Chapter Three: Breaking the Rules
Josh couldn’t say he was sorry his part had been delayed for several days. The director and the producer decided to shoot a different set of scenes while the weather cooperated. Even though he and Joey were not in this part, Josh decided to accompany Kitty to the lush hilly countryside where she and George were filming. These scenes dealt with the death of the first incarnation of Kitty’s alien character.
“Hello, precious,” Josh heard Kitty coo behind him. “It’s been days and days, hasn’t it?”
Turning, the sight he found stopped the breath in his lungs. Kitty was holding a sweet blonde baby in her arms. The infant made happy gurgling noises in response to Kitty’s voice. In that moment, he saw the future mother of his children.
“Isn’t she beautiful, Josh?” Kitty asked when she noticed his interest.
“She is a sweetie,” he concurred, moving beside her. He touched the baby’s soft cheek reverently.
“Mary, this is my good friend Josh,” she told the baby.
“Kit’s a natural with babies,” a pretty, slightly plump, and young woman told Josh. “Mary loved her on sight.”
“Where are my manners?” Kitty asked. “Bridget, Josh. Josh, Bridget. Bridget is this sweet baby’s mom.”
Josh extended his hand to the woman. “Nice to meet you. You have a lovely little girl.”
“Thank you. She is a darling. Hardly ever fussy. Her two brothers were holy terrors.”
“How old are they now?” Josh asked.
“Six and four.”
“Fun age.”
“If you like laundry.” Bridget studied the couple. “How many are you two planning to have?”
Josh smiled. “As many as Kitty wants.”
Kitty laughed. “I’m not fond of laundry.”
“We’ll have a service do it, sweetness,” he promised.
Bridget grinned at Kitty. “Keep this one!”
Smiling up at Josh’s handsome face, Kitty murmured, “I plan to.”
If there was a dry eye left in the theater when this scene was over, the audience had no heart, Josh thought as he watched George cry over Kitty’s and Mary’s still forms. He knew it wasn’t real -- and he was still misty. He even felt the rage when George advanced towards the men who had caused the death of his wife and child.
“And cut!” the director yelled.
George reached down to assist Kitty to her feet as Bridget claimed her daughter.
“We’ll go through it at least another time,” John, the director announced. “Then we’ll call it a day.”
When John said, “cut!” for the final time that day, Kitty was ready to go home. The day’s shoot had been full of scenes fraught with emotion -- and she was drained. But there was Josh looking sweet and hopeful. He wanted to spend time with her and she knew it was what she should want as well...If only she wasn’t so tired...
Josh easily read the fatigue in Kitty’s face and body language. Well, there went any idea of going out for the evening. “C’mere, sweetness.” He put his arms around her, letting her rest against him. “You look done in.”
“I am.”
“Then here’s the plan for tonight. I’ll drive you home. While you take a nice soak in the tub, I’ll get dinner ready. After that, we’ll stretch out on the bed and talk until you fall asleep.”
“What about you?”
“I’ll let myself out once you’re asleep.”
She looked up at him. “You don’t have to, you know. You can stay.”
“I don’t want to be crowding you.”
Kitty snuggled closer, closing her eyes. She’d be happy just to stay where she was at, resting in his arms. “You wouldn’t be crowding me. I like sleeping next to you, knowing you’re there. I think that’s a good thing for people who’re planning to get married, don’t you?”
“That I do, baby.”
“In fact, you should bring an overnighter tomorrow. After all, we’ll be sleeping together the rest of our lives.”
“Kitty, I like the way you think.”
“Didn’t you say that before?”
“I think I did,” he agreed.
“You’d better take her home before she falls asleep standing up,” George said as he passed the couple.
“I think that’s my claim to fame,” Josh chuckled.
“Then you are a match made in heaven. Kitty’s known for doing the same thing. Think it’s got something to do with sleeping wherever she could back in her jungle days.”
