"How?"
Her whispered question gave him such a big hard-on it almost hurt. Because she was trusting him.
And he didn"t deserve that trust.
d.a.m.n it, he couldn"t go there. Not now. Not when he had a feeling the greatest pleasure he"d known yet was right in front of him, wearing his tie as a blindfold. Along with his ring on her left hand.
When she"d asked him not to betray her trust, they"d been talking about s.e.x. He told himself that his answer had been totally honest. Enough justification that nothing was going to stop him from giving her the ultimate pleasure.
"No decisions. No choices. Just pleasure."
He heard her breath catch, saw the flutter of excitement in the upper curve of her b.r.e.a.s.t.s where her heart was beating hard enough that he could see it jumping beneath her skin.
He picked her up again, her arms going around his neck to steady herself a moment before he laid her down on the bed.
With the blindfold covering her incredible eyes, he found himself enthralled by her mouth, a sweet and s.e.xy cupid"s bow that was made for kissing. A vision ambushed him of Anna"s soft, red lips wrapped around his shaft as she sucked him deep into her throat.
"You"re beautiful, Anna. So d.a.m.n beautiful."
Those perfect lips curved up into a tremulous smile. She blindly reached up for his face, running her fingertips across his jaw, over his lips. "Thank you," she whispered.
Leaning down over her, he licked her lips, a long stroke from one side to the other. She opened up to him on a whimper and for the hundredth time that night, he lost sight of his plan.
Because just kissing this woman was better than having s.e.x with any other.
As her curves went soft and pliant beneath his, as he settled his erection against her wet heat and she bucked up into him, it took everything Cole had for him to remind himself that they"d been to this point before, where she was open and wanting, and she"d frozen up. If he kept at it like this, not using any finesse at all, odds were high that it would happen again.
Not because she was a tease.
Not because she didn"t want him as badly as he wanted her.
But because she was good girl.
And pleasure this extreme frightened her.
"Have I mentioned yet how much I love kissing you?"
"I love kissing you, too," she said in that soft voice that was as warm and sweet as the woman beneath him.
"I want to kiss you everywhere, Anna."
Her soft smile froze on her face at the exact moment that he took hold of her wrists and lifted her arms over her head.
"Cole?"
"Just relax, sweetheart."
He"d never been one for pet names, had never bothered to force them out to get in a girl"s pants, but with Anna he wasn"t forcing it. She was sweet. So sweet he ached with the need to kiss her. To taste her. Working quickly, he drew another silk tie from where he"d been storing it around his neck and bound her left wrist to the right bedpost.
"How can I relax when you"re tying me up?"
Her earnest question had him smiling down at her. The kind of woman he usually slept with would be playing it up right now, moaning and putting on a show for his benefit.
But not Anna. Instead, she was telling him exactly what she was feeling every step of the way with beautiful honesty.
"Like this," he said a moment before he ran his tongue lightly across the delicate skin on the inside of her wrist. "And this." His mouth ran kisses from her palm around to her shoulder.
By the time he made it back to her face, he had to drop in for another taste of her sweet mouth. Her nipples were a hard press of heat against his forearms.
"Better?"
Her breath was coming in harsh pants. "No."
"Maybe this will help." With her limbs still rubbery from his kisses, he quickly moved her other arm into place and secured it to the bedpost. Moving back to stare down at her beautiful, half-bound body, he asked again, "Better now?"
"Cole. Please. I don"t know how to do this."
"You don"t need to know, sweetheart. Not when your body already does."
Gently spreading her thighs with a hand on each leg, he inhaled her scent, more sweet than musky. His mouth watered with the urge to bury his face in her soft, wet folds, and taste her.
"Can you feel how wet you are for me?"
Her pink panties were soaked. He pressed two fingers against her wet heat and she gasped, clamping her legs together around his hand.
Leaving his hand pressed in tight against her silk-covered s.e.x, he asked, "Do you have any idea what you"re doing to me?"
"But you"re the one touching me."
Jesus, she had no idea how much her innocence inflamed him. h.e.l.l, he was as surprised by it as she was.
...Excerpt from GAME FOR LOVE by Bella Andre 2011.
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COMPLETE BOOKLIST.
The following Bella Andre t.i.tles are also available in electronic format from Barnes & n.o.ble.
The Sullivan family series.
The Look of Love.
From This Moment On Can"t Help Falling In Love.
I Only Have Eyes For You (coming early 2012!).
Bad Boys of Football series.
Game For Love Game For Seduction.
Game For Anything Take Me series Love Me Take Me.
Stand-alone Novels Candy Store Ecstasy Red Hot Reunion.
Tempt Me, Taste Me, Touch Me Hotshot Firefighter series Wild Heat.
Hot As Sin Never Too Hot.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
Bella Andre has always been a writer. Songs came first, and then non-fiction books, but as soon as she started writing her first romance novel, she knew she"d found her perfect career. Known for "sensual, empowered stories enveloped in heady romance" (Publisher"s Weekly) about sizzling alpha heroes and the strong women they"ll love forever, many of her 20+ t.i.tles have appeared on Top 50 bestseller lists, including THE LOOK OF LOVE (The Sullivans #1), FROM THIS MOMENT ON (The Sullivans #2), GAME FOR LOVE (Bad Boys of Football #3), CANDY STORE, LOVE ME and ECSTASY.
Her books have been Cosmopolitan Magazine Red Hot Reads twice (GAME FOR ANYTHING and WILD HEAT) and have been translated into German, Thai, j.a.panese, Italian, Spanish, French and Ukrainian. NEVER TOO HOT won the Award of Excellence in 2011. The Washington Post has called her "One of the top digital writers in America" and she has been featured on NPR, Forbes.com and in The Wall Street Journal.
If not behind her computer, you can find her reading her favorite authors, hiking, knitting, or laughing. Married with two children, Bella splits her time between the Northern California wine country and a 100 year old log cabin in the Adirondacks.
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