Meet Me in the Middle (Wattle Valley, #2) by Jacquie Underdown

Author:Jacquie Underdown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Escape Publishing

Chapter 15

Neve looked up into Anders’ handsome face, into his hazel eyes. Her stomach was tensing with delightful anticipation as they stood in the entrance of his home.

‘Would I give you the wrong idea if I asked if we could go to your bedroom?’

‘After a conversation like that?’ he asked with a smirk.

She nodded. ‘Even after a conversation like that. I really really want to kiss you—’ and touch you and press my body to yours and get to know the slopes and inclines of that incredible body, ‘—and I think your bed might be the most comfortable place for that.’

His breaths were short and deep. ‘I told you that you’re the one setting the pace. Bedroom or no bedroom, we’ll go as far as you want.’

Which indicated to her that he’d be more than willing to take it all the way, right this minute, but Neve wasn’t ready just yet. Despite how her body felt, the part of her brain left over from caveman days was telling her to tread cautiously.

To sleep with Anders while her brother still didn’t know about the relationship, seemed to take things into a realm that she couldn’t come back from. It seemed to be the line that if crossed had the potential to blow everything up. Kissing was kissing—it could be excused. But sex was sex and it held a lot of power.

Anders tugged on her hand—such a big hand in comparison to hers, much like his body. The mere thought of that gave her a thrill.

He led her up the hall. Her cheeks grew hotter as her blood flowed faster, readying her body for more than a little kissing despite her conviction to keep the pace slow.

They rounded into his room. She had never seen it before or much of his house, really. It was tidy, clean. No decorative items, just the essential furniture—a big bed with a newish masculine-coloured doona cover, bedside tables and a set of dressers.

She arched a brow at him and smiled. ‘Did you make your bed because you knew I was coming over?’

He laughed and it was a rough rasp of sound. She liked the way arousal changed his vocal cords. ‘I never knew how cheeky you were.’

She shrugged. ‘I try.’

‘But no, I make my bed every day. Force of habit.’ He frowned then and she wondered what memories something as innocuous as making a bed could be attached to.

Despite knowing him for many years, their relationship had been superficial. All the intimate details were buried inside him and she hadn’t had many chances to know about them or where each was hidden. Realising that was enough to confirm that treading lightly until she knew exactly what type of man he was, was the right thing to do.

All of her relationships had started with the superficial, then deepened inevitably as time went by. Sometimes she could meet the most attractive person and the moment they spoke and revealed their inner-world, the outside form would dim and tarnish until each symmetrical line was defective.

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