“Night, George!” Kitty grumbled ungraciously. “Let the bed bugs bite -- and bite hard.”
“Brat!”
“Old poop!”
Josh checked on Kitty about twenty minutes into her bath and found her asleep among the melting bubbles. He knelt by the tub to awaken her but was arrested by the vision she made. Her black hair was piled haphazardly atop her head. Her long dark lashes lay like fans against her cheeks. The steamy water had left a rosy hue on her pale skin. Her pink lips were parted softly in sleep. Still lower, her breasts played peek-a-boo in the foam, one sweet nipple was revealed by the diminishing bubbles. Kitty was so beautiful, it didn’t seem she could be real -- a flesh and blood woman.
He had read some of her press. With her coloring and her dual citizenship in the US and Great Britain, the comparison with a young Elizabeth Taylor was inevitable. Some reporter had called Kitty, America’s English rose. That fit. She was Josh’s English rose -- sometimes so very proper, delicate, perfect, if somewhat prickly!
Kitty stirred, sensing eyes on her. Opening her eyes slowly, she found Josh gazing at her with rapt attention. She gave him a sleepy smile. “Guess I dozed off, huh?”
“Looks that way, sweetness.”
“Dinner ready?”
“I only heated up some soup and made sandwiches. You don’t stock much in the way of real groceries.”
“Why do you think Quon’s on speed-dial?” She stretched languidly. “Mmm...I don’t like to eat alone.”
Josh could only hope his eyes hadn’t bugged out too much. Her upper body had come out of the water. Though bubbles were clinging to them, her breasts were revealed to his hungry gaze. They weren’t over large; still they were definitely ample! God, she was so beautiful it made his mouth go dry!
“Josh? Are you all right?”
It was hard for him to believe she didn’t know how gorgeous she was. “It’s just you’re so damned beautiful, Kit!”
“Am I?” Negligently, she squeezed her sponge over her torso, rinsing away all the froth that had covered her.
Josh gulped.
“I've wondered what your hands would feel like on me,” she confessed ingenuously. “No one has ever...” She looked into his eyes. “Touch me, Josh. I want to know...”
He didn’t need a second invitation. Leaning forward, he kissed her softly, repeatedly, until her lips clung to his in urgency. With one hand, he traced her cheek, her ear, her throat. His fingers circled around her aureole in an ever-tightening spiral. Then his thumb rubbed over the taut nipple.
“Oh!” she gasped.
“Does that feel good, sweetness?” he asked as he gently pinched the bud, then stroked it again.
“Oh, yes!”
“Want more?”
“Oh, yes, please.”
“Such a polite, baby girl.”
“Josh...” she protested when he removed his hand.
“Patience, Kitty. We don’t want to neglect your other pretty breast, do we?” His fingers treated the second to the same as the first.
“I think I’ll like sex,” she purred as he continued to caress her.
“It’s not sex. Not with us. It’ll be love.” Trailing kisses down her neck, Josh finally touched on hardened bud with his tongue.
“Josh!”
He circled and teased the crinkled peak as she writhed and pressed her head back against the bath pillow. When he settled his lips to a gentle suckling, Kitty moaned with pleasure.
“Baby, I didn’t know it would feel this wonderful.”
“’Cuz you waited for me, sweetness. No one else will ever know how sweet the taste of you is but me.” His mouth traveled to her other breast as his hand slid beneath the cooling water to find the nest of curls that hid her treasure from him. “Open your legs for me, baby,” he commanded, pleased when she readily obeyed. One finger teased until her petals unfurled for him.
“Oh, Josh...Mmm...This is so good...” she purred.
“I haven’t done anything just yet.” He probed tenderly until her found her pleasure center.
Kitty’s hips bucked up, sending water splashing to the floor and over Josh.
“Easy, baby,” he crooned. “We’re not there yet.”
“Th--there’s more?”
“Oh, yeah, sweetness. I’m gonna send you to the stars.” He nuzzled her breasts. “My innocent girl.”
