Enemies with Benefits: Love & Lust in the city that never sleeps! by Louisa George

Author:Louisa George
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460380772
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

NINE

‘Are you sure?’ Isaac knew he needed to tread carefully. Poppy had put up a good show of enthusiasm—and God, she was hot. Too hot. So hot. But also so innocent. No, not innocent, because she certainly knew what a man wanted, how to turn a man on despite what she thought, but she was still…naive. So easy to be blasé outside, fully clothed. But now he had her in the flat, door closed. How they’d managed to get home without undressing each other he didn’t know.

It was happening.

She stood in the centre of the lounge, her coat dropping from her shoulders into a thick woollen pool on the floor. Her smile was coquettish, but there was a nervousness to it. And hell, he didn’t want to hurt her. But if she kept looking at him in that I want you way, well, he wouldn’t ask again.

‘Absolutely sure.’ She nodded, slowly, keeping her dark heated gaze locked with his. Dark against light. Soft against hard. Pure against…well, he’d been round the block a few times. But never like this. Not with someone who stoked such a fevered response from him. He felt like she looked—a nervous teenager, the first time. And for a second he wavered.

‘But, Poppy, you shouldn’t learn these things from me, but from a man who…’ Who what? The words stuck in his throat. A man who would love her, who would keep her safe, who could make promises and keep them. Not from someone who would walk away. Changed—yes, inevitably he’d change, he knew that much, but would walk, anyway.

She pulled her hair out of its tie, and let her curls fall loosely around her shoulders. Every man’s fantasy. ‘I said, absolutely, Isaac. Don’t make me ask again.’

He took a few strands and ran them through his fingers, held them to his face. They smelled of citrus and her. His groin tightened again. Pure feral need ran through him. ‘Any time you want me to stop, just say. Anything you don’t—’

‘I want everything, Isaac. Don’t talk about it. Do it.’ Her shaking fingers played with the buttons on her dark purple blouse. She flicked one open. Moved her hand lower—flicked the next, allowing glimpses of a pink lace bra underneath, creamy skin, perfect skin he ached to run his hands over. He was hard. So hard for her.

‘Okay. So we’re going to take this slow. Okay? No rushing.’

‘Okay.’ She swallowed, her throat working overtime. The little pulse at the base of her throat beat a ferocious tattoo. A frown settled across her forehead. Her fingers shook. ‘Show me slow.’

And he almost gave up again. It was all kinds of wrong. Because he wanted to do it hard and fast. He wanted to be inside her. To take her. To make her his. And she could never be that.

But he could not imagine another second without kissing her again. Without feeling her skin against his. Her body against his. Her, around him.

When his mouth connected with hers any kind of hesitation evaporated.

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