Page 8 of Where the Dark Knelt
I wanted to call bullshit on that, and I sniggered. “Wow, I’ve heard some pickup lines in my time, Alfie. You know just how to seduce a woman, huh?” I replied in a sarcastic tone, hoping he hadn’t seen just how naïve I was.
Chapter Four
FIFTY FIFTY
Alfie gave me a lopsided half smile again, flashing his dimple at me, it was too cute, really. He leaned in toward me, hooked his finger on the V of my T-shirt and tugged me closer to him.
My mouth went dry, and my gaze fell on his lips. He looked so sexually charged. He smelled slightly musky, masculine but clean, with a faint hint of the scent of a shower gel I couldn’t place.
When I made eye contact, his hazel eyes were flecked green and sparkled as he gazed intensely back at me. His head dipped as his face drew near to mine. His lips stopped only inches from my face. Wrapping his other hand loosely around my throat, he ran it up toward my jawline, and around to the nape of my neck.Wow!
His touch sent a charge of electricity along the line his hand travelled. The electrical current trailed his touch and made my panties soaked. His other hand slid up to cup my chin.
I noticed his eyes drop to my lips, and he dragged histhumb lightly across them. He licked his lips and closed the space between us, pressing his lips lightly onto mine.
Thekiss was featherlight, but the act was like a defibrillator jolting high-voltage electricity into my body at the same time. The pleasure I felt was so arousing, like no other kiss had ever affected me before.
Thatwet, hot tongue of his teased and traced my lips, then it parted them as it breached into my mouth. The hot, wet taste of him made me moan. He chuckled softly into my mouth, and it was sexy as hell.
It was only a kiss, yet I wasso slick between my thighs, my folds swollen and aching. The only places he touched me were above my shoulders. He was kissing me slowly, and I’d never felt anything like it before.
His hand moved up from my neck and sifted through my long hair. His palm wound around it as he gently tugged it then applied pressure to the back of my head, deepening the kiss. He growled, and it made the whole act so erotic.
There wasso much chemistry running through my body. I moaned loudly, and almost went over the edge with the sensation of his mouth on mine. Suddenly he growled again and dragged his lips away from me. “Holy shit! I love how you moan when I kiss you,” he muttered, breathing heavily.
Breathlessly, I stared blankly as my body felt bereaved at the loss of his touch. Then I realized that it was the first time in my life I’d ever really been kissed. I stood panting, breathless. Nothing else before that kiss ever compared to what I had just experienced with him.
Dragginghis lips away from my mouth and down my neck, his head rose to hold my gaze. He nodded at me breathlessly, his eyes wide.“Uh huh!” he said gruffly, cleared his throat, and touched his lips with his calloused fingertips.
He lookeddazed. After a few seconds with his voicestill low and husky, he muttered, “Fuck!” His eyes widened further, and a smile slowly stretched over his face. “Damn it. I’ve never felt like that before.” He shook his head, and smirked. “Way more thanI even suspected. You felt it too, right?” Wagging his finger between us, he said, “This kind of connection doesn’t happen every day. I just knew it. Oh, well, shit, I’m even more intrigued by you now.” He grinned again.
I lowered my head again because I was sure he would see the lust in my eyes. “Well Alfie, casual sex isn’t something I’m comfortable doing, but I’ll give it some thought.”
Dipping his knees, he crouched down to bring his eyes level with mine. When he locked his gaze, he smirked wickedly. “Uh huh… you too? Huh? Damn, I have the biggest boner now, look.” He thrust his groin forward and pointed at the straining bulge in his jeans. He was still smirking. “How can you say no to me now?”
I blushed crimson, shocked at his reaction, but worse still, I was really turned on by him. The look on his face was… downright dirty. My panties were drenched. I couldn’t believe his blatant approach toward me. I tried to avoid too much eye contact with him for fear he’d see what I was thinking.Calm down, Lily!I smiled slowly, trying to appear unaffected. “Well Alfie, it’s not something I’m accustomed to doing, but like I said, I’ll certainly give it some thought.”
I triedto say it as if I could take it or leave it, that this kind of thing happened every day, but when I said this, I sounded breathless, and my voice gave away some of my emotions. When I thought I’d pulled it off, my body let me down again, and I started to blush.
Hiswide smile flashed his dimple again, and he thrust his palm out to me. “Give me your cell.” I reached into my purse and handed it to him. I watched as he punched his number in.
Helabelled his contact’s name in my cellphoneas ‘SEXPERT’ before his rang, and I realized he’d rung his phone from mine. “Okay, now I have yours too.” He winked and handed my cell back to me. I laughed at his corny moniker when he gave it back to me.
“Want to think about it?” He gave me a hopeful look. I took his cell and labelled my contact’s name as ‘Pink Lady’ and boldly handed it back to him. He read it and scrunchedhis brows at me looking puzzled. “Pink Lady?”
I cringed because I’d had the nerve to do such a thing. “Well, if you’re touting for a ‘fuck buddy’, then she should have a name that implies it.” Alfie’s eyes widened immediately at my reference to the slang reference of the sensitive flesh inside the entrance of a woman’s vagina as ‘pink’.
“Well, my beautiful Lily, if you want to pursue my proposal, I just want to say one more thing. There are no guarantees in this life. I can’t say you won’t get hurt. Primal sex is a need in all of us. I can’t offer commitment, but I will respect you as a person and give you honesty and consideration.”
He went on,“If you decide to have other partners, I will respect your right to form emotional bonds. I don’t want to own you, honey, you would be free to break the arrangement at any time, as would I.”
My immediate retort to the arrogance of him, implying that I would fall for him was to say, “And likewise. I wouldn’t be able to guarantee that you wouldn’t get hurt either.” A fleeting look of consideration passed through his eyes and was gone in an instant.
“No worries there,” he muttered deadpan.
I dipped down to the grass and picked up my guitar case, slung it over my shoulder and tugged at the strap.
“Lily?”
