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I chuckled. I’d insulted him earlier, so maybe it was time for a compliment—one that was easy to offer because it was true. “Don’t let it go to your head, but youwerevery good in bed.”
Beck’s lips curled into a gloating smile. “I know.”
I rolled my eyes. “You could at least be gracious…”
“Nah. Not my style.” He chuckled. “But I do have a serious question. If you had a good time, and there isn’t anyone else in the picture, why are you so insistent it was a one-time deal?”
I sighed. “I’m moving across the country in a few months. Plus, I’m just not in that place in my life right now. I don’t want to be tied down.”
Beck lowered his voice, leaning to me with a purr. “How about being tied up?”
And just like that, my day went from hospital-induced melancholy to all the hair on my arms zinging to attention. “Be good…” I warned.
His eyes sparkled. “That’s the opposite of what I feel like doing while I’m this close to you. By the way, your sundress is my favorite color. Baby blue. Did you wear it for me?”
“Beck…”
“Your mouth says we were a one-time thing, but your body says something very different.” He looked down at my nipples, now protruding through the fabric of my dress, then back up at my parted lips. “Can I touch you?”
“Touch me where?”
He slipped a hand under the table and onto my thigh. I jumped, though it also caused a whoosh of lust to fill my belly. Beck’s fingers dipped down to the inside of my thigh. “Just tell me to stop and I will.”
The slightest contact with this man made me crazy. But was I really going to let him touch me in a public place?
Beck whispered in my ear. “Where’s your sense of adventure? Close your eyes. No one can see. The tablecloth hangs low enough to cover you.”
His fingers slipped beneath my sundress and glided a little farther up my thigh. His hand was still six inches from my apex, yet it felt like he was brushing along my center already. I felt himeverywhere. My breathing grew as erratic as my heartbeat.
“This feels good, doesn’t it?” Beck’s voice sounded as strained as my willpower felt.
I swallowed and nodded.
Without warning, his hand moved up, fingers gently trailing up and down my panties. “You’re already wet for me.”
I couldn’t believe I was doing this in a restaurant. I’d never even had sex near a window before.
“Open your legs a little,” Beck whispered into my neck. His hot breath sent goosebumps racing over my skin.
When I didn’t immediately comply, he pushed his thumb down on my clit over my panties. “Let me make you feel good, make you forget.”
I was breathless. “Anywhere but here would be preferable.”
“Then you should have answered my texts this week. Trust me, I’d have chosen somewhere I could hear you call my name when you come, but this is what you’ve given me. So open your legs, sweetheart.”
I knew I would probably hate myself tomorrow, but I wanted it too badly. I let my knees fall shamelessly open beneath the table. I still stared straight ahead, but I saw Beck’s mouth curve to a smile in my peripheral vision.
The air crackled between us as he fingered the edge of my panties, then slipped underneath. He traced a line through my center, dipping inside and making my body quiver.
I hadn’t stopped staring into the restaurant, yet it took Beck’s fingers stilling for me to notice something was wrong.
“Enzo is coming with a plate,” he said.
“Oh my God. Move your hand.”
“Just stay still.”
Enzo smiled as he arrived at our table. “My favorite eggplant parmigiana. Sliced thin, like it should be. With my famous homemade ricotta between the layers.”
