EXCERPT!!
“Morning darling.” I startled as Peggy
placed her hands on my shoulders, squeezing before she landed a kiss on my
forehead.
“Morning.”
“Where’s your friend?” She walked over to
the coffee machine and started fiddling with the pods.
“She left first thing.”
“I trust she enjoyed her visit?” She
grabbed the mug and took a sip. “Sorry I didn’t introduce myself, but I ended
up working most of the night.”
“She did,” I said as Peggy sat down on
the stool at the breakfast bar.
“Good, she certainly appeared to like
Luca.” She hitched her eyebrows as her overly sweet smile slipped just a tad
before she glued it back in place, “And I can understand why, what’s not to
like?”
I grinned in her direction purposefully
avoiding eye contact with her, not wanting to pass comment. I could feel my
cheeks heat as images of his gob-smacking body assaulted me. I stared into my
tea, hoping that she couldn’t see my face—I was certain that my thoughts were
stamped all over it.
“I’ve got a function in London today,
which means that I’ll unfortunately be staying in town. Luca’s not quite
himself, must be some bug or something.” She slipped off the bar stool as she
downed the last bit of her coffee. “I don’t know whether he’ll be about much,
but if he shows his face maybe you can entertain yourselves. Watch a movie or
something…”
“Are you sure he’s okay?”
“I’m sure it’s just a headache that’s
making him feel queasy. He’ll be fine. I think I’ve just worn him out and you
know what men are like…dying swans with anything.” She shrugged as she
deposited her mug in the sink, turning to leave. “Regardless, I’m sure he’d
love the company.”
I followed her out of the kitchen to the
front door. One of the staff already had the boot of her waiting car open and
was loading her suitcase and some other random looking cases into it.
My skin tingled as I heard the shuffling
behind me. Luca stood beside me looking rather pale, he looked drained and
stressed. I wanted to reach out and hold his hand. I wanted to wrap my arm
around him and tell him that I didn’t care about anything except him. My heart
dropped as he took a step away from me, his body tensed as Peggy walked back up
the steps to the front door.
“I am trusting you both to behave. I
don’t want anyone here whilst I’m gone,” she said, pointing her finger at me.
“Including that friend of yours!”
I laughed. She kissed me on the cheek and
then turned her attention to Luca. “Go and shake this headache off. I need you
fit for tomorrow,” she grabbed his groin and squeezed. He blanched, his Adam’s
apple bobbing as he swallowed.
“Of course.” He murmured as she went up
on the tips of her toes and kissed the corner of his mouth. His fisted hand
coming around her but not touching her or pulling her closer.
“You’d do well to remember what I told
you yesterday.” She flicked her tongue over his lips. He took a deep breath and
opened up for her and she dove right in like some predator ready to pick on her
prey.
I tried not to watch, the sounds were
enough to make me gag. She released him after a few moments and a one-sided
whispered conversation that had him flinching, and finally made her way to the
car.
I watched Luca as he stood watching her
car disappear down the drive. He took a deep breath, his eyes glistening.
“Fancy a dunk in the pool?”
“I can’t. I’m not—”
“What’s going on Luca?” I reached over
and wrapped my hand over his wrist.
“Nothing.” He pulled his arm from me, his
jaw clenching as he turned back into the house. “Headache.”
“Talk to me, please?” I touched his
shoulder as he started shuffling back down the hall.
“Not now!” He shook my hand off and
carried on walking away from me, not once looking my way. “Please? Okay Emma?”
I closed the door and slammed my back
into it. I wanted to run after him and make him feel good. I wanted to make him
forget everything that was bringing him down and stressing him. I’d never seen
him like that. He was always so happy and chilled. I felt like I was missing
something and after yesterday, after seeing him outside the office and hearing
the way Peggy had ordered him in like he was about to be chastised.
I headed to my room. I was determined to
show him a good time without the worry of Peggy showing up. I stripped off my
clothes and put on a skimpy black bikini. I fixed the small lace triangles so
that they just about covered my nipples, the thin straps caging the plump flesh
like a harness. It made me think of the way his body had looked wrapped in the
leather straps. My pussy clenched and ached just at the thought. My nipples
hardened. I was breathless, and I could feel the heat radiate from my
libidinous core to my tingling skin.
