Her soft exhalations feather my skin. A growl rumbles up my throat as one of my hands cradles her cheek before tunnelinginto her soft hair. With my other hand, I grab the back of her neck, effectively holding her face to mine as we taste each other.
We both know Leo’s gone, but I don’t release her, and her folded arms around my neck don’t loosen even a little.
One of my hands slides to the small of her back. It drifts lower, my fingers curving around her ass cheek and squeezing.
Her wide eyes stare up at me like she thinks I might devour her where she stands.
She could be right. I’m this close to slipping my hand between her legs.
Someone coughs, and self-consciousness frays the edges of the pleasure inebriating me.
This is insane.
I’m behaving like some kind of animal with no control over its wild impulses.
Disappointment rains through me when I return to Earth and remind myself of our circumstances. Me crossing enemy lines. Her trying to escape. Both of us inches from being discovered by Leo or his cronies.
But the way her body’s slung around mine, the warmth of it creeping into me…
“Um…” She stammers, blinking rapidly while easing her grip. That only prompts me to hold her tighter. I’m not ready to let this moment go yet.
I meld my lips to hers once more, chucking caution out the window.
It feels good when our tongues tangle together in this hot, wet dance.
I’m in the middle of a mission, tucked away with a stranger in a dark corner, my dick as hard as steel. This is more like something Cian would do in his pre-Harper days.
The woman clings to me like her life depends on it, her fingers knotting in my hair.
My cock is all in at the moment, which isterriblenews.
I need to end this runaway make-out session before we crash and burn. Instead, I continue to hold her tight enough to collapse a lung. With the tide of our lips rushing together, I let myself give in to the rush.
Until Darren hisses in my earpiece for a status update.
Shit. When I pull back, we gape at each other, open-mouthed and panting.
Questions circle back and forth between us like sharks.
What the fuck was that? And what do we do now?
Chapter 6
Kiara
Lips swollen and mind dazed, I gaze up at my gorgeous rescuer and wonder if I’m lost in some hyper-realistic dream. Some sort of mental escape defense triggered by the stress of my current situation.
Yeah, no way. Not even my imagination could conjure a stranger this hot to pin me to the wall and kiss me until my insides lit up like a Christmas tree.
The only way to describe the way the man kisses is…
Explosive.
I read so many romances, yet none of them prepared me. I considered the intense, instant chemistry described in those stories to be total fantasy. Boy, was I wrong.
I’m stunned by how one man’s mouth on mine could light every nerve in my body on fire in the best way possible. So this is what it’s all about.
In the days leading up to my escape, I kept reminding myself that I want to live,finallylive, for once. And I can’t lie…I’m feeling pretty damn alive right now.
