Total pages in book: 28
Estimated words: 26056 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 130(@200wpm)___ 104(@250wpm)___ 87(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 26056 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 130(@200wpm)___ 104(@250wpm)___ 87(@300wpm)
“You were too,” he counters, then he’s out of the SUV as I stare wide-eyed watching him stride around to my side and open my door.
His eyes are set deep, lips tight, and I hear the crack of his teeth as he clenches his jaw.
“You okay?” I ask. “You look like you’re in pain all the sudden.”
“I am,” he says as I screw up my face on a squint and he clarifies. “It hurts that you’re going to get in that car and drive away. I’m considering not letting you go.”
“You think you have that sort of power?” I say as I flush and a burst of nervous laughter rushes out of me, trying to process that I’m here in the middle of an empty parking lot with a gangster type who just said he’s not letting me go…this is either romance fantasy fuel or it’s going to end with a police report.
“You don’t like anyone to know you’re scared.” He braces his massive arms on the sides of the open door, caging me in.
“I’m not scared.”
He snaps his tongue over his teeth, then looks around the dark lot. “Fear can be your friend. Fight or flight, baby.”
“Can you stop calling me baby, please?”
He shakes his head. “No. Don’t think so.”
“What’s your deal?” I snap, my heart racing, blood rushing in my ears as adrenaline surges through my system. “You save the day and now you want your reward? Is that it?”
I slip under his thick arms, doing everything in my power not to touch him as I set my feet on the pavement, rooting in my purse for my keys and feel the cylinder shaped handle of my mace spray.
He turns around and his dark eyes are not those of a man ready to harm me, but he’s also the last guy that should be making me feel all swoony and wet-between-the-legs.
I cover my nervousness by flipping my hair back with my other hand and forcing a indifferent look onto my face.
“Of course I want a reward. You want one too, don’t you? I can see it, Anna. You like to do the right thing, but you also like when someone notices. You’re tough, you don’t need to prove it to me.”
“And you like when you intimidate people. You use it to your advantage. Built like you are, with that look.” I stab to fingers toward his stupidly sexy eyes. “You like seeing people squirm.”
He crosses his arms standing silent for a beat, his eyes softening when I expect him to be angry.
“Seems we both have at least something figured out about each other. You have a praise kink and I like to be in charge. Sounds like a match made in heaven if you ask me.” He winks and it’s so out of place on the hard angles and furious knit of his brow I can’t help it when a laugh spills from my lips. “Fuck, baby. I just found my new kink.”
I take my hand out of my bag and look up at the tall, dark dream and ask, “What’s that?”
“Your laugh.”
I take a deep breath. Filling my lungs until my chest aches. I’m overcome with the wash of feelings I’ve been holding back and I step forward and run my hands up his chest, feeling the thumping of his heart against my palm.
Just do it, give in for once. Stop thinking everything to death.
That new, daring inner voice is louder than the once trying to talk sense into me and I hear myself say. “You should kiss me,”
My entire body vibrates from my shoulders down to my thighs as I lean into him.
“Now, that’s something we can agree on, baby.”
Warmth from his hands slips down my back until his fingers are digging into my ass, pulling me up and onto him in one swift motion as I lock my legs around his back and he groans, crushing his lips to mine.
I’m mounted against the hard planes of his body. The hard, cool metal of my car presses into my back and I drown in the warm, wonder of the kiss.
He’s rough but soft. Demanding but giving. He’s a concoction of puzzling intensity and I immediately feel drunk as he leans into me, his hips spreading me wide as inhuman sounds rumble from his throat.
The tip of his tongue glides along my lips instead of just ramming through my lips. The hard length of his erection between my legs makes me clench as he starts to explore my mouth with a raw but delicate urgency that has the world spinning and me re-thinking all my assumptions about this intimidating man.
Our mouths and tongues move and tangle in a fury of moans, warm breaths and pained noises. My heart is flopping around in my chest, banging against my flipping stomach like all my organs are rearranging themselves.