A Little Dare - Brenda Jackson [67]
Dare dragged his mouth from hers, his breath hard, shaky and harsh. “I need you now, baby,” he said, reaching down and checking her readiness and finding her hot and wet. He settled his body over hers as fire licked through his veins, love flowed from his heart and a need to be joined with her drove everything within him.
He inhaled sharply as the tip of his erection pressed her wet and swollen flesh and it seemed that every part of his being was focussed there, and when she opened legs wider for him, arched her back, pushed her hips up and sank her nails deep in his shoulder blades, he couldn’t help but groan and surge forward. The sensation of him filling her to the hilt only made him that much more hungrier, greedy. And she was there with him all the way.
He thrust into her again and again, each stroke more hard and determined than the one before; the need to mate life staining, elemental, a necessity. And when he felt her thighs begin to quiver with the impact of her release, he followed her, right over the edge into oblivion. This woman who had given him a little Dare, who gave him more love than he rightly deserved would have his heart forever.
A shiver of awareness course down the length of Shelly’s spine when Dare placed several kisses there. She opened her eyes and met his warm gaze.
“Do you know this is the first time we’ve made love in a bed since you’ve been back,” he said huskily, as an amused smile touched his lips.
She tipped her head to the side and smiled. “Is that good or bad?”
His long fingers reached out and begin skimming a path from her waist toward the center of her legs. “It’s better.” He leaned down and placed a kiss on her lips. “Stay with me tonight.”
The heat shimmering in his eyes made her body feverish. With AJ spending the weekend away there was no problem with her staying with him. “Umm, what do I get if I stay?” She closed her eyes and sighed when his fingers touched her, caressed her, intent on a mission to drive her insane.
“Do you have to ask?” he rasped, his voice low and teasing against her lips.
“No, I don’t,” she replied in breathless anticipation.
She trembled as Dare began inflaming her body the same way he had inflamed her heart. They had endured a lot, but through it all their love had survived and for the first time since returning to College Park, she felt she had finally come home.
Epilogue
A month later
S helly couldn’t help but notice the frown on the Dare’s face. It was a frown directed at Storm, who had just kissed her on the lips.
“I thought I warned you about doing that, Storm,” Dare said in a very irritated tone of voice.
“But I can get away with it today because she’s the bride and any well-wisher can kiss a bride on her wedding day.”
Dare raised a brow. “Are you also willing to kiss the groom?”
Now it was Storm who frowned. “Kiss you? Hell no!”
Dare smiled. “Then I suggest you keep your lips off the bride,” he said, bringing Shelly closer to his side. “And there’s enough single women here for you to kiss so go try your lips on someone else.”
Storm chuckled. “The only other woman I’d want to kiss is Tara and I’m not crazy enough to try it. You’re all talk, but Thorn really would kill me.”
Shelly chuckled at Storm’s comment as her gaze went to the woman the brothers had labeled Thorn’s challenge, Tara Matthews. She was standing across the room talking to Delaney. Shelly thought that Tara was strikingly beautiful in an awe-inspiring, simply breathtaking way, and she couldn’t help noticing that most of the men at the reception, both young and old, were finding it hard to keep their eyes off her. Every man except for Thorn. He was merely standing alone on the other side of the room looking bored.
“How can the two of you think that Thorn is interested in Tara when he hasn’t said anything to her at all, other than giving her a courtesy nod? And he’s not paying her any attention.”
Dare chuckled. “Oh, don’t let that nonchalant look fool you. He’s paying her plenty of