Page 25 of Marriage Bargain with His Innocent
Her arms were doing just what she’d hoped they wouldn’t do—winding round his neck and drawing him towards her. Her breasts were squashed against his chest as they unconsciously closed the gap between themselves, and she could feel the scratchy tingle of her nipples against her bra.
She wanted him to touch her so badly that it was a physical ache. Andshewanted to touchhim. More than anything else in the world she wanted to take his bigness between her hands andfeelhim.
The craving inside her was so intense that it took her breath away. It terrified her.
She had no idea what was happening because she had never felt anything so powerful in her life before. It carried the force of a tsunami, and some primitive instinct told her that it was a force she had to keep at bay or beware the consequences.
With a gasp, she pushed him away. He immediately stepped back, although he continued to stare down at her, his beautiful eyes unfathomable.
‘This isn’t part of the deal,’ she hissed fiercely.
She wrapped her arms around her body and met his stare head-on. She wondered if he thought he was so irresistible that she just wouldn’t be able to help but melt into his arms like a Victorian maiden.
‘This is an...an...arrangement... And if I remember correctly it’s an arrangementyourejected until you decided that you had no option but to accept because you couldn’t face letting your mother down. This isn’treal. Fantasy isn’t going to get in the way ofreality.’
‘But that’s not what this is about, is it?’ Matias purred, infuriatingly calm.
‘Then what was...what was...that...?’
‘You mean our passionate kiss?’
Georgina glowered, her colour high, her whole body aflame with a longing she couldn’t quite manage to douse.
‘Lust,’ Matias murmured succinctly.
One word but it couldn’t have been more erotic or more devastating. Because it was stripped of all the pretty packaging that he might have used to soften its naked potency.
‘I don’t get it,’ he continued in a low, lazy, wildly sensual voice, ‘but I want you.’
‘No,’ Georgina whispered, ‘you don’t. I get on your nerves! How many times have you told me that? You and I havenothingin common! We’re like chalk and cheese! And don’t eventhinkabout telling me that opposites attract, because we’re not just opposites...we’re so different we could have come from different planets!’
‘Mysterious, isn’t it?’
‘Is that all you have to say?’
‘I’m being honest.’ He shrugged. ‘So what if we’re from different planets? What does that have to do with whether we want to find the nearest bed...or table...or sofa...or patch of ground...and rip one another’s clothes off? This isn’t about confusing reality with fantasy, Georgie. This isn’t about us actuallyhavinga relationship. No, this is way more elemental than that. I see you and I want to taste you.’
‘Matias...stop!’
‘Why? Am I turning you on?’
‘No! I don’t want you! You’re mistaken!’ Georgina heard the pathetic desperation in her voice with dismay. ‘Your mother is waiting for us! I... She’s going to come out in a minute... She’s going to want to know what’s going on...’
‘She won’t come out,’ Matias assured her in a deep, velvety voice that was just ever so slightly amused. ‘She’s leaving the love birds to have fun together without her getting in the way. Why do you think she propelled us off for a session at the beach? Why do you think she insisted on us being together under the same roof while we’re here?’
‘Well, she won’t find us doing anything together! That kiss? It never happened!’
‘No?’ he drawled, eyebrows raised. ‘Why’s that?’
‘Because I’m notyou, Matias.’ She was relieved that she had regained control over her vocal cords. She wanted to sound cool and dismissive and she wasn’t too far away from succeeding. Logic and common sense might have flown through the window for a few seconds, but both were back now. ‘I don’t do passing-ships-in-the-night relationships.’
‘Have you ever tried?’
‘I don’t need to. I know that kind of thing is not for me.’
‘So instead you make a checklist for the perfect guy and see if reality tallies up with the picture you’ve got in your head?’
‘There’s nothing wrong with knowing what you want when it comes to finding a partner.’
