“Sounds like your grandmother was a smart lady.”
“Oh, she was.She was also the one who convinced me that, despite everyone else telling me I should go to college and then go into the military, I should do what I wanted.So I went in right after high school while Cedar went to college.He joined ROTC in college and then active duty once he graduated.And now I’m out after ten years, taking care of his family while he’s in the Middle East.”
Enrico had not expected Celyn to get sad and decided it was time to change the subject and get her mind back on him and not the past.Leaning over the table, he whispered, “I want you, the sooner the better.Is there somewhere we can go to be alone?”
His breathing froze in his lungs when she leaned in and whispered back, “I want you, too, but you can’t come home with me.”
“Can we be alone at the bar?”
Her eyes widened as she thought of his suggestion before nodding.“Let’s go.”
Enrico left money on the table after they rose.It only took a few short minutes to return to the back door of the pub.Celyn used her key to unlock the door and led the way inside.Once inside, he pulled the door closed, and flipped the lock to ensure they would not be interrupted while she dealt with a nearby panel that controlled something.
“Turned off the video cameras,” she whispered once she was finished.
Chapter Five
Though she’d had one-night stands before, they had usually been when she’d had too much to drink.Every time she’d regretted her actions the next morning because those men had not touched her heart, just her body.With Enrico, the need for the man was more than just drunken horniness since she was stone cold sober, just hyped up on sugar from the hot chocolate and pie.
With the cameras in the building turned off, she was not sure how to proceed.Should she try to seduce this man who claimed to be one of Santa’s fabled assistants?Or should she stop whatever this was before it went any further?She could still go home before anything else happened between them.
Enrico seemed to have no such problem with indecision.He closed the distance between them and wrapped his arms around her.Though they had just been outside in the cool air, he felt warm as he held her securely against his chest.Looking up, she was not surprised when he kissed her.As soon as his lips settled over hers, any qualms Celyn may have had evaporated like ice on a summer’s day.
“Want you,” she panted in the few racing heartbeats their lips parted as Enrico tilted his head a little further to the right before taking her lips again.She pressed deeper into his body, needing to be closer than their clothes allowed.
Never before had she felt this way for a man.Any man.What was it about Enrico that affected her so strongly?
He held her and continued to kiss her as he began to sway.She moved with him when he began to dance them down the hall and around the main room of the pub.He slowed as they neared the bar.Then they stopped dancing and simply held each other as they kissed.
Celyn slid her arms under his coat and around his muscular body.Then, feeling playful, she ran her hands down his back, past his waist to cup his denim-covered butt.With a giggle, she spread her fingers wide before grabbing the flesh of both ass cheeks at once.
Enrico growled deep in his throat as his hips canted forward to press his long, hard thickness into her body just inches above her aching clit.Celyn’s want for this man flew over the line of excited anticipation into demanding need unlike anything she had ever felt before.
She needed their clothes to be gone.
She needed his skin pressed to hers.
