Finally, she freed his member and they could get on with it. He started to remove his hands from the chair, but Elaine shook her head. “Stay put,” she whispered.
Lowering herself to the floor, she kneeled between his legs, pushed his breeches down over his hips, and lowered her lips to him. Christ in heaven. At first, she placed chaste little kisses all up and down his length. He could handle that without spending himself all over her. Somehow.
But then she trailed her pointed tongue along the top, wrapped it around to the bottom, and traced his length all the way back. Owen tightened his grip on the chair arms to the point he wondered he hadn’t broken them off.
Warm, wet lips settled over the head and pushed down, taking him inside. The sensation was almost like being inside her sheath in some ways, but so very, very different at the same time. Elaine delved further, until half his length was inside the moist haven of her mouth. Owen sucked in a harsh breath through gritted teeth, unable to look away from the fiendishly lustful sight. She bobbed her head over him, taking him deeper each time he pressed back down again.
His hips bucked up to meet her, almost of their own accord, at the same time as he shouted again. Good God, he’d never experienced such blazing need before.
Elaine lifted her hand and used it along with her mouth and teeth and tongue in a wicked dance of delight. Where on earth had his wife learned such things? Was this what Lipscombe and Flynn’s wives had run her off to do?
His ballocks tightened beneath her eager, wanton efforts. “I won’t last much longer,” he ground out.
After a few more bobs, she pulled her mouth off his prick with a pop and mounted him again, as though she’d ride him astride like a horse. She kissed him, then, her tongue delving deep into his mouth and spreading this new taste-salty and musky, and bursting with the essence of sex.
Elaine gripped the back of his head with both hands, digging her fingers into his hair and pulling him closer. The hardened peaks of her nipples pressed against his chest and rubbed over him and her sex rested just over his cock. She ground herself into him, letting out a deep moan, more sensuous than he’d ever heard from her.
Then she pulled away from him slightly, taking his erection into her hands and guiding it inside her silken body.
She sank down on him, driving his member inside her, with her head tossed back in ecstasy. Owen watched her breasts as they bounced before him, jiggling and undulating with each of her movements as she rose and fell over him, the strands of her pearls swaying over the mounds and catching on the tight nubs. He was a man entranced.
Before he could stop himself, Owen leaned forward in his chair and took one of her breasts into his mouth, drawing her peak into his mouth and suckling as she’d done to him earlier. Elaine whimpered and pressed his head against her, arching her back as she continued her ride over him.
He grazed the nub with his teeth and her sex tightened around him as though her teat was directly connected to her most private area. What a fascinating discovery. Owen moved his attentions to the other breast, drawing her pearls there as he went. He used his tongue and lips to press a few pearls tight around her nipple and she shuddered violently over him.
Letting out a primal growl, he released his arms from their imaginary shackles. He couldn’t hold back any longer. With both hands, he gripped her bum and drove her faster, bouncing her small body above him like a man possessed.
Elaine braced on hand on his shoulder and moved the other between their bodies to slide against her nubbin. Her strokes were tentative at first-so very different from the rest of her behavior that night-and then grew bolder and more frantic.
Unable to resist any longer, Owen brought his hands up to mold over her breasts. Her nipples branded his palms.
A series of short, high pitched half-screams came from her, and then she collapsed against him, the walls of her sex surging around his cock. After a few more thrusts, he spilled inside her with a shout.
A cascade of pearls clattered against the floor, rolling about until they finally came to a stop. Owen looked down. A few of them remained in his hand, along with the remnant of the string.
FIVE
“ I’m sorry,” Owen rushed out. “I’ll buy you new pearls as soon as we return home.” His eyes were panicked as he stared down at the remnants of her necklace in his hand. His length was still deep inside her, hard and pulsing.
She cradled his face in her hands. “I don’t care about the pearls, Owen.” Planting a kiss on his nose, Elaine stood and moved to the bed. “I just wanted to try something a little different. The pearls seem a small price to pay for…” She shrugged when she couldn’t put it into words, then flopped back on the counterpane.
He followed her, lying down on the bed beside her and smoothing a hand over the flat of her stomach. “For something more exciting than we’ve ever shared before?” he prodded.
“ Oh, please don’t misunderstand,” Elaine pleaded, a blush heating her cheeks despite the fact that she was already hot enough to warm the whole abbey in the dead of winter. “I love the way you make love to me, but-”
“ But variety never killed anyone, right?”
She laughed, a deep, throaty, unfamiliar laugh. “I suppose not, when you put it that way.”
Owen trailed a spiral with his fingertips over the flat of her stomach, and it twitched in response. “It didn’t kill me-even though I felt like that was exactly what you were doing to me. You’re quite the enchanting seductress, my love.”
“ You’re not cross with me for taking command like I did?” she murmured, her breath faltering under his explorative fingers as they moved lower, nearing the join of her thighs.
“ Cross with you?” He flicked a tongue over her nipple and then blew cold air over it as his fingers quested ever lower.
Elaine gasped.
“ I might be a little cross that you saw fit to discuss our private affairs with your friends.”
Blast, she should never have done that. She should have told Judith and Vivi to go jump in a lake, but that was between herself and her husband. Elaine opened her mouth to apologize, but he beat her.
“ But I can’t stay cross with you for long, since that discussion led to this. Tell me, did they suggest you take me into your mouth, or was that your own brilliant idea?” Owen’s fingers finally met her curls, delving between her folds and searching for her button.
“ Oh,” Elaine cried out, her hips lifting to meet him as he touched that wicked spot. She’d have to remember to thank Vivi for mentioning such a thing to her, however fiercely she blushed while doing so. “They suggested it,” she admitted when he met her gaze.
“ I see. And did they mention anything about ways I might return the favor?” Already, he was moving down her body, without waiting for her response.
“ Yes,” she whispered, but it was all she got out before his mouth was on her, using his lips on her button. He grazed his teeth over it and swirled his tongue over her place of desire until she was writhing beneath him and grasping wildly at the counterpane for purchase.
Over and over again, he stabbed with his tongue and nibbled with his teeth until a crest of euphoria broke over her and she collapsed against the bed. “What a pleasant little pearl this is,” he said a few moments later. “So perfect. Did you know it would do such things for you?”
Elaine shook her head. “Not until today. Not until Judith suggested I might try touching it while we make love.”
“ We’ll definitely have to give your friends our thanks, then.”
Then Owen rose over her and lifted her legs until her ankles were up by his ears. Her eyes went wide in wonderment as he sank his shaft inside, deeper than she’d ever known was possible. He held her hips and supported her weight as he took up a new rhythm for their lovemaking, slower and more tenderly than he’d ever done before.