Page 374 of Summer Heat
He couldn’t take much more of her innate niceness; he didn’t deserve it, didn’t have the first clue what to do with it. “Oddly enough, I do want to talk about my case with you. Hell, I want to share my whole day with you. Which is why I need to do this.”
So quickly it surprised even him, he swooped onto the couch and lowered his mouth down to hers.
Just one taste.
He just wanted one little taste before his hunger got out of control. Before he started craving things he couldn’t truly have.
Like a nice girl he had no business wanting.
He stopped himself mere seconds before his lips made contact though...shut his eyes and took a steadying breath. Then another. And then finally backed away.
Christ, that was close.
But just when he’d gotten a handle on his roiling emotions, just when he thought he could be the good guy for a change, he felt two gentle hands smooth over the sides of his face.
And he was lost.
Because that was when she kissed him. Just once. Softly. Not at all like how he’d intended to kiss her, not at all like he normally kissed, period.
Yet it was the most memorable kiss he’d ever experienced.
“Just because we can’t have sex doesn’t mean you can’t keep trying to convince me otherwise,” she murmured against his lips.
Hot damn.
Everything male in him lit up to all systems go. He blinked down at her smiling face, not sure whether to be amused or turned on. Past experience dictated the two were mutually exclusive emotions for him.
Not so with Abby. “You’re that confident in your ability to resist me?”
“Of course not. But resisting you and sticking to what I say I’m going to do are two completely different things.”
“How do you figure?”
“I could, and very likely may fail at the first, but there isn’t anything you could possibly do to make me fail at the second.”
Brushing his lips gently against hers in a barely-there tease for them both, he whispered back in a thick voice he hardly recognized, “Challenge accepted.”
He’d never been good with folks telling him there was something he couldn’t do.
She smiled. “I was simply stating a fact. But if you want to take it as a challenge, feel free. Just so you know, if you do, it becomes a two-way street.” So saying, she slid open those long curvy legs of hers and pulled him flush against her body. “Still up for the challenge?”
Now, he wasn’t so sure.
A second later, she was kissing him again and he definitely wasn’t sure.
The way she kissed…hell. It wasn’t that she did some fancy new tongue trick or anything like that. It was just…nice.
And outrageously arousing.
“I better go pack,” she said abruptly, pulling away well before he was ready for the kiss to end. “I’ll see you in the morning, Connor. Thanks for being my dinner company tonight. It was fun for me, too.”
With that, she gave him a final kiss goodbye and stood up, by all accounts in total control of her senses.
Unlike him.
Well, shoot.
There was a chance this was going to be harder than he thought.
