Chapter 66 - Rainy Night in Georgia

Cate closed her eyes and drew in a shaky breath as her heart jumped in her chest.

“Stay,” Jon repeated, his warm lips brushing against her ear as his hand moved from the door to her arm. “Stay,” he whispered again, then moved his lips to her neck. He trailed gentle kisses down the side of her neck to the curve of her shoulder. “Stay,” he breathed, pulling gently on Cate’s arm and turning her toward him.

Cate felt a tingling warmth creep across her body as Jon whispered his plea. Her pulse raced and she shuddered involuntarily as he gently turned her to face him. Their eyes locked, his swirling indigo and hers glittering sapphire. The burning need she saw in Jon’s gaze took her breath away.

She stood trembling as Jon pulled her against him and lowered his lips to hers, kissing her first gently, then more passionately. Cate saw a flash of light then heard a low rumble of thunder as she responded to Jon’s kiss, tangling her tongue with his.

Her car keys dropped from her hand, hitting the tile of the floor with a metallic clank. Cate raised her hands to Jon’s chest, the fabric of his shirt soft under her palms. She pulled her face back slightly from Jon’s, breaking their kiss. Jon straightened and looked down at her, breathing raggedly, his expression as stormy with desire as the sky outside.

Unable to stop herself, Cate slid her hands up Jon’s chest and over his shoulders to encircle his neck as she stood on her tiptoes to reach his lips with hers. Her body slithered against his and Jon moaned, pulling her hard against him. He kissed her fiercely, angling his head and driving his tongue into her mouth.

Another bright electric flash filled the room for an instant, then a loud clap of thunder crashed through the silence. Cate pulled her mouth from Jon’s to gasp in a breath, then again pressed her lips to his, kissing him ferociously.

He leaned slightly back, holding her tight against his body. Cate’s flip-flops slipped off her feet as they left the ground. Cate moaned against Jon’s mouth, and he bent forward, lowering her so that her feet again rested on the floor. Her lips slipped from his and she looked up at him, wide-eyed and panting.

Jon gave Cate another soul-searing look, then suddenly leaned down and hooked an arm behind her knees. He swept her up into his strong arms, as he had this morning when he had carried her off to sleep in the big, soft bed. His chest heaving, Jon stood, holding Cate, staring into her eyes with a silent question.

“Yes,” Cate whispered huskily.

She clung to Jon’s neck as he turned and strode down the short hallway and across the living room. Another bolt of lightning illuminated the dim room, revealing the passion on Jon’s beautiful face. The roll of thunder that followed rattled the windows. Cate heard the first raindrops ping against the panes, then the downpour pelted against the roof as Jon carried her into the bedroom.

Cate gasped at the romantic scene. Jon had already turned the bed down and loosened the sheer curtains that hung from the canopy rails so that they hung in soft waves around the bed. He had lit the candles inside the fireplace, and their flames cast flickering shadows across the bed and the walls. The patter of the rain on the roof overhead soothed the silence.

Jon carried Cate over to the bed and paused beside it, again reaching forward to capture her mouth with his. Cate whimpered and tangled one hand in his hair as she kissed him for all she was worth, cradled in his powerful arms.

“Oh, Cate…” Jon sighed, pulling his lips away from hers. He gave her another smoldering look, breathing heavily. He gently lowered her feet to the floor, not letting their bodies part.

Her arms still around Jon’s neck, Cate lay her cheek against the warm slice of chest that was revealed by his shirt. She heard his heart pounding under her ear and felt him draw in and blow out a long, ragged breath.

Cate raised her face to look up at Jon, then stepped back slightly, moving her hands to his chest. With gentle fingers she worked the buttons of his shirt. Jon moved his hands to Cate’s bare arms and gently caressed them with his fingertips as she opened the soft garment.

After freeing the last button, Cate slid her hands gently up Jon’s abdomen and over his pecs, caressing his heated flesh. Jon let out a shuddering sigh as Cate pushed the shirt off his shoulders. He let his hands drop to his sides as Cate gently pulled the shirt down over his arms, then let it fall to the floor. His lips curled into a sensuous smile as he watched her draw her eyes over his hard chest, then downward to his abs.

Jon raised a hand to Cate’s cheek, grazing it with gentle fingers, then slipped his hand behind her head. He tugged gently on the elastic binding her hair until the auburn waves tumbled free, sliding down her back. Her hair shimmered like liquid copper in the flash of lightning that illuminated the room, followed by another low rumble of thunder.

Jon moved his hands to Cate’s waist, pushing under the hem of her tank top and sliding it slowly upward over her soft skin. Cate raised her arms, allowing him to draw the shirt up over her head and off her body. She gazed up at him, her lips parted as she trembled slightly with anticipation.

Jon dropped Cate’s tank top to the floor and moved his gentle hands to push at the black straps of her bra until they slid off her shoulders, capturing her arms loosely against her body. He grazed his fingers over her arms, then across the tops of her full breasts to the valley between them.

With a deft movement, he manipulated the front clasp of Cate’s bra, opening it to free her breasts. “Oh, God, Baby…” Jon breathed, sliding aside the black satin cups to reveal her tight, pebbled areoli and pert nipples. His eyes widened as he took in the sight of her bare breasts. They were even more beautiful than he had imagined.

