Tempt Me With Forever by Maria Luis

Author:Maria Luis [Luis, Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Alkmini Books, LLC
Published: 2017-11-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

This was a bad idea.

Or rather, a bad idea that would be good in so many ways.

Gage stared at Naked You’s front door, still dressed in his black BDU’s from the impromptu photoshoot earlier in the day. Behind him, the city buzzed with energy—sirens, laughter, jazz, honking vehicles.

The chaos of New Orleans’s nightlife just about summed up the tempo of his heart rate.

He wasn’t the guy whose palms slicked with nerves, and he sure as hell wasn’t the guy who stood on a woman’s doorstep, debating the chances on whether he’d be turned away.

Timms had the right of it earlier. Although the last few months had been a dry spell for him, Gage had spent what felt like a lifetime before that in close contact with breasts. Large ones, small ones, fake ones, real ones. To say nothing of that sweet spot between a woman’s legs.

Gage had never lived like a monk, and he didn’t have a lick of shame in admitting that.

But the way he felt right now? Taut and stretched too thin, desperate for a reprieve only one woman could give him?

Foreign.

That sort of need was completely foreign.

And it was that need that had propelled him here tonight. He had to know if the built-up lust was all in his head, if he’d popped Lizzie Danvers up on a pedestal of his own making.

He lifted his hand, fingers curling into his calloused palm, and then pressed the buzzer. Shifted his weight from foot to foot as he waited. Tried to remind himself that it was just sex, and that Lizzie was no different than any other woman he’d ever slept with.

A temporary infatuation that would dampen the minute he rolled away from her, sated, spent.

Gage didn’t have any room in his life for permanency when it came to relationships. He didn’t believe in it.

The door creaked open, light from inside the studio illuminating her head with a glowing halo. Her face remained cast in shadow, across the hollows of her cheeks and the full, luscious bow of her mouth.

Like in a dream, she swept her brown hair over one shoulder, and murmured, “I had a feeling you’d be back.”

Anticipation pooled in his stomach, hot and heavy. “I’ve clearly lost my touch for spontaneity.”

“Or maybe I just hoped that if I thought about it hard enough, I’d wish it into reality.”

Jesus, but those words shouldn’t excite him the way that they did. She shouldn’t excite him the way that she did, even standing there in loose-fitting jeans and a light sweater that looked like it had seen better days.

She looked comfortable, relaxed.

Thoroughly kissable.

“Did you make any other wishes?” He pressed his hands to the door frame, a silent request for her to let him enter the studio. “Maybe rub a wishing lamp?”

Her laugh was as sweet as it was sexy. “You mean a genie lamp, right? Like from Aladdin?”

“Is that what the kids are calling it these days?”

More sexy laughter, this time accompanied by her fingers blazing a slow trail up his chest.

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