One Long Embrace (Eternal Bachelors Club #5)

“Innocent?” She smiled to cover up her surprise at Jay having figured her out so quickly. Because she was quite innocent in many ways. But she was bent on changing that. “I take offense at that!”


He laughed, and the soft sound reverberated through her body. She hooked her thumbs into her panties.

“Well, in that case, you should punish me for making such an offensive remark.” Jay’s eyes sparkled with mischief when he watched her take off her last piece of clothing.

“That’s exactly what I intend to do.”

God, she’d never been so forward. Sure, she’d given the occasional blowjob before, but never like this, never at the very beginning of a relationship. She’d never felt comfortable, but things were different with Jay.

She didn’t have to think of how she came across, what impression she made. The pressure was off. She could simply follow her body and her heart and do whatever felt good. Nobody would judge her. She wasn’t with a man who would weigh up if she was the right woman to marry and bear his children. And she wouldn’t have to worry that he would tell his society friends that she wasn’t that great in bed.

Slowly, she slid onto the bed and placed her hands on his thighs, spreading them farther so she could kneel in between them. She stared at his cock. It stood in a neatly trimmed bed of dark hair, thick veins snaking up its length to the mushroomed head.

“Tara, you don’t have to do this, if you don’t want to,” Jay said, sitting up. He placed one hand at her nape and brushed his thumb along her jaw. “How about you let me finish what I started yesterday in the shower? And then maybe later when you’re more comfortable with me—”

She put a finger across his lips, stopping him. “But I want to.” And now even more so, because he didn’t ask for it, he didn’t demand. Not like her ex-boyfriends had. “I want to explore you.”

Jay pressed his forehead to hers, his minty breath ghosting over her skin. “You’re an enigma. Every time I think I’ve figured you out, you throw me a curveball. You have so many layers. And I’d love to peel them all off one by one.”

She chuckled at his assessment. “I’m really not that complicated. I just want to have fun.”

“If that’s what you want, I promise we’ll have lots of fun. Starting right now.”

He captured her lips, kissing her tenderly at first, as if to give her a chance to pull back if she wanted to change her mind. When she didn’t and brought her arms around him to pull him closer to her, he slanted his mouth and dove between her parted lips, his tongue licking against hers, stroking gently, then with more pressure, more determination.

One hand cupped her nape, holding her closely to him, while his other hand came up to stroke one side of her breast, making her shiver with pleasure. His hands were rough, calloused. She hadn’t noticed that fact the night before when he’d touched her in the shower. But she didn’t mind. They were the hands of a working man. A real man.

His touch was electrifying. Her pulse began to race. But he gave her no reprieve. His kiss turned from gentle to searing in an instant, and she was incapable of stopping. When he suddenly severed the kiss, breathing hard, she was able to gasp for much needed air.

“Darlin’, you’re gonna make me come just by kissing me,” he murmured hoarsely.

“But you’re kissing me,” she protested.

“Same difference,” he growled.

Smiling to herself she drew back and gave him a shove so he landed on his back on the mattress. “Now let’s get back to the original plan.”

She scooted down a bit and leaned over his groin. Then she blew a breath against the tip of his cock.

“Fuck! Tara!”

“Patience,” she murmured and licked her tongue over the round head.

A groan came from Jay, while his hips jerked upward.

Pleased by his reaction, she wrapped her hand around the base of his shaft and licked her tongue all the way down his length, then reversed her direction. She flattened her tongue along the underside of his cock and took her time.

“Oh my God! You feel good, Tara. So good.”

Arrived at the tip of his erection, she opened her mouth wider and wrapped her lips around his cockhead. A visible shudder went through him. She acknowledged it with female satisfaction. Maybe she wasn’t that bad in bed after all. Maybe she just needed the right guy whom she felt comfortable with.

Relaxing her jaw, Tara slid down on his hard rod, taking him into her mouth as far as she could. When she felt Jay’s palms on her cheeks, she thought he was going to force her to take him deeper, but instead he simply caressed her face.

“Darlin’,” he murmured, his southern drawl even thicker than before. The sound sent a pleasant shiver down her spine. “I’ve never felt anything so…”

She moved upward, then slid back down on him again, this time adding her hand to the mix.