Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down (Vikings Underground #2)(9)
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Hmmm.”

She stopped tormenting him with the feather. He was afraid he’d offended her until he felt something soft against his cheek. It was her breast. Pulling against the restraints, he opened his lips and turned so that he could taste her swollen nipple as she held herself for him.

Rhea couldn’t believe she was doing this and yet she didn’t want to stop. The truth was, she’d spent far too many days dreaming of him too. It was why she’d always been so surly around him. She didn’t want to be just another conquest to him. She wanted to be different. Important.

You’re just another one-night stand, she told herself.

No, this didn’t feel like that. Maybe she was lying to herself, but somehow this felt right.

She surrendered herself to his licks until she couldn’t stand it anymore. She had to taste him too.

He actually whimpered as she moved away from him.

Rhea took a deep breath. She’d gone too far to stop now and she knew it. There was no way she could go back to just being a woman in the office where he was concerned.

She wanted more than that from him. Much more.

Her hand shaking in apprehension, she pulled her makeshift blindfold off him.

Those searing blue eyes captured and held hers. His eyes blazed with passion and need.

He was splendid.

And he was hers. At least for this afternoon.

Ace licked his lips as he watched her. He’d never been more aroused in his life and he had yet to even touch her.

Her gaze locked to his, he frowned as she left the bed until she pulled her G-string off. Oh, yeah, now that was definitely what he wanted.

She leaned over him and skimmed the bottoms over his chest, teasing him with it until she reached his cock.

Her eyes still on his, she climbed up on the bed, then took him into her mouth.

Ace ground his teeth as pleasure assailed him. Not just from the sensation of her mouth on him, but from the sight of her tasting him.

How many times had he dreamed this? How many times had he glimpsed a peek of her upper thigh in her cube, then got so hard for her that he’d almost wanted to go to the bathroom and jack off just for peace of mind?

Now she was making love to him. And it was better than anything he’d ever imagined.

“Untie me, Rhea. I want to touch you.”

She took him all the way into her mouth and caressed his sack before she pulled back and finally gave in to his wishes.

Ace moaned ever so slightly at finally being free. His muscles protested a bit from all the inactivity.

But he didn’t listen to them while he had Rhea in this bed. Grabbing her, he pulled her to his lips for a kiss.

Rhea sank into his arms. There was no other word for it. She felt so incredibly safe and warm here. Cocooned by his power.

She wrapped her body around his, wanting to absorb as much of his strength as she could. He felt wonderful!

She rubbed herself against all his hardness, wanting to feel every inch of his body against hers.

“Wait,” Ace said, his voice raged. “Do you have a condom?”

Did she?

Rhea panicked as she realized what they had almost done. She wasn’t on the pill, and to be honest she’d been so hot for him that she was glad he had come to his senses.

Truly she was grateful.

“I’m not sure.” And she wasn’t. It’d been a long time since she’d been with a man. “Do you?”

“No,” he groaned. “I don’t make it a habit of traveling with them.”

That made her feel even better. At least he wasn’t one of those “on the make” guys who kept one in his wallet “just in case.”

“Hang on, let me go see if I can find one.”

Ace let her up.

Rhea raced to the bathroom and started looking through her drawers.

“Come on,” she said under her breath as she searched. She had to have one somewhere in here.

Please!

She felt his presence an instant before she heard his sharp intake of breath.

“You have the nicest ass I’ve ever seen.”

Rhea backed up out of her cabinet to look up at him. “Thanks.”

He knelt down beside her. “Can I help?”

“Yes. Hopefully there’s one in here someplace.”

“Good. You’re no more prepared for this than I am.” He gave her a scalding kiss before he pulled back and started searching frantically.

Rhea was about to give up before she finally found one. “Eureka!” she shouted in triumph.

The relief on his face was comical. “Oh, thank God.”

Rhea leapt at him. She hit him so hard, she knocked him off-balance and they both tumbled into the hallway.

Ace laughed at her enthusiasm. “How long has it been since you had sex?”

“Let me put it to you this way: it was under the former administration.”

“Ouch.”

“You?”

“Not since Sheila gave me the heave-ho.”

Sheila had been his last girlfriend, who had left him unexpectedly a little over a year ago. “Why did she leave you anyway?”

“Honestly?”

“Yes.”

“I called her Rhea while we were hav**g s*x.”

His words rang in her ears and she wasn’t quite sure she’d heard them correctly. “What?”

He reached up and cupped her face in his hands. “You really don’t know how much I’ve been wanting you, do you?”

No, and all this sounded too good to be real. “Why didn’t you ever ask me out?”

“I was afraid you’d say no. At least this way, I had the comfort of believing you didn’t find me a complete ass**le. If I asked you out and you said no, then I’d know you didn’t like me.”

That didn’t sound like the Ace she knew so well. “But you’re not afraid of anything.”

The look in his eyes seared her. She saw his heart. His soul. Most of all, she saw his sincerity. “That’s so not true, Rhea.”

Her heart soared at his words, but she was still hesitant. She’d been lied to too many times in the past. “Are you feeding me a complete line of bull?”

“Considering the fact that I let you tie me virtually nak*d to your bed in front of a complete stranger just so I could be with you, what do you think?”

“I think I wish you’d asked me out a long time ago.”

Ace hissed as she bent down and kissed him. This was a dream come true. Deepening his kiss, he reached for the condom and took it from her.

She immediately took it back. “I’ll do it.”

