You Made Me Love You by Neesa Hart

Author:Neesa Hart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

10

“Crumb,” Liza muttered, as she stared at her reflection in Eli’s door knocker, “you’re acting like a teenager.”

Her palms were sweating. He did that to her. He had a way of turning her into a quivering mass of hormones. The way his lips tilted at the corner, the fierce light in his eyes when he spoke of Grace, the elegant way his hands moved to emphasize his point, they all combined to knock her equilibrium into a permanent tailspin.

And that was before he’d made love to her.

Now, her blood pumped faster every time she thought of him, of the way he touched her, of what it felt like to be that close to him. She was sinking faster and faster into an emotional quagmire with little hope of escape.

Of course, she thought, as she smoothed her damp palms on her dress, it didn’t help matters that Eli took every opportunity to shoot her looks so steamy she was surprised they didn’t curl the wallpaper. At Thursday afternoon’s faculty meeting, during her weekly briefing to the staff, he’d suddenly developed a fascination with tracing the curve of his upper lip with his index finger.

And Liza had seriously contemplated shooting him on the spot. In for a penny, she thought with a wry smile, and forcibly slammed the handle against the knocker on his front door.

Seconds later, Eli pulled open the door. He wasted no time getting right to the point. He tugged her inside, slammed the door shut, and wrapped her in his arms. “I’m glad you came,” he whispered as his head descended to hers.

Liza surrendered to the sensual storm, which left them both breathless.

She blinked several times. “Nice to see you again.” Her voice had turned husky.

Eli laughed as he scooped her purse off the floor. When had she dropped it? “The feeling is mutual.” He hefted the purse from one hand to the next. “What do you carry in this thing? It weighs a ton.”

She accepted it from him with a slight smile. “I keep a brick in there to fend off amorous males.”

“I’ll be careful.” He dropped a kiss on her forehead as he eased past her. “I don’t suppose you’d like to skip dinner?”

“You know what I have to say.” She couldn’t quite hide her smile.

“We have an hour,” he pointed out.

“And I’d rather not arrive at the reception looking like I’d just taken a tumble in your bed.”

He laughed. “Point well taken. Although, if they have a band, I feel I should warn you that we’ll be doing a lot of dancing. I’m probably going to have a very hard time keeping my hands to myself.”

“Restraint is the sign of a cultured gentleman.”

He groaned. “Don’t tell me. That was part of the Breeland code when you were a student here.”

She grinned. “How’d you guess?”

“Intuition. I’ve really got to remember to ask my daughter what she’s learning about boys.” He shook his head. “And since I’m not going to talk you into something more—adventurous, we might as well eat.

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