Wet and Reckless (Private Pleasures) by Beck Samanthe

Author:Beck, Samanthe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: opposites; cop; police; small town; erotic; sexy; musician; forced proximity; enemies to lovers; romantic comedy; rom com; contemporary romance
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2021-05-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

I dare you.

Did she dare? Roxy paused a hairsbreadth from West’s lips and wondered how she’d gone twenty-two years without realizing freedom could be the ultimate trap. She valued the power to pick the star by which she charted her course and never worried overmuch about occasionally searching for signs from Karma or fate or guardian angels to make the choice. Freedom included the right to consider anything personally relevant.

The important thing was to choose, because abdicating amounted to a default choice, and no matter how easy it seemed, it came with a boatload of consequences. She’d learned that lesson the brutal way, and it was one she’d promised Karma, fate, guardian angels, and most importantly, herself, she’d never forget. Yet right now she wished someone else would pick the star, chart the course, and sail her along to whatever consequences awaited. Someone like take-charge Officer Donovan, for instance, who typically didn’t hesitate to establish control.

Too bad tonight he wasn’t going to make it that easy for her. He’d put the rudder squarely in her hands, but the move wasn’t nearly as fair as it seemed. Not after he’d taught every other part of her body how deftly his mouth delivered pleasure, to the point the one part of her still denied a demonstration now suffered something close to all-out agony to experience the same treatment.

“I dare you,” he repeated, moving his lips closer.

Hers opened, and in her mind’s eye she saw herself presenting her tongue to him like a schoolgirl at communion, except it tingled with the kind of hot anticipation she’d once associated with hard liquor. Oh no. Definitely not fair.

Did fair play really matter? Was it fair to hold back out of some superstitious sense of self-preservation? What if this time there would be no end to anybody’s suffering until their mouths came together like two animals in heat finally mating in a fast, wild frenzy?

But then what? Would she crawl out of his bed hours from now with every recess of her body completely satisfied and this particular superstition put to rest, or would she leave some fundamental piece of herself with him—a part she’d find difficult to live without when she moved on? Because she would be moving on. That aspect of her plan was nonnegotiable. She had places to go, and even if she didn’t, she couldn’t stick around Bluelick sharing “ice cream” with him and hoping her past never caught up with her. If it did, she’d for sure lose Gibson, possibly her freedom, and definitely any respect she’d earned from West.

Did she dare?

No, she did not. But rather than own up to falling short of her reckless reputation—incredible what you took pride in when you didn’t have much—she grazed his open mouth and then slid lower and licked her way down his throat…his chest.

“Roxy,” he growled and sounded genuinely disappointed in her.

She refused to let that sting, because he’d given her the choice, by God, and she’d made the safest one for both of them.

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