Page 75 of Bene

What was this chick doing to him?

Vanna made a soft noise under her breath when he leaned in to kiss her again, only this time, it was his lips meeting hers. God knew he had gotten more than enough of his fill of this woman over the evening—still had the flavor of her in his mouth, too—but that didn’t seem to matter to his brain, or his cock. He just wanted more.

Except their kiss stayed soft, and slow. He didn’t move to deepen it, and neither did she. He liked that just fine, too.

“How much convincing would it take for you to jump off the top rocks again with me?” he asked, pulling away from the kiss.

Vanna shook her head. “You’re crazy. Once was enough.”

“Come on, that was awesome.”

“Until you realize you’re jumping twenty feet down into a six-foot-wide pool of water, and if you jump too far, you might hit the rocks. Which, you know, if it doesn’t kill you … it’s really going to hurt, Bene.”

“And?”

Vanna smacked his bare chest with her hands. “And? Are you serious?”

“Yes. Absolutely.”

That was basically his whole life in a nutshell. His mantra should be but did it kill you? He didn’t think it was the right thing to say to her right now, however. He was a little crazy sometimes—still wasn’t stupid, though.

Bene squeezed her tighter. “But you didn’t hit the rocks, and it was fun, right?”

“That’s really what it is for you, huh?”

“What?”

“Fun.”

He thought about that. “I mean, yeah. What’s so great about life if you’re not actually living?”

Vanna nodded. “You’re not entirely wrong.”

“But?”

Because he could hear it.

Even if she didn’t say it.

“But I am not jumping off those rocks again.”

Bene smirked, his hands sliding down the damp fabric of his shirt she was wearing overtop her shivering spine. Those shudders of hers picked up when his palms found her bare ass, palmed the plump flesh, and squeezed. He pulled her harder into his body, letting her feel the firm length of his erection under his jeans.

“You sure?”

She smirked right back at him. “Oh, is the promise of your dick supposed to make me risk my life?”

“It might …”

“Let’s be honest, I can get that dick whenever I want it, and all I have to do is tell you I need it.”

Bene’s mouth went dry.

She wasn’t wrong.

God, he loved that.

How she threw his shit right back at him.