The Midnight Hour - Brenda Jackson [119]
She smiled when she looked ahead and saw Drake. His decision to have two best men didn't surprise her. It rounded things out perfectly since Corinthians and Nettie had agreed to stand beside her as her best ladies.
Once she reached Drake's side he took her hand from Hawk's and lifted it to his lips and kissed it with all the love he had shining in his eyes. Over the past two months he had proven to her in more ways than one that he loved her and that she and the child she carried were the most important things to him.
They had decided to keep the beach house in California and use it as a summer home. For their honeymoon they would be spending a month in the Caribbean, compliments of Drake's many friends.
The ceremony was memorable but brief, and when Reverend Avery said, "I now pronounce you man and wife and you may kiss your bride," Drake didn't hesitate to pull Tori into his arms and kissed her in front of all his guests with all the passion and love in his heart.
When he released her mouth, he whispered against her damp lips, "I love you, Mrs. Warren."
She smiled and said, "And I love you as well."
Later that night, after leaving the wedding reception and catching a flight that took them straight to the Cayman Islands, Tori lay naked in her husband's arms in the beautiful villa feeling completely satisfied and extremely happy. They had just finished making love and her body still glowed with passion.
She smiled. "I think our child is enjoying your visits more and more," she whispered.
Drake smoothed a hand over his wife's rounded stomach. "And I love those visits," he said huskily. It seemed she had started showing overnight and he would never forget the experience of their child's first movement. He and Tori had been in awe and had shared the moment together.
And seeing Tori naked and pregnant always did something to him. All he had to do was look at her and his sexual needs would become ferocious and all he could think about was burying himself deep inside her body.
"Do you want to make another visit?" she asked, gazing deep into his eyes.
Drake smiled. Her passionate appetite was just as fierce as his. "Are you sure you can handle it?" he asked. "I wouldn't want to wear out my welcome." Without waiting for her reply, he raised up and eased his body over hers.
"You could never wear out your welcome, Drake Warren," she said, knowing she loved her husband beyond reason.
He kissed her in a way that intended to give her pleasure,immediately going after her tongue. She kissed him back and in that single kiss they shared, she knew love as she had never known it before.
And then he began making love to her again.
Slow, hot, intense, mind-whirling, earthshaking, bed-spinning lovemaking, and the last thought that came to her mind before a climax ripped through her and she felt a similar one rip through him was that Drake Warren was a man who was an ace when it came to passion.
As his arms closed about her, holding her tenderly to him, she knew this is where she would always want to be, close to his heart.
Dear Readers,
I hope you enjoyed Sir Drake and Tori's story in and revisiting with some of the characters from my earlier books in the Madaris Family and Friends Series.
I want to thank St. Martin's Press, especially my editor, Monique Patterson, for giving me the opportunity to continue this series of books. I have received your e-mails, cards and letters asking about Christy and Alex, and I am pleased to say that I am presently working on their story. This has been a long-awaited story, and I appreciate all my readers' continued support of my work. I'm pleased to finally bring the book, which is tentatively titled Unfinished Business, to you in April 2005.
I also want to thank my readers who took the time to vote on my Web site last summer as to what the babies born in this series would be. The results were incorporated