Page 32 of Empowered
“Give her a message for me, would you?”
Sarah stiffened. “What?”
She knew it. She knew he would lower his lips to her and be wonderfully inappropriate.
“I think she’ll know what I’m talking about,” he muttered.
Shivering, Sarah swayed where she stood. Her robe loosened. Her eyes fluttered open. One moment she was staunchly against anything happening with Lucas, and the next?I’m going to do something really stupid.
Yup. Stupid, as in let Lucas full-on kiss her as if all her talk about no sexual tension existing between them was a total lie.
The man was completely unlike a week ago, when Sarah had to all but work to get his attention and seduce him into her innermost chambers. Now he kissed her as if he would die without her lips on his. Both hands on her face. Strength pushing down into her mouth, his tongue tangling with hers in a wild move to keep her in place and preoccupied. Sarah latched onto his forearms and held still, bracing herself against the Blackbourne storm bearing down upon her.
Lucas hastily broke off the kiss and stepped away, leaving Sarah standing in shock. “Think you could relay that message to her?” His voice was hoarse.
The man was haggard from the thrills of lust and love. Sarah recognized it, although she wasn’t used to it being because ofher.She had seen it on her boss while he courted his Mrs. Monroe. She had seen it when her brother first started dating Carly. She saw it at the nightclubs and at the café downstairs. When a man was in love, he had that crazed look in his eye.
Hard to miss that same look in Lucas’s eyes when they were so bright.
No way.
“I think she got it loud and clear.”
“Good.” With one wipe of his hand over his face, Lucas transformed into the man Sarah had seen at work that past week. “Also let her know that there’s more where that came from, if she wants it.”
“You telling that to Angel or to me?”
“Fuck, Sarah.” Lucas headed for the door. “I have no idea anymore.”
Neither did she.
