Harlequin E Contemporary Romance Box Set Volume 1: Coming in from the Cold\Maid to Fit\Calling His Bluff\Baker's Law by Sarina Bowen

Author:Sarina Bowen [Bowen, Sarina, Avery, Rebecca, Cousins, A.J., McDonald, Denise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Later that evening, Sarah would explain to J.D. exactly how close he’d come to being assaulted with a highball glass and five laminated playing cards. The man from Florida had been losing steadily to her for the past half hour, and when J.D. yanked her out of her seat, the guy had started to rise, eyes darting furiously between the scotch and soda he held in one hand and the cards clutched flat against the table in the other, as if he couldn’t decide which to pitch at J.D.’s head first: the drink that was numbing him to the pain of his losses or the hand he hoped would turn his losing streak around.

But although she kept her wits for long enough to remember to leave her cards on the table before she braced her palms against J.D.’s shoulders—she wouldn’t for a moment risk the charge of card tampering—what happened after that became a little hazy.

She hadn’t processed anything he’d said, although he was clearly pretty steamed about something. But his mouth spent only a moment hovering over hers before beginning an assault on her senses that would have put a lesser woman in the hospital. She parted her lips, not sure if she were going to protest or say please, and his tongue plunged in, forcing her mouth open wider as his hand in her hair pulled her head back, almost pulling her away from him.

Until she snaked a hand behind his neck and pulled his head down to hers just as hard.

His mouth was rough and hot against hers, his teeth scraping against her lips as his kiss roamed her mouth, not content with one angle, one taste, one touch. He nipped at her bottom lip, and then curved his tongue against hers in a long, slow, sliding dance. She could taste the heat of him, sharp and dangerous against her tongue, not subtle at all.

Then she shuddered as she felt him scrape a single fingernail delicately across the bare skin of her lower back, chasing the edge of her dress as it dipped low at the base of her spine.

The hand in her hair shifted, the clenched fingers spreading wide to wrap more firmly around her neck and spear deep into her hair, their energy shifting subtly from forceful to encouraging. She loosened her own hand against the warm, smooth skin of his nape, and with the other hand smoothed the lapel she’d crushed into a ball of wrinkles.

He was kissing her more softly now, little nipping kisses, as if each time he attempted to draw his mouth away from hers, he was forced to stop for a second and come back to her for one last taste.

Slowly, sound was beginning to register again, mostly cheerful-sounding hollers sparked with one or two irritated voices protesting something. They stood still under the canopy above the poker table that was there to keep the overhead lights from shining directly on the players’ foreheads. Studies had shown that such lights were draining to a gambler’s energy.

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