One finger slid deep, Kitty arched, begging for more, when that finger moved out. Before she could protest, inserting two fingers, Josh pumped in and out of her in a slow easy rhythm.
“This is how it will feel? This is how you’ll feel inside me?” she asked breathlessly.
“Sorta.”
“Oh, please, Josh...Tonight,” she begged softly.
“No, not tonight, baby.” He quickened his pace until she was panting. “Come for me, Kit. Reach for it, baby. Let me watch---”
“Josh!” she cried out when the spasms gripped her and delirious pleasure consumed her. “Ah!”
Josh slid an arm around her, pressing her face to his shoulder as she shuddered -- and the shudders abated into small tremors. It had been a beautiful thing to watch, Kitty flying apart for him.
“Oh, my!” she finally whispered.
“Ever my polite English rose.” He was fairly sure a swear word had never crossed her lips. “An orgasm like that merits an ‘oh, my’.”
Releasing her, Josh rose and reached for a bath sheet. “The water’s getting pretty cool for you, baby. You’d better get out before you get chilled.”
Kitty’s legs weren’t quite steady as she stepped out to be wrapped in the soft terry and Josh’s arms. She snuggled close for warmth as he patted her dry.
“You did get cold,” he said by away of apology. “I should have gotten you out sooner.”
Sooner? If he had done that he wouldn’t have done those wonderful things to her! “Did I disappoint you?” she asked.
“Disappoint me? We’re gonna get married, then I’ll spend the next 80 years making love to you. There’s nothing to disappoint in that plan.”
Plucking at the picks that held her hair up, he ran his hands through the silken tumble. “Soup’s probably cold. I hadn’t planned on havin’ this much fun in here.“ He gave her a teasing grin.
“It wasn’t all that fun for you.“ Dropping the towel, she reached for her robe and slipped it on. “Your clothes are soaked and look at your...” She waved a hand at the prominent bulge in his jeans. “That can’t be comfortable.”
“It’s called a hard-on, sweetness,” he mused, watching her blush. “Are you the same woman who was just begging me to do the big nasty a few minutes ago?”
“Yes. Please, Josh---”
“No.”
“But you’re primed and---”
“No.”
“But---”
“No.” Josh moved out the door. “I’ll go reheat the soup,” he muttered. Damn, it wasn’t easy to walk away when Kitty was practically begging for it.
Josh was standing at the stove, stirring the contents of a saucepan when soft arms came around him.
“I love you,” Kitty whispered.
He closed his eyes a moment to absorb the words. They made him feel so warm, so complete. He never imagined those three little words could do so much. She was offering them as an apology, but she had done nothing to be sorry for. “Kit, your eagerness to share yourself with me is a precious gift. A gift I want. I just prefer to wait a while longer to claim it.”
“I must sound like some sex-starved hussy.” A little bit of her British accent from her father slipped in when she used out-dated words like 'hussy.' He found it enchanting.
“No. You sound like a woman sure of her love. There’s nothing more sexy than that.”
“I’m sorry I got you all wet.”
Actually, it had been his fault, too. “I’ll dry.”
“Not before bed.”
“Probably not.”
“If you have to sleep in the all together, I promise not to molest you.”
“May be I should go---” Naked in a bed with Kitty might be more than he could take.
“Oh, please, no. Stay.”
“Kitty---” He wasn’t stupid. Things could quickly out of hand before he realized it.
“Please, blue-eyes?”
If it was one thing Kitty knew, it was how to plead her case with him. Their daughters were bound to wrap him around their little fingers with soft words and big eyes, too. He surrendered.
“As long as you promise not to jump my bones.”
“Cross my heart!”
“Cut!” the director called out.
Kitty grinned at Josh as she pulled off the short Auburn wig she wore for this incarnation of her character. It had only taken three takes to get his lines done. “You’re pretty good there, blue-eyes, she teased. “I bet John planned being here all day for this.”