I wrapped the thin black lace cover up
around me tying it around my waist and made my way downstairs. As I got to the
bottom of the stairs a smile formed on my face. My heart swelled as I saw Luca
already in the pool. His long arms rotating in and out of the water as he swam
his lengths, looking hot and devilish. He stopped halfway through a length as
though he could feel me watching him. His eyes squinting in the direction of
the house. I took long, bouncy strides to the glass doors, I stopped and smiled
at him.
“Are you coming in?” He made his way to
the side of the pool. His toned and muscled torso rippling as he walked through
the water. He was a vision. A god.
I approached the water’s edge. “I thought
you had a headache.”
He dove under the surface, his limbs
gliding through the water as he swam toward me. As he reached the edge of the
pool he lifted his head out the water, his hair sweeping back as droplets made
his stubble glisten, emphasising his chiselled jaw.
“Not anymore.” His eyes met mine and a
beautiful smile lit his face.
I stood there for a moment taking stock,
etching every sinewy line and ripple into my memory. I lifted my gaze back to
his as I untied the lacy cover-up. In slow motion I opened it a little more,
revealing my body to him. He took a step back into the water, his breath
audibly hitching as his big hungry eyes devoured me. I straightened my arms
beside me allowing the soft fabric to slip down my body into a puddle at my
feet. My skin puckered with the cool breeze. He licked his lips and quirked a
brow.
“Lascia que ti scaldi, bellissima.”
I had no idea what he’d said but either
way, I guessed it was hot and sexy. I sat on the pool edge before gently
lowering myself in. The warm water wrapped around me and I sighed as his arms
followed suit. The front of his body moulded to the back of mine. I let my head
fall back into his shoulder as he tightened his arms around me. He ran one of
his hands up my body, gliding it over every wet curve. I waited for him to
grope my breasts, but his hand just kept going until he cupped my jaw. He
tilted his face to mine, his eyes roaming over my face. My heart sped up as he
breathed me in. He groaned and I’m not sure why, but this felt different. It
felt like more, like I was more to him. I felt hot tears prickle the back of my
eyes, my body shuddered as his lips ran up my jaw to my ear in one flaming
kiss. I turned in his arms facing him as his lips murmured over mine. “Cara
mia.”
He moved us slowly into the centre of the
pool. The water feeling warmer the deeper we went, or maybe it was just him
wrapped around me. I wasn’t sure whether it was him or the water, but in that
moment, I felt like the most important thing in the world. I’d never felt like
that in my entire life. I’d never felt like the centre of anyone’s universe. I
sighed into his mouth as my fingers curled into his hair. He tugged my long
dark strands so that my face lifted right into his. I thought he’d kiss me, but
he just caressed my face.
I dropped my head back into the water as
one of his hands travelled down my neck to my breasts. He hooked his hand under
one of my boobs and held me afloat on the surface of the water. His eyes just
ran up and down my face and my exposed skin.
“Sei la cosa più bella di tutta la mia
vita, la cosa più bella che mi potesse mai capitare.”
“I don’t know what you just said, but I
want to hear it again.” My nipples hardened as his thumb ran up and down the
side of my breast.
“Tu sei il mio tutto, Emma,” I swallowed
as his hands went to my waist bringing my body back to his. He kissed the
sensitive skin just behind my ear before whispering, “Everything.”
I wrapped my arms around his shoulders,
my legs wrapped around his waist as our chests rubbed. I felt his erection
trapped between us. My sex clenched, begging for the merge of our bodies.
He cupped my jaw with
both of his hands, his gaze eating into mine “Sei così più bella.”
He brought his face to mine, his lips
skimming mine. My tongue licking his lips as I ran it over my bottom one. He
gasped before desperately ravaging my mouth. His hands dropped from my jaw to
my arse where his fingers dug into my skin like he was trying get right under
it. He tugged me impossibly closer to him, his hold on me deliciously painful.
