Sleeping wasn’t exactly high on her priority list.
She followed him from the elevator.
But he stilled in that small hallway. “I’m going to destroy him.”
“Drake—”
“You won’t like what I do. But it’s going to happen. Then you’ll never have to worry about running from anyone again.”
His words caused fear to rush through her, but in the next moment, he had her in his arms. He was carrying her—carrying her!—into his private quarters. Into the bedroom attached there. He stripped her slowly. Using so much care, when, before, he’d been frantic in his need.
His hands slid over her body. His caresses seemed to cherish her. She had to blink away tears because she knew what he was doing.
I felt like a whore.
“I want to see your pleasure, princess.”
And now he was treating her like someone precious.
He stroked her and caressed her until Jasmine was about to go out of her head. He’d been demanding before, and he still was—but only demanding her pleasure.
He caught her ni**les in his hands. Thumbed the peaks, had her gasping. Fire rushed to her sex as he kissed and stroked his way down her body. He seemed to be even more careful on the flesh around her bandage, but Jasmine didn’t even feel an ache from a wound. She was too focused on him.
His mouth pushed over her core. His tongue licked her clit, and when she arched off the bed, he locked his hands around her hips and took even more of her.
She climaxed with a fury so hard that the room went dark. Her heart was a drumbeat in her ears. Her breaths panted out. The pleasure twisted her up, shook her. It was amazing. He was amazing.
Then he…he pulled away.
“Drake?” He left her there on the bed, still shuddering and quaking. His hand smoothed over her, once, so carefully, then he retreated.
She watched, heartbeat still not back to its normal rhythm, as he stopped near the window.
Drake gazed out at the city below. She could practically feel the intensity of his desire filling that room. But he’d walked away. “Drake, you—”
“I want the pleasure to just be yours.”
“That’s not what I want.” She rose from the bed. Naked.
He turned toward her. “You don’t have to give me anything,” he seemed to push out the words. “This time was just for you. I can be more than a selfish bastard.”
She lowered onto her knees before him. Did he know that she’d never done this for another man? No, he couldn’t know. But she’d never really wanted to, until now.
“And this is just for you.” Her hands fumbled a bit as she reached for the snap of his jeans, then she pulled down the zipper with a hiss of sound that was far too loud in that quiet room.
His c**k sprang toward her. No underwear for her tough guy. Just a full, long cock. One that she had to stroke as she explored with her hands.
Her knees pressed into the lush carpet as she leaned toward him. Her breath blew lightly over that heavy length and his c**k swelled even more.
“Jasmine…be careful…”
Oh, crap, maybe it was obvious this was her first time. “I’m new at this,” she confessed as she glanced up at him, “so tell me when I do something wrong.”
The darkness of his pupils swallowed the green of his eyes. “New?”
“You’re my first.” She felt like she could tell him anything in that moment. “So if I do it wrong—”
“You can’t. No damn way.”
His hands bit into her shoulders.
She pressed a kiss to the head of his shaft. Then she opened her mouth and took him inside.
“Wanted you to…be careful…” His words were so low and rough. “Because you’re making me want you…too much…”
She liked his taste. Loved the tang. Wanted more. So she tried to take more of him as she licked and sucked.
His hands moved to curve around her nape. He tilted her head and she took more of him.
He was—
“Jasmine!”
He had her on her feet. Two steps and he had her on the bed. Her legs fell apart as she hit the mattress, and he was right there. He’d put on a condom in an instant and now he had her in his sights. Still standing, at the side of the bed. He pulled her toward him. Her hips were at the edge of the mattress and he thrust into her, deep and hard, filling every inch of her.
“Warned you,” Drake bit out. “Want you…too much.”
And there it was. The wild, frantic mating that she’d secretly wanted. The rush that wasn’t controlled. The need that wasn’t safe.
In and out. He drove into her again and again, and Jasmine loved it. Her nails scraped over his shoulders as she fought to get closer to him. To hold him as tightly as she could and take everything that he had to give.
She arched against him, her head tipping back against the bed. His mouth pressed to her throat. The sting of his teeth electrified her.
When she came, Jasmine felt Drake erupt inside of her. Biting her lip, Jasmine tried to hold back a scream. She didn’t want—
“Give it to me,” Drake demanded. “Give me everything.”
So she cried out her pleasure.
And he growled her name.
***
He was watching her sleep.
Drake stared down at Jasmine as she lay curled in his bed. His arm was under her head. Hell, he was her pillow. And he…didn’t mind.
She looked innocent. Sexy.
Right.
And that was wrong.
No woman was supposed to look right in his bed. He had a rule—his lovers didn’t stay the night.
So why was he pulling her closer and inhaling that vanilla scent that clung to her?
She’d been so hesitant when she knelt before him and told him that it had been her first time. He hadn’t wondered if the words were a lie. Her eyes had flickered with nervousness and desire, and she’d touched him almost reverently.
She’d also nearly made him fall to his knees when that sexy mouth had closed around his aroused flesh.
But the desire was sated. The passion had cooled.
Or, at least, that was what Drake was trying to tell himself. The twisted truth was that he’d f**k her again. And again. He wanted to take her endlessly. Sex with her had been even better the second time.
He loved to see her eyes go blind with pleasure. Loved her taste.
She snuggled closer to him.
His hand smoothed over her shoulder.
His phone vibrated then. He’d moved it to the small nightstand, and he reached out, being careful not to disturb her as he read the text.