Yours to Hold by Darcy Burke

Author:Darcy Burke [Burke, Darcy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Avon Impulse
Published: 2015-03-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

MAGGIE SMILED PLACIDLY up at him, hoping he’d buy it and she could get to her car and leave before she had a full-blown anxiety attack. No. She didn’t want to do that. She’d fooled around with him because it had made her feel good, and she refused to let it turn bad. They weren’t a thing.

She rushed to say, “I’ll let you know what the guy says when I drop the laptop off. I can’t pick it up for you though. Busy week.” She glanced at his arms, which were blocking her in. “Are you going to let me pass?”

His gaze darkened, and his hands inched closer to her head. “You say the moment has passed. I say this is another moment.”

She was too aware of the rise and fall of her chest as her heart rate accelerated. But other than that staccato rhythm, she didn’t move.

He tucked a curl behind her ear. “Another glorious parking lot moment.” He bent his head to whisper, “I don’t think I can let another one pass me by.”

His teeth snagged her earlobe, and he tugged gently before skimming light kisses along her neck and the underside of her jaw. She held perfectly still, not wanting to encourage him and yet unable to ask him to stop.

His head came up, and he brought his mouth an inch from hers. “The only woman I’m interested in right now is you.”

She expected the kiss but not the searing passion that came with it. She was mad at him. He’d just said “right now” in reference to his desire for her, as if he might change his mind in an hour. But like he said, this was another moment, and in this moment she was his and he was hers, and she’d cling to that like crazy.

Clasping his hips, she anchored herself between him and the car, loving the pressure of his body against hers. The parking lot was small and secluded, with the pub on one side and a fence on two others. They could actually consummate this parking lot thing they had going if it weren’t for the capri pants she was wearing—not very conducive to spontaneous sex. Why hadn’t she worn the maxi dress she’d pulled out of her closet first that morning?

He pulled away but surged forward again for another quick kiss. “I need to get back inside before someone comes looking for me.”

Crap. Someone like another Archer?

She pulled her hands from his waist and pushed on his shoulders. “Yes, go. The last thing I want is for someone to catch us together again.”

He winced just before he turned his head to look at the door. When he faced her again, he said, “It’s fine. There’s no one here. No Archers anyway. Besides me.”

“I’m not sure it matters, Kyle.” She’d thought about it endlessly since yesterday. Alex would always be between them. “Alex is here.”

Kyle looked at her quizzically. “Obviously he’s not.”

She exhaled. “You know what I mean. I’ll always be the therapist who failed to recognize his suicidal thoughts and save him.

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