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“I would appreciate it if you didn’t argue with a woman dangling in midair. Now, that three-count?”
“Will that help?”
“No, but at least I’ll know when to dig deep for my inner spider woman.”
“Okay, One,” he said and started to swing her. “Two,” She was getting some momentum. “Three.” With a powerful force from the flexing muscles of his arm and shoulder, she sailed away from him. For a moment she was suspended, then she hit the outcropping. She jammed her sneakers into the mud and frantically clawed for a handhold. Rainwater sluiced off the sloping hill. She struggled to get up the muddy incline and pushed and pulled with her hands and feet.
The water had washed away any leverage.
She started to slide, but kicked and climbed, digging her hands into the rocks and mud. She felt vines and grasped them, pulling hard. Just as she reached the lip of the ravine and solid ground, she started to slide again, but two big, beautiful hands clasped her around each wrist and with a mighty heave, he lifted her up and over the lip straight onto the full length of his body.
The rain continued to soak them, but Jack was never happier to be able to still feel the pelting rain against her skin, and the hard, powerful man who had just saved her life again beneath her.
She raised her head, the both of them breathing hard. Then she felt it. A raging hard-on nestled between her legs. “Well, hello there,” she said, provocatively, her heart beating so hard she thought it would explode.
He grinned and laughed in such an adorable way that she never wanted to move, just absorb everything about him into her until they were one. “It’s the adrenaline. I swear, babe. Sometimes my dick gets excited all by itself.”
“I’m so disappointed.”
His face flushed, then he said, “Wait. That didn’t come out quite right.”
“Here I thought all your boners since we met were because of me.”
His grin broadened, his chuckle was dark, so masculine it slid over her skin, waking the core of her. No one made her want like he did. Just looking at him brought a primal hunger to have him closer.
“They are all because of you. All my voluntary blood works fast around you, Jack,” he said.
“Mmhm. Locked and loaded.”
He pushed her dripping hair behind her ear, his expression strained as he brushed his finger across her cheek just below where it stung. “You got cut? By what?”
“That damn truck door tried to kill me. Oscar, you grumpy bastard.”
He chuckled. “Are your tetanus shots up to date?”
“Tetanus? What’s that?” she asked, still enjoying the man’s face and the concern in his eyes.
“You don’t want it. I have one in my pack.” He sat up, keeping his hold on her as they inched away from the precarious edge. Then he wrapped his arms around her, and Jack sagged against him, so relieved they had both made it through that terrifying ordeal. “Let’s get out of the path of any more flash floods, babe.”
“Yes, let’s.”
They started walking again, and lights drew them through the murky dark. When they reached them, Jack wasn’t sure she was seeing what she thought she was seeing. “Is—is that a villa?”
“Sure looks like one,” Easy said. He stepped closer and smiled. “Huh, looks like the local authorities caught themselves a drug dealer.” He pointed to the sign on the door, and she saw the wordSiezed. He went to the window. “Looks dry and empty. I doubt they’ll come back here tonight. Let’s get inside, get warm and dry, and wait out the rest of the rain.”
She followed Easy to the back and watched as he easily jimmied the lock to one of the beautiful glass doors. They entered, sighing as Easy quickly disabled the alarm.
The place was gorgeous. Hardwood floors, five fireplaces, hot tub, lap pool, seven bathrooms, twenty-two rooms in all. French doors everywhere, and in the closet upstairs after her shower, she discovered some pretty racy lingerie. She chose something black and lacy that barely covered her breasts and butt, then went in search of Easy.
She found him in the hot tub, his eyes closed, basking in the warmth of the water. She cleared her throat. His head came up and he saw her.
“You’re trying to kill me,” he said, his voice so soft, his eyes going over her with a heat that made her melt. “That’s what you’re doing, woman. Isn’t it?”
She looked at his lap through the bubbling water. She walked around, giving him all the possible angles of her scantily clad body. “Did you know they have a stocked fridge? I can make us something.”
“Yeah, how about later,” he said. Clenching his jaw, Easy rose from the water as though compelled by forces beyond his control. His shaft was erect, curling up against his belly. Her gaze went up his magnificent body. “Is that voluntary blood you got going there?” she teased.
“Oh, yeah,” he said, stalking toward her. She grabbed up a towel and when he reached her, he buried his face in her neck while she toweled him off. “I think about you now and I get fucking hard. I was hard before you showed up.” His eyes were steady as he touched her face, then slowly, so slowly, he bent his head and kissed her softly. He sighed against her mouth, groaning as she cupped his heavy sacks and caressed her hand over his hard-on. He dropped his head. “But I can’t control my blood and where it goes in moments of sheer, fucking terror.”
