No Strings by Cara Lockwood

Author:Cara Lockwood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-03-12T14:58:26+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

EMMA WALKED BESIDE Xavier down the crowded street of North Avenue, strangers passing them, seemingly unaware of the current running between the couple. The late-afternoon air had turned cooler, as the sun dipped below the horizon, setting a blue tint to everything. Night was coming, but it wasn’t quite here yet. The slight breeze ruffled the changing leaves as a few yellow ones fell at their feet. Emma could almost feel it: a force field of desire, a pull between them. He was the earth and she was the moon, attached by gravity, an invisible force, aware of every little move he made.

As they walked, he slipped his hand over hers, possessive, a promise.

“I already knew about you, Emma Allaire,” Xavier said suddenly.

“What do you mean?” she asked, thinking about the paper she’d scribbled in the coffee shop. The paper that Xavier hadn’t taken. She’d folded it and tucked it in her bag.

“I searched you on Google,” he admitted. “You told me the magazine where you worked, so it wasn’t hard to find you. Your Facebook page is set to public, by the way. Did you intend that?”

Emma felt hot suddenly. He’d searched for her? Just as she’d searched for him. Then, of course, he had to: after all, he’d found her at the coffee shop, hadn’t he? Read the article she wrote? But the fact that he was admitting to wanting to know more about her, admitting to not being satisfied with them being perfect strangers, linked only in carnal knowledge, went against his life philosophy, didn’t it? Maybe she was getting to him, tearing down the walls he’d built to protect himself, to keep her out.

“You broke your own rules, then.” Emma felt strangely smug in pointing that out.

Xavier gave her a sidelong glance, his eyes looking almost golden in the autumn sunlight. “Yes,” he admitted. “You intrigued me.”

“You intrigued me, too. I searched you as well. But you gave me nothing to go on.”

Xavier chuckled, low in his throat. “I know.”

“Give me one detail. Just one.”

The two passed a narrow alleyway between two brownstones. Xavier pulled her into it and around the corner, protected by a Dumpster on one side and a brick wall partition on the other. “Kiss me first,” he demanded, voice low, a gravelly whisper.

Her lips parted, and all she could do was nod her head. Xavier swooped down, claiming her mouth, and suddenly the heat flared between them, their mouths and tongues wrapped together in an ancient mating dance of want and desire. God, she wanted him, the passion flaring, her need growing as he delved into her mouth again and again. They devoured each other, the passion like none she’d ever experienced. Was it because she knew that he could disappear from her life at any moment? Was it because he was a stranger? A man who stubbornly refused to open himself up to her? To give her a detail as small as his last name? Could it be that

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.