Josh smiled sheepishly. “I don’t think I could stand having you being mad at me all day.” He wasn’t too thrilled playing the part of a bastard former boyfriend who thought nothing of cheating on the wife he married for money. The part wasn’t exactly tailor made for him. He had taken it to be close to Kitty -- and now he was stuck with it.
Reaching up to pull his head down for a soft kiss, Kitty whispered, “Mad about you is more like it.”
“I’m glad. ‘Cuz that’s how I feel about you.”
“Why don’t you take an early lunch,” John suggested. “We can set up that concert scene, then JC’s part will be finished.”
“You’re the boss!” Kitty grabbed Josh’s hand and led him to her trailer dressing room. Once inside, the door shutting off the rest of the world, she gave him a gentle shove into a nearby chair.
“Uh -- what are you having for lunch, Kit?”
“You.” She straddled his legs to sit facing him. “Any objections?”
“None, sweetness.” He ran his hands up and down her back. Loving Kitty was an adventure. She was sweet as she was bold. “C’mere.” He urged her closer until their lower bodies were intimate, their jeans’ zippers scraping. “Two more days, baby. Two more days.”
“I have a feeling I’ll be so sore I’ll barely be able to walk. Good thing we have three days off.”
“I’ll be gentle,” he assured her, nipping lightly at her lips.
“I don’t know that gentle will matter if we make love all night.” She slid her tongue along the seam of his lips, causing a groan from him.
“Kitty, you make me crazy.” Ending her torture, his hands held her head still for his kiss. He telegraphed his love, his lust, and even every moment he knew they would be apart with his mouth. Then he trailed his lips over her cheek and neck. He bit gently at the intersection of her neck and shoulder.
“Oh, Josh, I can’t wait. I---”
It was becoming an old argument between them. Josh knew exactly how to tempt her beyond control. “Two more days, sweetness. Then I’ll teach it all to you. You can learn how to please me and you can tell me what I need to do to make you happy.”
“At this moment, you inside me would make me very happy,” she whispered against his neck.
“Not just yet, baby.”
“Oh, Josh...Please...”
The sound of a zipper thrilled her. Her Sir Galahad was about to be demoted to Lancelot if she had any say!
“These jeans are too tight,” he grumbled as he tried to slip his hands into the snug jeans she wore as her character Cat.
“I can lose them,” she offered breathlessly.
“I got a better idea.” Josh got to his feet and carried her to the bed at the far end of the trailer. Laying her down, he moved beside her. “I’ve never met a girl so eager to lose her virginity,” he mused.
“To you, Josh, only to you,” she reminded him softly. Kitty took his hand and rested it on her breast. “I love it when you touch me.”
“I love touching you.” Dragging the pad of his thumb over her nipple, he watched as it peaked beneath the tee shirt she wore. “You are so tempting, Kit.”
“Then be tempted.”
“I am, sweetness. I am.” He grasped the hem of her shirt and with her eager assistance removed it. Kit, in turn, did the same for him. His mouth came down hard on hers, their tongues tangled and mated as his hands roamed over her back, her ribs, then finally captured her breasts. He swallowed her gasps of pleasure as he stroked the tender peaks to hard, swollen buds.
Kitty tore her mouth from his. “Oh, please, Josh,” she begged.
“What do you need, baby girl?” he asked as one hand moved over her stomach and beneath the elastic band of her silky panties.
“You. I need you.”
“I’m all yours.”
“Then, please...” With her hands, she guided his head to her breasts. She so wanted his mouth there. “Please...”
Flicking his tongue around her swollen nipple, he felt the quake rocking her body.
“Only you have ever...” she whispered. “Oh, baby, I want---” She gasped as he suckled her deeply. “Oh, Josh!...”
The hand that had been resting warmly just above that thatch of curls below her belly moved lower, one finger sliding into the wet heat of her.
“Josh!”
