She’d never spoken that way in her life. It sounded sexy though.
‘I am glad ” She tipped her head back to look at him and encountered eyes so intense they burned right through her to the very core of her feminine sexuality.
‘Sweet.” His head lowered toward hers. you are going to taste so sweet.”
The kiss shattered every sense of who she believed herself to be.
She went up like a candle burning with a heat she’d never even dreamed existed.
Unconscious of her surroundings, she twisted her hips against him seeking some unsatiable thing, some sort of relief from the conflagration of her senses. The caress only made it worse and he groaned his lips taking on a hard sensuality that gave no quarter.
She desired none and responded with all the latent sensuality in her being.
Tearing his mouth from hers he said ‘We’ve got to get out of here or I’m going to make love to you and get us b0th arrested for indecent exposure.”
Shockingly she heard herself teasing him. ‘l’ve heard the police are quite understanding about that sort of thing.”
He shook his head. ‘Do not joke. I am in agony. I want a bed with you on it. Now.”
Suddenly she realized where all this passionate intensity was heading and she froze. Literally.
Stopping his rapid progress to the table.
He turned to her, his eyes black with desire, his mouth set in a grim line that she found slightly frightening.
‘What is it?” you expect to go to bed? Right now?”
His glare singed the edges of her heart.
‘What kind of game are you playing? If that kiss wasn’t a prelude to bed, what the hell was it?”
She didn’t play games, but he didn’t know that. His accusation made her take quick stock, however. She couldn’t very well tell him she’d never kissed like that in her life so had no experience of what it was a prelude to. Instinct told her that admitting her lack of experience to Salvatore would turn him right off. He was used to dating the most sophisticated sort of women.
‘This is our first date.”
‘We did the mating dance for two solid weeks in Sicily. I would have taken you to bed then, but to do so while you were under your father’s roof would have been disrespectful to your family.”
‘And you’re so sure I would have gone?” Passion was fading, to be replaced by anger.
How dare he assume she would just fall into his bed like some-?
‘Wishing would make it so,” he said, interrupting her thoughts.
‘I wanted you, cara. I still do.Desperately. But if you are not ready, say it now. We will take it at your pace.”
Sincerity was reflected in the tone of his voice, the depths of his eyes, and she found herself falling right back under his spell.
‘I want you too.”
His nostrils flared and his body went even tenser, if possible.
‘Then let us go.”
She nodded .
He took her to his home and it was then she learned that he lived a large portion of the year in Milan overseeing his family’s company satellite holding there.
Milan meant big business and big business meant ultra hi-tech security and superbly trained operatives.