Luca lifted me up on to the side. I had no
idea how we’d got there, all I knew was that as my legs dangled into the water,
his fingers worked by bottoms off. He ran his mouth up my thighs sucking and
nipping at my flesh.
“I need to taste you.” He kissed the
smooth skin between my sex and my belly button. His eyes met mine as I caressed
the side of his face with my finger and then my thumb.
His hands brushed up the outside of my
thighs before he cupped my arse cheeks tilting my sex toward him. Then without
hesitation he lapped and sucked at my pussy. He ran a finger up and down my
moist slit. His tongue teased and tasted every morsel of me. I tangled my
fingers in his hair holding him tighter to me, my head fell back as I relished
the feel of his tongue and the vibration of his moans.
He smiled up at me before kissing my
clit. His thumbs running up my folds as his tongue licked down to my entrance
and back up to my bundle of nerves. I shuddered as he pressed a finger inside,
curling it as he massaged my front wall. My elbows giving out from under me as
my thighs clamped around his head. I moaned, and he withdrew one finger and
pushed back in with two. His third finger massaging the skin between my opening
and arsehole, as his tongue circled my clit.
I grabbed my breasts pushing them
together and kneading the sides, I was so turned on I could barely breathe. He
removed his fingers from my channel and ran his tongue all the way down to my
perineum, massaging the sensitive skin in wet, warm circles. He pulled my
thighs farther apart and nipped the skin on the inside of my thighs.
“Luca,” I cried out wanting his attention
back on my pussy.
“Yes?” He smiled up at me as he ran his
nails up the back of my thighs.
“Don’t stop,” I breathed out, “Please.”
He chuckled before blowing on my exposed
sex. He ran two fingers through my folds before pushing them into my mouth as
he lowered his face back to my pussy. I sucked on his fingers as he did my
clit. Sucking harder and harder as the pleasure built up inside me. I was so
close…teetering on the precipice.
The ache inside me grew with every
second, my core contracted, begging to be filled. He sucked my nub into his
mouth and released it with a pop before his tongue filled my pussy. He lapped
at my sex, his groans growing with mine.
He withdrew his fingers from my mouth,
his hand gently cupping my neck as his other hand worked its way up my thigh.
His lips kissed up my body to my neck where he gently bit down as his fingers
thrust deep inside me.
“Fuck!”
I cried out as my body clenched and spasmed around his fingers. I collapsed
into him as he stroked my hair, cradling me to him. He wrapped his arms around
me kissing the top of my head as I came back down.
****
Luca pushed out of the water, sitting on
the edge before he helped me to my feet. He grabbed a towel from the lounger
and draped it over my shoulders. I wasn’t sure why he did it. If it was to
cover my modesty, it was a little late after what he’d just done to me in the
pool.
He pulled me to him again wrapping his
arms around me, “You’re cold.”
“Am I?” Was I? If I was I couldn’t actually feel it.
He smiled down at me. “Non ti lascerò
mai.” He kissed the top of my head again, “Non lasciarmi andare mai, ti prego.”
“That
sounds sad.” I looked up at him, his eyes shone into mine. “I may not
understand what you said, but I can feel your melancholy.”
“Melancholy?”
“I
can feel you’re sad.” I ran my hand down the side of his face as I looked up at
him. “What happened yesterday?”
“I
don’t—” He took a deep breath, “Is it important right now?”
He
picked me up in his arms as he buried his face between my tits. He sucked and
nipped at them. Nibbling the skin at the edges of my bikini top. His covered
erection jabbed at my sex as he walked us over to the summer house.
“No,
not right now.” I laughed as he blew a raspberry on one of my boobs.
He
kissed my jaw as he slid me down his body to my feet.
“You
like that?” He wiggled his eyebrows at me.
“It’s
safe to say that I really like
everything you do to me.” My voice broke as I saw the bed.
The very bed where Peggy had him.
“Luca.” I hiccupped as my stomach
dropped, my head shaking.
“It’s clean.” He cradled my head in his
hands and kissed the tip of my nose.
I wrapped my hands around his wrists,
“I…I can’t.”
“Please.” He sighed, “I want to see you
everywhere I look when…when—”
When
I leave.
