Chill by Stephanie Rowe

Author:Stephanie Rowe [Rowe, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc.
Published: 2012-03-08T09:33:54+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Luke wanted to be inside her.

More than he’d ever wanted any woman in his entire life.

His quads were tense, vibrating with the effort of not making that final movement. Her body felt amazing beneath him. Her breasts were crushed against his chest. Her left foot was making small circles on the back of his calf, and he had a feeling she wasn’t even aware she was doing it. Her skin smelled amazing. No more scent of lavender. She simply smelled like herself. Like damp skin, with the faintest aroma of something sweet, getting more intense as she warmed up.

She slid her fingers into his hair, and he closed his eyes at the sensation. A gentle, tentative touch exploring his head. It wasn’t a caress. Not yet. It was an exploration, an instinct. He knew what she was feeling.

He needed to touch her as well.

Hell, he’d needed to touch her since the first moment he’d seen her in the bar. But now that he’d seen her courage, her vulnerabilities, she was so much more. He didn’t just want to be inside her. He needed it.

“Luke?”

Something trembled inside him at the sound of her voice. So soft, so feminine, low pitched with the background music of delicate bells. “Yeah.”

“Why do you hate your dad?”

Luke tensed, and he felt that all-too-familiar hardness boil in his chest. “I don’t want to talk about it.”

She moved, and he jumped at the sudden sensation of her hands on his cheeks. “Luke,” she whispered, “I need to know what Marcus is really like. I need to understand why I have a bullet in my shoulder and why Ren’s grandson was taken.”

They were the words he’d wanted to hear. The green light to set her straight, so she could take back her life. But now that he had the opportunity…shit. He didn’t want to break through that golden bubble she’d erected around herself. Damn Marcus for being such a bastard and not being worthy of this woman’s love.

She stroked his cheek lightly. “I can handle a lot, Luke. It makes me stronger to get information and to know what I’m facing.”

Shit. He could have said those words himself. He was always hungry for information, and information had been his weapon his whole life. How could he turn that down?

He put his hand over hers and squeezed.

She responded in kind, and he focused on that sensation, the physical connection with another human being. A liberty he hadn’t allowed himself in so long.

And then he thought of the story he’d never told to anyone.

The one he hadn’t even allowed himself to revisit.

The past that had been off limits for so long was finally about to be put back on the table.

He began to talk.

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