Luthor’s main reason for getting in the shower had been to clean up, which was not to say that secondary motives hadn’t been involved. What he’d learned over the months in which he and Dani had known one another, and more particularly over the last 48 hours, was that, if you presented her with a situation, she almost always rose to the challenge. It was only when the whole burden of something was placed on her shoulders that she shoved her head in the sand and hid.
He soaped his body, washing away all the icky stuff so that his skin was squeaky clean. His thoughts, unfortunately, he couldn’t do much about. It was hard work restraining himself and persuading himself that he didn’t want more than a few kisses from her. Luthor wanted so very much more. She was right: he did want to make love to her at the same time as Xane. He wanted them to all have sex together, and he absolutely believed that they could make such a relationship work long-term. It was simply getting her to take those first few steps that was proving so problematic.
He soaped his balls and his cock, hoping she was watching, and that she was intrigued and attracted to him enough to want to come and brush her fingertips over his skin for herself.
He wanted her touch. Right now, he craved it more than he craved Xane’s – and Xane only had to look at him and he got warm around the neck.
‘Luthor.’
He opened his eyes to find her standing right outside the cubicle, her dress pooled around her feet and her bra discarded, leaving only a pretty pair of lacy panties that she was stepping out of.
He blinked, thinking for a moment, that the water streaming over his face was distorting his sight somehow, but the vision of creamy, curvy perfection remained. He opened the door to let her in. Wow, she was everything he’d imagined, only better, firmer, rounder and softer in all the places a woman ought to have a bit of weight. He knew he was staring, but he couldn’t help it. The woman was a complete knockout. Really astonishingly gorgeous. He had no idea why she was so insistent upon hiding herself.
‘I wanted you to see,’ she said.
He didn’t think she meant her radiance, but was at a loss as to what she actually wanted him to see.
‘They’re hideous, I know. I wish they weren’t there.’ She turned sideways on, but it was only because she skimmed her hands over her hips that his gaze was drawn to the scars she was referring to – rows and rows of regimented little marks as if someone had drawn a tally chart on her skin in silver pen.
‘They’re not hideous. What are they? Some sort of tattoo?’
Crap, her frowny face returned.
‘Cuts, from a razor blade. They’re not self-inflicted.’
‘I didn’t imagine they were.’ She’d have to be a contortionist to cut the skin of her back in such a way, for, now that his attention was drawn, he could see the lines continued around the top of her bottom, all the way across to her other hip, and both hips were marked as far down as the tops of her thighs. ‘Who did it?’
‘The people I used to live with. They have certain religious beliefs. I was punished for not adhering to them. A bunch of them are for listening to Black Halo, and that’s all I really want to say about them. They are part of my past. I’d rather concentrate on the future.’
The future … if what was staring him in the face right now was part of his, then he had no issues with focusing on that. ‘Are you getting in?’ he asked.
‘If I do, what’ll happen?’
Was she kidding? ‘A heck of a lot of intimate touching, that’s what.’
‘You mean you’ll make love to me.’
‘Actually, I was envisaging it as more of a two-way thing.’ He reached out and grasped her hand, tugged her into the cubicle and slammed the doors closed behind her. ‘Kiss me.’
‘I’ll hurt you if I do.’
‘You’ll hurt me more if you don’t.’
‘But your nose.’
‘I’m going to be too bloody ecstatic the second your lips touch mine to feel pain, Dani. Heavens, girl, have you seen what having you stand next to me is doing?’
Her gaze dipped, and a cheeky grin tugged at her lips. ‘Is something going up?’
Oh, yes!
‘Then I think that’s my cue to go down.’
Oh, dear God, had she actually said that? She had, hadn’t she?
Luthor stared at her, mouth agape. ‘You’re actually going to suck me?’
‘If that’s something you’d like.’
‘If that’s something I’d like,’ he parroted. ‘Am I hallucinating this?’
‘Definitely. That’s exactly what this is, a nice dream. Really you’re out cold on the patio.’
‘That’s OK, then. I was beginning to think reality was being tampered with.’
Dani placed her hand on him, near his hip, at the base of his abs. His flesh trembled. She’d had no idea that he wanted her this much. All this time, he’d been telling her and showing her in a myriad little ways that he wanted her as much as he wanted Xane, but she’d never really believed it. In her mind it had always been a ruse, a way for him to get closer and tighten the bonds between himself and Xane. Clearly, she’d been walking around half-blind, because it was all too apparent right now that his attraction to her was very, very real.
His cock wasn’t fully hard yet, rather he was sporting what she’d heard the guys refer to as a semi, but that changed the moment her knees hit the floor. This had been the first sexual thing she’d done for Xane, if you discounted giving him an enormous love bite, so it seemed appropriate that, more than anything, it was what she wanted to do for him too. She started by tickling the very base of his shaft right where it joined his balls.
‘Oh, yeah, kiss me.’
She did, all the way up his length, following the blueish line of a vein visible through his pale skin. His pulse throbbed hard, and the taste of precome filled her mouth as she finally welcomed him inside.
Luthor blew out his next breath through pursed lips, almost whistling in the process.
She found her own breath becoming a little short too, while a heavy feeling built inside her womb and caused her nipples to tighten into painful points.
Luthor supported the back of her neck, guided her just a little. He liked it when she lashed him with her tongue. She could tell, because it made him jump, so that his hips jerked forward and his cock wept. She loved that it flooded her mouth with the taste of him, that he was spilling a little of his essence inside her.
