Page 9 of My Bodyguard Neighbor
Holly felt a strange sense of relief.At least now they were getting somewhere."So who are you?"
"I'm someone who's been hired to keep you alive."
Holly's world tilted sideways."Hired by who?"
"I think you already know the answer to that."
"My father hired you to spy on me."
"To protect you," Jonah corrected."There's a difference."
"Is there?"Holly's anger was building now, fed by years of her father's manipulation and control."Did he tell you to seduce me too?Was last night part of the job?"
"Don't."
"Don't what?Don't ask if you were planning to fuck me as part of your surveillance?"
Jonah moved so fast Holly didn't have time to react.One moment she was standing by her front door, the next she was pressed against it with Jonah's body caging her in and his hands braced on either side of her head.
"Nothing about last night was part of the job," he said."Nothing about the way I want you has anything to do with your father or his money or my assignment."
Even in the midst of her anger and confusion, her body responded to his proximity with a hunger that should have embarrassed her.
"How am I supposed to believe that?"
"Because if this was just a job, I would have kept my distance.I would have done my job and stayed the hell away from you instead of spending every waking moment fighting the urge to touch you."
Holly could feel the tension radiating from his body, could see the way his control was hanging by a thread.
“Do you have any idea what you do to me?”
Holly's heartbeat thundered against her throat as she stared up at him.Every rational thought in her head screamed that she should push him away, that she couldn't trust him, that everything between them was built on lies.
But the way he looked at her made her forget every reason why this was a bad idea.
"Show me," she whispered.
Jonah's control snapped.
His mouth crashed down on hers with a hunger that set her blood on fire.This wasn't the gentle, exploring kiss she might have expected.This was possession, pure and simple.His tongue swept into her mouth like he was claiming territory, and Holly moaned at the taste of him.
She pulled him nearer even as her rational mind screamed that this was insane.She was kissing a man who'd been lying to her from the moment they met, a man who'd been hired by her father to watch her every move.She should be furious, should be demanding answers, should be—
Jonah's teeth scraped against her lower lip, and Holly's thoughts scattered like leaves in a hurricane.His hands moved to her waist, sliding under her shirt to touch bare skin, and she arched against him with a desperation that shocked her.
"I've wanted to do this since the moment I saw you," he groaned against her mouth.
"This is crazy," she whispered.
"Completely insane," he agreed, his thumb tracing the line of her jaw."I should walk away.I should do my job and keep my hands off you."
"But you're not going to."
"Not a chance in hell."
Jonah kissed her again, and this time Holly met him with equal hunger.She nipped at his lower lip, smiled when he growled low in his throat, gasped when his hands tightened on her waist hard enough to leave marks.
She could feel his arousal pressed against her, could feel the way his control was unraveling with every touch, every kiss, every small sound she made.Holly had never felt so wanted, so desired, so absolutely necessary to another person's existence.
