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‘Why?’ He came up for air, pinning her with his eyes.
‘Because... we might regret it...’
‘We might...’ He kissed her, his tongue forcing her lips apart, stroking her as if he were stroking her somewhere deep inside, then coming up for air, slowly licking his lips as if tasting her again. ‘But I’ll definitely regret it if we don’t. I’ve wanted you since I saw you.’
‘You weren’t nice...’
‘Doesn’t mean I didn’t want you.’
Don’t play dangerous games.He’d told her that himself, warned her perhaps of what she was taking on, and hewasdangerous.
Brooding, autocratic and lethally sexy, she knew nothing about him, yet she craved more.
‘You’ve been...’ She could hardly breathe, hardly get the words out. ‘Ignoring me.’
‘You try to resist what is bad for you—thatis what I’ve been doing.’
‘How could I be bad for you?’ She gave a tiny shrill giggle, but Iosef wasn’t laughing. He pressed her harder against the wall, his lips working up along her neck, making her shiver as he spoke between hot kisses.
‘It is foolish to get involved with someone you work with.’
‘I know!’ Annie breathed.
‘I am not available for a relationship.’
‘You’re seeing someone?’
‘I’m not available for anyone...’
‘Candy?’ Bravely she voiced the question, the single word halting him in mid-kiss. Passion flushed features coming into focus as he raised his head to hers.
‘There is nothing there for you to concern yourself with.’
‘But I do...’ She should have persisted, Annie knew that, should have asked for clarification, should have made damn sure she knew exactly how deep the water was before she dived in, but his lips were on her shoulders again, his parted mouth kissing her flesh so deeply it hurt, actually, deliciously, hurt. Lust was the deadliest of sins, Annie decided when finally he pulled back, his pupils dilated, his full mouth moist from their kiss. Reaching in his pocket, he held up a key.
Lust was surely the deadliest sin because it so readily paved the way for others—and greed was the first to make itself known. She wanted him so much, so fiercely, that her self-control was completely shot. He lowered his head, kissed the top of her cleavage, kissed it so deeply she thought she might come right there, right there in the shadows of the lobby, her breath catching as his fingers pushed the cool metal key between her breasts and into her bra, her nipples so hard she nearly wept for the cool of his mouth.
‘I’ve booked you a room.’
‘Me?’ Annie gulped, and he nodded.
‘This time,’ he said slowly, ‘I want youto ask me in.’
Chapter 6
An old-fashionedlift hurtled them to the top floor as Annie’s blood pressure did the same. The doors finally opened and they stepped into a hallway with gorgeous mosaic tiles that echoed as she walked along and came to the room he’d booked for her.
‘Do you need a hand?’
Her hands were shaking so much that she probably did need help getting out the key. Any fantasy she had of suavely opening the door and inviting him in vanished in a puff of smoke when he witnessed her rather clumsy efforts at retrieval. But he was in absolutely no rush to go anywhere, making her task near impossible as he shamelessly pulled down the zipper of her dress, his fingers taking down the straps. Shocked, aroused, her eyes searched the deserted corridor for a night porter, her breath heaving in hard, quick gasps as she soon stood naked from the waist up except for a flimsy bra.
‘Someone might come,’ Annie gasped.
‘Then you’d better hurry up and get inside.’
Her lacy bra was the target of his attentions now. His head lowered and his mouth closed in on one nipple through the flimsy material, then pulled back just enough to voice his question. ‘Well—are you going to ask me in?’
Annie took a breath, trying, and failing, to gather her chaotic thoughts.
