Page 10 of Cold Snap

"I think I've told you everything. Anything else would have just put you to sleep."

"Then I want to hear about your future." I nibble her ear, my cock instantly thickening at her breathy moan. "What's your biggest dream, angel?"

She shivers against me, and I smile. "I love that you love when I call you that. Because it means you're already mine."

Her gaze drops. "You know that can't possibly be real."

"What? Us?"

"Yeah. I mean, you're a big tough outdoorsy guy…"

"Hey, I have a sensitive side too." My eyebrow raises. "You're probably the only person who's ever seen it, but it's there."

"But you're…" Her fingertips run straight across my chest then up to my shoulders, as if outlining my frame.

My hands caress her lush hips. "Too big, and that makes you scared of me? I would never be anything but extremely gentle with you, my precious angel." Dipping my head, I kiss lightly along her cheekbone.

"No…you're like…super gym fitness guy."

I shrug, my right hand drifting from her hip to the perfect curve of her ass. "Workouts burn off steam. Maybe now that I have another way to burn off some energy, I won't need to train as hard." I kiss the tip of her nose. "Although it's handy being strong enough to fling big chunks of tree into a trailer."

She looks so lost all of a sudden. Have I said something wrong again?

"Rosa, remember when I said I've never been in a relationship?" She nods, her eyes wide. "That means I'm even crappier than most men at reading a woman's mind. So I really need you to tell me what you're thinking right now. Please."

She hesitates, then stares at the center of my chest as she mumbles, "You belong on the cover of a fitness magazine. I'm the before picture in an ad for diet pills."

What the—? Clasping her hands, I step back, staring. How can she not see this delectable body the way I do?

I back her up against the wall opposite the stove. "Jesus Christ, Rosa," I growl, grabbing her hips to give her a shake. "You're hands down the sexiest woman I've ever seen."

She rolls her eyes, so I squeeze her, growling again. "Angel, I hope this isn't TMI, but I get hard as a fucking rock every time I come near you. When your hand was pinned between my knees, I thought I was going to split my jeans open."

She gasps, wide-eyed, but slowly shifting closer. "Are you joking?"

Lifting her hand, I place it on my jeans an inch away from my rigid shaft. "You wanna find out?"

Her tongue darts across her bottom lip. Rosa looks up at me, then something shifts behind her eyes and she smiles. Her hand moves slowly, tentatively, as she shifts to feel my cock through my jeans.

Her mouth drops open. "Holy mother of…" She bites her lip, as I groan from the sensation of her delicate palm running slowly up and down my length. "Does that hurt?"

Grabbing her hands, I place them on my shoulders. "Every part of me aches for you." I go back to caressing her hips, then run one hand up her ribs, stopping just below her perfect breast. "Yes?"

She nods quickly. "Yes."

My hand dips into the front of her t-shirt, under her bra, to grip her full breast. Then I groan again. "You're the perfect sexy doll," I rumble. "You're so hot, angel. Every curve, every soft, silky inch of you."

I kiss her, gently at first, then harder, deeper, making her moan. My thumb skims around her puckered nipple as she presses herself tightly against me. "Tell me you want me." My voice is raw. "Tell me you feel this, gorgeous."

"Yes. I do."

Sexy little tremors quiver through her while I caress her softly. Our kiss grows hotter as our bodies move together instinctively.

A sound in the basement hallway makes us both freeze. Retracting my hand quickly and silently, I cradle the back of her head for another slow whisper of a kiss. Then I step away. "Rosa," I barely breathe, "You are unbelievably beautiful. If you need to hear this every hour on the hour for a few months for it to sink in, so be it."

Her big brown eyes look up at me hopefully. "You're actually suggesting that we might see each other after you leave here?"

Dammit. She doesn't get it.

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