Rival's Challenge by Abby Green

Author:Abby Green
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, Contemporary Romance, General
ISBN: 9780373132799
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

ANTONIO STOPPED AND relief was sweet and treacherous through Orla. But he didn’t turn. She knew this moment was huge. She was throwing caution to the wind. Grabbing at pleasure. Stepping into danger, into the unknown. But the necessary. She needed this man like she needed to breathe, right now.

‘Stop,’ she said, stronger this time, firmer. ‘I don’t want you to go. Stay.’

Antonio turned and something clicked into place inside Orla. An assertion. That this was right.

He looked fierce and elemental in the soft lights which threw his face into sharp relief. Something quivered through her: recognition of a mate. But before that could freak her out, he uttered a guttural-sounding ‘Come here.’

And without a conscious thought in her head, because it had been replaced with sheer blind instinct, Orla went to him.

It felt like they melted into each other. Her arms were around his neck; one of his hands was in her hair, cupping her head, the other across her back like a steel bar, welding her to his hard body.

It was a spontaneous combustion. They kissed and it was desperately passionate. Mouths open, tongues duelling, as if they’d never get enough of kissing like this. Somewhere deep inside Orla something melted but she was too hot to think about it now.

Antonio drew back and said roughly, ‘Bedroom.’

Orla sucked in deep breaths, slightly shocked at how fast her heart was beating already.

‘The door on the left.’

As soon as the words left her lips she was being lifted up into Antonio’s arms and he was carrying her through her living room to the bedroom. Just like the first time, a part of her thrilled at this display of cavemanlike masculinity in spite of her very feminist principles. Unable not to, Orla reached up to touch his jaw and felt the growth of stubble. Her body tightened with need.

He shouldered his way into the room where one lamp sent out a soft glow casting everything into shadow. He stopped by the bed and slowly, provocatively, slid Orla down the length of his body until she was standing in front of him.

Without taking her eyes off his, she kicked off her shoes, dropping a couple of inches in height. His hands went to the tiny buttons at the front of her dress and she could feel his frustration build when they proved too delicate for him.

She swatted his hands away. ‘Let me.’ Her own hands weren’t much better though, shaking. She bit her lip and Antonio put out a hand, cupping her jaw, a thumb freeing her lower lip.

And then, interrupting her button undoing, he uttered something guttural in French and tipped up her head so that he could claim her mouth again as if he couldn’t help himself. Orla’s hands went to his arms to try and remain upright. She hadn’t even undone all the buttons yet but the flames of desire were licking up around them and then her own hands were searching frantically for his shirt, undoing his buttons now.

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