Protecting Molly Mcculloch by Holmes Dee

Author:Holmes, Dee [Holmes, Dee]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-09-28T11:47:17+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

HUNT KISSED HER, allowing her to press against him, not objecting when her arms clung like warm silk.

He wanted her, and yet he feared that intimacy with her would take their relationship to a plane that was irreversible. If this were any woman but Molly, he’d dismiss such silly thoughts. Men and women didn’t bond for life on the basis of a romp in the sack.

But Molly wasn’t any woman, which was exactly why he wanted no intimate involvement. The fact that he knew what he didn’t want, and yet responded to her with a desperate hunger…that scared the hell out of him. Her body felt sweet and innocent, and she was too vulnerable for a man jaded by life and little belief in hope and happiness.

No involvement. He’d told her that, tried to practice it. But here, with her clinging and wanting, he was plunging in with a desire that bordered on recklessness.

“Easy,” he murmured, unsure if he meant her or himself. He wanted to slow her down, wanted to think beyond the soft feel of her breasts and belly and thighs and what she was offering him.

“I can’t be easy. You’ll r-run away.” Her lashes were dewy, her eyes wide like lavender lilacs and filled with a headstrong insistence.

She was right. He would run; he’d run like hell. The least hesitation on her part and he’d be history. But here he was, at a loss as to how to fight this volatility, the inevitability that had been building between them for days.

Hunt slipped the towel from her head and ran his fingers through the damp strands. “You smell like wildflowers,” he whispered, kissing her eyes, her nose, then once again her mouth.

Her mouth wouldn’t release him, her tongue smooth and a little desperate, as if she couldn’t get enough, as if no matter how deep and how long the kiss, she’d want more. Not just tonight, not just while they were together, but forever. And the thought of another forever kind of woman paralyzed him anew.

One more try, he reminded himself, pulling at the last threads of his weakened resistance. Hunt gently tugged her away, holding her so that she had to look at him. “Molly, listen to me.”

She shook her head, the damp strands of her hair brushing his jaw, clinging to his shirt collar. “No…no. If I listen, you’ll say we can’t, and tonight, I don’t want you to say that.”

Hunt swore. He didn’t want to say it, either, but he had to. He sighed and put his arm around her. “Let’s start by getting out of the bathroom.”

She let him lead her out, but when he turned toward the living room, planning to distract her, to talk about what had happened this afternoon with Olaf Pascale, she balked.

Then Hunt glanced at the sofa, where he’d slept the previous night, and hesitated. Truthfully, sleeping there had been a joke; he’d tossed and turned and cursed feelings for Molly he didn’t want to have.

Molly saw his

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