Page 44 of Shadow's Surrender
“I do. It’s always been my go-to place when shit gets too crowded in my head.” He crouched down and pulled on a blade of grass and put it between his teeth. “I like the outdoors.”
“What kind of stuff do you have going on inside you?” she whispered.
“Memories and a whole lot of demons, baby.” He grinned.
“I think we all have memories that aren’t so wonderful, and there’s a demon or two lurking inside me. No one’s immune to them.” She smiled.
“What’re yours? Not wearing the right color nail polish with your outfit?”
She jerked back at his words as if he’d slapped her. “Do you think I’m that petty and shallow?”
Shadow straightened up and rubbed his hand over his face. “I don’t know much about you except that you give great head, feel good and tight around my cock, and have an exceptional pair of tits.”
A brief flash of anger rankled over her skin, like goosebumps raised by frosty air. “Thanks for the sexual review.” Bitterness punctuated her words.
He held up his hands. “Just telling it like it is.”
She rolled her eyes and stepped back. Shaking her head, Scarlett held his gaze. “Everything you are is between your legs.”
Taking a few steps toward her, he laughed, but she noticed the vein in his left temple twitching. Shadow stopped in front of her, and she turned away. He grabbed her face between his hands and tilted her face up toward him.
“I should just take off,” she said.
“But you won’t.”
“I don’t know why I let you talk to me like this.”
He quirked his lips. “Don’t you? It’s called,lust, baby.”
A heated flush crept up her neck and spread across her cheeks. She tried to pull away, but he pressed his thumbs against her cheeks, and she’d be damned if she told him it hurt.
“You’re just—”
He let go of her face and pushed her against the wall of the restaurant with the length of his body. “Say it, baby.” Grabbing her by the hips, he yanked her flush against him. “I’m common as fuckin’ dirt, and you love it.” He crushed his mouth on hers.
Her lips parted, letting him in, tasting the smokiness of whiskey on his tongue. She moaned and ran her hands down his back as his made their way under her skirt. It had been too long since they’d kissed, and she loved the wet tangle of tongues and the hard edge of his teeth on her lower lip.
He pulled away a bit and muttered “Fuck, babe” before he pressed his mouth back on hers. Heat flared at every pulse point and burned like a wildfire when he ground against her, making his dick rock hard through his jeans.
“Let’s go somewhere,” he whispered as he trailed light kisses along her jawline and down her neck. “Fuck, baby … you make me so damn hard.” Shadow’s warm fingers slid to the lace edge of her panties.
At that moment, Scarlett pushed him and scrambled away from his reach. Bewilderment skated across his face as he watched her walk away.
“What thefuck?”
Pausing, she spun around slightly and her lips turned up as she locked her gaze on his.
“Don’t ever take me for granted,baby.” Scarlett licked her lips, tossed her hair over her shoulder, and walked away as every part of her body pulsed with desire.
How am I ever going to get him out of my system?
She entered the restaurant and headed to her table.
