Page 59 of Theirs to Take

“Very sexy,” he breathed. This time, Luke didn’t give her time to consider her next move. This time, he leaned in and took what he seemed to want from her. He sealed his mouth over hers and when he finally let her up for air, she was panting,and even more confused than she was before they began their conversation. In the course of the day, Luke had called her hot, compared her to Velma from Scooby-Doo, and then called her sexy. All in all, she’d consider today a win—especially if the hunk sitting next to her decided to kiss her again.

“You kissed me,” she whispered. Ruby was still practically sitting on Luke’s lap, and she wasn’t about to make a move to get up.

“I did,” he said, “twice.” He was right. Luke had kissed her twice and God, she was hoping for a third one. “Is it okay that I did that, Ruby?” he asked. She could tell that he already knew the answer. Hell, she was probably bright red with embarrassment, and with the way that her chest was heaving as if she had just run a marathon, he could guess that she was completely turned on by what he was doing to her.

“Yes,” she whispered. “I like it when you kiss me, Luke.”

“Have you been kissed before?” he asked. She had but it was nothing like the way Luke kissed her.

“I have,” she admitted. “I mean, not a lot. I had a boy that I liked in high school, but he didn’t pay much attention to the class nerd. When I got to college, I had a friend, well, I thought that he was my friend, but he turned out to be more than that. Geeze, I’m rambling.” Ruby took a breath and tried to slow her roll, but apparently, that was impossible for her to do when she was faced with a hot man and an embarrassing situation. What the hell was wrong with her.

Luke pulled her hand into his own, resting it on his massive thigh, and she damn near swallowed her tongue. There would be no stopping her verbal diarrhea now. Poor guy didn’t have a clue as to what he had just unleashed. “His name was Mark and hekissed me,” she admitted. “I mean, not like you just kissed me. He wasn’t as good at the whole kissing thing as you seem to be. Not that you’ve kissed me enough to figure out just how good you are at it.”

“Ruby,” he cut in.

“Hmm,” she hummed, leaning into his body. Every time he even whispered her name, she found herself shamelessly leaning into him as if she wanted to crawl directly inside of him. Heck, shameless didn’t even begin to describe her.

“You’re talking a lot. Do you do that when you’re nervous?” he asked.

“Yes,” she admitted, “I do. It’s one of the reasons why guys seem to run the other direction from me when they see me coming. I guess that will include you now, too. I mean, when you see me at the office, you’re going to probably try to duck into a cubby or hallway to avoid me now,” she was about to go on with her verbal tirade when Luke pulled her completely onto his lap and sealed his mouth over hers again, and this time, he didn’t show any signs of letting up. He kissed her like a starving man, licking his way into her mouth and sucking her bottom lip into his very skilled mouth. He made her feel things that no other man had ever made her feel—including very wet and needy in her girl parts. Ruby was sure that it was all perfectly normal, judging from the numerous romance novels that she liked to read in her spare time, but she couldn’t be completely sure.

“Wow,” she whispered when he finally broke their kiss. “You’re really good at that.”

“Thanks,” Luke breathed. He was breathing just as hard as she was, and his hands were everywhere. Every place that he touched set her skin on fire and all she wanted was more.

“I want to touch you everywhere, Ruby,” Luke whispered. “You need to tell me to stop.”

“Why would I want you to stop?” she asked. “I want you to touch me too, Luke.”

He rested his forehead against hers and she could feel his warm breath on her face. Luke closed his eyes and she worried that this was all too much too fast, even for a guy like Luke. He just seemed so sure of himself; she went with what he was asking of her.

“Because I’m pretty sure that you’ve never done what I’m thinking about doing to you,” Luke admitted.

“What are you thinking about doing to me, Luke?” she brazenly asked. God, she hoped that his answer was going to be, “Everything”.

“I want you, Ruby,” he whispered. “I have since I first saw you around the office. I can’t explain it, but for some reason, I feel drawn to you.”

She smiled at him, and a scowl formed on his handsome face. “Drawn to me?” she questioned.

“You’re laughing at me,” he grumbled.

“No,” she quickly said, “not at all. I’m just not the type of woman that men are usually drawn to, Luke. And to answer your question, I have never done what you want to do with me, with any man. I’ve already told you—I’m a nerd and not many guys want to have sex with the little nerdy girl who has her nose stuck in a book or laptop.”

“They’re all idiots,” Luke said. “You’re all that I can think about, Ruby. I find everything that you do sexy as hell. And that’s why you need to tell me to stop.”

She looked him over, trying to decide what her next move should be. There was no way that she was going to give up her chance with Luke—not after he admitted that he wanted her.

“Well, that’s not going to happen,” Ruby breathed.

Luke

Luke couldn’t keep his hands off of Ruby and that wasn’t going to end well for either of them—but especially her. She was so sweet and innocent, but all he could think about was taking her, making her his, and never letting her go again. That was crazy though because he really didn’t know Ruby. Hell, today was the first time that he had actually spoken to her, and now, he couldn’t stop kissing and touching her.

“Ruby,” he said as if in warning.

“Luke,” she countered. “I’d really like to see what you have planned to do with me. I mean, this might just be my only chance, and I’m going to take it.”

“It’s not that simple,” Luke insisted. “If I do what I want to with you, there will be no going back from it, and honestly, that should scare the crap out of you—it does me. We’ve only just met,” he said.

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