Don’t tell anybody I shared it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
~*~<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Title, release info, etc, to be announced soon-ish<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You are not going to\ndo this Stockholm shit!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n My mind said it over and over and over as his mouth pressed\nto mine, as he slid one hand up my knee and his free arm went around my back, a\nfirm brace that didn\u2019t imprison but also didn\u2019t allow for much movement either.\nHis taut body was hot and hard and strong, the wiry strength the kind I would\nhave found fascinating any other time. I could see myself wanting to draw him,\nwatch him when he wasn\u2019t looking so I could commit the lines of him to memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But this wasn\u2019t any other time<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The hand on my knee slid higher, along my side and my breath\ncaught. Tensing, I braced for him to grab my boob, but he grazed by, going completely\npast and to my horror, my nipples drew tight and throbbed in resentment. My\npulse was slamming by the time he curved his hand over my neck and tugged me in\ncloser, arching my head back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the dim light, I couldn\u2019t make out the green of his eyes,\nbut to me, they seemed darker, so much more intense, so much more dangerous as\nhe bent me closer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe\u2019s ten feet away. You decide what happens, Tia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He kissed me then, his mouth absurdly gentle and such a\ndistraction that I couldn\u2019t figure out what he meant. Ten feet away? Who? O\u2019Halloran?\nI\u2019d finally figured out we were heading west<\/em>\u2014then that phone call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His tongue came into my mouth, past the paltry barrier of my\nparted lips and a startled groan left me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I didn\u2019t like kissing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I mean, I never had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019d put up with it with one or two of the guys I\u2019d dated,\nand there had been one<\/em> guy I\u2019d been somewhat serious about who had\nactually somewhat decent at it so I\u2019d grown to\u2026well, not hate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But I never liked<\/em> it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Except that weird noise just now? It had come from me. His\ntongue toyed with mine, teased, then withdrew and he caught my lower lip. I\nshivered as he bit me and that was when I realized my fingers hurt. I\u2019d reached\nfor him, my left hand clutching at his shoulder and my fingers all but sank\ninto the hard pad of muscle there, as if I was trying to leave permanent\nimpressions on his skin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He lifted his head a bare inch and in the ever-growing\nlight, he stared at me. He had a faint glitter in his eyes that I hadn\u2019t seen\nbefore. I had no time to process it either because his mouth was back on mine\nand the arm he\u2019d wrapped around my back had shifted. Now he played his fingers\nover the small of my back and I shivered, the light tough far more erotic than\nif he\u2019d dipped his hand between my thighs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEverything okay?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n I jerked in surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The man holding me\u2014my kidnapper<\/em>\u2014let go. His hand fell\nfrom my neck. He stopped kissing me. His head sank back onto the padded\nheadrest and he gazed at me from under lashes that I could now see were tipped\nwith gold. We touched all along the right side of my body where I pressed\nagainst him, and my ass, hips and legs. But he wasn\u2019t holding me. His left hand\nstill danced over my lower back but it was light, gentle stroke, nothing at all\nrestraining me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The look in his eyes was clear, his words echoing in my\nhead. He\u2019s ten feet away. You decide what happens, Tia.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A peek at a current project…<\/p>\n You are not going to do this Stockholm shit!
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