She worked him faster, sucked harder, getting off on how powerful his response to her efforts was. When he let go, she was going to suck every last drop from him, and then she was going to sit back on her arse, open her legs wide and let him watch her frig her own clit until her own orgasm ripped through her.
And she was going to look at him the whole time she was doing it, so that he knew it was him she was thinking about. That it was thoughts of his mouth on her, his cock filling her, that were driving her frantic.
‘This is not what I want,’ he said, almost slaying her with shock.
The way Dani was stroking him threatened Luthor’s very balance. He braced himself against the tiles. His fingers clawed at the chrome fittings, seeking a means of staying upright. Her mouth on him. The way she flicked at him with her tongue. It was more than he could take. It was too much. Too good. Way too good.
‘Dani, stop. I don’t want to come like this.’ He wasn’t Xane. He couldn’t get worked up to this dramatic a climax and still be ready for round two in under five minutes. The way she was doing him right now was going to knock him senseless for at least twenty.
‘You don’t?’ She sounded shocked, even disappointed.
At least once her mouth was no longer surrounding him it was easier for his brain to function, thus enabling him to spit out more words. ‘I want to be inside you.’
He fished for her, caught and lifted her from her knees up into his embrace. He didn’t care that his nose throbbed when their mouths met. The taste of her more than made up for it. She tasted of sweetness and excitement, combined with a hint of his precome. He lifted her leg, held it up around his hip. His need for her was so great now he was burning up, but the base of the shower was too slippery. If he tried to lift her, they’d both end up injuring themselves.
Luthor jerked open the cubicle doors. The whole room was filled with steam. He carried her through the clouds over to the sink and set her down against the edge of it.
‘I need to get inside you right now.’
That smile. The way it lit her whole body almost finished him off.
‘I like that you want me that much.’
This wasn’t a recent development. He’d always wanted her that much. It was just that until very recently she’d been so far out of reach he hadn’t felt there was a chance of winning her.
‘Dani, I want you so desperately, I’m struggling to contain my damned excitement. Have you any idea how damned hot you are? Or how damned crazy you’ve made me by wrapping your lips around my cock? We’re talking hair-trigger here.’
‘I like the sound of that.’
‘You won’t if I go off.’
‘I think I’ll like it no matter how or when you come. I mean, it’d be flattering having you gush all over me.’
‘Let me gush inside you.’
She dug her teeth into her lip and stared into his eyes. He wasn’t sure what she was searching for in his gaze, maybe some hint that this was a lie, or that his current level of crazy for her wasn’t everything it seemed. He guessed that, whatever it was, he came out trumps, because she suddenly stretched to the side and snagged with her fingertips one of the multiple baskets filled with toiletries and essentials that Spook made available for his guests. ‘I think we can find what we need right here. Um, extra-heavy-duty. I don’t think so. Don’t want you dayglo either.’
‘Dani, just grab whatever.’ She was literally killing him.
Thankfully, whatever was inside the pink foil she grabbed next met with her approval. He watched, jittery with excitement, as she ripped into it and handed him the little hat.
‘You do the honours,’ he gasped, feeling too unsteady to do it right.
‘I’ve not got a whole lot of practice at that.’
‘Together, then.’ He showed her, guided her hands.
‘All this anticipation, all this excitement is just for me?’
She sounded incredulous, as if the fact he wanted her this much had come as so big a shock that she was forced to question it. Meanwhile, he was fucking trembling.
‘Every bit of it, Dani. Every damned bit of it. I seriously want you.’ He pushed her leg up, so that it was hooked over his arm. Her pussy was wet for him, the lips of her slit shiny, pink and slick. ‘Do you want me?’
This was it. The turning point he’d prayed would come, the moment when, hopefully, they finally stopped being rivals for Xane’s love and instead became two parts of a committed threesome.
‘I’m literally melting here. I just hope Xane is OK with this.’
‘He’s fine with it. You know that, or you wouldn’t be here.’ She loved Xane way too deeply to ever betray him.
‘You’re sure this is really all right?’
He realised that this time she was asking an ethical question. ‘All that matters is that it’s right for us. It feels damned right to me. How about you?’
Her smile peeled her lips away from her front teeth. ‘I think so. Get inside me and I’ll let you know for sure.’
He didn’t wait for a second invitation.
She cried out as he sank into her. Groaned so deeply, and gripped him so tightly, it was nearly all over right then. Their gazes met. Their breathing halted, and then fell into perfect synchronisation. ‘Oh … oh … I didn’t think it could possibly feel this good with another man.’
He splayed his hands across her bottom. ‘I get that I’ve a lot to live up to.’
Her heels dug into his arse, urging him on. ‘Doing great so far.’
Both his body and his brain lapped up the compliment. No wonder Xane was so hooked on her. She was precious. Insatiable. And for at least these few minutes – as his need drove him, and became so urgent that he was reduced to animal instinct and little more – she was his.
‘Need you too much.’ He buried his face in her neck, as the rippling of her muscles around him got the better of him. He shattered. Then basked in the sheer bliss of the moment.
Dani held him tight until he was utterly spent. Then she covered his face and jaw in kisses. Luthor gently laid her down upon the floor. They cuddled up close, sharing body warmth as he finished her off with his fingers, and for the second time looked into her eyes as she writhed in ecstasy. It solidified the link they’d forged the first time, and turned it into a bond he didn’t think anything could ever break.