elevator
wal .
He watched the ways she studied him and suspected she’d read the conflicting
emotions in his eyes. She moved closer and gently touched his cheek, fragmenting
his thoughts. The intoxicating, feminine scent of her skin pul ed him into a cocoon of
need and desire. His head began spinning, and he struggled to keep himself upright.
What the hel was happening to him?
She began moving, pressing against him. “Brand…” Her sweet yet seductive
voice curled around him and his hands, as though moving of their own accord,
urgently began tracing the contours of her luscious body. Her heat reached out to him
and his entire body shuddered with longing.
Oh God, he needed…
Suddenly, reality inched its way into his brain and he squared his shoulders and
pul ed back. He wouldn’t—couldn’t—do anything to hurt her. “Don’t. I can’t do this.”
Fighting an internal war, he eased away and drew a ragged breath.
She stepped into him again, giving him no reprieve. “Can’t or don’t want to?” she
asked breathlessly, her voice a low velvet murmur. Her legs widened and as though
she, too, was driven by a greater force, she shimmied against him.
“Oh, fuck,” he groaned, completely unprepared for the emotions she brought out in
him. Wel past the point of thinking logical y, he pressed the button for his floor,
grabbed her wrist and pinned her against the mirrored wal . He positioned his lips
close to her mouth. Never in his life had he felt so crazed or frantic.
“Kaylea…”
“I want you.” She poised her lips open and the invitation proved too powerful for
him to deny. His lips crashed down on hers and he sank into her warm wetness. As he
found solace in the heat of her mouth, her kiss fuel ed the hunger brewing inside him.
When she moaned in pleasure, fire pitched through his veins, and his cock thickened,
draining al the blood from his brain, along with his cognitive reasoning abilities.
Pressure began building in his body and he couldn’t think, he could only feel.
“Tel me you don’t want this,” she murmured, her lips moving to his neck, her
tongue doing delicious things to his nerves.
The elevator stopped on his floor. With need ruling his actions, and wel past the
point of thinking rational y, he hauled her off. “I can’t,” was al he managed to get out as
he ushered her down the hal .
Chapter Four
Kaylea’s heart raced as Brand gathered her hand in his and guided her into his
lavish suite. He turned to her, his mouth parted, his eyes dark, intense. Carnal. Oh
Lord, he looked so wild and so out of control that it scared her and excited her at the
same time.
Even though outwardly he seemed dark and dangerous, deep in her soul she
instinctively knew she was safe with him. Intuitive intel igence told her that beneath the
surface, he was a man of integrity and character, and had a fierce sense of
protectiveness. And since she always trusted her intuition, as it had never guided her
wrong before, she was going to give herself to this man in a way she’d never given
herself to another. He might be rough and rugged on the outside but she’d glimpsed
the softness, and the warmth underneath, which affirmed her belief that she was
definitely in good hands.
Everything inside her told her that Brand was just the man to take away her
virginity and give her a night of wild sex that she’d never ever forget.
She raised her gaze to his and his shaky thumb traced her lips, as his nostrils
flared. “You’re…so…beautiful.” His words came out broken, fractured, and she
sensed the urgency in his body.
She caught the hungry gleam in his eyes and her entire being began shaking with
want, no…with need. The sexual pul between them was most powerful and did
bizarre things to her insides.
“Brand—” Her words died when he pul ed her against him, meshing her softness
with his hardness. She relaxed into him, soaking in his warmth.
“Come here,”