The men were now directly below the tree that hid them, and they couldn’t have cared less. Silently maneuvering her towards the trunk of the tree, Josh pressed her back against the rough bark. When his mouth touched hers, it was direct and left no doubts to his intent. Neither of them gave a moment’s thought to discovery. Disaster averted they needed the reassurance that could only be found in touching each other.
His powerful body pressed against hers. The rawness of his demand wouldn’t be denied. Memories flooded her. The way he made her feel, the way his touch affected her. The way he had always wanted her; how she had always wanted him. Time meant nothing, and Lux finally realized why she’d left. It was her attempt to run away from the one thing she could never outdistance, herself.
****
This moment was all that mattered to Josh. He had nearly lost her. If she’d fallen, this time she would have been gone forever. Throughout his desperate rescue of her, his mind screamed the words he wasn’t ready to voice.
They were hiding from their pursuers up a tree and foremost in his mind was finding a way to make love to her. A beam of light passed beneath where they were standing. Pushing her further into the shadows of the foliage, Josh protected her with his body in an attempt to avoid discovery. Finally aware of his surroundings, he readied himself for action should the need arise.
“Do you see them?” Came a dismembered voice directly below their hiding place.
“No, but I know they’re somewhere around here.”
“I never signed up for this shit! Why the hell am I running around some jungle in the middle of the damn night?!”
“Well, technically this isn’t a jungle–”
“Shut the fuck up, I don’t need a geography lesson!”
Josh listened to the absurd conversation as the voices grew more distant; even as his gaze remained solely fixed on Lux. When the men could no longer be heard, he still didn’t move. When she released the breath, she was holding and glanced up at him, he was waiting for her and captured her gaze.
Without warning his lips descended and moved against hers with a heat he couldn’t stop if he’d wanted to. Her instant response was all that he needed, and it sent even more blood rushing to his already rigid cock. She was his, she would always be his, and there was nothing that could stop him from reaffirming that; not even her uncertainty.
His hands roamed over her, Josh took in the changes of her body that now reflected the woman she’d become. He still loved the smoothness of her skin, and the way it enclosed lean, hard muscle.
His touch was relentless as he explored her body. Caging her in, he assaulted her senses, giving her no opportunity to think of anything other than him. His tongue was an endless swirl of movement. He wanted to devour her. Pulling away, he stared at her through the dim light. His body throbbed with need and Josh deliberately rotated his hips so she felt his hardness, Josh licked her lips with a slow sweep of his tongue.
The trembling his action evoked was exactly the response he wanted. Moving a hand along the indent of her waist, he continued on and came to rest on her hip. When his big hand moved once again, her eyes told him she was in no doubt of his destination. Her puff of breath against his lips and the shifting of her legs welcomed him. With slow deliberation, his fingers moved past the barrier that kept her from him. Moisture was his reward as his fingers brushed across her sex.
“They have to be around here somewhere, he’s traveling with a half-naked woman for God’s sake!”
“Well, I can’t see a damn thing in this dark.”
“What do you suggest, we go back and report that she got away?”
“You see, this is why I don’t like having anything to do with you; you always get me into all kinds of shit!”
“Shut your pie hole and let me think for a minute, will you!”
Josh listened to their trackers incompetent conversation as his fingers stroked her. Raising one of her legs he placed it around his back and inserted a finger into her. Her eyes rolled back into her head and she bit down on her lip to hold in her cries of pleasure. Adding another finger, Josh moved in and out of her body as his thumb rubbed and pressed against her clit.
Watching her with an intensity that negated what was happening below them, he worked her body in a way that spoke of his sexual experience. The moment he felt the change in her body, he withdrew.
Her eyes popped open and he smiled. Lowering her leg to the branch, he lifted his wet fingers and licked them. With a wink, he turned away and began shimmying down the tree.
****
Lux was in shock when he disappeared from sight. Her body still throbbed with reaction to the way he’d touched her.