Page 27 of Her Every Fantasy

‘And if I don’t?’

He shook his head. ‘You’re not going to distract meby starting an argument, rosebud. Not tonight. And not here.’

We’d been walking through a glass-encased atrium at the very top of his building as he talked, and arrived in front of a wall of glass with the city spread out below us. The view was simply breathtaking. Across the bay, the city sparkled like precious gems tossed on an endless blanket of black velvet. Dazzling and magnificent.

‘Wow.’

‘It’s something, isn’t it? Takes my breath away every time,’ he murmured, the last traces of tension gone from his body.

Even before I’d chosen the Singaporean investment vehicle to back my business, I’d fallen in love with the city. I didn’t want to think that Bryce’s presence here had anything to do with it, but I couldn’t help but think it did. And to know he loved this place as much as I did...

‘How can you bear to tear yourself away from this?’

I sensed more than saw his shrug. ‘Like all great things, I enjoy it when I can and learn to do without when more important things hold my attention.’

My breath snagged somewhere between my lungs and my throat. I didn’t want to look at him just in case he wasn’t referring to me. Or just in case he was. God, he was turning me into a basket case.

Despite my warning to myself, I found my head turning, meeting his gaze, getting lost in the ferocious intent in his eyes.

‘Bryce...’

He stepped behind me and caught my shoulders. For the longest time we basked in the view, his head aligned with mine as he pointed out landmarks.

But slowly heat and tension built, my heart racing with other sensory delights I wanted to fulfil. When I turned away from the view, he was waiting. With my back against the glass, I stared up at him.

‘Truth,’ I whispered.

He smiled wryly, as if he’d expected me to say that. ‘Hmm?’

‘I’ve wondered, once or twice, how you would taste,’ I stated brazenly.

He exhaled choppily. ‘Are you saying what I think you’re saying, rosebud?’

I took his hands from my shoulders, placed them on the glass above my head. ‘Are you prepared to find out?’

‘Yes.’ The sound was ejected from him.

With a smile, I slowly slid down the glass until I was perched on my heels, looked up at Bryce’s stunned, gorgeous face. ‘Stay right there and don’t move.’

CHAPTER FIVE

Bryce

FORTHEFIRSTtime in a long time, I was...dumbfounded.

While sex had been on my mind ever since she’d confessed her fantasy, I truly hadn’t brought her here to have sex. To get my hands on her luscious body every chance I got?Yes.

But this...?

My ability to think straight fractured when she reached for my belt and slid it out from the buckle. Her eyes stayed boldly on mine while her plump lips parted in anticipation.

Every step of the way since my absurd proposal at dinner, I’d expected her to laugh and tell me to stick my filthy desires where the sun didn’t shine.

So far she hadn’t. Hell, that glaze in her eyes said she was into this, just as much as I was.

I didn’t know how to wrap my head around it. Was it even me she wanted or did all this stem from that stubborn need for her to prove something to us both? Frankly, I had no idea.

But was I going to stop her?

---