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“Well, it’s the best so you’ll definitely have to try it.” She’s trying to distract me, I realize, as she sets in describing the stuffed French toast.
She’s talking about the creamy filling when I interrupt, “See you did a lot of shopping today. What’d you find?”
“Oh, this and that. There's a lot of cool shops. A lot of stuff to see.” Her face is getting redder and redder as she keeps up with her act. She’s nervous, and I like knowing she’s shit at hiding things. “I could spend another day in town. Just wandering around.”
I decide to let her off the hook, just a bit. “We get a lot of tourists with the ski resort. It’s in the town’s best interest to have some shops to go with it.”
“Well, that’s me. I'm a tourist.” She licks her lips and snaps her fingers. “So, they hooked me right in.”
“Yeah?” I lift my chin, my eyes not leaving hers. “What’d you get?”
Her chest rises on a sharp inhale, and she drags her palms over her thighs. Yeah, she’s definitely nervous. She’s also cute as hell when she’s freaking out.
But I want to knowwhyshe's nervous. I want to know what she's hiding in that bag under the bed.
“Umm,” she stutters as she thinks about her answer. I fight the grin I feel pulling at my mouth. “Clothes. A cute little snow globe for Katie of the ski resort—stuff.”
“Ahh,” my pitch lowers. “You know you're in my room now, right?”
“Yeah.” Her face starts to pink again, and her hands begin tapping a nervous rhythm against her thighs.
She would make an awful poker player, I think, and make a mental note to never allow her near the game.
“Then why are you dumping your bags in here?”
“I—um—I didn’t want to mess up your room.”
“Baby, I don't mind if you mess up my room. While you’re here, it’s yours too.”
She glances back at the bed and nibbles on the corner of her lip.
Yeah, she's freaking out. “Well, then I guess I'll just take it all up then.”
I shift making room for her to pass by me as I call her bluff. “Sounds like a good idea.”
I want to see if she’ll leave whatever it is she’s trying to hide from me.
Her eyes get big, and she squeaks when she asks, “Now?”
“There a problem with now?”
“Nooooo.” My little liar drags out the word, searching desperately for another excuse to linger with her hidden loot and I very nearly bust a gut, but at the last moment I swallow my bark of laughter, pinning her with dark eyes.
She shivers, and desire swells in my chest. This woman is so responsive to me, even my gaze makes her shiver. For a moment, we’re locked in each other’s gazes before Claus has had enough of being ignored, and he leaps off the bed to rub his body between her legs. She blinks down at the cat, bending to give him a scratch as I watch her.
When she looks up at me again, her lips parted, her eyes bright, I can’t help myself—I can't resist anymore, and I cross the distance between us, catching her around the nape of her neck, my hand sliding between warm skin and silky hair as I pull her up from her crouch. Finally, like I wanted to do all day, I claim her mouth. She whimpers as my tongue invades, and my body presses hers into mine as I wind my other hand around the small of her back, pinning her to me.
This woman is like a drug. I was hooked on the first hit. Now, I don't think I could survive a day without her—without tasting her.
When I pull away, her lips are red and bruised and fucking beautiful. I've never been a man interested in marking a woman, but if I could tattoo my name on this woman, I would. I want the world to know she's mine.
Iwant to know that she's mine.
“I’ve got another hour of work and then I’m taking you to dinner.” I drop my hold on her, listening to the sharp inhale that she pulls into her lungs and force myself to move to the door when all I want to do is throw her onto the bed and ravish her. “Get ready, yeah?”
She nods but doesn’t speak as I pause at the mouth of the hall. My eyes give one more pointed look to the bag she’s shoved under the bed before I let her off easy as exit the room.
I think I hear her sigh of relief, and a grin splits my face.
