A Very Castle Christmas

Chapter Ten

Kate pulls her hand away, immediately replacing it with her mouth. She kisses him slowly, sucking on his lower lip, running her tongue against his soft flesh. While she continues to explore his mouth with hers, she reaches up and begins unbuttoning his shirt. When his shirt falls open, she runs her hand lightly up and down his sides, smiling when he moans into her mouth. Finally her lips leave his, and she leans over and places her open mouth on the side of his neck, then nibbles her way over his collar bone before traveling slowly down his chest. His body jerks when her teeth graze his nipple as her hands pull his belt free.

Her hands on the front of his pants push him into action, and he reaches behind her, feeling for the zipper. She grabs his wrists and pulls his hands away stepping back out of his reach. Without taking her eyes off of his, she reaches back and finishes the job he started. The zipper down, she only has to shrug her shoulders and her dress drops off, leaving her standing in the middle of the room wearing only a pair of lacy black panties. She forces herself to stand perfectly still as his eyes travel down her body. She feels her nipples swell and the muscles between her legs contract deliciously in response to his heated gaze.

She steps out of her dress, and once again reaches for his pants. His arousal is hard against her hand as she lowers the zipper, pushing his pants down past his hips, until they too are a puddle on the floor. She notices that he is clenching his hands tightly at his sides, and knows that it is taking all of his self-control not to touch her back. She takes one fist and brings it to her mouth, brushing her lips across the top of his knuckles before placing it on her breast.

That's all the encouragement he needs. He pushes her back against the wall, pinning her there with his body. He kisses her roughly, and she cries out as his fingers rake across her nipples. He leaves her mouth to pull one of those swollen nipples into his mouth, sucking hard, as his fingers slide slowly down her body. He touches her briefly between her legs, rubbing her gently through the lace, before he reaches behind her. He grabs her bottom with his open palms, rocking his pelvis rhythmically against hers. It feels so good, and she responds by digging her nails lightly into his back, before sliding her hands down the back of his boxers, her hands lingering on his firm butt before pushing them down his legs.

He steps back, now gloriously naked and pulls teasingly on the waistband of her panties. She smiles and hooks her thumbs through the waistband. She watches his eyes cloud over as she wiggles her hips, letting the panties slide slowly down her legs until she is as naked as he is.

She walks over to the bed, not bothering to look back, sure that he is following her. As soon as he lay down next to her, she leans over him. Her hands and mouth wander over his body, touching and tasting him everywhere, quickly bringing him to the brink of release. She stops for just a moment, waiting until he is looking deeply into her eyes before finally guiding him into her. And as they move frantically against each other, she never breaks eye contact, hoping that he can see the love in her eyes that she is so desperate to show him.

Afterwards they lay in the dark, their bodies still intimately intertwined since neither of them are willing to move away. She can feel his heart rate slowly return to normal as her head rests on his chest, his hand running lazily through her hair. She is still awake when his hand finally falls away, and his breathing becomes even and deep.

When she is sure that he is fast asleep, she reaches up, her fingers tracing his cheek, the line of his jaw, rubbing her thumb across his lower lip, almost as if she is trying to memorize every detail of his face. "I love you, Castle," she whispers softly in the dark, uttering the words to him as he sleeps that she just can't let herself say to him when he is awake.