War for Love: A New Battle Rages

CH 9: More

**Jeremiah's POV**

This woman is going to be the f*****g death of me. Once again, she completely confounds me. I'm not even sure if I'm mad at her for pushing my restraint. The sight of her ass as she walked into the water made my hands burn to touch her. My c**k is pulsating, tenting my shorts and demanding to be inside of her. I can see that my teasing her for the past couple of days has made her crazy. All the while, I just wanted her to make the first move, but here she is again, daring me to be so bold. I may have met my match, no other woman has made me work this hard to be in control, but I love it.

I finished the last bit of wine in her glass, pulled my shirt over my head and followed her. Gia looked over her shoulder at me, her green eyes brilliant in the sun. Never before have I felt anything for a woman. I don't even remember if I ever had a crush in school. Is Gia my first crush? But this excitement in my heart when I look at her feels so much bigger than a childish notion. I don't want to say I am falling for her, but I do know that if the Earth opened up and the Devil tried to take her from me, I would fall into the fiery pits of hell to take back what is mine.

Before Gia, I never knew what loneliness was. I just thought it was for sappy fools who lost someone and were looking for connection to not feel that emptiness. Now, I see that I have always been lonely, though I never fell in love and lost. Drowning myself in liquor bottles and burying myself in random women, I was trying to fight off a darkness that I didn't know I was at war with. But Gia, she clears the darkest parts of my mind, scrapes off the grime in my soul, and softens a hardened heart I didn't know I carried. I have been in her presence for less than a week, and already she is giving me hope for something I never knew I needed from her.

"Penny for your thoughts?" Gia turned towards me, her body seducing me as easily as I breathed. How does she seem so in control of herself right now? I can't even feel my face to know how the hell I'm doing at masking this need to have her. We were only two feet from each other, but it felt like miles unless her skin was touching mine. "You look, what's the word? Pensive."

"What do you want?" I asked a little harsher than I meant. "I mean that you obviously put on that swimsuit to tempt me to touch you. This game we're playing is a dangerous one if we haven't made any rules. I don't know where the line is, and I don't want to cross it and ruin anything between us. Tell me what you want me to do, tell me what you're not ready for. Because I want you, Gia, but once you give yourself to me, I'll never let you get away from me."

There it is. She wins. I'm asking her to let me know what she wants, so I can do that for her. I don't even care about my own pleasure, I just want to see her come undone by my hands, by my mouth. I have never known a greater pleasure than watching her underneath me, fall apart into bliss. I want that again. I want her to need me, desire me, to want me. f**k, I need her to love me.

I watched as Gia ran her hands over her body. "I want you to kiss me, here." She rubbed her thighs, to her hips and across her belly. "I want you to touch me, here." Again, her hands ran over her body, surprising me when she let her fingertips rub over her p***y, and then up to her belly to cup her breasts. "I want to feel you everywhere, but I'm not ready to give you everything just yet. I'm nervous." She swallowed hard. "Teach me, slowly."

"What can I see? What can I... taste?" I stood in front of her, reaching my hands out to pull her to me. I saw her uncertainty. "Tell me what your fears are, maybe I can help ease them."

"What if we don't stop-"

"I'll never hurt you. I'll never do something you don't want-"

"That's my point." She whispered, her head hung low. "What if you start, and I don't want you to stop? What if I lose myself in the moment, and I go further than I am prepared?"

I tilted her chin up so she could look at me. "That is why I am asking for your boundaries now. So I don't go too far. What do you want right now, and I won't go past that? Not even if you beg me to. I'll protect you from yourself, I'll protect you from me. Always."

"Right now, here, I just want you to kiss me and touch me. I want..." she hesitated.

"Yes?"

"I want you to make me c*m again."

I smiled, and grabbed her hand, leading her back to the edge of the water. Sitting down, I pulled her to sit between my legs, her back resting against my chest. "Tell me when to stop, and when you want more."

My left hand tangled in the hair at the nape of her neck and tugged slightly to the side, bringing my lips to hers. I kissed her softly at first, teasing her. My right hand rubbed her shoulder, fingers brushed down her collarbone, between her breasts and her belly. I ran my fingertips back up her arm and down slowly. I let go of her hair, and moved my left hand to cup one of her breasts, kneading, massaging, and pinching her n****e softly.

"Mm," Gia moaned into my kiss, and I took that opportunity to shove my tongue in her mouth, deepening my kiss, and making my need for her grow impossibly. "More." She whispered, breaking our kiss and resting her head on my shoulder. "Please." I kissed and sucked on her neck, my hands roaming down her body. I settled my left hand on her breasts, noticing that she loved it when I pulled at her n*****s a little harder. At the same time, I bit the curve of her neck. "More." She panted.

I let my right hand slowly caress her body, down to her belly, my fingertips brushing the top of her swimsuit bottom. "Here? Do you want me to touch you here?" She nodded, biting on her lip to suppress her moan. "Inside?" She nodded again. "Only if you let me hear how much you like me touching you. Those moans and gasps are mine. Give them to me, baby."

I slipped my hand into the thin material, and immediately found her soaking for me. With my index and ring finger, I parted her lips and found her spot and rubbed it with my middle finger. "Fuck." She gasped, panting. Her breasts rose and fell with each heavy breath. My c**k strained against my shorts, and I stopped myself from rubbing against her. This wasn't about me, I wanted to make her scream.

"More." She moaned. "Touch me more."

"Turn around, sit in my lap." I withdrew my hands from her body, and she immediately did as she was told. Her green eyes were gleaming with lust. I pulled the material to the side, keeping my eyes on hers. I watched her eyes widen as I slipped my finger inside of her tight p***y. "f**k, baby." I groaned, feeling her walls clinch around me. "You're so damn tight. I can't wait to have you." I rubbed her clit with my thumb and pumped my finger inside of her.

"More." I slowly slipped in a second finger, her hands gripping my shoulders tight. "Ah, f**k. Yes! Just like that!"

"Ride my hand, baby."

Gia leaned down and covered my lips with hers, her tongue desperately seeking mine. I kissed her back passionately, slowly. I let her find her rhythm on my right hand, my thumb still circling her clit, as my left hand slipped under her top and caressed her breasts, skin to skin. "Do you want me to stop?" I asked as soon as I realized I may have pushed a boundary. But she just kissed me more, and her hips grinded harder and faster.

"Ah!" She threw her head back. "Yes! Jeremiah!" She called out my name as she came all over my hand, her body trembling, her hands wrapped around me tightly. I slowly pulled my fingers from her, and licked them clean, savoring her sweet taste. "I want more." She bit my neck.