The Path to James by Jane Radford Page A

“please.”
    His hand continues to pump into me while his mouth journeys ever downward. “Please,” he kisses down my stomach. I'm growing wetter under his pleas.
    “Please,” his mouth finds my clitoris and I cry out in pure pleasure.
    “Please,” he whispers into me. With where he is now, I'll give him whatever he wants. Everything I own, everything that I am. Everything would be his as long as he doesn't stop. “Alex,” he lifts his head.
    “Don't stop, please!” I gasp.
    A soft snort rumbles through his chest as he lowers his head back down. His hot tongue lashes against me and I feel my insides constrict.
    “Oh God, YES!” I cry out. I can feel myself quicken, everything within my core tightens. I'm panting, James' tongue dips in, and I lose myself then. Over him, over his tongue. His hands hold me firmly to him as I fight to escape my own overwhelming orgasm.
    “Mmm,” he purrs as I tremor through a second wave. My fluids spill over his mouth and he laps up everything he can have of me. “You are so sweet,” his tongue skims from the bottom to the top of me.
    I exhale, thoroughly sated. Never feeling so satisfied in my life, so many times in one day. “Let me take care of you.” My hand presses into his hard cock and he clenches his jaw. He is solid stone.
    “Absolutely not,” his groin presses into my palm before he forces himself to pull away. “I will take you later, if you will have me.” He bends to swallow me in a kiss. So deep and passionate, I feel like I'm drowning before he releases me to a gasp of brisk, mountain air.
    His eyes smolder down at me. “I have to finish dinner.”
    I tease my fingers along the waistband of his pants. “Are you positive, James?”
    He kisses me again, hard, bruising my lips as his stubble grinds into my skin. It's intense and incredibly arousing. “Temptress, you will not deter me.”
    'Temptress,' there is that word again. I love it in conjunction with me. He bites at my bottom lip before he detaches.
    “Come,” he takes my hand, and I think I would follow him anywhere. “I want your company.”

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 14
     
     
    I gaze at Alex as I smooth sauce over uncooked pizza dough. She stares longingly back at me. I can't shake the feeling that the moment I let her out of my sight, she'll vanish. With no way for me to find her, no home, no family that I know of. My seductress has stolen my heart, and I cannot bear the thought of losing her, not now.
    “Do you always cook?” Alex breaks my reverie.
    My look softens at her innocent question. “I've always liked to cook. My father and my sister are chefs, they've taught me a thing or two.”
    Alex looks taken aback by my mention of family. Does she not have any, I wonder. “My mother is a marketer, and my parents work as a team to sell my father's cookbooks.”
    She rewards me with a look of ever growing surprise, so I continue. “My brother is a freelance journalist and my youngest sister is my assistant.”
    “You still haven't told me what you do for a living.” Alex looks at me, so beautiful and so perfect. I regret not taking her completely when I'd had the chance, outside. Right there on the loveseat.
    “It's not important,” I begin sprinkling cheese onto our pizza.
    “Evading?” Alex muses.
    I drop what I'm doing to stalk toward my lovely imp, she narrows her eyes at me, but doesn't move to run. I capture her upon her bar stool, fisting a hand into her hair to pull her head back. With her face forced up to mine, I press my lips into hers. She tastes so wonderful. Her flesh is divine.
    “What would you like on your pizza?” I whisper my question in the most seductive of tones. As if I were asking if I could slide into her, force her thighs open and plunge into her, right here, right in the middle of my kitchen on her lonely bar stool.
    Alex, if it were possible, makes her reply ever more provocative, “Do you have any peppers?” I can feel her grin