Free Holding on to Heaven by Keta Diablo Page B

little tormentor." He gripped her shoulders, pushed her onto the grass and loomed above her. "Close your eyes, Lauren, and don't open them. Just feel my touch."
    "No." She gave a half-laugh.
    "You don't trust me? You dared me to love you patiently. I’m about to do that if you’ll allow me to."
    "I'd have to be a fool to trust the wild, dangerous Creed Gatlin."
    "Know this, Lauren, I'd rather cut off my right hand than harm you."
    "You wouldn't be able to use that pistol you always holster then."
    "Are you going to lie back and let me bring you pleasure or are you going to talk me to death?"
    "All right, but I warn you, I'm ticklish."
    "You are? God, I wished I'd known that." He ran his finger across her hips. "Are you ticklish here?"
    She sucked in a breath.
    "Close your eyes, Lauren."
    Her body trembled when he brought his hand lower, but she obeyed and wondered how she'd be able to stand this delicious torment.
    "I want to see every inch of your sweet body in the daylight, commit it to memory."
    Her eyes flew open. "Don't talk like I'll never see you again."
    "Close your damn eyes and lay still."
    "Yes, master."
    "You're so damn beautiful."
    Her heart constricted and tears swarmed behind her closed lids. Please don't let me cry now, God, please. She didn't move, didn't speak, but sucked in her breath, the anticipation killing her. A tremble coursed through her when he nudged her knees apart.
    "Trust me," he whispered. "I can take you higher than before, to a place where no one can venture but us."
    "Yes." Her skin burned beneath his touch. "Take me there with you, Creed."
    He nibbled his way up her thigh, licking and sucking her skin. She clutched at the grass beneath her hands and arched her back. He flicked his tongue over her nub and she shuddered. Heat radiated from her core and an unnamed muscle low in her groin clenched tight. Good God, what had she agreed to? She'd soon be begging for him to take her.
    He drove a finger inside her. Her hips jerked and pushed against his hand. "Creed, I..."
    "Not, yet, baby. Patient and tender, remember?"
    He seduced her with those knowledgeable fingers, drove her to a maddening frenzy. Just when she thought she could take no more, he removed them and trailed his tongue along her hard nub again. The musky scent of her arousal drifted around them. She groaned and rocked her hips against his mouth.
    Creed tongued her sex, teasing the tip over the button-hard nub until she grew mindless with need. Her hands clutched his hair and she pushed his head against her most intimate part. He closed his lips around her and flicked it with his tongue, circling it until she begged him to take her.
    "Not, yet," he said, still teasing her.
    Her hips jerked and a low moan slipped from her lips. She rocked upward again and allowed the spinning world to embrace her. Writhing under him, her internal muscles tightened as he probed with his tongue.
    "Please, I can't wait any longer."
    Her warm breath whispered over her skin. "Not yet."
    She dug her heels into the ground and arched her back like a cat in heat. She undulated. She whimpered. She begged.
    At last, he removed his tongue and entered her. Too far gone to speak, she grabbed his hips and pulled him close. Waves of pleasure rolled through her.
    "Open your eyes now, Lauren."
    Dazed, she obeyed. He leaned down and took her lips, rocking into her with infinite patience and tenderness. Every tendon in her body ached with the need for completion. She’d never felt so incredible. Creed was above her, below her and around her. She lost herself to the overwhelming euphoria. Her insides clenched around him. She whimpered into his open mouth and surrendered.
    Need and hunger meshed. Real became false, wrong became right. He took her to that place he spoke of and she wanted to stay there forever with him. She raked her nails down his back and cried out his name, her release so potent she thought she might faint. Her hips rose up a final time and she took him