All a Man Is by Janice Kay Johnson

Author:Janice Kay Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-08-16T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

FROM THE MOMENT their mouths touched, Alec knew only sensation and Julia. He was stunned to awareness that he’d held back the first time he kissed her; this time he couldn’t, not after the way she had flung herself at him. The other kiss had been a too-brief sample, a teaser. This was the real thing.

After all the long months of believing he would have to live his life loving her but unable to touch, having her in his arms like this damn near broke him. He lifted her against him, tried to meld her petite, supple body into his even as he devoured her mouth. The astonishing part was that she kissed him back with as much fervor, as though she was as starved as he was. Alec’s hands were clumsy; one of hers dived into his short hair and, in holding on, pulled painfully. Their tongues tangled, their teeth bumped and, too quickly, his body was on the verge of combustion.

Julia made little throaty sounds that drove him to greater desperation. Twice he drew back only long enough for each of them to suck in air before he captured her mouth again, or let her capture his, he didn’t know which.

Her hair, rich, smooth silk, flowed through his fingers as he learned the shape of her skull. Her breasts had to be flattened against his chest, the way they strained together. There was nothing gentle and quiescent in the way she kissed him. Her tongue stroked his, her teeth grazed his lip, her hips rocked with his.

Alec needed to be closer, to get inside her, as he’d never needed anything in his life. One hand had already found its way beneath her thin cotton shirt and stroked and kneaded her back, taut muscles and the delicate knobs of her spine. He wanted to enclose her breast but couldn’t make himself back off far enough to squeeze his hand between them.

He lifted her, laid her back on the sofa. The glimpse he had of her face was intoxicating, the witchy swirl of gold and green in heavy-lidded eyes, lips swollen and damp from their kisses, color high over her beautiful cheekbones. Her head dropped back over his forearm, exposing the long, pure line of her throat. He groaned and first licked and then nipped, his teeth closing finally on the nerves and tendons between neck and shoulder.

Her back arched. She whispered his name.

The doorbell rang.

Alec already hated the damn doorbell, a trilling series of notes. This had him swearing viciously under his breath. His knee was planted on the cushion and his whole body ached to lower itself onto Julia, to wrap her long legs around his hips, to grind himself against her until he could somehow get their clothing out of the way.

The doorbell rang a second time.

Julia went stiff beneath him. “The kids!”

The first semirational thought he had was Thank God we haven’t put in a connecting door yet. One that had been standing unlocked.

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