Jon slid the bra down Cate’s arms and let it fall to the floor, then raised his hands to cover her breasts. Cate sighed as her eyes slipped closed and her head fell back at his touch, her hair tickling her back. Jon cupped his hands over her breasts and squeezed gently, then splayed his fingers open. He rubbed his palms over her erect nipples, then let them slip out from under his touch, between his fingers.

Cate let out a little moan and arched her back at the sensation, then dragged her head back forward to gaze at Jon, her eyes hooded with desire.

Jon gave Cate a naughty smile, then slipped his hands from her breasts, down her sides to the waist of her jeans. He tucked his index fingers inside the waistband at her hips, then drew them gently together toward the center. Cate let out a strangled, husky little giggle at the tickle, involuntarily sucking in her stomach as Jon’s hands met below her bellybutton.

He smoothly worked the button and zipper, pulling the pieces of soft denim apart to reveal the black cotton panties underneath. Jon slid one hand inside her jeans, over her panties, and caressed her warm, firm mound as he moved his other hand to her jaw, pulling her mouth against his for another heated kiss.

“Oh, Jon… God, I want you…” Cate whimpered as he pulled his lips away. Her head was spinning and her body was on fire, every nerve tingling with ecstasy. The annoying little voice was nowhere to be heard, strangled by her lust.

“I want you too, Baby…” he murmured in response. “Soon.” He gave her a hungry stare then moved his lips to her throat.

Cate let out a little growl and again tipped her head backward as Jon moved his kisses down the column of her throat to her collarbone. He traced the ridge of the bone with his tongue, over to her left shoulder, his mouth stopping on her tattoo. He nipped her skin gently over his mark, branding her again as his.

Jon withdrew his hand from between Cate’s legs and gripped her hips with both hands. He trailed his tongue down from Cate’s tattoo over the swell of her breast, then captured her nipple in his mouth.

“OH!” Cate yelped in surprise as she felt Jon suck hard on the peak, sending electric shocks racing through her body. He gentled his mouth and rolled his tongue around her nipple, then slipped his lips down her breast and up the side of its twin. He pulled that nipple in between his teeth, nibbling gently on it before swirling his tongue around the pebbled summit, sucking lightly.

The arousal Cate felt at Jon’s lips on her breasts was almost incomprehensible to her brain. It had been ten months…ten long months, since a man had last touched her. And then sex had been quick, rough, and dirty, with a purpose. Never before… EVER… had she felt the level of exquisite pleasure Jon was evoking from her now. And he had barely started.

Cate felt herself tremble under his lips, and she felt Jon grip her hips more firmly. “Easy, Baby…” he purred, sliding his mouth back to the valley between her breasts. “We have all night…” As if to accent Jon’s point, the lightning flashed again and thunder rumbled long and low behind it.

Cate let out a long sigh and raised her hands to Jon’s head, tangling her fingers in his thick hair as he licked at her warm skin. Jon raised his face to Cate’s and again took her mouth, kissing her breathlessly.

Jon broke the kiss and he and Cate stared at each other for a long moment, their chests heaving in unison. Then Jon smiled sexily and dropped slowly to his knees in front of Cate, his eyes never leaving hers. His hands tugged gently on the faded denim covering Cate’s hips, slipping the jeans downward to the tops of her thighs. He fisted his hands in the soft fabric, holding them in place so that Cate’s black bikini panties were uncovered.

Cate’s eyes widened as Jon lowered his mouth to her navel, teasing her piercing with his tongue. “Ohhhhhh….. My…. God…..” she moaned as Jon’s lips moved lower, his tongue tracing a line from her bellybutton to the band of her panties.

He caught the thin elastic of the waistband between his teeth and pulled it slightly downward, chuckling sexily as he revealed a bit of soft, private flesh. He let the fabric slip from his teeth and it snapped gently back against Cate’s skin, making her gasp and twitch.

Jon chuckled again as his hands moved from the fabric of Cate’s jeans to the warm, firm globes of her ass. He squeezed them just hard enough to make Cate whimper as he feathered kisses across the line of her panties. After another little nip above the point of her hip, Jon sat back on his heels and gently slid Cate’s blue jeans down over her trembling thighs, past her calves, until they rested in a soft pile around her ankles.

He slipped a hand behind one knee, urging her to bend it forward and pull her foot out of the jeans. As she did he placed a sucking kiss on the inside of her thigh. He repeated the action with Cate’s other leg, then tossed the pants away. Jon placed a hand on each of Cate’s ankles, then slid them together up her calves, past her knees, up the outsides of her thighs, then again to her hips.

Jon gracefully climbed to his feet, his hands never leaving Cate’s hips. Standing at full height, he smiled down at her, his eyes glittering with passion. Jon slid his hands to her back, gathering her to his chest. She let out a little whimper at the skin-on-skin contact, his soft chest hair tickling her sensitive breasts. The sensation was otherworldly.

Cate again slipped her arms around Jon’s neck as her head dropped back and her eyes fluttered closed. Jon chuckled again and touched his lips to hers, kissing her tenderly but thoroughly. Then he bent down and swept her up into his arms.