The Last First Date by Maggie Wells

Author:Maggie Wells
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-02-18T12:54:11+00:00

Chapter Six

Every article in every women’s magazine would tell her not to do what she wanted to do. Those chicks who wrote the dating rule book would probably tackle her to the ground if they thought they could stop her. Even her mother, with her gay divorcée décolleté and recently limbered-up morals, would disapprove. Jessica was beyond caring about playing coy or clever. Crazy as the whole night had been, she wanted to be the woman he thought might be The One. Even if it was just for a few minutes.

Taco chips scattered. The console jabbed her in the stomach when she lunged. His hands were in her hair before she caught her breath. His gorgeous mouth was on hers, those lush lips pressing against hers in a kiss more ardent than adroit, but so delicious she could live off the lingering taste of him.

Lang hummed deep in his throat and pulled back a fraction of an inch. His thumbs traced her cheekbones as his ragged breaths teased her lips. He didn’t open his eyes. She understood completely. She was afraid to blink.

“This doesn’t happen.” Her whispered words swirled around them like the fresh January snow. “You don’t just meet someone and…” The wind rocked the car but failed to whisk her doubts away.

“And know,” he finished the thought for her. He opened his eyes, and for one panicked moment she wished he hadn’t. There was no way to resist the slow pull of those quicksilver eyes. “It can happen. I believe it can happen.”

His thumbs went rogue when he slipped his fingers from her snarled hair. They glided over her skin, tracing her jaw and caressing her cheeks, effectively sweeping any lingering doubts from her body and blanketing her mind in a haze of pure sensation. His palms cupped her face as if she were delicate porcelain, but the ache he unleashed coiled into a tight, hard knot.

“Can you wait a few weeks?” The pad of one thumb pressed to the center of her bottom lip, but there was no silencing her babble. “Let me get myself together. I’m so much better than what you see right now.”

He jerked. “What’s wrong with what I’m seeing now?”

“Look at me.”

“I haven’t been able to keep my eyes off you.”

“I’m a mess.”

“I think you’re beautiful.”

She tried to wriggle from his grasp but he held firm, so she tossed a few more arguments at him. “You’re blind. It’s New Year’s Eve. You’re feeling lonely.”

He chuckled. “I see twenty-twenty, it’s New Year’s Day now, and I’m definitely not feeling lonely at the moment.” In a gesture so tender she forgot to break away, he tucked her hair behind her ear. “I knew there was something about you the minute I saw you.”

“You’re desperate for a woman who doesn’t require a background check.”

Wrapping one hand around the nape of her neck, he tipped her face up to his. “I’m desperate to make you shut up so I can kiss you again.”

“Such a smooth talker.”

His lips brushed hers in a kiss so feather-soft she wondered if she imagined it.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.