Falling at the Surgeon's Feet by Lucy Ryder

Author:Lucy Ryder [Ryder, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781474004718
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2015-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

HOLLY HAD A brief thought that it was too late for that. Way too late to prevent her heart from getting bruised by a man as handsome and flawless as his celestial namesake.

Then a couple feet beyond the door his knees connected with something solid and the next instant she found herself literally falling. She sucked in a startled breath, tightened her grip, and before she could squeak out a protest she was on her back with Gabe’s big body sprawled over the top of hers.

“Oomph.”

“Sorry,” he breathed beside her ear. “You’re heavier than I expected.”

“Or maybe,” she retorted, unable to prevent the pleased grin from forming when she turned her head to give his earlobe a punishing nip and a groan accompanied the shudder moving through him, “you’re not as manly as you think.”

His response was an explosive snort that questioned her sanity.

“Oh, yeah?” he breathed, his teeth flashing white in the near darkness as he levered himself onto his elbows. The move pressed his hips closer, setting off an explosion of starbursts behind her eyes. “I’ll show you manly.”

She groaned, as much at the typically macho statement as the feel of him, long and thick and incredibly hard as he pressed tightly against her crotch. Suspended in sensation and every nerve ending firing simultaneously, it was more than she could handle. More than she could ever remember feeling. And just as a glimmer of panic threatened to break free of the haze of need and greed clouding her brain, Gabriel smoothed a hand from her bottom down the long length of her femur to her knee and back again.

“God, you have no idea how much I want you,” he murmured, leaning forward to run his tongue from the corner of her mouth to the sweet spot beneath her ear.

But Holly did, and in response her core melted and clenched in anticipation.

He rose up onto his knees with a low, thrilling growl and reached for the back of his T-shirt, yanking it over his head in one smooth move that left Holly speechless. And not just from the speed of his actions.

His torso was a marvel of masculine perfection that she couldn’t help but reach out and touch. She wanted to see him. Wanted to explore his physical perfection with her hands and her mouth.

Unable to stop herself, she slid her hands over his skin, reveling in the tanned skin, taut and smooth across his hard, ridged flesh. His skin was slightly damp beneath her questing fingers as muscles bunched and rippled at her touch.

Light spilled from the foyer, surrounding his darkened form like a full-body halo, and the image of a golden angel, fallen to earth to tempt mortal women to sin, returned. And, darn it, she was more than ready to become one of the fallen right alongside.

He was a beautiful man and for a blinding moment of panic she wondered what he was doing with her—what he would say when he saw the rest of her scars, especially the ugly one marring the length of her thigh.

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