The Double Deal by Catherine Mann

Author:Catherine Mann [Mann, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-12-04T20:36:43+00:00

Eight

The visit to the hospital had taken everything out of Delaney.

Seeing her indomitable father laid low terrified her. She’d lost her mother. Her sister. Then there’d been Naomi’s cancer scare. Delaney couldn’t deal with the idea of losing her father.

But what kind of woman was she to use that fear to justify being with Birch now?

She’d broken speed limits to get here. Broken faith with her family every time she hid her relationship with him. Seeing her sister working so hard to bring Royce Miller into the company made Delaney feel all the more like a traitor to her beliefs by having an affair with Birch.

Still, she needed this. Needed him.

She snapped the band of his boxers. “You should get rid of those.”

Birch trailed his fingers to the front clasp of her bra and with a deft flick, the cups parted. Air swept over her breasts, her nipples pulling tight and tingling. Every nerve hummed to life, her senses on overload, breaths full of patchouli, her gaze drowning in the whiskey hues of his eyes, luxuriating in the muscular planes of his chest. How could one body store so much heat in winter?

And she wanted more.

She tugged at his boxers, but it was tough to pull them off while she was sitting. In a smooth move, he locked his arms around her and lifted, her feet dangling just off the floor as she kissed him. Or he kissed her. She wasn’t sure, but somehow their underwear landed on the plush wool rug.

Delaney slid a condom from the pack they’d set on the desk earlier when they’d had frenzied sex in front of the fireplace in his home office. She rolled the condom down the length of him, slowly. His eyebrows lifted at how very much she took her time. Angling forward, he captured her mouth, catching the moan.

Biting her bottom lip, she raised up on her knees, her breasts rubbing against his chest. His pupils widened with desire just as his eyes narrowed. A shiver of awareness rippled down her spine. She slid over him again, taking him inside her, slowly, fully.

His fingers dug into her bare hips, guiding her as he thrust, again and again as she met his rhythm, his pace. The crackles in the fireplace echoing the snaps of electricity traveling through her. Her neck arched and he covered her pulse with his mouth, hair sliding along her spine as she savored the way he knew just where...just how...to touch her.

The rasp of his late day beard was a delicious abrasion against her tender flesh. His ragged breaths heated over her skin, her gasps accelerating along with his. They were always in sync that way. Maybe some of that had to do with the hidden nature of their affair. It added an edge to their time together.

Or perhaps they were both afraid it couldn’t survive the harsh light of their differences, leaving them frenzied to take all they could before this connection imploded. Every time she pondered the thought it just made her more determined to stop thinking.

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