Page 18 of Mountain Man Grinch
Davin lifts his hand. Red indentations line his skin.
“Your gremlin just warned me to treat you well.”
He picks up Gus, holds him eye-level. My breath hitches in my throat.
“Listen, little devil. We both need Arielle. I won’t hurt her. You quit biting me.”
Gus pants happily.
Agreement reached.
Davin sets him down. Then turns back to me with a dark, hungry look that steals my breath. “Now,” he rumbles, pulling me toward him, “where were we?”
I smile, heart pounding.
“You were talking yourself out of wanting me.”
“And failing.”
His hands grip my hips.
“Never been good with words.”
“Maybe stop talking, then,” I whisper.
He growls—low, primal—and pulls me into another kiss.
The last thoughts that flicker through me are simple and undeniable…
This man. This moment. This fire. I’ll never survive him.
Maybe I don’t want to.
Chapter
Five
DAVIN
Arielle touches her bottom lip like she’s still tasting me. I’m wrecked, feral. That kiss cost me something. More than she can ever know. I just hope she doesn’t come to regret it.
I take a deep breath to get my head back on straight. Try to quit steering this runaway train with my heart and my cock, but it’s too damn late. Her hand comes up, tracing the line of my jaw, fingers tangling into my beard.
“Need you so damn much,” I grumble, body storming. But it’s more than lust. I wanther. Her laughter. Her sunshine. Her softness and fierceness. That fire and sass that tears down all my walls despite myself.
“I don’t know how to breathe around you,” she confesses on a breath, and I’m a goner. Done for.
My arms slide beneath her knees and behind her back, as I rise in one fluid motion.
She gasps, then giggles.
“What?” my voice croaks as I stare down at the beauty tucked in my arms like a bride on her wedding night.
“You’re so strong. You make me feel like I weigh nothing. I’m not used to it.” She bites her bottom lip, and my eyes are there, ready to ravage her all over again.
“You don’t weigh anything,” I say, not getting what she means.
She laughs again, face beaming.
