Lords of Honor (50 page)

Sophia could see he was hard and ready for her
.
He moved
upward and settled himself
between her legs
.
He
studied her face for long moments
, smiled,
then
dipped his head to
cover her lips with his
.
Lyon
kissed her d
eeply
, p
assionately
.
Their tongues entwined, they lost themselves in the
joy of their
kiss for a
long
time.

Sophia felt the tip of his engorged erection
at her opening.

“
Sophia
, m
y darling
.
” He whispered in her ear
as he n
ibbled on her lobe.

“
Oh, Lyon
.”
Sophia’s hands moved over his shoulders
.
She smiled up at him
.

Lyon smiled
down at his beautiful wife
.
He
entered her
slowly
.
She was so tight
.
So hot and wet
.
He sighed from the warm pleasure he received
merely
from being inside her
.
He moved slowly at first
.
His strokes were sure, slow and deep
.
They moved in unison this way for a long time
, t
enderly loving one another
.
Sophia’s hands traveled over his back, his shoulders,
and
his muscled buttocks
.

She
matched his movements
, r
ais
ing
her hips to take him deeper
.
Her fingernails dug into his shoulders
.
She moaned in between his kisses
.
Lyon’s lips
traveled over her face and neck, her shoulders
, then
upward again to
c
laim her
s in a
long,
slow,
tender k
iss
.

Sophia liked the feel of Lyon inside her
, o
n top of her
.
Her hands
explored
the hard muscles on his back.
She squeezed
his tight buttocks
, pressing him closer
, deeper
.
H
er fingers
moved
upward
to
tangle in his
sandy
hair
.
She was on fire
.
She burned
.
Everywhere their bodies touched, his
heat
seared her
.
She felt alive
, w
arm
, e
ven
loved
.
She
gazed
into the handsome face above hers
.
She s
aw tenderness in his bri
lliant
blue
eyes
she did not remember seeing before
.
She l
ooked into pools of
blue so
bright
and deep she r
ealized she could drown in them.

“This is how we were meant to be
Sophia,
my darling
.”
Lyon
never before
experience
d
such a connection
.
He
never
felt
so joined
to
a woman
.
He felt
as if
their souls
merged
this night
,
t
hat they were
indeed
one
.
He
focused on her
eyes, glittering green and gold
.
Her coppery hair sparkled in the
lamp
glow
.
He
studied
her
lovely
, o
val
face, marveled at her delicate bone structure
.
Everywhere he touched her, h
er skin was
soft as silk
.
Her lips were full
and
moist from his kisses
.
He lowered his head
, drinking
of her sweetness
and her
goodness
.
Lyon d
rank like a man thirsting for an elixir to save his
dark
soul.

The first ripples of white hot heat erupted from the tight coil in
Sophia’s
abdomen
.
They grew
and
became
powerful
waves that washed exquisite pleasure through her entire being.

When Sophia found her release in his arms,
she
moaned
and
arched
upward
against him.
Lyon lost his control
.
He thrust faster, deeper and
tumbled headlong into the abyss of ecstasy with her
.
Lyon g
roaned loudly from the power of the
euphoric release
that claimed him completely
, b
ody and soul.
He spilled his seed deep inside her.

They lay sated and boneless
.
Lyon rolled to the side, pull
ing
her into his
embrace
.
His hand stroked
her pale shoulder
.
He i
nhaled the rose scent of her hair
.
“
My
Sophia,” he whispered
and
smiled at her
, “my hell-cat
.
”
He
lifted his head
to kiss the corner of her mouth.

“
So this is what it is like without the drug?” she asked him, her voice soft, sultry.

“Yes
.
I hope you found it to be better.”
Lyon
turned
to
regard her with curiosity
.

“It was
.
It was
beautiful, Lyon
.”
She caressed his face with her hand
.

Lyon captured her
dainty
hand
, k
issed her palm,
then each one of
her fingers
.
“You, are beautiful, Sophia
.”
He placed a soft kiss to her temple
.
“The most incredibly beautiful woman I have ever gazed upon
.
And you are mine
,
m
y wife
.
I am a fortunate man.
”

After long minutes of whispers and tender caresses, Lyon rose from the bed
.
He opened her wardrobe
.
“Where is your wrapper
.
We must cover ourselves
.
Our dinner will arrive soon.”

“It’s light green
, o
n the right.”

Lyon
pulled
it
out and
brought it to her
.
He put his trousers and shirt
back on
.
“Come
with me
,
darling
.
Join me while we wait for our
meal
.”
He came to her
and
helped her from the bed
.
Keeping
her hand in his
, he b
rought her to a wide chaise
.
They reclined upon it, side by side, facing one another
.
They smiled and kissed
.
Whispered and caressed.

When the knock sounded on
the door Lyon bade her stay
on the chaise
.
He brought the tray
and
set
it
on a table beside the chaise
.
He lifted her to a sitting position
.
Side by side, they ate
.
They d
rank
his
watered down wine from the same cup
.
Lyon refused to drink any other kind of alcohol
since the incident
.

After they
finished their meal
, Lyon reached inside her gaping wrapper and caressed her breast
.
“I cou
ld not help myself, Sophia
.
The sight of y
our l
ovely breast
tempt
ed
me
.”
He teased the rosy tip into a hard
pebble
.
His hand moved down.
He
pulled the sash
,
open
ing
her wrapper
completely
.
His fingers feathered downward
, over her flat belly
to the triangle
of red-gold curls
.
They slid
further to her
caress her
tender folds
.
H
e teased her until she came
.
After she recover
e
d
he
eased her back and made love to her again on the chaise.

An hour later,
after
his bath was prepared
, Lyon
carried his naked wife into the dressing room and placed her in
to
the
large, roomy
tub
.
He joined her
.
They loved again.

..

The men did not meet after dinner
.
They joined Rowena and
Libby in the drawing room
.
Harry and Micah
retired
with their
wives early
.

“Lyon said Sophia
was
upset, Micah
.
And I can’t blame her
.
It is very dangerous what he is doing.”

“He volunteered, Libby.”

“It makes it no less dangerous
.”
Libby looked into her husband’s silvery gr
a
y eyes as they lay together
in the tangle of their bed sheets
.
She whisked away a lock of dark brown hair from his forehead
.
“I could not bear knowing you were doing such a thing
.
Promise me you will never agree to such a thing.
”

“I cannot promise
anything of the kind
to you, Libby
.
Lyon does what he does to free us all from
being harmed by
these men
, t
o find the man in charge
.
If
I felt it necessary
, Libby, I would do the same
.”
Micah ran his finger along her jawline
and l
et it
glide lightly
down her slender neck
, and lower still through the valley between her breasts
.

Libby
n
odded slightly
.
She didn’t like it
.
But Micah was Micah
.
He was honorable
and
that was
p
art of why she loved him so.

Micah smiled down at her
.
He d
ipped his head to place a quick kiss to her li
ps
.
He was a fortunate man
.
His wife was sweet, lovely and sensuous
.
He was head over heels in love with
her, a
nd she
with
him.
The
re was love and
passion between them
.