She gripped the lapels of his suit jacket.
‘How rare?” ‘This is the first time.”
‘So, as a favor to your father’s best friend, you put your life at risk.” How stupid. You could have let another man guard me… a regular bodyguard.” Someone used to risking his life for the client someone who was not the man she had once loved.
He tucked her against his body, her head fitting perfectly into the hollow below his chin. 661 would have allowed no other man to protect you.”
And she even understood why.
‘Because you feel guilty.”
‘And should I not feel this?” The confirmation acted like freezing water poured over the small spark of hope that had begun to ignite inside her that he felt something real for her after all.
She didn’t want his guilt. She had tried to convince herself she didn’t want anything from him in the way of emotion, but the stress of being shot at, having him shot at, realizing that they b0th could have been killed, all of it came together to decimate her defenses.
His hands moved on her back soothing her pressing her into his body.
And what she felt then scandalized her. you’re turned unl”
‘lt has been a long time for me. Having you near… ” He shrugged.
‘Besides it has been long known that danger is an aphrodisiac. Ignore it, and I will manfully try to do so as weII.”
She tilted her head back and looked into eyes that burned black in the dim light.
‘That would be a first.” She meant to say it lightly, in an attempt to relieve some of the pressure building between them, but her words came out husky and inviting.
His nostrils flared and his jaw clenched. ‘This is very true. I do not resist you well, cara.”
She didn’t say anything. She couldn’t. Her body was responding to him just as it used to. Her breasts ached for his touch. Of their own volition, her legs separated slightly.
He groaned. you do not make it easy.”
‘What?” She couldn’t think what they were talking about. A fire of need was whooshing through her body, leaving sensitized nerve endings and painful longings in its wake.
He muttered something and lowered his head his lips covering hers with blatant passion and possession.
CHAPTER FIVE
SHE had no thought of refusing him.
Not in that moment when the past did not matter. Too much had happened in the present. Later it would all matter again but not now.
Her mouth parted and he took immediate advantage, deepening the kiss sliding his tongue against hers. Tasting her, letting her taste him.
Her body arched toward him.
It had been so long .
Hands curling around his neck, she reveled in the intimacy of his kiss… his touch.
He cupped her bottom kneading her flesh and letting his fingers slide dangerously close to the apex of her thighs.
She moaned .
‘Si daring. That is right.” His lips moved against hers in affirmation exciting her even more as his breath teased her lips. The kiss grew voracious desires long denied exploding between them with the power of a pyrotechnic display.
She sucked his bottom lip into her mouth and bit lightly.