Chapter 13
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Ellie luxuriated in the wonderful hot bath scented with some of the perfumed crystals from the bottle she had found in the bathroom cabinet.
They smelled of sandalwood and bergamot, Knox’s scent, rather than anything floral. But as the label on the bottle also said they could be used to soothe aching muscles, Ellie had thrown some of them into the bathwater.
Whatever their other properties, the crystals had allowed Ellie to relax enough to think rather than just respond.
She wanted Knox.
He made no secret of the fact that he wanted her.
That mutual attraction didn’t have to lead to a permanent relationship between them.
This was the twenty-first century, she was twenty-nine years old and had been tied down in a relationship for almost ten years that in the end had left her unable to trust. She wasn’t even sure she wanted another permanent relationship right now.
Maybe she never would. Which meant she might never have babies either.
So what had that all been about with Knox earlier?
Why had she said those things to him when she wanted him as badly as he wanted her?
She was a fool. A silly romantic fool.
She needed to tell Knox that.
She let the water drain and grabbed a towel to wrap around herself before stepping out of the tub.
It was still early, and with any luck, Knox wouldn’t have gone to bed already.
* * *
Knox gave a brief knock on the bathroom door before he rushed inside, only to come to an abrupt halt when he saw Ellie standing on the heated tiles of the bathroom floor. She had only a towel wrapped around her, and her hair was secured precariously on top of her head.
She had never looked lovelier.
“I made a mistake—”
“I should never have said—”
They both started and stopped talking at once, only to both then give a self-conscious laugh and simply stare at each other.
Knox would happily continue carrying on doing that, but he appreciated she was probably getting cold after just stepping out of a hot bath. “You first,” he invited.
Ellie’s hands had a death grip on the top of the towel.
“I made a mistake earlier,” she spoke huskily.
“As long as we take the appropriate precautions, there’s absolutely no reason why we can’t enjoy each other for a few weeks or months, until one of us decides we’ve had enough.
Now you,” she invited with an encouraging smile.
He grimaced. “Well, before you reduced our feelings for each other to a brief affair, I was going to say that if those future babies are yours and mine, then I’m all in.”
Her eyes widened. “You are?”
“I am, yes. In fact, we could start on the first one right now, if you’re agreeable.”
She moistened her lips with the tip of her tongue. “You said you didn’t want any more children…”
He nodded. “But when I actually sat and thought about it, I realized I would love to have a little girl who looks just like you.”
“Or a little boy who looks like you,” she agreed.
He grimaced. “Hopefully, he’ll have more hair. If we have a girl, hopefully, she’ll have more hair too.”
Ellie laughed, a blush coloring her cheeks when she sobered. “So, are we going to do this?”
“Have babies together?”
“Yes.”
“I’m eventually going to need you to marry me too,” he warned.
“We can talk about that later,” she agreed.
He grinned. “Just not now?”
“No.” Ellie dropped the towel to stand completely naked in front of him. “Just not now.”
* * *
Ellie lifted her chin and forced her hands to remain down at her sides to stop Knox from seeing how nervous she was.
Yes, they had already been intimate in her office, but they had both remained fully clothed throughout. Knox was only the second man to see her completely naked, and Ellie could only hope that he liked what he saw.
His pupils were blown wide, making his eyes appear all black, as he slowly looked at her from her head to her feet. “Even your toes are beautiful,” he admired huskily.
“Thank you. I think,” she added uncertainly.
Knox lifted his head to meet her shy gaze. “Every bit of you is absolutely gorgeous.” He stepped close enough that they were almost touching. “Shall I undress, or would you like to do it?”
Would she…?
“Please, go ahead.” She stepped back to give him room.
During this past week, when Ellie wasn’t with Knox, she’d thought of little else but seeing the defined muscles of Knox’s tall and powerful body naked.
Those thoughts had not done him justice.
Knox undressed slowly, discarding his clothes onto the floor before straightening to unflinchingly meet her gaze.
Rightly so.
A naked Knox was a work of art. A warrior. Wide shoulders. Taut muscles in his chest, arms, and abdomen, his legs long and muscular too. A vee of dark hair began on his lower abdomen and encircled the engorged cock jutting upward toward his navel.
Ellie couldn’t stop herself from moistening her lips with the tip of her tongue as she stared at that aroused flesh. She glanced up at Knox. “Can I…?”
“Please do,” he invited fervently.
She stepped closer again before slowly lowering to her knees, her face now on a level with Knox’s erect cock, the bulbous top moist and red.
It was as beautiful as the last time Ellie had looked at it: long and thick.
The skin felt silky soft when she wrapped her hand around it and lowered her head to take that mushroomed tip into the heat of her mouth.
He tasted delicious!
An earthy musk that Ellie quickly learned was addictive as she sucked, her tongue laved, her hand stroked, and her other hand cupped and lightly squeezed the full sack beneath. All to the accompaniment of Knox’s groans of pleasure and the strength of his hands grasping and flexing on her shoulders.
“Ellie, I can’t take much more,” he warned gruffly.
She raised her head. “Then don’t,” she encouraged. “We have all night together to explore and please each other. Let me have this now, Knox. Please,” she pleaded before lowering her head and taking him inside her mouth again.
“Ellie!” Knox’s cry of surrender came only seconds later, the only warning Ellie had before his sac drew up tight, his cock began to pulse in her hand, and spurts of delicious cum gushed into her mouth.
Ellie had no idea how long his release lasted, only that she didn’t want to waste a single drop. Which was why, once he had stopped releasing, she had licked his cock from tip to base.
“That was amazing,” Knox told her when she finally rose back to her feet.
He bent slightly to put his hands beneath her bottom and lift her until she was able to curl her legs about his waist, her arms entwined around his neck.
“You’re beautiful.” He rained kisses all over her face and throat as he carried her through to the bedroom, which was illuminated by a single lamp beside the bed.
“Beautiful and mine.” He laid her down on top of the bed before moving to lie between her thighs, taking the weight of his upper body on his elbows so that he didn’t squash her. “You are mine, aren’t you?”
“Completely yours,” Ellie assured him warmly.
The intensity of his gaze held hers. “As I’m completely yours.” Teasing entered his eyes. “Now, while we’re waiting for me to revive for round two, I think it’s only fair that I give you the same pleasure you just gave me.”
Ellie’s breath caught in her throat as Knox moved down her body until his face was on a level with her mound. A tiny gasp escaped her the moment Knox’s fingers parted her folds and he began to lick the tiny nubbin hidden there.
He didn’t touch her in any other way, all sensation centered in that one spot as his tongue lapped against her clit over and over, building that pleasure higher and higher until her body quaked and shook with the fierceness of a climax that captured her whole body.
She had no idea how many times Knox made her come after that first time, but by the time he finally relented, she was awash with a sensual lethargy.
Once again, he moved up to settle between her thighs, his newly aroused cock pressing against her oversensitive clit. “I want to be inside you now, Ellie.”
“Yes, please.” She didn’t have a single reservation that this man, his bed, in his arms, being claimed by him, was exactly where she was meant to be.
Where she was always meant to be.
“Tell me if I hurt you,” Knox instructed.
Feeling the slow slide of Knox’s thickness as it pushed past the entrance of her channel, inch by slow inch, until he was seated fully inside her heat, to feel completely claimed by him, felt wonderful.
Reaching two more climaxes, when Ellie had been convinced she didn’t have the strength left for any more, was surpassed only by the absolute oneness she felt when Knox reached his own release and his cum pumped deep inside her for long and pleasurable minutes.
“Mine,” he said again against her shoulder.
“Yours,” Ellie echoed without hesitation.