Page 25 of Surly Sheriff
Urging her todare.
To be Beau’s one and only.
“Because if I do, I’ll never know your kisses.”
A smile ghosted across his lips.
Lips she was desperate to feel on hers.
“You want my kisses?”
“Desperately,” she admitted, lifting onto her toes.
“Well, then,” he said, bending his head.
Beau’s breath, warm and inviting, moved across her lips. His palm cupped the underside of her jaw, his thumb caressed her skin, pausing to tease her lips, coaxing her to open for him. Unable to withstand his seductive request, her tongue slipped out, wetting her lower lip. And when the tip touched his thumb, Beau’s breath hitched.
His eyes gleamed with the same desire coursing through her veins, setting her nerve endings on fire. Her nipples pebbled, straining against the confines of her bra. She clenched her aching core, inflaming her need. She shivered, wanting everything his look promised her.
They both shifted. So close now.
She exhaled his name on a sigh. “Beau.”
And then their lips connected.
And she was lost. Just like that.
The press of his mouth was urgent, hard and soft all at once. She slipped her hand over his neck and farther up over his short hair, cupping his head, applying pressure.
He angled his mouth and parted his lips. She opened under him, greedy for more. So much more. His tongue tangled with hers, and she wished she could preserve this moment, their first connection, for always.
The scalding heat, the sharp bite of his teeth, the deep sweep of his tongue.
And the delicious taste of her Beau.
He ravaged her senses.
And then it was over.
Beau lifted his head, breaking their connection.
They stared at each other in silence.
Adele ended her song, the closing line hanging over them like a harbinger of an unavoidable and unwelcome future.
Rae moved her hand to his chest. His heart thumped beneath her palm.
She wanted to be his one and only.
She wanted to take a chance with him.
She wanted to be held in his arms till the end of her days.
But Rae understood that some things were unattainable.
In two weeks, the endwouldstart.
But until that moment arrived, she wanted to experience everything this man before her had to offer.
