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Her voice is rushy and breathy. “You won’t.”
Her arms curve around me, reeling me in. Her kiss is wild and willing. My heart bangs wildly. I'm hot. And below my belt…
Fuck…
Christ, but that’s tight…
Blood rushes in my head and my groin throbs. My hands still on her shoulders… “I can do this? I can really do this?”
For answer, she twists under my hold, hanging her arms around my neck and I press my face into the hair, nuzzling into her neck.
“I'd never have guessed it,” she murmurs. “Hickman. You're quite sweet.”
I jolt away, looking her in the face. “Sweet? You think I'm sweet?”
“Sweet for me…” Her hold on me tightens… “… and that's good enough.”
She pulls away, sweeping a hand through her hair. “Hickman, why do you doubt yourself so much?”
“I don't doubt myself. Not in most situations anyway.”
“You doubt yourself with me.”
I huff air. “Katya, I’m truly unsure why you’re doing this. I'm no oil painting.”
She traces fingers along my temple and the line of my jaw. “You're never going to take a good photo, Hickman, that's true. Or make your living modelling designer-wear. But do you really think I'm looking for a pretty boy?”
I suck saliva from my cheeks before I reply. “I don’t know what you're looking for, Katya. I do know that you're way out of my league and… Under any other circumstances, if we weren’t here, you wouldn’t have looked at me twice.”
Something flits across her face. Her eyelids droop and she blinks.
Embarrassment?
Regret?
Her mouth works. She looks down. Then up again. “Maybe you're right. I'm not proud of that. You were just Leone’s hired muscle. But…” She sucks at her lips… “…we are here. Under these circumstances. I did look twice. And…” The fingers settle to my cheek… She looks me full in the face. “… having looked, I like what I see.”
The words are simple. And sincere.
My heart pounds harder.
Matching her gesture, I palm her cheek then, curving my hand around her head, ease her toward me…
I want to strip off, tear that damn robe away until we’re naked together, then plunge into her. Bury myself in her…
Forget myself in her…
No…
Take your time…
Too precious a gift…
And there might never be a second chance for this…
Breaking from the kiss, I sit upright again, working at the buttons of my shirt. My fingers tangle and tremble, and the fucking buttons won't come undone…
Calm down…
