Breaking the Rules by Barbara Samuel & Ruth Wind

Author:Barbara Samuel & Ruth Wind [Samuel, Barbara & Wind, Ruth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Women's Fiction, Contemporary Women, Romance, Contemporary, Contemporary Fiction, Action & Adventure
Amazon: B005OGJJ34
Published: 2011-09-19T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Mattie paced the small space inside the cabin as another late-afternoon rainstorm rolled in, darkening the sky, shooting dramatic slashes of lightning through the gray. The air was almost oppressively still.

A film clip of the scene at the pool this afternoon played over and over in her mind, not in a smooth, orderly way, but in jerky bits: that blistering wildness that came from Zeke all of a sudden, as if his armor had split and let a new man out, this one not reserved or controlled or in the least bit civilized; the sudden claim of his mouth—she touched the bruised lips gingerly as she remembered; the urgent strength of his body.

Remembering, she felt a rustling over her nerves, an alertness in the faintly overused parts of her body. She had a bruise on her neck from his mouth, scarlet and vivid, and one lower on her breast; she couldn’t look at them without feeling a sharp, deep throb in her belly.

His intensity had frightened her. She had to admit that. His need, breaking free all at once, had seemed more than she could manage—he seemed to need to devour her. His hands had been so rough, his mouth so hungry.

And yet, it had been like everything else with Zeke—vivid, overwhelming Technicolor. He hadn’t hurt her at all, not even when his fierce kiss had split her lip. To her deep embarrassment, she found she’d rather liked it wild and intense like that.

In her pacing, she paused at the window. Zeke had disappeared into the sauna when they came back down the mountain, his silence unbroken all the way back to the cabin.

She had no idea what had made him surface so abruptly, what had made him push her away. With a stunned and plummeting sense of frustration, she’d watched him splashing awkwardly in his haste. Mattie had called after him, to tell him she was all right, but he ignored her, stumbling on water-heavy legs as he made his way toward the trees.

And then she’d realized she was standing waist-deep in the pool, her shirt bunched around her waist. Pierced, she sank under the water hastily and tugged the wet fabric over herself.

Now she paced to the stove and back to the door, peering out to the grayness beyond, watching the lightning come closer and shiver over distant mountains. A flicker of uneasy guilt touched her. Was what they’d done wrong? Was it wrong to feel such powerful desire? Was that what was meant by lust?

Absently, she touched the place on her neck that held the stain of his mouth, thinking of the way it had felt to have his tongue on her skin there. A rippling hunger weakened her knees. Was this lust?

She had no idea.

Was it dangerous? Would he have hurt her?

No. The feeling was very strong. It might have been intense, wild, but he wouldn’t have hurt her. If she had wanted him to stop, it might have taken a minute to penetrate that haze of desire, but she knew without a doubt that he would have listened to her.

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