couldn’t possibly orgasm more than once a night, and when he’d tried to persuade me otherwise, I’d only ended up sore and grouchy. But now I understand that was because I’d never known what real desire – or real fucking – actually was. Now I think I’m probably capable of four orgasms or more, if only it’s Miles who’s fucking me…
The memory of our delightful night-time bout excites me.
Oh that cock – that utterly bloody magnificent cock. I sigh and flush at the thought of it and my sex prickles with longing. I laugh at myself. Ready for another go?
You bet I am. Where is he?
I want to sit with him, drink coffee with him, touch him, kiss him, taste him, fuck him. I remember the sight of his dark head buried between my legs. I could never tire of the delicious feelings he roused in me with his magical tongue.
I can hardly stand the way the recollection makes me feel. I shiver and stand up, taking one of the sleeping bags with me, wrapping it round me.
I can hear a strange noise: a thumping, thudding kind of noise, like a flag fluttering hard in a strong wind. I frown, wondering what it can be, and go to the window to look out but I can still see nothing but whiteness. It fades a little and then gets louder again. I’m still scrutinising the sky when the door of the hut opens and Miles comes in in a gust of freezing air. He’s dressed again and is smiling broadly at me.
‘Morning, lovely. How are you? Did you sleep all right?’
I nod, still frowning. ‘Yes, but… that noise, can you hear it?’
‘I certainly can. Don’t you know what it is?’ His eyes are bright.
‘No – what?’
‘It’s a helicopter. If I’m not much mistaken, we’ve been found. If they’ve got heat-seeking equipment, the fire that’s been burning in the hearth will be lighting this place up like a Christmas tree on their monitors. If they don’t know where we are yet, they will very soon.’ He walks up to me and throws his arms around me. ‘Don’t you see? We’re going to be rescued! It’s going to be okay.’
‘Oh,’ I say weakly. ‘That’s… that’s fantastic.’
But my heart is sinking. All I’ve wanted since the accident is for us to be found. So why do I now feel so utterly depressed?
Has Part Two left you wanting more …?
A Lesson in Desire (Season of Desire: Part Three) is available to buy now!
Also by Sadie Matthews
The After Dark trilogy
Fire After Dark
Secrets After Dark
Promises After Dark
About the author
Sadie Matthews is the author of six novels of contemporary women's fiction published under other names. In her own work, she has described decadent worlds of heady escapism and high drama. Fire After Dark was her first novel to explore a more intimate and intense side of life and relationships. Secrets After Dark and Promises After Dark complete the After Dark series – her first provocative romantic trilogy. She is married and lives in London.
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Have you read the After Dark series? Deeply intense and romantic, provocative and sensual, it will take you to a place where love and sex are liberated from their limits.
Sadie Matthews
FIRE AFTER DARK
It started with a spark...
Everything changed when I met Dominic. My heart had just been broken, split into jagged fragments that can jigsaw together to make me look enough like a normal, happy person.
Dominic has shown me a kind of abandonment I've never known before. He takes me down a path of pure pleasure, but of pain, too – his love offers me both lightness and dark. And where he leads me, I have no choice but to follow.
Out now in ebook, paperback and audio
Sadie Matthews
SECRETS AFTER DARK
Ours was a love bound by power...
Falling in love with Dominic changed me. I relinquished myself completely and placed my heart and my trust