More spikes of fierce pain. More intoxicating kisses. Just when she thought she couldn’t take any more, and considered jumping into the pool to ease the fiery heat spreading across her skin, a breeze wafted over her, cooling her off. Along with that came Ronin’s scent; she let that male musk soothe her senses, even as her heart picked up speed whenever that scent came closer. And beneath that she caught a whiff of citronella. Her mind cleared enough to realize Ronin was dripping candle wax on her.
Ronin didn’t kiss her after the next pinpricks heated her flesh. His hand moved between her legs to rub the seam of her capris against her clit.
“Oh god.”
Then his assault was relentless. Hot wax spattered on her chest, running down the valley of her cle**age—hot enough to steal her breath. Then Ronin’s hungry mouth was licking and biting her neck, turning her skin into a mass of gooseflesh. She swore the man had three hands and two mouths with the way he touched her and teased her.
“My bold Amery,” he whispered against her throat. “Are you ready to come?”
“Yes, please.” She canted her hips up, wanting his hand on the zipper of her pants, wanting his fingers testing her wetness and pushing deep inside her.
“Look at yourself.”
Amery opened her eyes and looked at her chest. Spots of wax dotted her skin. Her ni**les were completely coated. A few rivulets ran down the plane of her belly. Seeing what it looked like, knowing she’d let him do that to her, caused her face to flame.
Ronin tipped her chin up. “Are you embarrassed?”
“I don’t know. It looks like . . .”
“Like I came on your chest. Like I marked you.”
She nodded.
“My way of letting you know I intend to mark you this way sometime.”
Be bold. Amery cocked her head. “And if you had? If my hands were free I’d swipe my finger across that big spot above my nipple and lick it.”
Ronin snarled and seized her mouth, one hand on the back of her head as he angled her backward, his other hand diving between her thighs, the heel of his hand grinding side to side, rubbing the seam directly over her clit.
The ferocious kiss ended abruptly. She kept her eyes closed as his teeth enclosed her nipple and bit down until the wax cracked and fell away. Then he suckled the tip strongly.
Amery was off balance. Entirely at Ronin’s mercy. She couldn’t move; she couldn’t control anything except accepting that she had no control.
Ronin moved his mouth to her other breast. The wax pulled at the tender tip as he removed it with his mouth. Then he groaned and his focus was on her nipple.
The grinding rub of his hand, his sucking mouth, his labored breathing, and the intense attention he lavished on her coalesced into that perfect moment. The orgasm hit her from all sides, setting off a throbbing in her ni**les, clenching in her pu**y. Even him pulling a fistful of her hair added to the erotic sensations bombarding her.
She couldn’t quit gasping until that moment when the pulses ended, the roaring in her ears faded to a dull whoosh, and her body quit trembling violently.
Stu-fucking-pendous. She’d never come like that. Not in twenty-eight years. She never knew she could come that powerfully. She’d begun to believe the awe-inspiring orgasm claims women made were a myth.
Not a myth with Ronin Black. He’d made her come that hard without his mouth or his cock, or even his fingers directly on her pu**y.
The man had ninja sex skills too.
“I like that smile,” he said with amusement.
“You put it there.”
Ronin teased her lips and dragged his fingertips across her lower belly. “So I did. Hang tight for a second.” He brought her upright and disappeared into the tiki hut bar.
Amery watched his movements as he crossed the deck of the pool. He grabbed something off the counter and turned around.
That’s when she noticed the bulge in his pants. A big bulge. She kept her eyes on it as he settled across from her. Then she met his eyes.
“Yes, my c**k is doing a steel post impression right now. That’s how you affect me.” He followed her jawline from side to side with the tips of his fingers.
“Do you want me to do something about that?”
“No. It’ll pass.” He kissed her again. “We’ll test your boldness with that another night.”
She laughed, mostly because this sexual teasing felt right between them. “Okay.”
He bent forward and breathed on her chest, a hot wash of air that made her skin tingle. His touch as he peeled the wax away wasn’t clinical, but highly sensual. His fingers stroking her skin and his soft mouth placing a tender kiss in the spot before moving to the next dot.
Amery closed her eyes, turned upside down by this man. Maybe part of her worried this was a practiced routine with him, but if he’d wanted something in return, he would’ve taken her up on her offer to alleviate his hard-on.
Then he said, “Done.” He kissed her again while he slipped her bra back into place and as he adjusted her shirt and rebuttoned it. He rested his forehead to hers. “You know I want you to stay tonight, right?”
“I do. And you know I would if you asked me. But I understand that’s not in the cards.” She didn’t push—for some reason he was sending her home. If he wanted her to know why, he’d tell her.
Maybe this Zen thing was contagious.
“I’ll walk you down to your car.”
He’d do it regardless of whether she argued with him, so she didn’t bother.
Ronin rose to his feet and helped her up. “You’ll be in class tomorrow night.”
Not exactly a question. “I imagine.” She cocked her head and looked at him. “Unless Sensei says otherwise?”
“No. You will be in class tomorrow night,” he repeated. But he said nothing about what happened after class.
Amery took one last look around the garden before they got on the elevator.
“Don’t worry. You’ll be here again. Sooner, rather than later.”
That was enough for her, for now.
CHAPTER SEVEN
GOING through the security checkpoint at the dojo still seemed weird even after Ronin had explained the reason for it. Molly had seemed more nervous for the second class than for the first.
Amery took her aside before they joined their classmates. “Mol, what’s going on?”
“I feel like such a klutz in this class. Everyone else got the basics last week. I know we’re moving on to more advanced things, and what if I can’t do them?”