After a few minutes, her second round of tears subsided and her hold on him suddenly changed. Hands that had been gripping him now ran down his torso, and before he realized it, she had his shirt pushed up and her lips on his skin.
His abs quivered under her touch.Yeah, his eyes drifted close,he missed this.
No, he gave himself a mental shake and opened his eyes.
“Isla?” He gently grasped her upper arms and drew heraway. “Wait. Are you sure about this? It’s probably not the right time.”
A wicked grin curved her lips and heat darkened her blue eyes. “Trust me, I am, and it’s the perfect time.”
Before he could react, she stepped out of his embrace, slid her thumbs beneath the top of her strapless dress, and pushed it down her body until the yellow material dropped to the floor.
Damn, that was hot...
He swallowed audibly. The gorgeous woman was braless, with the tiniest scrap of white silk keeping her from being naked.
He was screwed.
Then she pushed his shirt up again and pressed her soft, hot curves into him. Christ, she felt good. Sinjin clenched his fist. He was having a difficult time remaining unaffected.
“Isla?”
“Hmm?” she asked, her mouth busy spreading kisses across his chest, driving him out of his mind. Then she licked his nipple.
Uttering a curse, he jerked back. “Isla, wait.”
When she continued the sweet torture, he twisted them around, manacling her hands above her head and pressing her against the door.
“Mmm…I like how you think,” she said, her body trembling, chest heaving.
His groin tightened with a painful throb. “Isla,” he said again, his voice as strained as his zipper. “We need to talk. You experienced something traumatic. I don’t want to take advantage of you.”
The sadness returned to dull her eyes. “I know I did. I understand that, but honestly, Sinjin, if ever I needed some stress relief, it’s now. I promise, I’m aware of all this, so you’re not taking advantage of me. In fact, it’s more like I’m taking advantage of you,” she murmured, her lips brushing his skinwhile she tugged her hands free and used them to skim his chest and stroke his abs. “I don’t want to think tonight, and you’re really good at helping me with that. Take me to my happy place, Sinjin. Please. Take me to my happy place.”
Her sweet touch, her pleading, and the need in her voice, along with a soft, curvy body, pressing into him, elicited an answering need that heated Sinjin from head to toe and throbbed through his groin.
His mind already had several ideas on what he could do to her to take her out of herself, but she wasn’t just a warm body…a means of release. No, Isla was something else entirely. She was special, and the way his chest had tightened when he couldn’t get hold of her on his way back to Harland County had proved it.
He caught her chin with his index finger and thumb and studied her gaze. “Are you sure?”
“As sure as you are locked and loaded.” A wicked grin curved her lips as she slid her fingers down to trace his erection through his cargos.
Her assurance was all he needed to hear.
In a swift move, he pressed her against the door and when she gasped, he captured her open mouth and kissed her over and over, giving, demanding, until she was the one to break for air.
The taste of sangria was sweet on her lips, so he went in for a second round before he spread openmouthed kisses down her throat, lingering at the curve of her neck until she moaned and trembled against him.
Heat flooded his veins, loving her responses, needing more.
He cupped each breast and brushed her gorgeous, unhindered peaks until she squirmed.
“Sinjin…”
With no encouragement necessary, he teased a nipple with his tongue before drawing it into his mouth. She grabbed his head and arched forward, shoving more of her glorious breastinto his mouth.
His arousal pulsed, but he wasn’t ready. Not yet.
Rolling her nipple between his tongue and the roof of his mouth, he slid a hand down her heated body, so he could slip a finger under the tiny strip of silk.Damn.The material was wet.
