Page 34 of Riches and Romance

It’s fucking cute, but I don’t dare say so. I stand and walk to meet her where she’s planted herself. “So am I.”

She takes a deep breath and meets my eyes again. Her amaretto gaze is clear and resolute. “I appreciate you giving me time to make an informed decision. But even someone as brilliant and determined as you can’t see the future. Who knows? Maybe in another month, I’ll hate your guts. Butright now,in this dimension of time and space we’re sharing, your hard-earned smile makes me as happy as a sunny day in the middle of winter. And after a month of getting to know you, I’m insanely hot for you. I want you to be my first. But only if you want—oh!” She gasps just as my mouth comes down on her sweet lips, and the contact sends little prickles of heat down my spine and blood rushing down to my rapidly rising erection.

She’s stiff for half a second and then she melts.

Her fingers clutch at the sides of my shirt, and I cup her face in my hands, letting my lips sink into her so very soft ones. I didn’t even know lips could be so soft. Her mouth is minty sweet and hot when she opens for me, and my tongue slips inside. I wrap an arm around her waist, cup her ass with my other one,and pull her flush against me so she can feel how badly I want exactly what she does. She’s six inches shorter than me, so my dick nestles in her belly instead of where I want it. I lift her with one arm around her waist, and her legs wrap around my hips like she’s done it a thousand times. The plush heat between her thighs envelops my throbbing dick. I cup her ass with my free hand and thrust up. She breaks the kiss on a loud gasp, and her eyes pop open a second after mine. I walk us back until my shins hit the couch and I turn so I’m seated and she’s straddling me. I grasp her hips and roll them over my dick, and she whimpers, “More of that please.” I oblige her.

Even through the layers of fabric that separate us, the friction we make is electric. When her kiss-swollen lips part on a silent moan, I lean forward to nip the bottom one and trail kisses over her chin and down the soft, sweet-smelling column of her throat. “I want to pull your panties to the side and bury myself inside of you,” I tell her in between long sucks of her neck.

She’s breathing hard, and her hips are writhing. “Do it, please.”

I slip a hand under her skirt and trail up her silken thigh until I reach the holy grail.

Somewhere in the distance there’s a shrill ringing, but I’m senseless and blind to anything but giving in to the need I’ve denied for weeks. My fingers are breaching the lace edge of her panties when suddenly the only thing I feel is cool air.

My eyes snap open, and I have to blink twice to clear the fog of lust from them. She’s standing in front of me, holding her phone.

“Thank the stars I set this alarm. I have fifteen minutes to be at work.”

I run a hand through my hair and nod. “I know. I didn’t expect that kiss to escalate. It was supposed to be a deposit on later. But I touched you and?—”

“We caught fire,” she finishes for me, and we share a smile that tugs at my heart and my cock.

“That was so hot. I’m sorry I made us wait. But I can promise you…this will be the last time you’ll have to ask me for something twice.”

Her smile seems to double. “If you don’t stop looking at me like that, I’ll fall in love with you, and then we’ll be in real trouble.”

My heart flings itself against my sternum, and my mouth takes the leap it can’t. “Sounds like a good kind of trouble to me. And this between us feels like the start of something special.”

“Omar.” She breathes my name in a heady sigh that I wish I was close enough to inhale. She stares at me through wide, wet eyes and presses a hand to her chest.

Thunder rolls and cracks the quiet dusk, and she drops my hand and rushes over to the window where she pulls the curtain back and peers outside. “It’s really about to pour.”

“I’ll drive you.”

Her eyes bulge. “No way. The only thing sexier than you is your car and the way you drive it.” She tilts her head back and mimes fanning herself. “It’s too hot for me to handle on a normal day. If we get in there now, that’s where we’ll stay.”

I think my blacked-out Aston Martin Vantage is sexy as fuck too, but I raise a skeptical eyebrow. “You’ll have to tell me more about how I drive later.”

“I can tell you now if you’ll walk me down.”

“Sure.” I take the hand she holds out to me and reluctantly let her lead me to the stairs. But only because I like the words coming out of her mouth. I’d rather walk her to my bedroom.

“You drive it like you own itandthe road you’re on in equal measure. And when you change gears, your shoulders bunch up, it’s so fucking sexy. I love watching you.”

I flush at the compliment and lift our joined hands to my mouth to press a kiss to hers “Then at least allow me to pick you up. What time do you get off?”

“Ten, but it’s Calypso night. Jodi said she and Dom will be back to catch the last couple of hours. Dom hates to dance, and I told her I’d stay after the shift. You could join us.”

“I’ll be there. But I’m not dancing,” I promise.

She grins, wraps a hand around my neck, and presses a too fleeting, too chaste kiss on my lips. “That was just a down payment on later.”

“That’s not even a deposit on a down payment. Come back here,” I growl and wrap my arms around her waist to drag her back. I nip her lower lip.

She squeals and squeezes herself out of my grasp. When I reach for her again, she jumps away with a bubbling laugh that I’m instantly addicted to.

“I’ve got to go. It’s about to pour, and I don’t have an umbrella.” She hurries to the door and flings it open.

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