Another finger joined the first and he pumped them in and out in a rhythm sure to please her.
Kitty’s hips rose to meet his downward stroke. “Baby, this feels so---”
The speed of his thrusting increased as he felt her body tense. “Come for me, sweetness,” he urged. “Let me watch you fly.”
“Oh!...” Kitty’s hands clenched his arm, unknowingly digging her nails into his flesh. She couldn’t bear the exquisite tension gripping her body. Then her insides exploded with wondrous waves of pleasure. “Josh!” she cried out as she crashed to the shores of ecstasy.
“That’s my girl,” he crooned, comforting her as she was coming down. He kissed her eyes, her cheeks, her soft mouth.
Kitty lie in his arms for a long while, then asked, “What about you?”
“I’m okay, baby.”
“No, you're not.” She didn’t to look down to know his zipper was strained to the max.
He brushed his lips against her forehead. “I’ll be okay, sweetness. Just give me some time—“
“Tell me what to do, Josh. I’ll---”
He shook his head. “No, Kit. Not now.”
“But you...for me.”
A tender smile lit his face. “I love just watching you.”
“It’s not fair to you.”
“It doesn’t have to be. I wasn’t asking for anything in return.”
“But---”
He chuckled. “Quit arguing already!” Rising from the bed, he retrieved their shirts. Handing Kitty hers first, he watched the movement of her perfect body as she slipped it over her head and pulled it into place.
Kneeling at the edge of the bed, Kitty wrapped her arms around his waist to lay her head on his warm, bare chest. “Mmm...I like the feel of you.”
He stroked her hair, feeling a great tenderness and protectiveness for this woman. “You are a wonder, Kit. Bold as brass. Sweet as honey. Sexy as sin. And innocent as a child. God made you into a surprise package.” Any minute they’d be called for their wardrobe change and this moment would be gone forever.
“I adore you, Joshua Scott.”
He grinned down at her. “I adore you, Katherine Elizabeth.”
With a sigh, Kitty released him and bounded off the bed. “Want a sandwich before we have to go?”
“Sounds good to me.”
Josh smiled in his sleep. What a dream! In his erotic dream, Kitty was kissing and nibbling her way down his treasure trail. Her soft lips and talented tongue were arousing him as he’d never been before. She might be untried, but she was a natural when it came to loving him. When her goal was finally reached, she wrapped one hand around his rock hard arousal, while her other hand cupped his sacs, squeezing them ever so gently. He shuddered with pleasure when he felt her lick them. How did she know how wonderful that could feel? No one else had ever done that...
“Sweetness, you are so good to me,” he purred when she licked at the droplets already escaping the tip of his shaft. He reached a hand down to stroke her hair as she concentrated on his enjoyment...
“Damn!” When he encountered Kitty’s silky hair, he came fully awake. He was not dreaming. Opening his eyes, he found Kitty pumping him with one hand while she wrapped her tongue around the head of his manhood. “What do you think you’re doing?”
Kitty lifted her head and frowned. “If you have to ask, I must not being doing this right.”
No complain there. She had been doing it very right. More than that, she was doing it damn well! “You shouldn't be ‘doing it’ at all.”
She gave him a vexed look. “Mr. Happy and I were getting better acquainted. We plan on becoming intimate friends.”
Josh gasped as she stroked his length lightly with her fingertips.
“I didn’t know you’d feel so smooth and silky -- or be this big.”
“You are supposed to wait to find that out,” he reminded her.
“Oh, pooh! You touch me.”
“I touch you. I’ve never put my mouth on you like I want to.”
“You can, you know.”
Josh shook his head. “Why do you always have to be in such a rush?”
Kitty bent her head, allowing her soft hair to swirl erotically around his thighs and manhood. Did she have any idea he wanted nothing more than to have her complete what she had begun?
“In less that 12 hours, we’ll be husband and wife,” he pointed out. “You couldn’t wait?”
