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Duh. He was a guy. He had a penis. Of course he’d go for it.
They finished dinner and Jed paid the check. They went outside and she started for the bike, but he grabbed her hand. “Let’s go for a walk.”
“Okay.”
He led her across the street to the walkway by the ocean. They strolled in silence for a few minutes, the only sound the crash of the water hitting the shore.
“I can see why you like it here,” he said. “I like the sound of the waves.”
“I leave the door to my balcony open as often as I can just so I can hear them.”
He turned his head toward her. “Probably not the safest thing.”
“Probably not, but I’ll take the risk to hear the beauty of the ocean. No manufactured ocean waves sound can duplicate the real thing. It lulls me to sleep every time.” She stopped and moved in front of him. “Put your back against the wall here.”
He did.
“Now close your eyes, and just listen.”
She moved into him so she could get closer and whisper in his ear. “Couldn’t you fall asleep to that sound every night?”
He didn’t answer right away. Instead, his arms wound around her waist and drew her against him. He bent and whispered in her ear. “Honestly, it’s hard to concentrate on the ocean waves when your body is pressed up against mine.”
She laughed. “You’re not paying attention.”
“Sorry, you’re distracting.”
He opened his eyes, and she was again struck by the utter masculinity of his features. She reached up and traced her fingers over the slight beard stubble that gave him such a bad boy look, but his face wasn’t a pretty boy one to start with. He had too many harsh lines and angles. His jaw was too square, his nose a little too wide. He was the kind of man to grab onto a woman and hold her tight, just like he was doing now.
“Jed.”
“Yeah.”
“Would you come home with me tonight and sleep with me?”
His lips curved just a little. “You mean like a slumber party?”
“No. I mean like have sex with me.”
That te
asing little curve to his lips disappeared. He threaded one arm all the way around her waist. The other dove into her hair the second his lips touched hers.
She was going to take that as a yes. And oh, God, the kiss. An explosion of sensation that sent Fourth of July fireworks skyrocketing through every nerve ending. Her lips tingled, and when he deepened the kiss and tightened his hold on her, her nipples throbbed, and her sex pulsed and moistened with need and expectation.
This was what she missed when she focused too much on business and not enough on pleasure. A man’s touch, the way it felt to be held, to feel his large hand at her hip and the other massaging her scalp. He turned her around and placed her up against the sea wall, moving in to press the length of his body along hers. She reached for his chest, laid her hands on him, felt his heart beat a wild rhythm, the same as hers.
He tore his mouth from hers, his breathing staccato and heavy as he pulled back to search her face. “I probably shouldn’t have started this out here. This is worse than having a glass of wine. I don’t think I can drive now.”
She laughed. “I’m not going to say I’m sorry you did.”
He swept his thumb across her bottom lip. “Good. Let me take you home.”
“Okay.”
It was going to be a long ride home with a throbbing motorcycle between her legs.
FOUR
