Page 32 of Reckless Curves
The first contact with his lips as he brushed them over hers, sent need coursing through her and any objection she might have made fizzled and died. It was a good thing she was sitting down when he kissed her in earnest because her knees would’ve turned to jelly.Oh, to hell with it!
Kendra gave up fighting against what her body wanted and wrapped her arms around Tom’s neck. Parting her lips, she invited him to invade her mouth, reveling in the warm, soft collision of their tongues. She’d lied to him about not fantasizing about him like this.
She liked the feel of his short hair against her palm as she ran her hand over the back of his head. He hauled her over onto his lap, making her gasp into his mouth. Tom angled his mouth a little more and Kendra kissed him back like a starving woman.
Nothing could cool the fire Tom had lit inside her. No man had ever kissed her with this kind of intensity. It had been the same way on the night they’d slept together. He was everything she’d wanted, needed… and he had given her a night she could never forget.
Iced tea had never tasted as good as it did on his lips, and she drank deeply while her temperature continued to climb. He slid a hand down her back to her hip and kept it there even though she wanted him to strip her naked and kiss every inch of her heated skin.
A cute little voice said, “Mama kish Tom,” followed by an adorable giggle.
Tom jerked so hard in surprise that he almost bucked Kendra off the couch. “Hi!” he said to Connor, who stood smiling at them. “Mommy had something in her eye and I was helping her.”
Kendra clung to Tom’s shoulders until she regained her balance and then stood. His ridiculous excuse and the stark fear in Tom’s expression struck her as hilarious, and she promptly burst into laughter even though desire still hummed through her body.
Connor laughed and jumped up and down in delight as Kendra braced herself on the couch.
She could tell Tom didn’t find the situation amusing in the least. It was obviously his first time being interrupted during a passionate moment by a kid, and his son at that, and he wasn’t sure what to do.
“Tom kish Mama!” Connor shouted, still jumping up and down.
Tom ran a hand over his face. “Shit. I hope he doesn’t say that around Marcus.”
Kendra’s mirth faded at that thought. “Oh, God. You’re right.” Then she waved away their concern. “I’ll just say that I kissed your cheek to thank you for your work on my van.”
Tom stared at her. “Have you always been this good at lying?”
“Pfft! Please. I had to be, or else I wouldn’t have ever gotten to do anything,” Kendra said. “Even after I was given the all-clear, everyone treated me like I was still sick and I wasn’t hardly allowed to leave the house.”
“Shit!” Connor said and laughed.
“Sorry about that.”
“Don’t worry about it. Stella accidentally taught him that one. Kids can sneak up on you, as you just found out. They overhear things that they shouldn’t.”
Tom leaned back against the couch, and she shivered in his heat. She wanted him so much but Connor came first. He sighed and chuckled. “Okay. I’m glad I didn’t teach him that word.”
Connor ran over to the couch and used Tom’s leg to help him clamber onto it. “What’s dat?” He pointed at the forgotten laptop on the floor.
Kendra said, “It’s mummies laptop. You’ve seen this before. We play Mr. Caterpillar on it.”
“Me see!” Connor slid back off the couch and ran over to where it lay discarded in their passionate moment.
Tom grinned when Connor couched down and touched the keyboard. “Can you see Mr. Cattapillar?”
“No.” He looked at Tom.
“I bet he’s gone to bed as it’s late,” Tom said to him.
Connor thought about that and nodded. He stood. “Mama, me thirsty,” the little boy said.
Kendra chuckled. “Okay, but only a little water.”
“’Kay.”
“I better go.” Tom rose and prepared to leave. He snagged the printouts of the rentals they would inspect, and Kendra had to stop herself from saying, ‘don’t go’.
She was still so into him.