Kitty flowed up his body to lie against his chest. She brushed her lips to his. “No.”
Josh surrendered. He was not about to turn her away, not tonight. He was tired of fighting what they both want badly.
“Don’t be mad at me, blue-eyes.”
“I’m not mad at you,” he assured her. Lifting his hand to her cheek, he let his fingers trail down her neck, then down her back. “I love you, sweetness -- and I’m amazed at how open and eager you are to give it all over to me. What a treasure.”
“I want to give everything to you,” she told him earnestly.
“And I want to do the same for you.” He smiled and kissed her lingeringly. “But the first time I shoot my load, it’s not going to be in your hand or in your mouth. When I lose it, I want to be inside you.”
“Okay...Please, Josh---”
Before she could finish her usual plea, he said, “Yes. Tonight.” He had half-expected a triumphant grin or a giggle.
Instead, Kitty gave him an almost shy smile and whispered, “I love you, baby”
“And that’s why I’m giving up.” He nibbled on her neck. “I love you, Kit. I can’t keep fighting both of you.”
When his mouth touched that certain spot below her ear that only he seemed to hit just right, Kitty shivered with delight. “Both of us?” she asked breathlessly.
“You and your buddy Mr. Happy.” He glided his hands beneath the tank top she wore, reveling in the silky, warm flesh he found there. “Tell me just how exactly did you manage to get my pants off me?”
“You sleep like a rock. Actually, you were terribly cooperative.” There was that touch of British accent he found so intriguing. She pressed a quick kiss on his lips. “Want me to get naked?” she asked in her all-American boldness.
“Mmm...Yeah.” He watched as she knelt to pull her top off over her head. When her lush breasts bounced into view, Josh couldn’t help himself. He sat up to begin licking and nibbling at one rosy peak while courting the other with his fingers.
“Mmm...Not that I’m complaining...I’ve still got shorts on,” she reminded him.
“Later,” he mumbled, much too involved with his present preoccupation to worry about the future.
Kitty kneaded his shoulders and neck with strong hands, letting some of the tension flow out of him.
“You got great hands. That feels good, baby,” he murmured as he switched to the other nipple.
“So does what you’re doing.”
Rising to his knees, Josh brought his mouth to hers, his hands holding her head still for his plunder. Their tongues mated and teased. The hair covering his solid chest abraded her sensitized nipples, making her moan. Leaving her lips, he sent kisses down her neck.
“I love it when you touch me,” she purred. “I don’t think I’ll ever get enough of you.”
“I know I’ll never get enough of you.” Josh lifted his head to gaze into those incredible eyes of hers. “Not even after we’ve been married a hundred years.”
Kitty twined her arms around his neck and gave him one of her patented, blindingly sexy smiles. “We’re not married just yet, lover.”
“Don’t even bother to tease me, Kit. We’re getting married at 2:00 pm today.”
“I know that, silly.”
“And if you’re planning to tease me about canceling once we do the big nasty, I’ll stop right now.” It’d probably kill him since he had a hard-on the size of Big Ben, but he would stop.
She sent a caressing hand from his chest, over his stomach to stroke his hot length, making him hiss. “I wouldn’t tease you about such a thing, Josh. I want to be yours forever.”
Those tender words sent relief coursing through him. Sometimes, her eagerness to experience sex made him feel like a convenient male. “That’s what I needed to hear, sweetness.”
Laying her down, he slid her boxers from her legs. Letting his fingertips retrace the path, he sent them back up over her ankles over her calves and knees, to her vulnerable inner thighs. “Open up for me, baby.” When she obeyed without question, he smiled slightly. For a fairly aggressive female, she was willing to follow his instructions.
“Touch me, Josh,” she pleased softly.
“I couldn’t stop myself, even if I wanted to.”
One finger teased until her feminine petals opened to him. This part of it was now familiar to her. She was waiting for him to press deeper, to find her pleasure button. Was his innocent girl in for a surprise tonight. He lowered his head to glide his tongue along that tender slit.
