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“If you weren’t so…so…” Her cheeks were pink, and I would’ve laughed if she weren’t so flustered, if I didn’t feel that same frustration, that same longing, too.
“So…what?” I asked. We’d been dancing around this all week. It was time to just get it out there.
“Amazing,” she spat the word like it was a bad thing. “This wouldn’t be so difficult.”
“You know what’s difficult?” I asked, my chest rising and falling more rapidly the closer I got to her. “Knowing what you feel like but not being able to touch you. Pretending I feelnothingwhen I want you so badly, I ache.”
She stepped closer, placing her hands on my chest. “Knox.” She peered up at me, her hazel eyes questioning. Wanting.
I was already close to my breaking point, and I didn’t know how much more I could take.
“Kendall.” I clenched my hands at my sides so I wouldn’t touch her. I closed my eyes and took a steadying breath. She was temptation personified. She was going to be my damnation.
But when I opened them again, all I saw were her beautiful eyes peering up at me. And in that moment, everything else faded away. “Mi cielo.”
“Touch me, Knox. Please,” she whispered. It was my undoing.
“If I touch you,” I rasped, my control so damn close to snapping, “I won’t be able to stop.”
“Maybe I don’t want to stop.” Her swallow echoed against the tile walls, and I was taken back to that night. To the way she’d swallowed my cock. Then my come. “Maybe I’m tired of trying to fight this.”
I grabbed her hips without thinking. Instinctively knowing exactly where to place my hands. My body came alive from her touch, as if I’d been denied oxygen. She was the air I breathed, and I needed more.
I slid my hands up her waist, her rib cage, stopping just below her breasts. I wanted to kiss her. I wanted to taste her again. Consume her the way she consumed my thoughts.
She was such a fucking distraction.
“Even if this is a bad idea,” she whispered, echoing my words from our night together. I cupped her cheek, wondering if she was referring to this moment or our relationship.
“Is it?” I asked, leaning in and touching my nose to hers. “Because it’s the only thing that feels right.”
“I know,” she groaned, moving closer still, until our lips nearly touched. Our breath mingling. “Staying away from you has been torture. But we can’t…”
I leaned in, caging her in my arms. How could something so wrong feel so right? “We already did.”
“You know what I mean,” she said, as I ran my nose down her cheek, behind her ear. Taking her coconut scent deep into my lungs and trying to memorize it. “It’s different now. I’m your employee. And I need this job.”
I had a plan for that. But right now… “I. Need. You,” I spoke the words beside her ear, each one revealing just how unraveled I’d become.
“I need you too,” she said, breaking the last thread of my resistance.
So much for keeping my distance.
So much for the rules.
I turned her so her back was to me, hands braced on the wall. The position perfectly showcased her form, drawing my eyes up from her heels to her ass to her gorgeous waterfall of hair that flowed down her back. I slid my hand over her stomach until I was cupping her mound.
“Knox.” My name was a moan, a plea as she arched back into me. Pressing her ass against my hard-on.
I glanced back at the door to confirm it was locked. Even knowing how risky this was, I couldn’t stop touching her. Wanting her.
“This was what you wanted, wasn’t it?” I asked, stilling my hand. Waiting for confirmation to proceed.
“I—” She let out a shaky breath. “Yes.”
I caressed her thigh, lifting her skirt until I could access her panties. But she wasn’t wearing any.
“Naughty girl,” I said, gripping her hip. “Were you secretly hoping for this?”
