Page 34 of Under Fire

She shook her head, resting her cheeks in her hands.

“I hate it… I hate it so much,” she said. “I hear I’m exotic. I’m ambitious for a girl… I get questions about my damn engagement—”

Then she stopped, cutting herself off. He didn’t miss how quick she stopped that train of thought, irking him. But he didn’t want to ask.

“You don’t have to explain yourself to anyone,” he said.

“Not even you?” she asked.

“Not even me.”

“What if I want to?”

Alisa rolled her tongue over her shiny bottom lip. Damn, the way she looked up at him, something inside him got ticking uncontrollably, like a live grenade.What is she doing?Grazing that delicious-looking lip with her teeth, she grinned. He couldn’t contain it anymore. The pin was out.

With one arm, he hoisted her up and plunked her into his lap, where she fucking belonged. He knew he shouldn’t, but he fucking did. He was going to be that guy, and he damn well didn’t want to hear anything about it. She gasped as he held her jaw, her small face drowning in his big hands.

“You’re gorgeous. You better fucking know that,” he growled.

Then he kissed her.Hard—before he could stop himself. The one thing he knew about himself was that he was a man who didn’t stop.

She opened her mouth right up to his, letting him taste her like he had beside his pool. This time, he wasn’t so nice. All that built up wrath inside him, all that built up passion, emptied out in the way he kissed her, the way he gripped her face. Her skin was too damn soft. She was damn inviting.

She moaned as his tongue left her mouth, running down her throat, tasting every inch of that juicy neck. No fucks left to give, he let his hands run wild down her body, first fondling her breasts over the dress, then ripping the dress down so that her bare skin spilled out. He pushed her back against the steering wheel and took her full cleavage into his open mouth, tasting the sensitive skin of her tits.

“Warren,” she moaned again, rocking her head back as he buried his face into her chest.

She entwined her hands in his hair. He knew he wasn’t just hungry for her—he was ravenous. The way her body responded told him she was goddamn turned on, too. None of it made sense, but he didn’t care.

Without hesitation, he yanked her bra aside, letting her breasts spill out of their prison, and ducked his head lower to tease each nipple. They were the nicest set of tits he’d ever seen. As he adored each full mound, teasing and circling, he dropped his hand lower to her thighs, pushing aside her panties to feel what he’d been aching to feel all fucking night—her hot, wet pussy.

It was just as he had imagined.

“Warren,” she said. Her words turned to pleading as her hips bucked up to his hand.

He traced up her slick slit, feeling the throbbing bud, pleasuring her. She was so goddamn wet, and she was losing it as he touched her. He felt his own hard-on raging in his pants and plotted how to get her on it.

“You make it damn hard to keep my hands off you,” he confessed. “Tell me to stop.”

“What if I don’t want you to…”

“Don’t open that box, Alisa—”

Chest heaving, she pulled back. Fluttering her innocent brown eyes at him, that familiar flush rose in her cheeks.

“Why not?” she asked.

“You’re vulnerable,” he said the right thing, feeling his angry cock pulsing in his pants. “I’m taking advantage of you.”

“You’re not,” she said, almost convincingly. “Like you said, I make my own choices—”

He adjusted his dick once again, trying to suppress his appetite as he watched her straighten her dress and that fucking gold necklace. That goddamn ring.

“Fuck.” Warren cut in, barely in control. “I’m a lot of things, but I’m not that asshole. I’m not Gaudet. Hell, I shouldn’t be doing this.”

She grinned, warm as hell. “You are allowed to be human.”

His jaw dropped as her words hit him.Allowed to be human.That seemed like an invitation without condition. Clearly, she did not realize the depths of what he wanted to do to her. He moved again, unable to sit still. She reached up and caressed his cheek for the first time, subduing him. Tempering him. Tempting him.

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