“Do you feel it now, Liliana?” Geoffrey rasped.
“Feel what?” She felt many things, mostly an urge for more.
“The heat,” he said, “between your thighs. Do you feel moisture there?”
Mortified that he would mention such a thing, Liliana nodded against him nonetheless. Just thinking about it gave her an urge to press her thighs together. She gave in to the idea and moaned at the sensation.
“Good,” he said roughly. “That means you are becoming more and more ready for me.” Geoffrey sounded as if he could scarcely breathe. “Not only will caressing your breasts prepare you, but indeed, so would caressing many other places on your body. Your very skin is a conduit of sexual energy,” he said. “If we had more time, I could show you several spots that will excite you thus.”
“Really?” Liliana blinked, even more fascinated. She supposed she shouldn’t be, but truly, the very idea of it stimulated her senses.
Geoffrey laughed. “Yes, really.” He placed an open palm against her stomach, just above the waist of her pants, and all laughter died. “But you don’t need that today, Liliana. You’re more than ready for what comes next.”
Almost as if in answer, more moisture gathered between her legs and Liliana instinctively pressed her thighs together again.
Geoffrey chuckled and placed his hands at the fastening of her trousers. “May I?” he asked, and as Liliana looked into his face, she knew he was making her choose. Choose whether she wished to learn more or whether she wished to let things remain unknown.
“Yes,” she said emphatically, knowing she wished to experience anything this man would show her.
“Good.” Geoffrey’s smile was quick and his voice low, sending warmth spreading through her. “Because I’m about to show you what your wonderful body is truly capable of.”
Liliana’s chest expanded, almost with a relief. He was going to make love to her. She knew she should feel ashamed, at the very least modest, but she did not. No, rather, she felt nothing but burning excitement, and that need that caused her mons to throb grew more insistent.
Geoffrey slipped her pants over her hips and she kicked her legs, impatient to be rid of the hindrance.
“Patience, love,” Geoffrey said, and then he cupped his hand over her most private of places, pressing the heel of his palm against the spot from which those invisible strings seemed to originate.
Goodness, it was as if every nerve ending in her body were centered in that one spot. How was this possible? Surely her—
Geoffrey’s fingers moved, dipping lower to her moist heat. He kept delicious pressure on his palm, on her, yet his long finger moved inside her gently. She couldn’t help herself. She planted her heels and lifted her hips, pressing herself more into him.
“Relax, love,” Geoffrey soothed. “I know what you need. Trust me to give it to you.”
Liliana groaned but subsided. She did trust him. Now if only he would—
One finger drove deep, and Liliana felt herself clench around it. Geoffrey groaned and she wondered how he could be feeling pleasure when it was he touching her. Yet she remembered the satisfaction she’d gotten yesterday when she’d run her hands over his body, eliciting shivers and groans. This phenomenon would certainly need to be explored further. For posterity’s sake, of course, but not right now. She was fast losing her ability to think objectively.
Geoffrey withdrew, drawing moisture from within her and bringing his finger up to circle that wondrous little spot. Liliana gasped, nearly coming off the daybed.
“What? What?” She couldn’t get the question out.
Geoffrey circled her again, this time with all of his fingers. She delighted in the pressure, the movement, the swirling, the building…
“Geoffrey?” What was happening? She was losing control of her own body.
“It’s all right,” he murmured. “Perfectly natural…Just let it happen, Liliana.”
“But—”
He cut her off with a kiss. Liliana latched onto his tongue, grateful for the anchor. Yet it did not hold her to the ground. Geoffrey’s hand continued to work its magic, and it was as if her entire being lifted and contracted into that swirling mass.
She moaned, her body tight and strung for an endless moment.
And then she exploded. It was the only word her overwhelmed mind could come up with…She flew apart, into a million tingling pieces. She cried out against Geoffrey’s mouth. She could hear little moans through her buzzing ears and knew they came from her.
“That’s right, love. Just relax and let it take you.”
Waves of pleasure rolled from her mound, cresting through to her fingers and toes. Just when she thought they’d subsided, another would set off and ripple, until at last she floated in a calm, pleasurable sea.
She opened her eyes, as heavy as they were, and blinked up at Geoffrey, who sat beside her on the edge of the daybed. A grin that could only be classified as male arrogance rode his face, bringing an answering smile from her.
“What was that?” she asked around a thick tongue.
“That’s the pleasure that can come from a man and woman coupling,” he answered.
Liliana blinked. She was innocent, but she’d read enough to know that they hadn’t coupled at all. Why, she’d never even touched his— “Did you experience the same…release?”
A pained look crossed his face. “No. What did it feel like for you?” he countered.
She shook her head. How could he expect her to put magnificence like that into words? Surely he knew, unless…“Can only women feel this?”
Geoffrey barked a tight laugh. “Having never been a woman, I can’t vouch for whether the experience is the same, but men do have a similar release,” he said.
Liliana sat up, intrigued. “Even without actually coupling?”
“Yes.”
She moved to her knees and evaluated him. Lines of tension showed around his lips and eyes. She dropped her eyes to his lap, where evidence of his arousal strained against his trousers. If he could bring her such wonderful feelings by merely touching her, maybe she could do the same for him. A purely feminine desire to please Geoffrey hardened her still bare nipples and she reached a hand out. “You mean I can touch you and—”
“Whoa!” Geoffrey leapt from the edge of the bed. “You’re the experimentee, today, remember?”
Liliana frowned. “That’s hardly fair.”
“Be that as it may,” he said, still backing away, “it’s all we have time for.”
Liliana looked to the windows of the folly. He was correct. The sun was fully in the sky. They’d be pressed to return undiscovered as it was. Still, Liliana didn’t think she could wait until tomorrow to see the same bliss overcome Geoffrey as he’d given her.
She rose, unashamedly naked, and strode across the room to him. A small smile lifted the corner of her mouth as his chin dropped. She was only now beginning to appreciate the kind of power a woman could have over a man, and she had to admit, she liked it. She’d like to explore that further, too.
She wrapped her arms around Geoffrey’s neck, pressing herself against him, pressing her mound against his hardness and relishing the moan that echoed from him. “Fine,” she said. “We don’t have time now, but I don’t want to wait until morning to have my turn experimenting on you. So what do you propose we do?”