Sweet Dreams by Stacey Keith

Author:Stacey Keith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2017-10-16T23:50:48+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Maggie couldn’t believe she’d actually said those awful, needy words.

Now that she had, she couldn’t take them back. How many times had her lack of filter gotten her in trouble?

She waited, wishing she were the kind of woman who didn’t put her cards on the table. Who knew when to keep her mouth shut.

But the music of the water, the chatter of the birds, the heat in his eyes, all conspired to drug her into sensual submission. She was being pulled apart. She could save herself by walking away or she could save herself by giving in to this terrible raging need.

Jake leaned back against the tree they sat under and gave her a strange smile. The smile made her heart pound because she sensed he could see inside her and knew exactly what was going on.

She couldn’t breathe.

“Why don’t I ask you the same thing, Maggie?” he said. “Tell me. How does this end?”

“You’re talking in circles,” she said, which annoyed her because she wanted straight answers. She wanted to skip to the end of the book and discover if there was a happily ever after before she’d even figured out if there was a happily ever now.

It sounded unfair. Maybe it was unfair. But that didn’t stop her from wanting it.

Jake brushed the back of his hand across her cheek. Maggie gazed into his startling blue eyes and felt herself slowly dissolving, bit by bit, like a sandcastle being washed away by the sea.

If someone had told her a month ago that she would fall in serious lust with a man like Jake, a billionaire playboy used to getting his own way, she would have laughed.

Yet here she was—no, here they were—alone for the first time since they’d met. And she knew he was waiting for her to make up her mind. Was she in or was she out? Did she accept the terms and conditions of his contract? Had she read the fine print?

But it didn’t really matter what the contract said. It was only a matter of time before desire simply tore her apart.

Intoxication swept over her again. It made her mouth dry and other parts of her…less so. If she didn’t do this, she would have to live with the ache, the agonizing need, for the rest of her life. It would kill her slowly and make a coward of her. And if there was one thing Maggie knew for sure, she wasn’t a coward.

“Maybe I don’t care what happens,” she whispered, her breath hitching. “Maybe I just want you.”

Jake’s eyes glittered. She could see his pulse pounding in the taut, tanned skin of his throat. He stretched over her, bringing his heat close, closer, and her lips parted to receive him. This wasn’t happening. It couldn’t be happening.

Everywhere he touched, he ignited. He spread liquid fire to all parts of her body. He took from her. He tasted. His hands were in her hair, but she felt them everywhere else.

Everything he touched, he changed.

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