Too Fast (Faulkner Security) by Parkes Dru

Author:Parkes, Dru [Parkes, Dru]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-04-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Liam

I made it to the end of day one without grabbing her and managed to keep my mind off sex for a whole thirty minutes combined. As I congratulated myself on my stoic achievement, she wandered into the cabin having been outside by the lake for the last hour sketching in the pad she’d bought when we’d picked up provisions on the way here.

“The light here is absolutely beautiful,” she said placing her sketch pad and colored pencils down on the small table by the fire. “And the early spring color is amazing. Do you know, I counted five different flower species just going down to the edge of the lake?”

I glanced through the window toward the lake. “Yeah? Guess that’s one bonus being here.”

“I thought it was going to be really quiet, but what with the birds singing and the sounds coming from across the lake, it’s actually quite noisy.”

“Go figure that.”

“Maybe you were right. I should just make the best of it.”

I smiled as I tossed potatoes into a roast tin, pleased she was slowly coming to accept her imposed incarceration. “How did the sketching go?”

She came over and leaned on the breakfast bar at the end of the counter. “Good. I’m not sure I’ve got the color of the lake absolutely right yet, but I can play around with that. I usually work mostly in black and gray, with little touches of color to highlight, but it’s impossible to resist extending my palette here.”

I closed the cooker door and reached for a glass to pour her wine I’d had chilling. As I handed it to her, I grinned. “Your sketch pad’s not the only place you’ve been extending your palette.”

She put down the glass, then rubbed at the spot on her face that I pointed to. “Really?”

“Down a little,” I said, as she missed the mark. “Here.”

Before I could stop myself, I used the end of the towel I’d tucked through my belt and wiped gently across her cheek. She averted her gaze as I worked, looking over my shoulder. I felt her soft breath against my face, saw her eyes darken, her throat contract as she swallowed.

I held my breath as my body went into overdrive. It was too damned dangerous being this close, even more dangerous to hold her face steady with my free hand as I continued to stroke the towel across her beautiful skin.

Slowly, as the mark faded, I stopped and looked at her. Her gaze slid sideways until it met mine. “It was dark green,” I said softly as I stared into her heady depths. “Matches your eyes. Although it can’t really compare.”

My breathing had deepened, my chest squeezing with the effort. I dropped the towel but kept my hand on her cheek.

She covered my hand with her own. “That’s a really nice thing to say.”

I told myself to drop my hand, to look away, to step back and get the hell on with preparing dinner. But right then I was too fucking ravenous for her.

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