More impactful, especially as Josiah stepped to her side and slipped his arm around her waist.
The goose bumps she’d felt when she’d spotted the view spread rapidly as his strong fingers pressed against her lower back.
“Wait until the sun reaches the notch.” Josiah’s voice was a deep, sexy rumble. He spoke softly, and the words caressed her skin.
Lisa shivered.
His response was to step behind her, wrapping his arms around her body and gently tugging them together. Warming her with his embrace.
No way was she going to tell him she wasn’t cold. In fact, she was hot. Scalding hot and heading toward a meltdown, as if all the heat of the sun was being stored up in her. Pressure building as the colours turned a shade darker.
He leaned forward, and his cheek brushed hers. He lifted a hand to point into the distance.
Temptation stroked her. She twisted her head enough to feel the light tug of the scruff on his cheek against her skin. “What are we looking for?” she whispered.
“You know how they say there’s a green flash at sunset when you watch the sun go down over the ocean? If you see it, you’re supposed to make a wish.”
“I’ve heard the story.” Her lips were inches from his. His arms were around her again, his hand caressing softly up and down her biceps.
“The couple I bought the place from insisted they’d seen the green flash, and that every time they did, something wonderful happened.”
“I like stories like this.” Lisa leaned against him and away from temptation to follow the line of his pointing finger to where two mountain passes met and formed a sharp vee. From their location up on the second story, it looked as if a giant hand had chiseled out a perfect square. A glint of light shone at the bottom, a golden pool. “Did they say what wonderful things? How many times did they see it?”
“They told me many times, but no other details.”
The sun was nearly behind the mountains, the glittering red ball nowhere near the notch. “We’re not in the right month for it to line up properly,” Lisa said sadly.
“Spring solstice,” Josiah told her. “But that’s just to see the standing stone effect with the sun slipping perfectly into the notch. The green flash can happen at any time. Or so they said.”
Half of the sun had disappeared. Josiah stepped to one side and turned her toward him. Their bodies rubbed as he moved, and Lisa’s heart rate kicked up a notch.
There was no time to wait in anticipation. Josiah tucked his fingers under her chin, tilted her head up and brought their lips together.
She closed her eyes, but the light in the room was bright enough to make her world glow as his mouth enticed her. Soft at first. A brief contact before he pulled away. He came back in a second time, and a third, pressure increasing as urgency rose.
Sunset heat lit a fire between them.
His tongue slid against her lips and Lisa opened to him. As their tongues explored each other for the first time, she threaded her fingers into his hair. Stroking, sliding as close as possible. Josiah’s hands skimmed down her back, pushing their torsos tighter, reaching farther until his hands cupped her butt and a tortured groan escaped his lips.
Sometime soon she was going to need air, which was too bad. Breathing was overrated compared to his kisses.
Josiah scooped her off the floor. Her legs wrapped around him instinctively, the thick length of his hardness pressing against her.
Lisa broke the contact between their mouths and slid back just far enough to stare into his face. “We missed the green flash.”
His lips curled. “We’ll have to watch for it next time.”
There would definitely be a next time. But she was more concerned about this moment. “Kiss me again,” she demanded.
He laughed, twirled suddenly, and the next moment she was flying helplessly through the air.
5
Letting go of Lisa was worth it just to see the expression on her face. Not panic, but definitely surprise. She bounced off the mattress he’d aimed her at, rolling to a stop against a pile of pillows. He paced closer, waiting for her reaction.
She didn’t disappoint. A peal of laughter rang out followed immediately by one of the pillows.
The projectile caught him full-on in the face before falling into his arms.
