So... You ready for round 2? Or really, round 1 for Anna and Kaiden.
We wrapped ourselves in towels and went back in, eating sandwiches on the bed while Kaidan made fun of the pop love ballads on Marna's playlist. Funny how he knew the words to so many of them.
When we finished dinner, I looked at the clock. Kaidan had walked to the window and stood staring out, towel still around his waist. I refused to let him think too much. I didn't want any insecurities of his to rise up between us.
"Hey," I said softly. "It'll be midnight soon. Our wedding day is almost over."
His face clouded, and my stomach tightened.
I stood on the far side of the bed. "Come here."
Kaidan walked over slowly, keeping his eyes on me in my towel. When he got to the other side of the bed he put his joined hands on top of his head and eyed me across the king-size expanse. He made me feel crazy in so many ways.
I reached for the edge of my towel, and before I could think too much about it, I pulled it off, letting it drop to the floor. The cloudiness in his gaze turned stormy. I crawled across the bed toward him. I watched the surprise and lust flash across his features as I reached him and raised up on my knees to face him. My heart was beating overtime.
"Are you scared?" I asked him.
The master of lust seemed to have lost his cool because his response was a grunted, "Hm?"
"Been too long?" I cocked my head to the side. "Out of practice?"
He hadn't been with anyone in eight months. For Kaidan Rowe, that was an eternity.
His eyes got wider than I'd ever seen them, full of indignation, and I felt a rush of mean potency in my blood. Acting as the vixen he often called me, I reached out and pinched his nipple. Hard.
He let out a small holler and grabbed my wrist. With my other hand I tore off his towel. In a movement too quick for me to comprehend, he was on top of me, pinning me to the bed.
"You win," he ground out, breathing hard. I could feel his erection press against me, so I knew that I hadn't gone too far. I wanted to laugh at the thrill of my victory, but his seriousness snuffed that urge. I tried to move my hips up to him, but his body pressed me down. I stroked his cheek, which had grown a five o'clock shadow, and he rested his forehead against mine. I felt his worries creeping in—the deeds of his past haunting him.
"This is right, Kai. We love each other."
He closed his eyes. "I'd do anything for you."
"Just love me," I whispered.
"I need you to know this is different for me. I've never felt like this with someone. I don't just love you, Anna. I adore you." His words caused warmth to spread to my every limb, melting me. I kissed him, and when he pulled away his hair hung around his eyes in sexy strands. I knew from the deep look he gave me that this was about to happen.
"Don't look away from me, Anna," he said.
I nodded. Nervous. Excited. "Okay."
"If you need to stop—"
"Kai. I'm not fragile."
"Right."
I watched him swallow, then close his eyes as a shiver ran through his body. When he opened his eyes again, color poured through the air around him—the vivid, hot pink of passionate love.
Kaidan was showing me his colors.
It was my turn to swallow hard as I beheld the special gift he was offering. Under his thick aura of love was a strand of gray worry and even darker self-loathing. I wished I could make those go away, but only he held that power. Still . . . "It's beautiful," I whispered.
"You're beautiful," he whispered back.
I hitched a leg around him to pull him closer. He shifted above me, his body powerful and graceful. His hips curved toward mine and I moved to meet him, gasping at the contact of his erection pressing against my entrance. I never took my eyes from Kai as we became one. He slowly entered me, and I squeezed my eyes shut from the overwhelming feeling of being stretched. His fingers caressed my waist as he whispered gently, "Relax, little Ann. It will help to relax." I relaxed at his tone and his words as he called me by his nickname for me.
He stopped moving, then kissed me. He thrust forward quickly all the way, and a sharp pain erupted from inside me. "I'm sorry. It was the best way. Just stay still and it will go away."
I nodded, and stilled. I watched Kaiden's emotions to distract me. Pink was the most abundant color, followed by red and the gray of worry. The pain stopped and now I was just wanting more. I pressed my hips into his, causing him to groan as the red flared in his aura. "Don't do that if you don't want me to lose control." He gritted out.
"I'm fine, Kaiden."
He searched my eyes, "You sure?"
"Yes." I closed my eyes and released the hold over my emotions, showing him my colors too. He gasped and I opened my eyes, knowing that he was seeing mostly the pink of my love for him, but also a huge amount of red. I could tell that now he knew that I had no doubts, and I was ready. Very ready.
He pulled almost all the way out, then slowly back in. Maddeningly slow. It was really nice, but I needed more. "Faster, Kai." And faster he did.
He pulled all the way out then slammed back into me, then quickly back out. Oh yeah, he was SO good at what he does. I was soaring and all I could manage to do was grip his back tightly. "Wrap your legs around my waist, and cross your ankles."
I did what he said. "Oh!" I moaned as he hit that place that he had just grazed earlier. But now, he hit it harder. Over and over again. I started pressing into him as he pushed into me, and that made me soar harder. I was at the edge of that precipice again. And when Kaiden leaned down and sucked on my nipple, hard, I went flying over the edge. He kept on going, and it just heightened the level of my high. This is what real ecstasy is. Kaiden must've read his high too, because he came as he caused me to come again. Once we finally came down, both of us, Kai pulled out of me and we just cuddled, enjoying the quietness of just knowing our love for one another, and basking in the aftermath of the consummation of it.
Did that last line feel a little cheesy? I couldn't finish it with them falling asleep, because that's not the story line... Go read the rest of the book if you haven't... It would just pick up where Chapter 15 starts... Hope you liked it!