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It was stated as fact, yet she knew it was a lie, because she was on fire in his arms and she was weak with want.
‘Can I ask why?’ Rafe said, for he could feel her desire.
She could have told him that she was scared to, or that she did not know how, and both of those answers would have been true, but there was another reason that was holding her back, and Antonietta voiced it now.
‘Because I have a feeling that you would pay me.’
‘I would pay for your discretion,’ Rafe responded calmly. ‘Not for the act.’
She pulled back and looked up into his eyes. ‘I don’t understand...’
‘You would have to sign an NDA.’ He registered her frown. ‘A non-disclosure agreement.’
‘That’s the most unromantic thing I have ever heard.’ She actually laughed.
‘Tell me about it,’ Rafe said. ‘It is very inconvenient at times.’
How was shelaughingat such a subject?
Why was she imagining them tumbling into bed and Rafe whipping out a contract for her to sign?
‘It is just as well,’ Rafe continued, ‘that I am the least romantic man.’
Except he didn’t seem unromantic to her. She had never felt more looked after, or been held with such care and skill, and she had never looked so deeply into a man’s eyes while sharing a smile.
‘But you can carry on dancing with me,’ Rafe said, ‘without signing a thing.’
He pulled her in so close that she could feel all she would be missing pressing into the softness of her stomach. His other hand was on her shoulder, toying with the spaghetti strap of her dress and making her breasts ache and crave for the same attention.
‘Can you kiss me?’ Antonietta asked, and her voice was husky and unfamiliar. ‘Without me having to sign a thing?’
‘Of course,’ he said, in a voice that was completely steady. ‘But later.’
Kiss me now, she wanted to plead as his hand moved down to the small of her back and pressed her in a little more.
He smoothed the hair from her hot face and then slid his hand under the dark curtain and stroked her neck and the top of her spine. They hadn’t even kissed, yet she was weak and breathless in his arms, and just when she thought she might die from wanting him he released her a touch.
‘Why don’t I take you home?’ Rafe suggested.
He made her wait for her kiss.
Through handshakes with the owner and then out to the delicately lit street.
Now, she kept thinking.Let it be now.
But, no.
He took her hand and held it tightly as they walked to the car.
Now, please now, she thought, with the moon high in the sky as they drove through the hillsides.
But of course it would not be now, for she did not want the audience of his driver for their first kiss, even if there was a partition.
Rafe sensed that. He had done far more than kiss in the back of a luxury car, but he wanted this to be right.
He still held her hand, carefully moving it to his thigh, but that was all. And then he loosened his grip and left it there.
She felt the solid muscle beneath her hand and of course she was too shy to move her hand higher. But there was actually no need, for to rest her hand on his thigh was bliss enough.
