Chapter 265

[Cordelia]

For someone who only a moment before seemed so eager to disrobe me, it feels like time has stopped as Atlas slowly unbuttons my dress.

"It has a zipper too," I remind him and he chuckles at the rising frustration in my voice.

"So eager," he kisses the newly revealed skin on my back. "Patience, Lover, I want to savor you."

"I thought, you wanted to devour me," I tease.

A mischievous spark flashes in his eyes, "If I must," his hands are rustling underneath along the edges of my skirt, pulling it upwards, bunching it between us until his hands are touching my thighs. As he rubs up and down along their outer edges, he leads me until my back is flat against a wall.

"What are you doing," I giggle as he gives me a quick peck before diving under the voluptuous layers of my skirt even though I have a pretty good idea what his intentions are as soon as he begins kissing a trail along the inside of my leg.

Using his teeth, he unbuttons my garters and rolls each silk stocking down,