The Magnate's Marriage Merger by Joanne Rock

Author:Joanne Rock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

Eight

A year ago, they would have fallen on each other with the ravenous hunger of lovers who need to be touching all the time.

Truth be told, she was so ready for his kiss, she felt more than a little ravenous now as they stood in the surf outside Honeymoon House.

But their relationship was much different now. Careful. Tenuous. And—she still couldn’t believe it—they were married. Maybe that’s why Ian took his time closing the distance between them. Instead of taking her in his arms, he stroked along her bare shoulder where one strap of her gown had fallen away. She hadn’t realized how cool her skin was from standing in the water until she felt the warmth of his hand when he made contact. His callus-roughened palms reminded her he wasn’t the kind of developer who simply drew plans, although he was talented enough to design his own buildings.

No. She’d seen Ian McNeill clamber up ladders and take a crowbar to stubborn wall supports himself, never afraid of getting his hands dirty on a job site. She liked that his millions hadn’t robbed him of the ability to walk among the workmen or appreciate the less glamorous aspects of actual physical construction.

“Are you cold?” he asked, perhaps feeling the difference in their skin temperatures, and yet still he didn’t kiss her in spite of her request. He held back, even as the fire in his eyes broadcast how much he wanted her.

“I’m not chilly at all. Thank you, though.” She was plenty hot on the inside; in fact, she was anticipating that kiss, aching for him to take her lips. To take her. “I like being outside.” She could breathe deeply out here without feeling suffocated by all the expectations weighing her down back home. Without the scandal rocking her world again.

“You’re trembling,” he observed softly, his other hand coming between them to skim a knuckle along her lower lip, drawing out the moment.

Lydia nipped it to put an end to that line of conversation since she was overwhelmed by her feelings for him. Sensual feelings, she told herself. Nothing deeper. The trembling didn’t have a thing to do with romantic notions about the relationship she was undertaking again.

Finally—thank goodness—Ian cupped her face and tipped her chin up, perhaps to see her better in the moonlight. The glow of the tiki torches on the beach and dotting the railing of the deck on the third floor of Honeymoon House didn’t give off enough light to see each other well now that the sun had set.

The look in his eyes sent of a flash fire along her skin. Brooding and intense, he stared at her as if she were a complicated puzzle he’d rather devour than solve. So when his kiss came, she was surprised by its devastating gentleness. His soft, full lips covered hers, coaxing them apart to taste and explore.

Sighing into him, she gave herself up to the wholly masculine feel of his strong arms wrapped around her.

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