaking than just getting naked and penetration. There was touching, looking, kissing, and just being with someone you cared about.
    Rick seemed to understand that, even if his erection lay prominent between them, a constant reminder of what was going to happen.
    He leaned over her, brushed his lips over hers. Soft, oh so soft, it was like a feather across her mouth. And yet it was electrifying, making her nipples pucker. And when he touched her, his fingers lazily mapping her skin from her shoulders to her collarbone to the valley between her breasts, her heart rate kicked up again.
    Rick deepened the kiss, pressed over her more firmly, grasped her hip to draw her closer against him. Her breasts flattened against him, her nipples rasping against the crisp hairs of his chest. He lifted her leg and draped it over his hip, putting her pussy in direct contact with the hard ridge of his cock.
    She gasped as he began to surge against her, rocking his erection against her pussy. A wildfire of sensation rolled along her nerve endings, every single one connected to her pulsing clit. She dug her nails into his shoulder, tilted her head back to look at him, needing to see his face.
    Lines of concentration formed along the outer corners of his eyes and across his forehead. She traced them with her fingertip, memorizing every single one. Rick grasped her hand and kissed her fingertips, then licked them, placing them one by one in his mouth and sucking them gently until she whimpered. She’d been way too long without a man to hold out much longer. Just the sliding motion of his cock against her pussy made her crazy.
    “Rick, please.”
    “I’m nowhere near ready to fuck you yet, Lisa. I haven’t even tasted you.”
    Oh, God. He pushed her onto her back, took her mouth in a long, deep kiss that made her feel drugged, then dragged his lips over her jaw, her neck, and down to her breasts, moving his body over hers and spreading her legs apart with his knees so he could settle between them. He palmed her breasts—oh, to have them touched by someone other than herself was heaven. He caressed her nipples with his thumbs and the sensation shot straight between her legs, making her throb and squirm underneath him. He held her still with his body, continuing to torment her by rolling his fingers around her nipples, then bending down to take one into his mouth.
    His lips closed over one peak and she wanted to die from the pleasure. She