Bad Reputation by JC Harroway

Author:JC Harroway
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-05-12T18:55:17+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Neve

I WAVER BETWEEN sleep and wakefulness, emerging from the best dream, desperate to prolong the delirious pleasure. Dream Oliver is back, and he’s kissing my naked body, each nipple, my stomach and then between my legs. Hot, sexy open-mouthed kisses...

I open my eyes, this dream so vivid. I look down, still groggy but rapidly waking with every zap of fire that knifes through me.

It’s not a dream.

Oliver is licking me awake. I groan, gasp, my head falling back on the pillow and my thighs parting to accommodate his broad shoulders. Then I look back down, expecting some wisecrack or teasing glint in his breathtaking eyes. But he’s serious, his stare intense, raking over my every reaction to the lashing of his clever tongue.

I can’t look away from the sight of his mouth on me. The heat in his eyes. The sounds of early-morning paradise beyond the window. My impending orgasm peters out—I’m in deep trouble, addicted to him, to his touch, now that of a lover. The best lover I’ve ever had. No surprises there.

How will I ever be able to stop craving this, him, when our every kiss, every caress, every intimacy answers a deep longing inside. A deeper connection with a man I already know so well. A complex man with demons and struggles, just like the rest of us. A man with a massive heart he’s too scared to trust.

Last night at dinner, I thought this was over. Being shut out reminded me of all the reasons I’ve fiercely fought my feelings for him for so long. His past with Slay as a role model, his rejection of serious relationships—he’s not ready to allow someone close yet. Perhaps he never will be.

My heart spasms, pain pulsing. I don’t want to be his fledgling foray into something beyond sex. I can’t afford to be the test case. I’m ahead of him where relationships are concerned and, after a few hard-learned lessons of my own, I know what I want.

But he’s still content with casual.

I need to be careful, oh, so careful to protect my heart. Focussing on the chemistry, the pleasure, helps. Because right now that’s all I can trust. All I can expect.

I cradle his face, my fingers tangling in his messy hair, my stare locked with his, and whisper his name.

Wordlessly, and despite my cry of protest, he takes his mouth from me and crawls up the bed, settling his hips in the cradle of mine and pushing into me in one smooth glide. My sensitive peaked nipples chafe on his chest hair, his piercing adding an extra layer of friction. I tug his mouth down to mine, our tongues connecting, surging, duelling as sure as the deep and sublime ecstasy of his penetration.

We don’t speak, but we don’t need to. His fingers tangle in my hair, cradle my face in his hands, his arm gripping my shoulders as over and over again he thrusts into me in watchful silence. But there’s nothing to say that we didn’t cover last night.

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