BREAKING POINT

He stole the very breath from her as his lips touched hers, moving over her mouth as if exploring a new, precious territory. Then he deepened the kiss, pulling her even closer so their bodies felt joined, seamless, and desire plunged deep in her belly; her hands fisted in his hair, awareness of anything but Jeremy and the desperate sweetness of his kiss fading to nothing.

For it was desperate. The kiss was imbued with a longing that made Penny feel like this was all they would have, and she pressed closer, wanting more. Asking for more.

Jeremy broke the kiss, his breath a raw shudder. “I have to ask you this” he said. His voice sounded hoarse and he still held her.

“Do you love me?” Do you still love me? Say it! Say it!” Jeremy demanded.

Penny broke away from him with a last effort gathered from the remnants of her waning strength. She gathered herself quickly, straightening her shoulders and nodding even though her breath came in gasps and her lips stung from his kiss. She walked unsteadily across to the window and stood staring out into the darkness… Her back towards him.

“Yes, I still love you, Jeremy” she said. “But I have changed. You were right, I have grown up…”

He covered the space between them and swung her round to face him.

“You are far more lovely and desirable than you ever were, Penny. I adore you, darling. I need you. I want you desperately”

“I want you, too, Jeremy. I need you… But this time the terms will have to be different. I am going to make them”Content held by NôvelDrama.Org.

The challenge hung between them, trembled in the stillness of the little sitting room. She saw Jeremy’s flushed face, saw his eyes searching hers, trying to read the meaning of her words.

“Terms?” he asked at last. “What do you mean, Penny?”

‘Don’t hold me so close, Jeremy. I can’t think. I can only feel. I must think’ she thought.

“What do you mean?” Jeremy asked again.

“I mean I don’t want to live with you anymore” Penny replied.

“Not live with me?” Jeremy almost shouted. “I don’t believe you, Penny. You still love me. You just said so. I know you do”

“Yes. I love you, Jeremy. But I’m trying to tell you that I don’t intend to go back to our old way of life”

Comprehension dawned and she saw something akin to fear flash into his eyes. It was gone in a moment, and she could see nothing but the fiery blueness and a savage determination to win at all costs.

“You mean you want to be married?” Jeremy asked.

“Yes, Jeremy” Penny replied.

‘Now he will draw away from me. Now he will start to explain why marriage is not possible at the moment’ she told herself.

Penny was never more surprised than when Jeremy’s arms tightened around her with a fierce, possessive gesture.

“All right…. If that’s what you want. We will be married whenever you like” he said.

“You really mean that Jeremy? You are quite sure?”

Could it be true… At last, at last?

“I only know I can’t live without you, Penny, you are beautiful. So lovely. So very lovely”

‘Now I have gotten what I want, I want to cry. I mustn’t cry. Oh, Jeremy. Oh dear God. Thank you. Thank you’

“Jeremy, when? When can we be married” she asked excitedly.

“Oh, anytime. It doesn’t matter… Penny, you aren’t trying to tell me you won’t sleep with me until we are married?”

“No. But I want to be married soon. Very soon. I have my reasons, Jeremy. Good reasons. I will tell you about them later. But it must be soon”

“For God’s sake, Penny, don’t keep me in suspense. I have said any time. I mean it. Tomorrow, if you want, only don’t draw away from me. I can’t stand it. Come closer, darling, closer. You are so beautiful. I want you, Penny. Do you hear me?”

He lifted her swiftly into his arms and walked through to the bedroom. Penny felt a surge of feminine pride and satisfaction in his strength, in the apparently effortless way he walked even with her weight in his arms. Glorying in her own helplessness, she let him undress her, slowly, skilfully, until she lay, pale, smooth, naked between the cool sheets. She closed her eyes, listening to his quick uneven breathing, to the soft sounds of his own disrobing.

Then she felt Jeremy’s arms closing round her and all other thought was drained from her mind by the quickening beat of his heart against her own.

She wanted to say something… She couldn’t. And he didn’t seem to be interested in listening. Instead, he was kissing her with more force. His hands had left her bottom and were by her sides, only their lips in contact, but with so much force. Any further attempt to speak was silenced by his mouth

He cupped her bottom again as he pressed her heat to his, his fierce erection a taste of what was to come as he brushed away her excuses.

His mouth worked it’s way up her thighs, kissing and nibbling her soft flesh.

“You taste fantastic…as always” He said, his tongue doing wicked things, dotting the i in the most decadent of ways, pushing, licking, sucking. He was so into her, so consuming, so blatant with his adoration, so feverishly good it was impossible not to feel amazing. It was impossible not to feel the most wanton sexual being.

“Oh, Penny…” Over and over he said it as he tasted her, over and over he said it as his mouth worked its way upwards, kissing her stomach, her breasts, her neck, her lips as she writhed beneath him. “I have missed you so much…”

Wow!

It was her last coherent thought as he sucked on her shoulder, her last grasp at reality as he plunged inside her, and for Penny it should have been over, tightening muscles dragging him in, her mind whirring as she screamed his name.

But Jeremy had other plans. Jeremy still doing the love making, kissing her, teasing her, as he bucked deep inside her, taking her to the heights then starting the ride all over again.