A Heart Stuck On Hope by Jennie Jones

Author:Jennie Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises, Australia Pty Ltd

Chapter Eight

‘We’re going to go at this easy.’

Adele’s arms were wound around his neck. Her mouth was tingling from his kisses. His big, hard-working attitude and total honesty had won her over and who was she to say she should care about what happened next? ‘We are?’ she asked. A kiss. Another kiss—that’s what she wanted to happen next.

‘Yes.’ He kissed her, his firm mouth open on hers, covering hers, teasing her. His heartbeat was solid and steady and the touch of his lips, so intimate, melted her. He pulled from her mouth slowly, tenderly. ‘There’ll be no pressure from me,’ he said. ‘I promise. No matter how much I want to beg you to let me make love to you.’

She smiled, the warmth inside her like silky ribbons, like curling butter pats. ‘I’m still not sure why I’ve done this,’ she told him.

‘Because I pressured you to.’ He grinned.

She nodded. ‘Yes, you did.’

‘And you wanted it too.’

She couldn’t answer because it was all too truthful, but she smiled and reached up to him this time.

When they’d finished the exploration of each other’s mouths with a deeply provocative kiss, he buried his head at the side of hers, holding her tightly. ‘Adele.’ His lips parted on her skin and he kissed her neck, sending shivers through her. ‘I just want to be with you. Whatever happens during or after, I just want to be with you.’

This wasn’t falling in love. This was recognising—and accepting—a little loving need from someone.

‘This is so bewildering, Tom.’

‘I know.’ He straightened and looked down into her face, his frown of concentration stimulating all the sensitive parts inside her, his eyes shining dark and dangerous, making her stomach flip. ‘But we will go easy, I promise you,’ he said. ‘So long as I can grab you now and again—probably more than you expect—and hold you and kiss you, then I’ll be reasonably satisfied.’ The desire in his dark blue eyes deepened. ‘Reasonably, but not totally.’

He made her smile, and he made her feel too. ‘No kissing in front of Ali.’ This wasn’t a lasting thing. It wasn’t a brief affair either, if what he was promising was true. He wasn’t going to pressure her into sleeping with him but Adele knew in her heart that she would. How could she not? She’d agreed to this kissing fling, or whatever it was they were about to start, because she wanted to be held and romanced by a man. By Tom. She wanted to share precious and private moments with him. If the way he used his mouth to kiss her was anything to go by, or the way his large hands cupped and stroked her body, then sleeping with him was going to be a phenomenal experience.

But not yet. She pushed from him, smiling at him. He let her go, his smile a reciprocal acknowledgement of possible phenomenal experiences.

Damn, she’d blushed. She pressed her hands to her cheeks and gave him a frown. ‘So how are we

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