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“I’ve got you.”
He did indeed. His thumbs stroked slow circles in her palms while his mouth traced the line of her collar bone. His breath fluttered across her pulse points. The fast flash of sensation she’d started was turning into a thorough seduction that went beyond warm velvet skin and hard eager muscles.
His head bent before her as he inched closer to her aching breasts. Wanting to touch him, she tugged, but he wouldn’t release her hands.
She dropped a kiss on his head in what felt like a last, desperate attempt to connect. She felt his mouth curve in a smile against the slope of her breast. She shuddered, aching with the heat of his touch.
Heat flooded her system. Body and heart she was ready for anything and everything. With Dale. “I want to touch you,” she said.
He lifted his head and as he studied her face she felt as if he saw straight through her. “You have.” He turned her back to the wall, raising her hands over her head, and leaning into her.
The weight of his chest covered in the soft fabric of his shirt against her bare skin was intoxicating. As much as she wanted to feel his skin on hers, the delicious contrast ramped up everything to a delightfully unbearable level. Already she was perched on the edge of an orgasm and they had barely begun.
“You wanted a shower.” He kissed her, slow and deep.
“Mm-hm,” was all the reply she could manage.
“You’re overdressed,” he said, guiding her into the bathroom, trapping her between the marble countertop and his strong arms.
“Not as overdressed as you.” She met his heavy-lidded gaze and licked the taste of him off her lips. “I can fix that,” she said, reaching for him.
He chuckled. “Oh, no. This is for you.”
She gasped when he spun her around, framing her perfectly in the mirror as he kissed his way down her neck, over her shoulder…
“Trust me?”
She met his gaze in their reflection. “Yes.” Her body pulsed with need. With a desperation she didn’t recognize. Somehow Dale knew exactly what to do, stripping away her remaining clothes and weaving a seductive spell over her with every heartbeat. As he lavished her with his hands and mouth, all she could do was savor the experience, absorb every caress, until the pleasure left her shaking.
Awash in the aftermath of her release, feeling weak as a kitten, she let herself snuggle into his secure embrace. He stroked her hair, her shoulders. As if he couldn’t get enough of her.
“I’ll start the water for you.”
“Thanks.” As he stepped away, she wanted to forget the damn water, tear off his clothes and apply herself to the task of making him feel as boneless and content as she felt now.
But he was focused on making everything in the shower perfect. It felt like avoidance to her, but maybe he had some OCD thing with showers. By rights, as the naked person in the room, she should be the one feeling awkward, but it seemed as if Dale had claimed that role for himself.
“Dale?” He turned and the intensity burning in his eyes gave her hope as he looked her over from head to toe.
“I’ll just, ah, leave you to it.”
“Why?”
“Why?” He echoed the word, a frown creasing his brow.
“You should join me,” she suggested, amazed that she sounded so calm. Her body still cried out for his and it was a miracle she wasn’t a desperate puddle on the floor.
“No, thanks.”
Her warm afterglow turned decidedly chilly. “Hang on,” she said, catching his arm as he tried to move by her. “You’re giving me the impression that, um, what just happened was about pity. Or maybe some kind of distraction.”
He pulled up to his full height, but his eyes were full of some softer emotion. Sadness?
“It wasn’t that.”
That was a good start, but letting him get away seemed like the worst idea ever. “Do we need to talk?”
“God, no.”
