GREEK HUSBAND

Chapter 16

Go back to where we were. In a different mood, Edward would have laughed at that wording. But he was in the grip of angry astonishment, his every assumption about her wiped out. He didn't like surprises, but as Bella shifted up to him in a reminder that he was still inside her, he discovered that his body was much less particular. He stared down at her with stunning dark golden eyes. He was her first and there was something mysteriously satisfying about that discovery. She was so tight and warm and wet. Struggling to control his every move, he sank deeper and a breathy little sigh that certainly wasn't a complaint escaped her.

Bella shut her eyes again, ripples of pleasure reclaiming her, that momentary stab of discomfort forgotten. She could feel his girth stretching her and his cock ground into hers with every slow, heavy thrust. He was being so careful.

'It's OK...you're not hurting me at all,' she mumbled guiltily.

His pace quickened and a deep guttural was torn from him as her body clenched around his. He felt so good Bella couldn't believe it, couldn't believe she had lived so many years without realizing what she was missing out on. A sense of wonder seized her while her heart rate began to race with enjoyment as he pushed into her harder, faster, and deeper. She couldn't speak, she couldn't breathe for excitement; she felt as though she had stolen a ride on a comet. The excitement rose and rose to break point when without her volition her body jerked into another intense climax. Ecstatic cries broke from her lips as the white-hot heat exploded in her pelvis and left her lying limp and utterly drained but with a glorious feeling of satisfaction that was new to her.

'Care to tell me why?' Edward demanded, shattering her idyll. 'Why did you pick me?'

'You did the picking,' Bella reminded him without hesitation, lifting her arms to break his hold on her to enable her to roll away. 'There's no agenda here if that's what is worrying you. I found you attractive and I decided it was time that I took the plunge.'

'I would have preferred a warning,' Edward told her drily.

'I wasn't expecting that jab of pain. After years of horse riding I assumed there'd be nothing there...my mistake,' Bella pronounced with dignity. 'But thanks for the experience. You were very good.'

Prior to his engagement, Edward had been a legendary womanizer but he felt quite ridiculously put down by Bella's comment. He sprang off the bed and then a much more pressing matter came to his attention before he could reach the bathroom and he uttered a single crude expletive.

Bella froze at the sound of that word. When she was a child she hadn't known it was a bad word because her mother had used it all the time. Unhappily when she had used that word in Jenna's home, her aunt had screamed at her and put a soap bar in her mouth. She had still been throwing up when her uncle came home. The couple had had a massive row and Bella had never ever used that word again.

Impervious to her reaction, Edward strode into the bathroom to dispose of the evidence. He reappeared, bronzed and stark in the doorway. 'The condom broke...'

Bella sat up in horror. 'What?'

'Breaking you in probably strained it,' Edward retorted with deliberate curtness because it was just one more unexpected development that he didn't want.

'It...burst?' Bella whispered. 'But I'm not on the pill—'

Edward grew even more rigid in his bearing. 'Shouldn't you have taken that precaution before you embarked on a one-night stand?'

Bella just ignored him; she didn't have to talk to him just because she had slept with him. In fact, now that the main event was over she decided that she should ask for a boat back to the marina. Or would that be running away?

'May I use the bathroom?' she asked with careful politeness. 'And then possibly you could organize me a lift back to the marina?'

Edward moved to let her into the bathroom but his temper was now on a short fuse. Wham, bam, thank you, sir. Well, a woman had never treated him like that before but there was always a first time and maybe that was healthy for his ego. But the recollection that it had been her first time stopped his building aggression in its tracks. She didn't know what she was doing. She wasn't as quiet as she was secretive and, flipping mentally back through the time he had been with her, he reckoned she had to be as innocent as a newborn lamb when it came to the nastier things in life. Perspiration beaded his upper lip when he thought of what might have happened to Bella had she gone off so casually and trustingly with some of the seedier individuals he had met on his travels.