“Josh!” she cried out at the new sensation.
“You said I could,” he reminded her.
“You can. It’s just...Mmm...” she purred when he did it again. “Oh, I definitely like this.”
This drew a chuckle from Josh. Leave it to his sweet, sexy, bold Kitty to make a running commentary on lovemaking. “I’m glad. But you ain’t felt nothin’ yet.”
Using his tongue he sought and found the center of her. Kitty sucked in a shallow breath. Then he lowered his mouth on her.
“Oh!!” Kitty gasped when he licked at her. Her hips bucked up and forced him even deeper. “Ooh!”
“Easy, baby,” he soothed.
“Josh, I--I didn’t expect it to be so...Oh!” She nearly wept when he wrapped his lips around her sweet nub and sucked tenderly.
Continuing his ministrations until she was sobbing for release, Josh let her fly apart.
“Oh, baby!...Josh, I can’t... Ahh!”
Kitty shuddered with the force of her rapture, but he continued as her dew creamed against his mouth. He swiftly took her to her next explosion before inserting two pumping fingers as he moved to align their bodies.
“God! How I love how you reach for it, sweetness,” he whispered against her lips.
Kitty tasted herself as he kissed her. Before she realized it, he moved between her legs, replacing his fingers with the head of his shaft. He was so big and so hot! He’d never fit! A moment of panic swept through her.
Josh felt her stiffen. “Want me to stop, Kit?” He would. It wouldn’t be easy or comfortable, but he would pull out if he needed to for her sake.
“You’re so huge...” she whispered tremulously. She met his tender blue gaze. “I--I do want this, but...I’m scared.”
“Then we’ll stop.”
She shook her head. “No. It’ll only hurt once. Right?”
Josh pushed into her until he felt resistance. “Just this once,” he assured her. “You may be sore...”
Kitty took a deep, calming breath. Virginal jitters were not her style. She was the one who had pushed the issue until he relented. She had wanted this -- and had practically forced herself on Josh -- She wasn’t about to quit now! Tucking her niggling fear away, she stroked his back. “Please, Josh, go on.”
“You’re sure?”
She nodded bravely. “Yes. I want us to make love.”
Taking her mouth with his, he thrust his hips down. He swallowed her sob as he felt her tear. Holding himself still, he waited as her body adjusted to his invasion. “That’s it, sweetness. No more pain.”
No. In fact, she felt wonderfully complete, filled with Josh. She smiled up into his worried face.
Relief washed through him. “Ready for more?”
“Oh, yes!”
Slowly, he thrust in and out of her. She was so tight. She held him like a hot, velvet fist. Nothing that had ever gone before had felt this good, this right. In possessing Kitty, she possessed him. “Sweetness, you’re fantastic.” He kissed her hungrily as he increased the tempo and she began to quiver. “You’re feeling it, too, aren’t you, baby?”
“Oh, yes! It’s -- Oh!” Her entire body began to clench with an unbearable, pleasurable tension. Every nerve seemed to tighten with each stroke. It wasn’t the same as before. It was stronger, more intense -- and she wasn’t going alone this time!
“Oh, Josh, please, now!” she begged.
“I’ll take you with me, sweetness,” he promised, his hips suddenly slamming into hers.
“Josh!” Kitty went over the edge, free-falling into complete rapture.
Feeling her body clenching him, Josh stiffened then exploded into her. “Oh, sweetness!...”
After a long moment, Josh lifted his head from her shoulder to find Kitty’s eyes closed to him. “Kit, you okay?”
“I’m more than okay.” Opening her violet eyes, she had the smile of a satisfied woman. “I was savoring every last tremor.”
Rolling to his side, he reached for a sheet to cover their cooling, damp bodies, then pulled her back into his arms. “Something you wouldn’t mind doing again?” he asked causally.
Kitty snorted inelegantly. “You know exactly how good it was. Don’t fish for compliments.”
