And damn if the reverence in her voice didn’t go straight to his head. Not that it lasted long, as her fingers slid onto his shaft, causing it to buck and his balls and ass cheeks to contract. Her touch was light and tentative, but he was so hard, so taut, it was like his skin was shredding in her wake. After all these weeks of avoidance, it was painfully erotic, and for an awful moment, Tucker thought he might disgrace himself.

Her fingers trailed lower, and Tucker gave a pained groan at the delicious agony, stilling her exploration. She looked at him sharply. “What?”

“I’m sorry. It’s too…much.” Her brow furrowed, and he hastened to explain. “I mean, it’s been too long for me… I don’t know if I can…hold out for very long if you keep touching me like that.”

Tucker watched the slow dawn of realization in her eyes. “Really?”

Her voice was tinged with wonder. God help him when she fully came into her powers and realized how she could hold a man in the palm of her hand.

“Maybe you should do this.” She offered him the condom. “I’ve never put one of these on before.”

It was at moments like this Della’s inexperience hit home. She’d been married for four years and never used a condom. Never had a normal, fun, relaxed sexual relationship with a guy.

And that was a crime. Della deserved that. She deserved to have those kinds of experiences like so many women of her age.

“I might,” she continued with a smile, “fumble around a little too much.”

Tucker chuckled despite the direness of his immediate situation. Yeah, his dick couldn’t cope with anything but brutal efficiency right now. Relieving her of the latex, he quickly applied it to his aching cock. She watched with fascination, staring at it all sheathed up, and the intensity of her gaze rolled through his belly like a heat wave.

Her hands stroked up his chest as she lowered her body to his, kissing his nipple, then running her tongue up to the hollow at the base of his throat, then pressing her teeth to the thick bound of the pulse in his neck. The nip she delivered shot a bolt of electricity to his groin, galvanizing Tucker into action.

His body couldn’t take her teasing in its current state, and trying to keep under control when he was inside her was going to be hard enough without any prolonged prior stimulus. He wanted her with such ferocity, such hunger, it scared the living crap out of him. His hands shook with it, and his chest pounded with it, and he could barely breathe or think from how much he wanted to unleash on Della.