Luke slid a finger into the slick heat between her legs and drew the throbbing center of her desire into his mouth, running his tongue back and forth. He added a second finger and took her to the precipice before backing off and doing it again.

“Luke!”

“What, honey?”

She was panting, and goose bumps dotted her sensitive skin. “Stop teasing!”

Laughing softly, he went back for more, and this time he took her all the way. She came with a sharp cry of completion that had Buddy scratching at the bedroom door and barking.

“Should I let him in?” Luke asked.

“No,” she said breathlessly. “He’d freak out even more.”

While he gave her a minute to recover from the powerful orgasm, Luke shed his bathing suit and started to reach for a condom in the bedside drawer.

“It’s okay,” Syd said, stopping him. “I’m safe if you are.”

Luke’s heart skipped a happy beat. Sex without a condom? Sex with Syd without a condom? This might go down as the very best day of his life. Speaking of going down, was she, oh my God. . . “Syd.”

With her hand to his chest she urged him to lie back and let her have her wicked way with him. And wicked didn’t begin to describe the sensation of her hot, wet mouth closing over the head of his cock. If she continued to do that—

He all but launched off the bed when she sucked—hard—and stroked him at the same time. This was going to be over in about two seconds if she kept that up. “Stop. Syd. Stop.”

She looked up at him with the eyes of a vixen, and he’d never loved her more.

“Come here.” He sat up, reached for her and brushed the hair off her face, which was flushed from the sun as well as the orgasm. Arranging her so she straddled him, he ran his hands from her shoulders to her hips and back up again, noting her slight grimace. “Are you okay?”

“My hips need a second to adjust,” she said, wincing.

“Stop me if anything hurts.”

“I will.” With her hands on his face, she urged him into a deep carnal kiss that made him want to beg. Sliding his hands down her back, he cupped her soft buttocks and used his legs to position her. “You’re sure we don’t need a condom?”

She bit her lip and nodded, sliding back and forth over his erection. When had she turned into such a temptress? His Syd wouldn’t have thought of such things. But the last thing he wanted to think about right now was where—and how—she might’ve learned to tease and tempt a man. He held her hips and began to enter her, letting her set the pace, despite what it cost him to remain still.