Champagne Deception by Anisa Claire West

Author:Anisa Claire West [West, Anisa Claire]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romantic Suspense, Mystery & Suspense, Contemporary, Romance, Suspense, Literature & Fiction
Amazon: B00CCSUP94
Published: 2013-04-12T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

The next sound Coretta heard was the turning of a key in the front door lock. She instantly shot up on the couch, relieved a moment later when Lorenzo had the good sense to announce himself.

“Coretta, it’s me. I’m home,” he called, walking through the door.

Immediately, he went to her on the sofa and gathered her in his arms. The comforting feel of his steely body made her realize how she had missed him. Preparations for the gallery had just been a distraction. She buried her face in his neck as he rocked her against him.

“You’re shaking,” he observed with concern. “You’ve been very frightened.”

“I wasn’t until today! I thought all the terrorizing had stopped until this afternoon,” she said as pent-up tears of fright dripped from her eyes.

He lay a butterfly kiss on each of her teardrops, telling her with his tenderness how much he had missed her when they were apart. Nestled in his arms, Coretta felt as though they had been a couple for the past ten years rather than two virtual strangers living on separate continents. The level of comfort in his embrace was an intoxicating déjà vu sensation. Silently, she wondered if she had always been in love with him. Maybe it wasn’t just an infatuation or puppy love back in college but the genuine love born out of mutual respect and friendship.

Her heartbeat escalated as he poised his lips above her own for a reunion kiss that obliterated all her stress and fear. She moved closer to him, sitting on his lap and pressing against him urgently with her lips and body.

“I can’t believe how much I missed you,” he muttered urgently.

I’ve been missing you all my life, she thought. “I missed you too,” was all she said as he reignited the kiss with a volatile spark.

Somehow, her dress had been unbuttoned and she lay topless in his arms while eagerly helping him disrobe. His mouth traveled an odyssey around her body from her breasts to belly and inner thighs, each kiss more heated than the last, each breath more ragged. He stood impatiently to remove the rest of his clothing before quickly sitting down again on the couch so she could slide bestride him.

Swimming to the surface of reality countless minutes later, they leaned against one another in exhaustion. They had worked up a vigorous sweat on this balmy spring evening in the cozy living room, and Coretta desired to wash with her lover.

Reading her mind as a droplet of her sweat spilled onto his bare chest, he suggested, “Should we go upstairs and get refreshed in the Jacuzzi tub?”

“That sounds heavenly,” she murmured before stiffening and catching herself. “But the Jacuzzi upstairs is in the guest suite! We can’t go in there with the window barely patched up. Lorenzo, we need to get to the bottom of everything that’s been happening---“

He placed two fingers over her lips and hushed her. “Coretta, let’s just enjoy being together tonight. Forget about our problems. Forget about everything.

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