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It didn’t take more than a moment or two for her to be just as lost in his touch as she’d been a few moments before. This time it was him who broke the kiss. He trailed his mouth along her jaw and down her neck moving down her body as he licked, kissed and nipped at her skin as he went.
Savage moved over her, letting his hands play down her body as his mouth continued to tease along her skin.
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Donnamarveledatthesmooth and soft yet also hard feel to Savage as she ran her hands up his chest and over his shoulders. She wanted to touch more but not enough to stop him from what he was doing, as it felt so good.
Unfamiliar sensations raced through her, sending her mind spinning as he used his hands and mouth on her and moved down her body. He said there was more but what he’d done so far had already blown her mind. She could still barely think for the way he made her feel. And it wasn’t over.
“Don’t you want my clothes off?” She blinked at how her voice had changed.
“If you want them off, then take them off. I won’t complain, but I can do everything I plan on doing tonight with your clothes on.”
Hurt seemed to stab her in the gut. She had never known a man who didn’t want to get her out of her clothes, well other than her dad but that would have just been creepy. Now Savage seemed interested in her. He said he wanted her, but he didn’t want to take her clothes off. She didn’t know what that meant or how to react.
“What’s wrong, babe?”
It wasn’t until he spoke that Donna realized she’d been so lost in her own head and hurt that she hadn’t realized he’d stopped the amazing things he’d been doing to her body, now he hovered above her, she could feel his breath across her skin, waiting for her answer.
She didn’t know what to say. And not knowing how he would react if she did tell him what she was feeling? Her stomach roiled as her brain scrambled to try to come up with something.
“Are you okay, babe?”
Fear made her freeze. She knew he wasn’t Noah but her history with him had taught her how to react, and it was all she knew.
“No. you’re not. Come on, babe, tell me what’s wrong.” He paused a moment then his hand stroked the side of her face. that did as much as anything else to draw her back to the moment instead of the fear that rapidly consumed her brain.
Donna took a deep breath and tried to let it out slowly as she concentrated on knowing that this wasn’t Noah. It was Savage and he had never been as casually cruel as Noah had been. To her surprise, he seemed angered every time she told him something Noah had done in the past. Maybe that meant he was nothing like Noah. Not that she could get past the things that had become ingrained in her, at least not right away but maybe eventually, if things continued to be this good.
His touch on her face grounded her as much as anything else.
“Can you talk to me, Donna? Tell me what’s wrong.”
“I don’t know that wrong is the right word, but something you said hit a nerve and I froze for a moment.”
“What was it?” His voice was as gentle as it had been all night if not more so. “I ask so I don’t do it again. I don’t want to push sensitive buttons unless I have to.”
She took another deep breath and tried to figure out how to put it into words. “You didn’t want my clothes off.” Her face heated. “I don’t understand how you say you want me, but you don’t want me to take off at least my shirt.” Her face heated again but at least he couldn’t see it. “It made me think that maybe you are just humoring me, and it hurt my feelings.”
“First, babe, I want you to have no doubt I want you. Does this feel like I’m humoring you?” He lowered his abdomen to rest against hers. She could feel the thick hardness of his erection pressed into her belly.
No, he definitely wasn’t humoring her.
“Second, oh, hell give me a second.” He shifted his weight where he still hovered above her. “Close your eyes a second.”
She frowned, wondering what he was doing but did as he asked. The next thing she knew the light came on.
“Okay you can open them,” he said as he moved back to where he’d been a moment before, hovering over her. “I didn’t want to surprise you by the sudden light, but I need you to see me, and I need to see you for this.” He settled back into place, his face maybe a foot from hers.
She let her eyes search his face, looking for some hint of what he was about to say. Of how angry she had made him.
“Babe, I know your ex did a number on you, so I’m going to do my best to be as patient as I can with you and all this. The first thing I need you to know is that I will never, never lay my hands on you in anger. You can trust me on that. And as a layer of security for you, if it should happen, and it won’t but just in case it should, you go tell any one of those men out there,” he jerked a thumb back toward the barn where they could hear the faint sounds of the rest of the club having a little fun tonight, “and they’ll make damned sure it never happens again.”
She opened her mouth to question that, but no sound would come out. Then she thought maybe she shouldn’t say it after all and closed her mouth but couldn’t help the way her face heated again. When would she ever stop blushing at the drop of a hat?
“Go ahead, ask.”
“Would they really side against you? For anything?” She wanted to hide her face but also wanted see his expression, so she ignored the need to hide and watched him instead.