Forbidden Curves (Steamy Taboo Romance) Read Free

Kate with a look of
horror on my face.  

 
    “What?”

 
    “Ethan, is Mr. Avery…”

 
    “Your boss?”   Kate’s face lit up in a devilish
grin.   “No wonder you have a thing
for him.”   She winked at me, just as
the two of them met us.

 
    “Lacey,” Mr. Avery greeted me
with a sideways grin.  

 
    Casey looked surprised that Ethan
and I had met.  

 
    “I…I work for Mr. Avery,” my voice
squeaked as my cheeks blushed a fiery red.

 
    “Call me Ethan,” he said in a low
voice, “and tonight,” his eyes slowly rolled up and down my practically naked
body,   “you work for no one.”

 
    I practically melted at the sound
of his voice.   He was so damned sexy
and the way he just looked at me…like he was seeing me for the first time, and
like he was…hungry.

 
    Casey laughed at the coincidence
and introduced Ethan to Kate.   Kate
smiled and shook his hand, cocking her head to the left coquettishly.   I felt a little pang of jealousy.   There was no way I could compete with
her, even if she was already practically claimed by his best friend.  

 
    “Nice to make your acquaintance.”
He said casually, turning back in my direction without even a glance at Kate’s
drop dead gorgeous frame.   “Shall
we?” he said, holding out his arm to me and leading me into the pools.   “I believe I owe you a drink to make up
for my tardiness.”   His eyes were
dark and seemed to smolder with an emotion that I couldn’t quite place.  

 
    I glanced over my shoulder at
Kate as Casey took her by the arm and led her in a different direction.  

 
    “Yum!” She mouthed.  

 
    By all accounts I was
flustered.   I could see his toned
abs out of the corner of my eye, flexing gently as he led me into the water and
down a dark corridor.  

 
    “Do you have any idea what time
it is Lacey?”   I shook my head.

 
    The darkness opened up to a wide
room with a swim up bar.  

 
    Two Martinis, Grey Goose, extra
olives.”  

 
    “Certainly Mr. Avery.”   The bartender instantly went to work fixing
our drinks.  

 
    Ethan looked me in the eyes with
one of his brows raised condescendingly.   “Well, it’s after ten, and if I remember correctly, that means you have
only nine hours to be in my office ready for work.”

 
    “Well,” I yawned
theatrically.   “I had planned to be
in bed by eleven, but it seems my date was almost two hours late.”

 
    Ethan’s face grew dark and
serious.   “Yes, in bed by
eleven…   That’s exactly what I was
thinking.”  

 
    ‘Holy crap,’ I thought to myself as I met his devilish gaze.   ‘He
is SO coming on to you.’

 
    The bartender placed our drinks
before us and I was thankful for the interruption.   I grabbed mine and started back towards
the way we had come.  

 
    “Not so fast, follow me.”   Ethan slid his arm around my waist and
turned me towards another watery passage.  

 
    I took a sharp inhale at the
electricity of his touch.   Ethan
turned his head in my direction and grinned.   ‘Way
to be obvious,’ I scolded myself.  

 
      This passage was darker than the one
before, and the walls were decorated with a beautiful array of fiber optics
that pulsed and danced down the corridor.    Ethan had loosened his grip on my
waist, as the hall narrowed and we had to walk single file.   His hand managed however, to find mine
in the darkness.   I followed him with
a giddy dumb grin on my face, feeling like a little girl on her first
date.    We opened into a small
circular room with a waterfall that poured down like a curtain in the middle of
the space.   It was pitch black but
for the tiny glowing strands that were suspended in the water.   Ethan led me around to the backside of
the cove and he turned towards me.   Our bodies were just inches from one another and the faint scent of his
cologne met my sense.  

 
    My back was against the wall now,
and Ethan was