Malone's Vow by Sandra Marton

Author:Sandra Marton [Marton, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488095665
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2000-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

WHAT HAD STARTED in the garden would end here. They’d known each other for little more than twenty-four hours. Still, as Liam drew Jessie to him, he felt as if he’d waited all his life to make love to her. He wanted to tell her that, but she reached her arms up to him and sighed his name, and words became meaningless.

All that mattered was touch. And taste. And scent.

He kissed her gently, moving his lips over hers, waiting for her mouth to soften and cling to his. When it did, he slipped his tongue between her lips, groaning with pleasure at the honeyed sweetness he found waiting for him. Her arms tightened around him, her body arched against his, and he rolled her beneath him, caught her bottom lip between his teeth and eased the small hurt with a kiss. Jessie moaned softly, and the need to take her pounded through his blood.

Slow down, he told himself, slow down. He’d been a gambler most of his life and understood that when you bet on the toss of the dice, you put your money on today. Only a fool would bet on tomorrow, or think that far ahead. Right now the wheel of fortune had spun and the little red ball with his number on it had dropped into the slot. That was all he’d count on but, if he was very lucky, he could make the moment last.

He tunneled his hands into her hair and swept it back from her face. He kissed her temples, her eyelids, her throat as she arched against him again. Lord, she was beautiful, especially now, as the wildness he’d sensed in her from the beginning burst free. Little sounds were breaking from her throat; the musk of arousal rose from her skin. Such silky skin. Such hot, golden skin.

“Liam,” she whispered, and kissed him, her mouth taking his mouth, her breath mingling with his breath. She slid her hands under his shirt, laid them against his chest. His body clenched like a fist. Slow down, he told himself again, slow down….

And then he stopped thinking.

He grasped the hem of her T-shirt and tried to pull it up, but the thin cotton tore apart in his hands, exposing her to him. She wore a sheer bra, the color of her skin. No lace, no silk, bows or ribbons, nothing but the lush roundness of her breasts and the tawny satin of her nipples.

The room swam out of focus. He bent to her, smoothed the tip of his finger over her breasts, kissed them, licked them. Jessie cried out, moaned his name as he kissed her and swallowed her cries.

He reached for the front clasp of her bra. Her hands, cold as ice, locked on his wrists.

“Wait,” she said shakily. “Liam, please wait.”

His body told him to ignore her plea. His mind, or maybe his heart, said something different. I’m afraid of what you make me feel, she’d said, and he’d reacted by ripping her clothes off.

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