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“I rarely overindulge with drink or food. I don’t smoke. I don’t take drugs. I go to the gym several times a week, and I run on my treadmill most mornings.”
“I see,” I say, although I don’t. I moisten my lips with the tip of my tongue, and as his gaze drops to them, he makes a frustrated noise low in his throat.
“So why am I finding it so hard to keep my hands off you?” he says. “Why are you so damn irresistible?”
“Skill?” I suggest, heart racing.
His lips curve up, and his gaze drops to my mouth. He gives a small shake of his head. “I can’t stop thinking about kissing you,” he whispers. “I’ve thought about little else all day.”
Thrilled, I tip my head to the side. “I told you that we aren’t going to do anything that involves removal of clothing.”
“Yeah…”
I shrug. “I guess that means we can kiss fully clothed.”
He’s still looking at my mouth. “But nothing more.”
“Of course not.”
His gaze returns to mine, a tad helpless. “I don’t want to take advantage of you.”
“Titus, I promise, you won’t do anything to me that I don’t want done.”
“Huxley trusts me,” he says, so softly I think he’s talking to himself.
“Forget Oliver. I’m not sixteen anymore.”
“That is very obvious.”
“It isn’t any of his business. I kiss whom I please. The question is, would you like to kiss me?”
He leans a hand either side of me on the counter.
“More than life itself,” he replies, and he lowers his lips to mine.
I hold my breath as our mouths connect. For a moment, he just holds his lips there, as if he’s testing his resolve, waiting to see if he’s flooded with regret, or whether I pull back, saying I can’t go through with it.
I don’t. I lower my lashes and, although my heart bangs on my ribs, threatening to burst through and bounce away, I stay still.
He moves back half an inch. I look up at him, dazzled, aching for more.
“Ah, Heidi,” he says, and he cups my face in his hands. “You’re so fucking beautiful.”
“Kiss me again,” I whisper. “Please.”
“Oh I will. Last time I rushed it, though. This time, we’re going to take it slow.”
Ooh, what does that mean? Excited that he’s not done, I rest my hands on his chest, my heart racing.
“Close your eyes,” he murmurs. Obediently, I lower my lids, and the next thing I feel is his lips pressing on them, lightly, as if the butterflies from my tummy have fluttered up and are brushing across my face.
Slowly, methodically, he kisses my brows, my nose, along my cheekbones to my hairline, then follows the line of my jaw back to my mouth. I’m smiling by now, and I feel his lips curve up to match mine before he takes another step forward so our bodies are flush, and he lowers his lips.
Mmm… I drift away to a heavenly place where nothing exists except this quiet room, the flickering candlelight, and the man in front of me, filling every single one of my senses. I can taste the mint we had in the car, and the sexy scent of his aftershave sends my pulse racing. His hands on my face are warm, and now he’s closed the distance between us, I can feel his hard, strong body pressed up against me.
Ohhh… he’s so incredibly gentle. I know he’s holding back on purpose, probably because of what I said about Jason. He just makes me melt. He presses his lips to mine, kissing from one corner to the other, then back to the center, and only then does he touch his tongue to my bottom lip. I’m more than happy to part them for him, and he slides his tongue into my mouth, where it entwines with mine.
Last time he kissed me, when I was sixteen, he went from zero to a hundred in seconds. This time, the heat builds between us slowly, my body stirring and responding to his subtle persuasion. I’m not a girl now, I’m a woman, and I’m not innocent; I know how to arouse a man, and how to be active rather than passive in a kiss. As he lowers his arms around me, the fingers of one hand splaying at the base of my spine to pull me away from the counter and close to him, so I raise my arms around his neck, lifting up onto my tiptoes so I can stretch out along him. He rests his other hand in the middle of my back, and now I’m touching him from my breasts all the way down to my thighs.
