Their Festive Island Escape by Nina Singh

Author:Nina Singh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-08-07T14:22:50+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

REID HAD EVERY intention of simply dropping the slightest peck on Celeste’s cheek. At the most, he might have softly brushed his lips along the corner of her mouth.

But somehow, after Theo made his suggestion, Reid’s lips found hers and he seemed to have lost control of his intentions.

She tasted of berries and chocolate, her lips soft and luscious under his. Someone sighed heavily. He couldn’t even tell which one of them it was. Her arms went up around his neck and it was all the invite he needed to pull her closer, deepen the kiss. Time seemed to stand still, their audience forgotten. Nothing of the outside mattered for him now. His one and only focus was the woman in his arms and how it felt to hold her, to kiss her.

He’d been imagining this, he had to admit. He’d had dreams at night where he held her, touched her, took her mouth with his exactly as he was doing now. The reality of it was so much more than he could have guessed. The clicking of Theo’s camera suddenly registered in his brain. He couldn’t be sure which one of them broke the contact first. Only that he felt the loss like a physical pang as Celeste pulled back and looked up at him. Her cheeks were flushed, her lips reddened from his mouth. It excited him to think that he’d been the one to put that color into her face, and her reaction to him only served to heighten his own desire.

“Reid?” she whispered softly, low enough so that he was sure Theo couldn’t hear her question over the noise of his picture taking.

He wanted desperately to answer her. Not verbally but by kissing her again, he wanted to show her how much he desired her, how much of an effect she was having on him.

Theo’s voice charged through his desire-fogged mind. “That’s perfect, you two. These will work great. Let’s move onto a different location, yeah?”

Reid couldn’t seem to make his limbs work. He knew he should let her go. He knew they should turn around and follow Theo who had already stepped away and was walking toward the garden. But he couldn’t so much as tear his gaze from Celeste’s face.

Her breath had gone shallow. The one word question she’d uttered as simply his name still hung heavily in the air.

He couldn’t help it, he touched his finger to her bottom lip and trailed it lower to her jaw.

Confusion grew in her eyes. “Uh. Theo’s left. You don’t have to keep pretending now.”

The words felt like ice water thrown at him. They served just as effectively to pull him out of his desire-filled daze.

How foolish of him. Looked like only one of them had simply been pretending.

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