Elementals 01 - Liquid Lies by Hanna Martine

Author:Hanna Martine [Martine, Hanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, General, Paranormal
ISBN: 042525724X
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-07-17T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-FOUR

Her body soared within Reed’s eager, urgent clutch. He held her like she might dissolve at any moment, and maybe she would. His mouth moved over hers, slow and wet. She clung to his hard body, the strength in his arms intensified by the way he supported her. Cradled her, almost, since she felt light as mist.

She slid her tongue against his, willfully defying their previous vow to stay away from each other, thumbing her nose at that idiot back in the Range Rover who actually thought she could keep such a promise. And damn, if it wasn’t delicious defiance.

A stripe of dull pain slanted across her back and she pulled away in a daze, realizing he’d slammed her into the bathroom wall. One thick thigh pressed between hers, and his vines and cryptic words and history enveloped her. A dark, animal look clouded his eyes. Leaning in for more, his soft lips, surrounded by perpetual stubble, nipped at hers, teasing but not taking.

“I’ve been wanting to kiss you like this…” he began but didn’t finish, the tip of his tongue instead tracing the corner of her mouth.

“You already have.”

He shook his head. “Doesn’t count. Your head wasn’t in the right place. There was something huge between us. There isn’t now.” He sank his hands into the hair at the nape of her neck, tilting back her head, exposing her throat. She went after his mouth again but he held her skull firm against the wall. “Is there, Gwen?”

“No.” And, stars’ blessing, she spoke the truth.

The Allure caused temporary insanity. That was how the Ofarians had always billed it: mindless desire that dissipated after orgasm. Uncontrollable, fleeting, forgettable. Whatever this was between them, it had crushed the Allure under its boot heel and left it in the dust. And she hadn’t even come. Yet.

“It’s just us,” she said.

He smiled, that dimple winking in and out. “Oh, thank God.”

He sank against her, and even though she couldn’t breathe, all she could think was that this would be the best way to go, with him stealing her breath and crushing her body. His erection felt harder than what was humanly possible, with her in only her underwear and him clad only in jeans. The rough ridge of the denim rode against her as he circled his hips, echoing the motion she longed to feel without anything between them.

His whole body started to shake, an earthquake consuming them both. Suddenly he went still, pulled away. Pressing his forehead to hers, his breath sawed raggedly.

“You’re shaking.” She pressed feebly at his shoulders. “You can put me down.” Hoping that he wouldn’t.

“It’s not…you’re not heavy.” His eyes squeezed painfully shut. “God, I want to be in you. Say yes. If you say no, I won’t touch you again, won’t even look at you. Though it’ll kill me.”

It would kill her, too. Cinching her arms around his neck, she breathed hot into his ear, “Yes,” and prayed she wasn’t making a colossal mistake.

A shudder traveled from his scalp to his feet.

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