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Cupping her face with his hands, he kissed the tremulous sighs from her lips. When the last spasm of pleasure slipped away and melted in the water, she dragged her fingernails lightly across the tight flesh of his erection.
He wrapped his fingers around her wrist. “Let’s finish this party on the bed, in the room, behind a locked door. Once I start with you, I don’t think I’m going to be able to stop—interruption, or no interruption.”
With the tip of her tongue, she caught a droplet of water meandering down his chest. “Is what we just did illegal?”
“If there had been anyone in the pool area, I’m sure it would’ve been, but if you don’t tell, I won’t.” He ran his hands across the silky material of her underwear, smoothing it into place. Then he flicked up the straps of her bra.
“Don’t bother.” She stilled his hands with her own. “I’m not going to put my nice, dry clothes on over these sopping wet undergarments.”
He lifted one eyebrow. “You plan to wear those sopping wet undergarments through the lobby, or pull off another Lady Godiva?”
“We’ll take them off, dry off and put on our dry clothes.” She brushed her thumb across his lower lip. “We’ll wrap up our undies in the towels and nobody will notice a thing.”
“You’ve done this before?” Lifting his backside from the step, he peeled off his boxers and balled them in his fist.
She coughed as her gaze swept over his nakedness beneath the water. “Have you?”
“You seem to be the expert.”
“Just using my common sense.” She tapped the side of her head.
“Might as well get it over with.” Hunching forward, he reached for his towel, steam rising from his back and buttocks, water coursing over the intricate design of his tattoo and his hardened muscles.
Scarlett’s lashes fluttered and butterflies claimed her belly. However things turned out with his man, she’d have no regrets about this night.
Jim toweled off his upper torso and then stepped from the hot tub to finish the job. He wrapped the towel around his waist and pulled on his jeans beneath the towel.
“You’re right.” He dropped the towel and shook out his T-shirt. “This feels a lot better than wearing wet boxers.”
“Looks a lot better, too.” She winked.
He held out her towel. “You going to float in there all night ogling me, or are you going to get dressed?”
“I could do just that, Jim Kennedy, but I’m going to do more than ogle when we get up to the room.” She shimmied out of her underwear and stood up on the top step.
Jim stepped between her and the door to the pool area. “Just in case someone decides on a late-night swim.”
“Oh, is that what people do in here?” She snorted and dried off her body.
Jim came up behind her and yanked her T-shirt over her head.
She copied him by wrapping the towel around her waist and putting on her jeans. She squeezed out her wet underclothes and rolled them up in the towel. “There. Now we won’t have our wet stuff seeping into our dry stuff.”
“It won’t take us long to get back to the room, anyway.”
“I’m going to make a stop at the bar for a glass of wine, if that’s okay with you.”
“As long as you get it to go.” He flipped the ends of her damp hair over her shoulder. “Because I’m not waiting another minute for you, Scarlett Easton.”
Leaning forward on her tiptoes, she pressed her damp bundle into his arms and kissed his lips. “Do you mind taking my clothes to the room? I’d hate to have them fall out of the towel in the middle of the bar.”
“That could definitely be awkward.”
When they stepped into the hallway, leaving the humid atmosphere of the indoor pool, Scarlett shivered. She’d felt safe and protected in the hot tub with Jim, and the cool air in the hallway was like a cold dose of reality. She hugged herself. Soon they’d be wrapped in each other’s arms making love...and she’d feel safe again.
They paused at the elevator bank and Jim stabbed the button. “Do you have money?”
“I’m going to put it on the room—three eighty-two, right?”
