AllFreeNovel
Share Us
‘I bet you’re not even...’ I can’t finish. I can’t put words to it.
Her hand sweeps over her thigh, her finger stroking at the skin between the slit. ‘Knickerless?’
‘Jesus, Olivia.’
‘I’m just finishing the sentence you started.’
I shake my head, try to shift the image so eager to descend on my brain. Her, exposed, bare to my hungry gaze, her dress parted to her waist...
‘Tonight was important,’ I say through my teeth.
‘Correction,’ she sing-songs, so happy, amused at her own little game. ‘Itisimportant.’
I flick her a disbelieving look. ‘And yet you risked it with some throwaway remark like that.’
‘I wasn’t risking anything. It was for your ears only and it wasn’t a throwaway remark; it was an honest declaration.’
I shake my head again, try to ignore the way my body heats, my imagination unwilling to quit.
‘Are you angry because you think I was lying? That I was saying it just to tease you?’
My frown deepens, my eyes intent on the road, my mind less so. No, it hadn’t occurred to me that she would lie. Was she?
‘If you like, I can prove it to you, right—?’
‘No.’Hell, no.
She gives a soft little huff. ‘You really are no fun.’
I grit my teeth and drive, determined to ignore her, determined to get her home and get myself far away from her before I break.
She goes back to looking out of the window, quiet, still. But the damage is done; my entire body fires with it. Lust. Want. Need. An uncontrollable thirst that I know is all the more intense for four years’ abstinence.
I park up outside her house, cut the engine. And we sit there. And sit there. Neither saying a word.
Outside, the streetlamps cast a soft glow over the deserted street and the only sound is that of our breathing and the odd tick from the car as it settles. It’s intimate. Closed in. The air thick with this incessant tension she’s so determined to provoke.
I should be telling her goodnight, I should be seeing her in and driving away, but I can’t find my voice. I don’t want her to go in...not without me.
A car alarm fires up in the distance and she starts. ‘Okay. I guess that’s it then. Thank you for this evening.’
She turns to unfasten her seatbelt and I turn with her, my hand falling to cover hers—
What are you doing?
She looks up, straight into my eyes that I know blaze with everything my body wants, and her fingers flutter beneath my hand. Her nose flares ever so slightly as her breaths shorten and her pulse beats wild in her slender throat.
Fuck.
I want this. I’m angry that I want it. I’m angry at her for making me want it.
Her eyes fall to my lips, her own parting as she leans in closer. ‘Valentine?’
It’s breathless, laced with desire, and my thighs tremble with the heat, the tension, the fight that I can’t win.
‘Why are you doing this?’
Our heads are so close now our noses almost touch.