His heart racing, he watched as she tore the package open and pulled it out. The plastic was cold against him as she fit it over his c**k and slowly unrolled it down the length of him. It was all he could do not to come just from the sensation of her hands on him.

But he didn’t want this over with anytime soon. He wanted this to last.

His entire body on fire, he trailed his hand up the inside of her silken thigh until he reached the damp curls between her legs. She met his eyes as he slid his fingers down her cleft, carefully separating her folds and touching her for the very first time.

She was beautiful and her slick, soft flesh felt incredible to him. He couldn’t wait to take her.

Biting her lip, she gently rubbed herself against his fingers as he sank one deep inside her body. It was the most incredible moment of his life. Probably because he’d dreamed of touching her more than he’d ever dreamed of any other woman.

It seemed as if he had waited his entire life for this one moment.

He ran his fingers over her, letting her wetness coat his fingers as he imagined what was to come. Of sinking himself deep inside her.

She moved forward. Ace leaned back as she crawled up his body.

Rhea couldn’t wait to have him inside her. She straddled his waist, then slid herself back until she felt his hard, probing tip pressing against the part of her that was aching and throbbing most for his touch.

Ace lifted his h*ps and slid himself in all the way to his hilt.

She cried out in pleasure at the fullness of him inside her. “Ace,” she choked, rocking herself against him. It felt so good to have him there.

He gripped her h*ps as he met her strokes and drove himself even deeper inside her.

Ace watched her in awe as she took control of their pleasure. His little uptight agent was as wild as any woman he’d ever slept with.

No, she was better.

She braced her hands against his chest as she ground herself against him in time to his rapid heartbeat. Leaning his head up, he took her breast into his mouth while he continued to hold her waist.

He licked and teased the taut peak, letting the roughness of it please his tongue.

Rhea couldn’t think straight as she felt Ace with every molecule of her body. He was so much more than she had ever thought. He touched her like a man who actually cared for her, and it had been a long, long time since she’d felt that.

They made love furiously until her body couldn’t take any more. Crying out, she fell forward onto his chest and let her release claim her. All she could hear was his heart pounding while the scent of him filled her senses.

Ace growled at the sensation of her body grasping his. He quickened his strokes as she continued to cli**x until he found his own moment of pure bliss.

His breathing ragged, he held her close to his chest where their hearts pounded together while his body spent itself inside her. In all honesty, he didn’t want this moment to end.

It was perfect.

The feeling of her head against his chest. Her body molded to his. Her breath tickling his nipple.

If he lived an eternity, he would never know anything better than the feeling of Rhea in his arms.

Rhea closed her eyes as her heart finally slowed to a normal rate. The warmth of his body seeped into hers. In all her days of bantering with Ace, she’d never have guessed he would be like this. So tender and loving after sex.

He didn’t seem to be in any hurry to get up, and the floor couldn’t be all that comfortable for him.

“So what’s on the menu for tomorrow?” he asked.

She laughed at that. “I’m not sure. What are you thinking?”

“I need more condoms.”

“Ugh!” She pushed herself up to look down at him. “Do you ever have anything else on your mind?”’

“Food. But that only lasts about as long as it takes me to get a steak.”

She shook her head at him. “Stop playing on the bad stereotype.”

“I am a bad stereotype so long as you’re lying nak*d on me. How on earth am I supposed to think about anything else?”

As she started to pull away, he stopped her with a fierce, hungry kiss that set every hormone in her body on fire again. This man had a mouth that was pure magic.

He pulled back, but left his hand buried in her hair. “Thank you, Rhea,” he said sincerely, his gaze burning into hers.

“You’re very welcome.”

Reluctantly, she moved off him and headed back into the bathroom for the shower. “Want to join me?”

He gave her a hot once-over. “Pinocchio. There’s no way I can go in there and not have another round. Since there’s no more condoms…”

He was right. “Okay, I’ll just be a minute.”

Turning around, she shut the door and grabbed a towel out of her cabinet.

Rhea was still amazed that she wasn’t more self-conscious around him. This wasn’t like her and yet she felt so comfortable with him that it was almost terrifying.

She showered quickly, then opened the curtain to find Ace leaning against her bathroom vanity. He was hard again.

“Did you know you can see a perfect outline of your body when you’re in there?”

“No.”

He moved forward and nuzzled her neck before he gently licked the sensitive flesh right below her ear. “I can’t believe what you do to me,” he breathed in her ear, sending chills over her body.

He kissed her cheek, gave a light grope to her breast, then released her and entered her shower as she left it.

Rhea was so aroused that it was all she could do not to rip open the curtain and pin him to her shower wall.

He was more tempting than any man had a right to be.

But neither one of them needed her to get pregnant.

Forcing herself to dress, Rhea went to her bedroom. By the time she was dressed and had remade the bed, Ace joined her.

“Thinking of new ways to torture me?” he asked as she unfastened the restraints.

She opened her mouth to respond, but the sight of him wet, wearing nothing but a white towel, made all rational thoughts flee.

“You have to stop looking at me like that, Rhea.”

“Like what?”

“Like I’m a piece of chocolate you’re dying to taste. It gives me a hard-on every time.”

She could easily see the proof of that statement. “Sorry, but it would help if you didn’t parade yourself around nak*d in my presence.”

He indicated his clothes, which were on her dresser, as he crossed the room to stand before her. “It’s not exactly my fault.”

“Oh, in that case, I better leave you alone while you put your clothes on.”