Page 8 of Dirty Little Secret, Baby
"What a happy coincidence," I murmur, deciding to step things up a notch as I see a few more guests, including the city councilman, saying their goodbyes.
"Want to dance?" I ask her, extending my hand as the band strikes up a slightly slower song.
"I should really go. I mean, I..."
"One dance," I say, holding my hand out a little closer to her and waiting for her to take it.
"With your wet pants? You really don't want to go change them?" she asks, placing her hand in mine. There's that feeling again,that her warmth is seeping into my whole body, as if we're merging.
"Exactly. You've already said four times that you should go, and if I come back with fresh pants, you'll surely be gone. I don't want to risk that," I whisper as we begin to move in time to the music.
"Old charmer," she says, tapping my chest and laughing.
"Ouch," I say theatrically, clutching my chest. "First shoving, then hitting. Are you into that sort of thing?" I ask.
Once the sentence leaves my mouth, we look at each other in a long silence. I know that was pretty clumsy. That doesn't usually happen to me. Why am I acting like a schoolboy around her who's apparently forgotten the basic rules of flirting?
"Do lines like that usually work?" she asks, deliberately stepping on my foot and grinning.
"Actually, never," I say, grinning back.
"What a stroke of luck that the delivery guy bailed," I whisper, stroking her cheek with my hand.
Our eyes meet. Someone says goodbye to me and claps me on the shoulder, but I don't even notice. I only have eyes for Beth. For her hair. For her dimples and those wonderful eyes. And those lips...
Slowly, I move closer to her face, as if waiting to see if she'll push me away again.
But we're past that stage. I know that when my nose is almost touching hers and I see her close her eyes. Just a few more millimeters, and then our lips touch, and suddenly I know that this is exactly what I've wanted to do since I first saw her through the intercom.
Chapter 3
Beth
THUD
The door slams against the wall and we stumble into the upstairs room of his estate, kissing wildly.
"You're beautiful, Beth. So full of fire," Alex murmurs in my ear, nibbles my earlobe, and it's probably thanks to the roughly four caipirinhas in me that a moan slips out as he pins me to the wall and runs his hand over exactly the right parts of my dress.
I know I'll probably regret it tomorrow, but the alcohol is like a friend cheering me on, whispering:Go on. You're allowed to have some fun.
I managed to resist his first attempt at a kiss during our first dance. I already had my eyes closed, waiting for it, when the voice in my head screamedSTOP, and I tore myself away and tried to head home.
But Alex just wouldn't give up. We were back at his front door. This time there was no security guy in sight. His shift had long since ended.
"You can't just leave me with wet underwear and then go, Beth," Alex said, turning to show me his still-damp backside.
"You're impossible. A real man-child and..." I couldn't help it; I had to laugh, because there was a billionaire in front of me making a fool of himself for me.
"And you are..." he said, suddenly serious, coming close. Too close. I breathed in his scent, that heady mix of cherry and leather I'd noticed the first time. "Simply incredible."
His lips came for me again. I let him. No—more than that: I wanted it. Wanted it more than anything in the world. No clue why I changed my mind so fast. Maybe because there was no one out here but us? He didn't have to impress anyone or put on a show, and yet he seemed to want me.
THUD
The fresh crash snaps me out of it, and I see that with his hand he's knocked a picture frame off the dresser beside me. He grabsme under my butt, sets me on the very edge, parts my legs a little, and now he's standing in front of me.
And he's standing very close. So close I feel his hard cock, suck in a sharp breath again, and rewind how we actually got here. Into his bedroom: After the kiss, he led me into the house hand in hand, whispered something to his assistant, then took me upstairs. Once there... how do I put this... he took what he wanted?
