Page 97 of When He Protects

“Not because of the job. Not because I’ve been assigned to protect you. But because it’s you.” He wanted her to understand this. “You’re not a job. You’re Esme. My Esme.”

Her smile came then. The smile that drove him wild. Slow and pure, it flashed her dimples and made the sparks of gold shine in the darkness of her eyes.

“I want to be gentle,” he told her.

She nodded. “Because of your injuries. I promise, I will be so careful with you.”

“No, sweetheart, I want to be gentle because it’s you. But…” He grabbed the hem of his shirt and yanked it up. He sent that shirt flying and didn’t give a damn about his stitches. “I don’t know if I can be…because it’s you.I want you more than I have ever wanted anything in this world.”

She tossed her shirt aside, too. Her black bra teased and tempted. “Then come take me.”

He was trying to warn her. Tyler knew he was walking on a razor’s edge of desire.

“But if you pop those stitches, I will be very angry withyou.” She reached for his hand. Brought it to her mouth. “Very angry.” She nipped his palm.

Lust shot through his body and straight to his already straining dick. He kicked off his shoes and tumbled her back onto the bed. Her hands reached eagerly for him. He kissed her and he tasted his Esme, and he wanted so much more. He wanted to take and take and have her screaming his name.

But the walls in that motel had to be paper thin. And the sounds Esme made?

Mine.

Just as Esme herself was…

Mine.

He yanked the bra away and feasted on her breasts. Those tight nipples drove him into a frenzy. He licked. Sucked. Had his turn to lightly bite with his teeth.

She jolted beneath him. “Tyler!”

“Shh.” A rough order. “Don’t want any bastards next door to hear.”

Her breath panted out.

He licked her nipple again.

“Ty…ler!”

He loved it when she moaned his name that way.

Chapter Twenty

Tyler was slidinghis way down her body. He didn’t want her to cry out. She knew the walls had to be stupid thin in the motel. Not like she wanted whoever their neighbors were to hear her yelling in ecstasy but…

He’d stripped her completely.

Her breath shuddered out.

Tyler shoved her thighs apart even more.

She bit her lower lip and whimpered as she looked down at him.This isn’t going to work. I’m not going to be able to stay silent.

He put his mouth on her.

Her body bucked against him. A hard jolt because his mouth felt so insanely good. “Tyler!” A quick pant. “Tyler, I can’t?—”

His head lifted. “I’m tasting you until you come.”

She nearly came right then and there. With those eyes of his blazing at her and with him between her spread legs…

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