Page 96 of How to Get Even

As the water cascaded down over them, he took her mouth, the slick slide of their tongues merging with watery caresses. Christ. Already he was hard for her. Already the fire stoked by just one touch burned through the water. His lips hungrily consumed the skin on her neck as he pressed open-mouthed kisses to her collarbone and chest. His hands palmed her breasts and her cries urged him on.

What was this madness? he wondered, his entire body burning with need.

‘Condom,’ he said against her skin, groaning just from the thought of leaving her.

She stilled in his hands, frustration etched on her face.

His forehead dropped to hers. ‘I only had one in my wallet,’ he admitted.

‘That’s okay,’ she said, smiling softly as if that was it. That was all he was after. He frowned, wondering at what the hell the guys she’d been with before now had been up to.

‘That doesn’t mean that I’m done with you,’ he warned her, eagerness spreading through his body at the way her eyes lit up.

He kissed her with the fervour of a dying man, before turning her in his arms and gently pressing her against the shower wall. She shivered as he pressed a kiss to her neck and trembled when he told her to hold on.

He dropped to his knees, and parted her legs, drawing her hips back towards him.

‘Chase—’ She shook.

‘Don’t worry. I’ve got you,’ he promised her. ‘Just trust me.’

And then he leaned forward and pressed open-mouthed kisses against her core. His fingers found her clit as she cried out, her body tense and near fraught with need.

She tasted incredible, but it was the way she shifted in his hands, as if unable to keep still, unable to bear her own pleasure. His tongue delved into her folds, teased her entrance as one hand palmed her ass cheek and the other teased her clit. Hot, wet and sweet, he’d never been so turned on in his life. He was at risk of coming just from the sound of her pleasure.

She pressed herself against him and he smiled, tonguing her thoroughly, spreading her just a little wider for him, until finally, spectacularly, she came undone on his tongue, her breath rhythmic sobs that he felt right down to his balls.

Tremors wracked her body as he took her into his arms and out of the shower. He dried her carefully, while the daze slowly receded from her gaze and led her back into the dimly lit room. He drew her beneath the covers, tucking her against his body, knowing that his own needs could wait. Would wait, until they knew exactly what was going on between them.

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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

THE ART OF WAR, SUN TZU

Bella opened her eyes to the sight of the empty bed beside her. Her heart jerked, the level of hurt near shocking, and warning enough.He’d left?

‘You shouldn’t think so hard so early in the morning.’

Chase’s voice startled her, making her jump and then laugh, and she tried to hide her foolishness by squashing her face into the pillow.

He was still here.

She peeked out at him from the pillow to find him smiling at her. He was holding a cup of coffee and there was a room service tray in the corner of the room.

‘You’re a feeder,’ she complained as her stomach rejoiced.

‘We didn’t get much at the dinner last?—’

Bella’s gasp of horror cut him off.

The dinner!Oh God, she’d completely forgotten!

They’d left early. Thewholepoint of the event had been about redeeming Chase’s reputation and ensuring the gallery was back on track and instead, they’d left before the end.

Her hand flew to her head, her thoughts so frantic they were giving her a temperature. It was another mess she was going to have fix. She needed to call the PR firm and?—

‘You’re doing it again,’ Chase chided. ‘I told the Harrisons that it was a family emergency.’

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