Page 48 of Caught from Behind

For a second, my words don’t seem to penetrate.

Then they do, his hand coming up to snag my wrist. “Always teasing me, aren’t you, chérie?” He brushes his thumb lightly over my skin.

My heart is pitter-pattering in my chest, but I ignore it. “I’m serious,” I say, choking back laughter when his fingers tighten and he scowls at me. “Some soft pink tones would look beautiful with your skin.”

All olive and yummy and lickable?—

“I think something else pink would look better on my skin.”

I tremble.

And…

I come apart.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Riggs

Her throat bobs, and I don’t miss the shiver that wracks her body.

I want to fuck her, here and now.

But I also really want to see her do her thing. Which is why, instead of bending her over this chair and fucking her senseless, I lift her hand to my lips, press a kiss to the inside of her wrist. “Just do whatever you want, chérie.”

She trembles again and I have to work really hard at the whole not fucking part.

It would be easy to plunk her on the desk, to knock the poor, abused keyboard to the ground in much more pleasurable fashion.

But this is where she works.

This is her art. Her love.

So, I bite back my groan, release her hand, smiling at her slightly befuddled reflection. Then I shrug. “Or pink highlights could work.”

A blink.

Then another.

And then mischief enters the chat.

“Pink it is,” she says, those pretty blue eyes sparkling as she turns away, heads for a room blocked off by a black curtain.

Oh shit.

This woman has enough balls that she might actually do it.

I’m out of my chair a heartbeat later, catching her just as she dips behind the black fabric, spying rows and rows of little boxes sitting on a wall of built-in shelves. A store room, I realize before I draw her back against me, the fucking fabric thing she snapped around my neck getting in my way.

“I need to get the pink dye,” she says breathlessly.

“The fuck you do,” I mutter, nipping at her jaw and turning us, pinning her between my body and the counter.

So fucking beautiful.

So fucking mine.

Not Nova and Lake. Not some shit I thought I wanted.

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