He grinned. Her answer was not what he expected, but he was pleased with it. It was a very Kitty-like answer. “Yeah, I liked it, too.”
“Liked? Liked!” She propped herself on one elbow to grin at him. “That’s a trip I could take 24/7.”
“My legs would never hold out.”
“We’d think of something.”
Chuckling, he pulled her back down to him. “If I thought you were a little sex fiend before -- Now, I’ve created a monster.”
“It’s your fault,” she reminded him tartly. You didn’t have to be so good at it.”
“How is it that you make a compliment sound like an insult?”
“You want some sugary compliment?”
Josh tenderly pushed back her love-wild hair. “Naugh. I’d probably have a heart attack if you were too nice to me,” he retorted, using one of George’s favorite taunts. Then he grinned at her again.
Kitty was suddenly serious. “I love you, Josh.” Her voice had a desperate little catch in it that wasn’t lost on him.
“What’s wrong, baby?”
“I’m afraid. I’ve never been afraid before, not like this.”
“What it is it? I’ll fix it.”
“You can’t.” Burrowing against him, she tucked her head beneath his chin. “I’ve never depended on anyone not to break my heart before, because I’ve never given it to anyone before.”
“Yeah, it can get kinda scary when you’re in love. But, Kit, you got no worries with me. I’m just as in love with you.” He stroked her hair and nuzzled her, trying to comfort her. “I’m yours forever -- we’re forever.”
Kitty couldn’t say why she felt a foreboding, like a dark cloud over their future in that moment. She knew she loved Josh with a certainty she felt had come from across time. She knew he loved her in the same manner. But something was horribly off kilter in their karma -- and it made her uneasy.
“Josh?”
“Yeah, baby?”
“Make love to me again, please.” She lifted her face to his.
The worry in her eyes made him uncomfortable. “Will that make your fears go away?”
“For awhile.”
“You’ll be sore,” he warned.
“But when you’re touching me...I can’t think about anything except how good you make me feel...”
“I can touch you without making love to you.”
“That’s not fair to you.”
“When are you gonna learn? It doesn’t have to be about fairness. Love isn’t always equal. It’s give and take.”
“You tend to give more.”
“No, I don’t. Look at what you give. You make me feel like the most desirable man on the planet, like you can’t keep your hands off me.”
“You’ve only got a billion fans that feel that way.”
“It’s not the same. Kit. You love me for me, not some image you’ve created in your mind from seeing me perform on stage.” He pressed his lips to her forehead. “You are the one who made me face the end of my relationship with Robin. I could’ve drifted in that vacuum for years.” He rubbed her back in a soothing motion. “You give me the gift of fun and laughter. You tease me and you make me your playmate. No one has ever done that for me before.”
Kitty kissed him softly. “Enough---”
“And you give me your blind trust. You count on me. You never questioned that I actually went and saw Robin and told her it was over. I said I’d do it and you believed me. Trust is a rare commodity in our business.”
“It never occurred to me not to believe you.”
“See?”
Josh lay her back, kissing and caressing her until she fairly purred with pleasure. He found it sweet and endearing such a bold woman had insecurities -- and she had entrusted him to protect her.
“Josh?”
“Yeah, sweetness?”
“Make love to me,” she whispered against his throat. “I want to feel you inside me again.”
“But---” he cut off on a ragged groan when she locked her legs around his, forcing him against her tender flesh. She was ready if her wetness was any indication. “Right now?”
Kitty nodded slightly. “Mmm...hmm...”
As gently as possible, he eased his way into her tight walls, stopping at the catch in her breath. “Hurt?”
“No, blue-eyes, it doesn’t hurt. It feels wonderful. I could stay this way all night.”
“I don’t think I’d get much sleep,” he mused, then finished entering her.
“You are so big and so hot,” she purred.
“We aim to please.”
“And I’m sure you will, Joshua. I’m sure you will."