Midnight Kiss by Lisa Marie Rice

Author:Lisa Marie Rice [Rice, Lisa Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lisa Marie Rice
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The food was, as promised, absolutely delicious. As delicious as the woman sitting across the small table from him. He was drowning in pleasure as he put bite after luscious bite in his mouth while smiling at Hope. Who was smiling back at him.

Luke wanted sex. Normally, sex would take precedence over food any day and for a moment he wondered at himself, that he was sitting here stuffing his face when what he wanted to do really badly was pick her up, rush into her room — or his, he wasn’t fussy — strip her and jump her bones.

She was willing. She hadn’t said the words and he’d get the words out of her before taking her to bed, but her eyes let him know sex was going to happen.

So why wasn’t it happening?

“This is so good,” she said, digging into the risotto. “I really needed this.” Color was coming back in her face and her green eyes glowed.

That’s why sex wasn’t happening. Not right this minute, at least. Hope needed this. Needed a moment of normality, maybe even a moment of comradeship. Luke wanted to bed her, yes. More than any woman he could remember. But he also liked her, a lot. He’d seen her beaten down and he didn’t want to see that ever again. She was so smart and so vital. He liked seeing her the way she was right now, enjoying a fabulous meal. Happy and relaxed.

“Here,” he said, picking up a rondel of fried polenta. “Open up.”

She opened her mouth obediently, closing her eyes in delight while she chewed. He had a pang when his treacherous mind envisioned that lovely soft pink mouth closing over his — no. He wasn’t twelve. He could wait. Just seeing the happiness on her face, when her life had been anything but happy, was repayment for ignoring the boner under the table. “Good?”

She caught her breath and moaned. He smothered his own moan because he was picturing that very expression on her face, under him.

“Oh, man. I’ve eaten more good meals with you in the past couple of days than I have in the past year.”

Luke speared a slice of tagliata steak, delighted at her words. Oh yeah, he wanted to be the source of a lot of happiness for her. Right up there with food was sex and he wanted to put that look of bliss on her face, only not with food. He stared down at his plate, not meeting her eyes. Because though she declared herself a nerd, she was good at reading people and he didn’t want her to know what he was thinking right this instant.

Because what he was thinking was a little dangerous. He wasn’t happily aroused, a guy looking forward to a good time in bed. He was on a hair trigger. Ready to blow.

And wouldn’t that be embarrassing? He hadn’t done that since high school.

So the only way he knew to deal with this was to have as few stimuli as possible.

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