Deep Autumn Heat by Elisabeth Barrett

Author:Elisabeth Barrett
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Adult
ISBN: 9780345534330
Publisher: Loveswept
Published: 2012-07-09T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Seb woke up to the soft sound of running water. Slowly, he pried his eyes open and propped himself up on an elbow. It was still pitch black outside, and light shone from underneath what he assumed was the bathroom door. He surveyed his surroundings, illuminated only by a tiny nightlight. Lexie’s room was small and spare. Most of it was taken up by the bed, but there was enough room for a desk, a chair, and a large dresser. A few framed photos sat atop the dresser, and a tiny alarm clock rested on a night table. The room was feminine, but unfussy, much like the woman herself. Then he looked down.

He’d been tucked snugly—all six feet, four inches of him—under the covers of Lexie’s bed. The thought of Lexie performing the comforting act of covering his nude body made him smile. What else had she done while he was sleeping?

He leaned back on the pillow, crossing an arm under his head, and grinned. He knew Lexie was a firecracker out of bed, but only in his wildest imagination had he dreamed she’d also be one between the sheets. He thought about the way her perfectly rounded body had molded to his. How the sweet tips of her breasts pressed against his chest. The way she’d opened to him. The way her hips had thrust up to meet his own. The way she’d screamed his name as her orgasm had ripped through her. Seb groaned. He was hard again.

She was ripe and lush and she knew how to experience and give pleasure, but that wasn’t the only reason he couldn’t get enough of her. She was clever, with an intelligent light in her deep brown eyes, but again, that wasn’t enough of a reason to have fallen so hard, so fast. She was kind to people, he knew. She’d given chances to Buster and others on her staff who’d needed a break.

It was all of these things, coupled with her vulnerability. She tried hard to hide it, but he could see it there, simmering just beneath the surface. She used her words like a shield—or like a weapon—when he got too close. As protection. It was the combination of her strengths and weaknesses that drew him to her, just as he was certain that it was his own virtues and flaws that drew her to him.

His sexual appetite was sizeable, but he couldn’t remember the last time he had craved a woman this strongly. It made him course with need, made him constantly long to touch her, feel her, take her. He snorted. So much for getting her out of his system by sleeping with her. It was stupid to have even for a second contemplated that—now that he’d had her, he knew for certain that one time would never be enough. He could barely concentrate on anything else, feeling possessive in a way he hadn’t felt before. It made him want to claim her as his own. Permanently.

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