Page 81 of Rock Giant
She swallowed.He’d have done what?Come calling?What mischief could the pair of them have enacted in five spare hours.“I don’t think—”
“—I’d have invited you to join Alle, Spook and me on the trip.”
Okay, so it wouldn’t have been just the two of them getting intimate on an otherwise empty bus.Still, the whole trip around the fjords sounded far too romantic.Far too easy to picture the panoramic, film-worthy scenery, the gentle lapping of the sea against the sides of the boat providing musical accompaniment, and the pair of them snuggled together to ward off the evening chill.Nothing like now.The club was sweltering, or maybe that was just her.None of that was to suggest she wouldn’t have enjoyed the experience.She loved exploring new places, and unfortunately most of what she was seeing on this trip was the backstage areas of various concert venues, roadsides, and pit stops.“Was it impressive?”
“The water tumbles down the cliff face into the fjord.Yeah, it’s pretty spectacular.”
“I’m sorry I missed it.”
“I’m sorry you missed it.If only I’d known, I could have stolen you away and had you back before anyone was the wiser.”He grinned again, then pressed his lips to her shoulder.
It was barely pressure enough to register, but she felt it throughout her body.Her nipples tightened, an ache started lower down, and butterflies took flight in her stomach.They rose through her chest and finally escaped her throat in the form of a gasp.Luckily, it was too noisy for anyone besides him to have heard it.
“Paul!”
“Yes, my love.”
“What are you doing?”
He wrinkled his nose.“Nibbling.”
“Well, maybe don’t.”Her gaze darted across the crowd.Was Nash seeing this?Was he going to arrive any moment, a thundercloud over his head and murder in his eyes?Would it stop Rock Giant even if he did?She suspected not.
“But, Castle, I nibble all my friends.”
The fuck he did.“I’m not sure that’s true.Please, behave.”
He gave her a wry smile.“Yo, Ronnie.Lend me your hand.”
Without pausing the conversation he was now deep into with his other band mates, Ronnie thrust his left hand towards Paul, who clasped it around the base and then sucked the jelly rings off his middle digit and released it, so it made a pop.The sight made her insides dance in new and interesting ways.He flashed her a look that seemed to say,see?
“Paul.”Ronnie fluttered his eyelashes and pressed a hand to his chest.“Did you just claim my ring?”
Paul showed him his tongue poking through the jelly ring’s central hole.“Totally mine now.”He winked.
Ronnie groaned.So did Jodi.“Why does that sound so utterly deviant?”
Paul leaned in so his warm breath heated the side of her neck creating yet more bewildering cravings.“Because you’ve a dirty mind, Castle, that’s why.”He chewed and swallowed.Jodi watched the muscles of his throat work, unable to refute his claim, or stop herself from imagining nibbling him back.There, right there at the edge of his jaw, where the line of stubble ended, and also lower, in the V-shaped indent where his neck met his shoulder.
Bad thoughts...bad thoughts.Honestly, the world stopped making sense when he was this close to her, or rather, it made sense in a way that was totally antithetical to her future happiness with the man she was engaged to marry.
Rock Giant dropped his chin onto her shoulder.“You’re less handsy than you used to be.I’m kinda sorry for that.”
“I’m sure I don’t know what you mean.”But she did, and now she was thinking about it, her hands were itching to stray.She clasped the table edge to make sure they didn’t go roving places they shouldn’t, like over his face, or his pecs, or his fly.It didn’t work, not when she felt his lips against her bare skin again, this time followed by the exploratory flick of his tongue beneath the shoelace straps of her vest.Then, she was liquid.Immediately reduced to a puddle of want, desperate to be lapped up.Desperate to be kissed.Desperate to be touched.For him to keep on touching her.She grabbed her drink, knuckles whitening around the bottle as she took a long swallow.
“You’re so fucking sexy.”He breathed deeply of her scent.“I know I’m supposed to behave, but I can’t help it.I want to do bad things with you.Real bad things...”He shifted slightly beneath her.
“Abduction?Bank robbing?”
“If you like.”His arms wrapped around her middle and pulled her more firmly against him.They were close enough now that she could feel the thread of his pulse.It was hammering away at a pace not dissimilar to hers.
“I’m yours to command, Castle.Anything you want, you just name it.You want a partner in crime, I’m your man.Need someone to make it all better when you have boo-boos, then I’ve got ya.”
She didn’t doubt it, except who was going to save her from him?And, hello, there was something firm now poking her in the rear, causing the sort of heat in her that even draining her cold beer couldn’t counter.
She needed to move.If she didn’t...then what?Nothing was going to happen.They were in a public place, and Rock Giant wasn’t Balin.He wasn’t going to unzip his fly and pull her knickers to one side so he could screw her in full sight of the room and everyone they knew.She wasn’t the sort of girl who would let any man do that to her.
Still, her breath kept catching in her throat thinking about it, imagining the bulbous jewellery-enhanced head of him aligning with her split, then filling that opening.Her body would have to stretch to accommodate him.She’d have to spread her legs wide.His hand would slide forward, delve beneath the skirt of her dress, fasten first around the plump tops of her thighs.Squeeze.He wouldn’t need to wet his fingers before touching her.She’d already be stupendously wet for him.
