Unforgettable (Untouchables) by Cindy Skaggs

Author:Cindy Skaggs [Skaggs, Cindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, reluctant partners in crime, woman in jeopardy, Mystery, entangled, forbidden love, Ignite, Cindy Skaggs, Suspense, Law Enforcement
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-12-11T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“Yes. No.”

Vicki laughed low. “Which is it?” Did he share her uncertainty? Were his hands shaky? Did desire mix with fear in his muscular frame? “As I recall, you said we’d end up in your bed. Should I play coy?”

He turned to face her, rolled his tongue over his lips. “When a woman bites, she means no.”

“Not afraid of a little pain, are you?”

“No.” He grabbed her wrists when she tried to draw him closer. “What had you so mad you were pulling my hair out by the roots downstairs?”

How to explain the demoralizing reality of her world? “My mother was traded to the Calvetti family for an alliance. For the power it would bring men. And you ask why your behavior angered me?” After all these years, she still couldn’t forgive her father and grandfather. “Women were chattel. I won’t be used in the same way.”

“I’m not using you, Victoria, and I don’t consider you property, but know this. I don’t like games. Don’t start something you won’t finish.”

“Oh, I plan to finish.” She winked up at him. “Several times, sweetheart.”

“You like to flirt, twist a man up, but you’re hiding behind the flirtation. When we hit the sheets, it’s just you and me, darlin’, and you’re not going to push all the right buttons to get straight to the end zone.” His grip tightened, just this side of painful as he pulled her into him.

She nearly purred at being chest to thigh with all his delicious muscles. This was not the boy who’d worshipped her all those years ago. The differences intrigued her. The unknown terrified her. She rolled her hips into his heat. “Am I hitting your buttons?”

His eyes blazed. “Ask a question you don’t know the answer to.” But when she opened her mouth, he captured her lips, slid his tongue inside, and explored. Not fast, but in a torturous slow brush of lips and skin and hot breath. Patience. The man had nuclear-powered patience. When she settled into his rhythm, he changed, moved to nibble down her jaw to her neck, her collarbone, the shell of her ear. The slowness, the heat, the precision with which he played her body built an ache inside.

The sound of her shallow breath fed the desperation. She wanted him, but the whole time, he held her hands captive. She struggled to get free so she could get her hands on him. Her fingers itched to feel his skin, to explore, to make him as crazy as he made her—and he’d only used his lips—but his grip was immutable.

This wasn’t a kiss. It was an incendiary device.

“Blake.” Even she heard the begging in her voice. And she was too wound up to regret it.

“Mmm.” He nipped and kissed his way up her neck. “What, darlin’?” His tone lowered on the second syllable, and the roughness was the tinder lighting her whole body on fire. She was hot, achy, and angry.

“Let me use my hands.”

He chuckled against her throat. “Not a chance.

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