Page 83 of Hooked on a Witch
Damn it, he should’ve shaved. He hadn’t anticipated doing this again with her. “What kind of bargain?”
She smiled a true, wicked-witch smile. “I want to have you out here.”
“What else do you want?”
“Everything. I get you and I want this.” She rested her hand over his chest. “I want the one thing you never gave to anyone else.”
“How do you know I loved someone else?”
“I already have your heart.” She smiled when he frowned. “I knew you loved me the moment you said my pie was pretty good.”
“What more is there, then?”
“For today, possibly the last few hours of your life, I want everything that’s you.”
“My soul?”But you already have it.Looking into her pale eyes, he felt a jolt of something close to fear. From the first moment he’d met her so long ago she’d been the woman in the back of his mind. He couldn’t imagine a world without her and didn’t even want to know what it would be like. This must be the hell Brian was living through if he felt something like this for Shannon’s mother.
Somehow Shannon had been roped into the game the gods played with his life. He couldn’t control that. He couldn’t predict the outcome. Yet he had to figure out how to keep her from being collateral damage.
She nodded. “Everything.”
“I give you everything and you’ll stay away when Owen and his friends arrive?” He cradled her head and claimed her mouth. She drew him in deeper, but he was still in command of the kiss, giving her everything he had until she clung to him and whimpered.
He pulled away. “Well?”
“You drive a hard bargain. I don’t think you’ll walk away from us right now if I say no.”
“I might walk. This is important. They can’t know you’re here.” He leaned in as if to kiss her but didn’t make contact.
She groaned in frustration. “Okay. Fine. I’ll go home after this.”
He reached for the clasp at the top of the halter top. “I’ve been imagining this since the second you walked out the front door.” The yellow fabric collapsed to her waist. Coherent words failed him as he skimmed his fingers from her collarbones to her breasts. He bent his head and curled the tip of his tongue along one of the pebbled pink tips. She arched into him and grabbed on to his shoulders.
“God, I want so much…” She trailed off.
“Don’t worry, darlin’. I’ll give you everything you want. Just tell me how you feel.” His mind should be cluttered. He should be running through eventualities and preparing for today’s confrontations. Making plans fell into the background. Only she had the ability to stop his brain from analyzing and plotting. It felt pretty damned great.
“So little time.” She moaned when he nipped at a nipple.
“We’ll make it enough.”
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Shannon’s world tilted as he continued to kiss her breasts, curling his tongue against her skin. His breath teased her before he straightened and pulled away. She whimpered complaint. “Merck?”
“Shh.” He cupped her face, then he stepped away and placed towels from a storage box on the floor of the bow. She would’ve thought her dress and panties disappeared by magic if she hadn’t felt him swipe them off. He lowered her to the boat floor.
Merck teased her with his touch, sliding his fingers through her folds. Lightly at first but enough to make her squirm. When she tried to push closer, he moved his hand away, denying her. He caged her with his arms, his body not touching hers. “Tell me what you want.”
“You without clothes is a start.” She plucked at his T-shirt.
He didn’t make any motion to remove his clothes. “Then what?”
“I need you to want me so much you can’t stand it.”
He leaned in and whispered, “I already do.”
“I want you wild. I want all that you keep caged.”
