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“I’ll pay him a king’s ransom to get good and lost until daylight.”
“Not an option.” I collect my purse and pick up my shoes. Which are actually Lita’s shoes. They’ve had an adventure and no longer look squeaky clean. “I had a good day, Conner. Thanks for that.”
Of course, there is plenty more worth saying.
But the most important words don’t come easily to me. They never have. The sharp turns in life are not to blame. It’s a personality flaw.
“This isn’t over, Haven.” Conner isn’t issuing a warning. He’s just sure of himself.
And he isn’t wrong.
“For tonight it is.”
I’m not wrong either.
Whatever happens, we haven’t seen the last of each other. But right now I’m teetering on the edge of long lost foolishness. The heady clash of emotion and desire is leaving me slightly dizzy. I need to get my bearings before I lose my head and start pitifully mooning over him.
Like I used to.
Conner stays where he is, amid the steam and bubbles, watching me withdraw. Turning my back on him is a hollow kind of relief.
Inside the cozy shell of Conner’s house, the tick of a wall clock is the only sound. I can’t explain why my steps drag on the way to the front door. Maybe it’s because nights without the club to fall back on always feel too long. My sleep patterns have been shot for a decade. It’s almost a chore to chill out in my own bed and drift off after trying to watch whatever show gets people all excited nowadays.
While I’m feeling sorry for myself on the way to the exit, Conner overtakes me. Moving in stealth silence, he blocks my access to the door, one meaty hand shooting out to brace it closed.
Instinctively on defense, I whirl around, flattening my back against the wall. His other hand hammers down beside me and I’m officially caged by his hulking arms.
Water streams from his body. He didn’t take the trouble to towel off. It’s downright indecent how close we stand, how undressed we are. The hunger I’ve been struggling to keep at bay screams to the surface. A tremor unspools from my core.
Conner keeps his chin raised on purpose, casting his eyes down in a power move, just in case there’s any doubt as to which one of us is more intimidating. Almost like he’s staring down some enemy on the football field. “You didn’t say goodbye. Again.”
His voice is gruffer, laced with a dangerous edge.
I steel my spine, willing my body not to shiver. If he so much as breathes on my neck I’ll crumble. “Goodbye, Conner. Again.”
His mouth tilts but his smile is incomplete. “I need to tell you something before you leave.”
I can’t move in any direction without touching him. “You have a dramatic way of trying to sneak in the last word. What is it?”
His hint of a smile disappears. His eyes narrow as he annihilates a few more inches between us. “I need to tell you what will happen when we really do fuck.”
“When?” I laugh at his nerve, even as my belly tightens and my nipples ache.
He seizes my chin and his eyes bore into mine. “When we fuck, there’s no turning back. This won’t be some worthless one night screw. Once we get a taste there’s no way out. Count on it.”
The thunderbolt of lust slices through my belly and fizzes between my legs, sharp enough to ache. He awaits my reaction with deadly calm.
Conner isn’t just shooting his mouth off. All traces of humor are gone and he’s completely serious.
Yet a seed of inner defiance grows rapidly.
He can’t have the last word. I want it. And I’m taking it.
A bead of water trails past his collarbone and inches down his chest.
I don’t think twice before acting.
My tongue flicks out to catch the stray water drop. The taste of his skin is instantly addictive. His head rolls back as I slide my tongue to the hollow of his throat. I hear his thick groan and feel its vibration with my mouth. His muscles coil and his jaw grinds. He’s about a millisecond away from shedding the last traces of his playful good guy intentions and fucking the air out of my lungs right here against the wall.
