The brush of his hand against her throat caused her heart to boom in her chest. His fingertips brushed back and forth with a slow deliberation. Without warning his fingers tightened around her throat. The pressure he exerted wasn’t enough to do her harm, but it held her attention. About to pull at his hands; he loosened his grip and moved on. Sliding a palm down the front of her dress, he caressed and played with her breast.
Lux didn’t know what to say, what to do. His actions of moments before told her she should push him away. But this was Josh. The man she loved with all her heart. The man she’d walked away from. She knew he was still hurting from the way she’d treated him, hence his mood swings.”
“Josh, maybe this isn’t such a good idea.”
“Do you like my touch, Luxie? Do you miss the way I make you feel?” Josh asked as his other hand gathered up the folds of her expensive gown. Inch by inch it rose up her leg, his touch a path of fire.
When he brushed his hand against the front of her panties, her body betrayed her. In seconds, they were wet with her arousal and she couldn’t, nor did she want to hide it from him.
“Isn’t the feel of my hands here enough for you, Luxie? Do you want my fingers inside you? Umm, maybe you want my cock.” Josh rumbled against her ear, his deep voice vibrating through her body.
“All you have to do is tell me what you want, Luxie. Tell me and it’s yours.”
Lux didn’t know how he did it. The feel of his hand finding a way beneath her wet panties caused all thoughts of pulling away to flutter and float away. The heat coursing through her was almost beyond what she could bear. Without conscious thought, her arms rose and locked behind his head. Her body arched in a silent plea for him to touch her where she needed it most.
“So wet, and it’s all for me.”
Josh’s fingers were relentless as he cupped and explored every inch of her with so much expertise, Lux moaned out loud.
When he inserted two long fingers inside her and pumped, her groans of pleasure increased, as his fingers repeatedly curled to hit the bunch of nerve endings inside her.
“Josh–”
“Say nothing. The only sounds I want to hear is your moans of pleasure. Can you do that for me?
Lux knew he was taunting her, punishing her for not doing what he wanted, but she didn’t care. What he was doing to her body felt too good.
At the insertion of a third finger, she pulled in a sharp breath and rose onto her toes. It was too much after her long abstinence from being touched in this way.
“So tight, my Luxie, but you can take it.”
Lux knew the moment his thumb found her clit would be the moment she found release. That was how much she craved his touch. Her body was primed and ready for anything he wanted to do to her. This was how it had always been between them. When he gave her his full attention; all rational thought left her mind.
The knock on the door went unanswered. A second rap, this time more insistent garnered no more reaction than the first.
“Joshua!” Jackson called, but he didn’t enter the room.
“Yes,” Josh responded as he withdrew from her body.
Always the gentleman, he pushed her behind his large frame as awareness seeped into her at the sound of his father’s voice.
“Our guests are leaving and they will be passing this way. I suggest you curtail your activities for another time. Heaven knows I have no wish for them to think my house is haunted. Which is exactly what they would think were they to hear the sounds emanating from this room!”
“Sorry, we’ll,” the jab in the small of his back caused Josh to quickly revise his words. “I’ll of course keep the noise down.”
Lux held her breath in the pause that followed Josh’s assurance.
“I’m sure that you will but what about your wife?”
If the floor could open up and swallow her, Lux would have been grateful when she finally heard Jackson’s departing footsteps.
Chapter 18
For Aviva, after having words with Lux the rest of the party went without a hitch. She danced with and without her husband and now her feet hurt like hell.
Looking across the room, she was just in time to see Jason roll his eyes at something Jackson’s date was saying to him. Catching his eyes, she smiled and blew him a kiss. Without a word to the woman, he walked away.
“So what do you think of, Laura?” She asked once he’d arrived at her side.
“Who the hell is Laura?”
“Your dad’s date,” Aviva gave him an odd look. When his expression remained blank, she shook her head and motioned in the woman’s direction. “The woman you were just speaking to.”
“Oh, Jackson introduced her, but for the life of me, I couldn’t remember her name.”
For a moment, she thought he was joking until she took a good look at him. “You really need to pay more attention. That woman may well be your new mother.”
The snort that escaped her husband was loud enough to catch the attention of the people close by. Jabbing him in the side, Aviva did her best to withhold laughter.
“Angel, Jackson’s just getting his groove back. Just because he’s hitting it, doesn’t mean he’s going to marry her.”
“Jason!”