Page 66 of Maximum Dare
When he dragged his teeth across his bottom lip it was dangerously inviting…and proof that he was fighting an urge to do more.
“I need to make sure you’re safe.” A flash of desire sparked in his eyes.
I stared at his beautiful mouth.
“I’ve never felt safer,” I said softly.
He was speaking now, saying something in Portuguese, his words hypnotic.
Max leaned in to kiss me and then stopped himself.
I pulled back to see his look of confusion.
He peered into my eyes as though searching for the words to appease me.
“Can I kiss you goodbye, Daisy?” he whispered.
I let out a wistful sigh, which he knew meantyes.His mouth captured mine greedily, persuading me to relent. Our tongues lashed passionately, our moans of desire colliding as the world fell away.
We could have been anywhere.
I’d never been kissed like this…not by any man. It was like nothing I’d ever experienced, this fierce heat that shook me to my core, promising eternal happiness, a life lived in the sun—the kind of affection that could erase a past filled with sadness, replacing it with hope.
He pulled away and studied my face, nearly gasping. “God, your kiss intoxicates me!”
I’d never felt more alive.
Max’s warm breath touched my face. “To taste you…”
The thought of him going down on me caused me to shiver. I wouldn’t say no to anything he asked of me. My heart had been shocked back to life…it was beating again, feeling again. I’d planned on being alone tonight—I’d been trying to think of anything except Max. Now, thoughts of him consumed me, stealing my very breath.
He rested his forehead against mine. “This place is not right for…a first time.”
To think he’d even gone there in his mind, just like I had. Imagining what it would be like to make love.
Max eased away from the wall and let me stand, but I felt the strength of his arms around me, pulling me toward him. My face nuzzled against his chest and I inhaled the scent of the man who always seemed out of reach. Even now, I was trying to fathom how we’d come to this moment. All those times I’d sensed our chemistry.
I hadn’t imagined it. There had been something between us from that first moment when we’d crashed into each other outside that bar.
Being with Max was the healing I needed—a knight in shining armor delivering me to a place where I could start again, I could build trust again.
“I’m a better person for knowing you,” I whispered.
“I wish I could be more to you, Daisy.”
Max was trying to let me down gently—a kind gesture for a girl who’d already had her heart torn in two. I stood on my toes and kissed his cheek to show my gratitude.
“Let me drive you home,” he said.
“If I leave, I’ll break my dare.”
He looked conflicted.
“I’m going to see this through, Max. I have to stay until morning. I’ve already pushed myself beyond what I thought possible and I won’t stop until I can see myself in a new light.”
My gaze held his defiantly for a long moment.
Then he sighed and brought my wrist to his mouth, kissing it, his eyes closing as his lips brushed my skin.
