The Money Man by Carolyn McSparren

Author:Carolyn McSparren
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

IN THE DARKNESS he felt her arm slide across his body. She curled against him with a sigh.

How in hell was he supposed to endure this? To lie here against her—feel her soft breasts against his chest, her sweet breath against his lips, her belly and hips fitted against him—and not respond?

He was responding. His body had developed a mind of its own. The closer she nestled, the more he responded. He kissed her forehead, then her eyebrows, and finally her eyelids, which still tasted of her tears.

She sighed softly and opened her eyes. He expected her to pull away now that she was conscious, but she didn’t. She tilted her face up to him.

“If you don’t kiss me, Mark Scott, I think I’ll scream.”

“We can’t have that, Doctor,” he whispered, and kissed her. Her lips felt bruised and swollen, and tasted of tears, too. She opened to him at once, joining him, touching the soft places in his mouth that sent shivers through him.

He could feel her fingertips along his spine, the movement of her hips against his, hear the soft sighs as she curved into him.

“Make love to me,” she said softly.

“Are you sure?” She seemed so vulnerable, almost as though she were drunk.

“Yes.”

Nasdaq whined, then barked. The next moment she was trying to wriggle between them.

“She’s scared you’re hurting me,” Sarah murmured against his lips.

“More like she’s jealous. What do I do?” he whispered back, also without breaking the kiss.

“Put her in her kennel.”

“Now?” He rolled away, picked up Nasdaq and carried her to the kitchen, crooning to her as he went. “It’s okay, girl. I’m not hurting her. You be good, all right?”

The instant he shut her into her kennel and put her coverlet over the top, she began to whine.

“Hush!” He shut his bedroom door on her and dove for the bed. “Now, where were we?”

Nasdaq howled again. It started soft, but grew to a keen so powerful that it was as though a tornado warning had gone off in the next room.

“Drat that dog!” Mark pulled Sarah into his arms and beneath him.

She looked into his eyes. And laughed. He could feel her body quivering with laughter, see the tears squeezed out from her closed lids.

He wanted to howl in sheer frustration.

But Sarah’s laughter was infectious. He found himself chortling, then laughing out loud. He dropped his head against her shoulder.

She wrapped her fingers in his hair and whispered, “This is not going to work.”

“It’s got to work, dammit! I want you, and finally you want me.”

“Not with the police breaking down the door and hauling us off for disturbing the whole street.”

He raised himself on his elbows. She grinned at him. A cheerful, friendly, neighborly grin. The spell was broken. At least one of them was thinking clearly again.

“Take me home, please,” Sarah said, and kissed him lightly on the nose. A friendly, neighborly kiss.

“No. I swear I’ll kill that dog.”

“You don’t mean that.”

“At this moment, I do.” He sat up and rolled away from her.

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