When Night Falls by Jenna Mills

Author:Jenna Mills [Mills, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781459201002
Google: j6I7NwaqtEcC
Amazon: B004IATBGW
Goodreads: 629139
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2002-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 9

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Shock streaked through Jess. Hot. Swirling. She lifted her arms to push Liam away, found her hands curling around his biceps instead. The heat of his flesh seared into her, and the night no longer seemed quite so cold.

She’d been rash to come here and push a man like William Armstrong so hard. She’d been reckless to let emotion override logic. And now, she would have called the crush of his mouth to hers punishing if it hadn’t been so desperate. The man kissed like he ran. Full throttle. She tasted the need. Even more, she tasted the desire, the barely concealed restraint, and something deep inside reached for him.

A raw cry tore from her throat, and she opened to the demands of his mouth, sliding a hand along the warm flesh of his shoulder and into the thick strands of his hair.

She refused to think that she was holding him as close to her as possible.

What was it Kirby had said that afternoon? That she looked like she was lying on the ground, bleeding, searching for someone to find her, but scared they wouldn’t?

He’d been wrong, she realized as Liam mirrored her movements and slid a hand along her neck. She felt his fingers weave into her tangled hair, felt his palm cup her head. She wasn’t the one bleeding; Liam was. From his heart, his soul. But it wasn’t blood he was losing, it was hope, the indefinable part of him that made him appear bigger than life. She was the one reaching out to him, stanching the flow.

His kiss was hot and hard, deep, almost desperate. He kissed her as though his life depended on it. On her. The cop in her struggled to refute the ridiculous notion, but the woman at her core refused to let thinking dismiss feeling.

And she felt so damn much. Not just the physical promise of his lips, the strength of his body pressed to hers, but the emotional thread between the two of them, the one that pulled her to his house in the middle of the night even when caution warned her to stay away. The one that strengthened with every moment in his presence. His arms.

His mouth ground against hers; his whiskers scraped the sensitive skin of her jaw. She reveled in it, found power in the raw noises tearing from his throat, the fact that he needed her. A woman could lose herself in the promise of his lips, she realized in some barely functioning corner of her mind. A woman could fall into believing she was vital. That she mattered.

God help her, she wanted to matter to this man.

The rush of awareness pummeled her like an avalanche, deceptively beautiful, seductively dangerous. She knew she should run before the sensation smothered her, but there in Liam’s arms, she realized there was nowhere else she wanted to be. She would make it better—

He tore his mouth away and swore softly. The fierce blue of his eyes glittered at her.

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