Page 9 of Sweet Harmony

“What if itdoes work? Then what? You start dating Daniel and I’m headed toWillington alone.”

“Well, yourcousin’s wedding is in a month, right?”

“Yes.”

“We don’t haveto start fake dating right away. We can give it a couple of weeksand use that time to learn more about each other. It’s probably agood idea if we know more than each other’s names. It’ll be morebelievable if we know, uh, personal stuff about each other. Thatleaves only two weeks until your cousin’s wedding. I think it’lltake more than a couple weeks to make Daniel jealous,” shesaid.

“Do I have yourword that you’ll attend the wedding with me?” he asked.

“Yes,” shesaid. “I’ll be there, no matter what.”

Then we have anagreement,” Connor said. “You’ll pose as my girlfriend at mycousin’s wedding, and I’ll help you make Daniel seethe withjealousy and realize that you’re his soul mate.”

She gave him adirty look. “You don’t have to make it sound so juvenile.”

He justshrugged and she reached for the front door. “Thank you. I’ll getyour number from Grace and text you in the next few days aboutmeeting to go over personal stuff.”

“There’s justone more thing,” Connor said.

“What?”

“This.” Hegripped the back of her neck and pulled her forward. She made adecidedly stupid-sounding squeak when he bent his dark head andpressed his mouth against hers. She stood stock-still with her eyeswide and unblinking, as he slid his other arm around her waist andpulled her against his hard body.

When he suckedon her lower lip, a strange tingle went through her lower body andanother small sound escaped her lips. This one, embarrassinglyenough, sounded like a moan and she tried to step back. His handtightened around her neck, holding her completely immobile. Whenhis tongue slid across her upper lip, she heard another of thoseodd moan-like noises as her eyes drifted shut.

God, hesmells so good, she thought bewilderedly as he tilted her headback. He kissed her again, his lips warm and weirdly persuasive,and it took her a minute to realize that she was returning hiskiss.

Kira! Stopkissing your dentist!

It was solidadvice, but her body was completely and blissfully betraying her.She pressed up against him and put her arms around his neck. He wasso tall that it was a real stretch to do it, but she liked the wayit forced her breasts against his chest.

His tonguelicked the seam of her mouth. Her head whirling and her pussysuddenly throbbing, she parted her lips. He slid his tongue betweenthem and tasted her with slow, long licks that made Kira shudderwith pleasure. He tasted sweet like the iced tea he had beendrinking. When she pushed her tongue into his mouth with a decidedlack of finesse, he slid his fingers into her hair and tugged herback.

“Slow,” hewhispered.

She blushedfiercely. For roughly a nanosecond, she thought about telling himto stop, but then his warm mouth returned to hers and he was urgingher tongue back into his mouth with slow licks of his. She sloweddown and mimicked the slow strokes of his tongue.

He groanedquietly. Other than his low whisper it was the first sound he hadmade since kissing her. It flamed the lust in her belly evenhigher. She had a feeling that the icy Dr. Connor MacMillan neverlost control. The idea that kissing her could make that controlslip, even a little, was deliciously intoxicating.

She arched herback and rubbed her abdomen against the hardness pressing into it.He was hard. He was hard for her, and that sent another flickeringflame of excitement through her nerve endings. She rubbed her smallbreasts against him and wondered what she could do to get him totouch them. Her nipples were almost painfully hard and pokingagainst her bra. A sudden vision of Connor sucking on them broughton a gush of liquid that soaked the crotch of her panties.

He pulled awayabruptly, and she would have fallen in a boneless heap to the floorif he hadn’t steadied her. She stared dumbly at him before reachingup and touching her trembling, swollen lips.

“Why-why didyou do that?” she whispered.

“If we’reposing as boyfriend and girlfriend, it’s going to require somephysical touching and kissing,” he said.

She felt likeshe’d been through the wringer, but he wasn’t even out of breath.If it hadn’t been for the way his dick still strained at the frontof his pants, she would have thought he was completely unaffectedby the kiss between them.

“O-only whenwe’re around other people.” She couldn’t seem to stop stuttering ortouching her swollen mouth.

He gave her animpatient look. “It won’t look very realistic if we kiss each otherlike it’s the first time we’ve ever kissed. And I wanted to see ifwe had chemistry.”

“Do we?” sheasked like an idiot.

A brief smilecrossed his face and it sent a weird little tingle down the base ofher spine. “Yes. I think so, anyway.”

She didn’treply and he patted her on the shoulder like she was his sister.“That’s a good thing, Kira. It will make it appear more real.”

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