“Yes. I have a friend with a passion for the game. I will locate a deck of cards to amuse you if you like.” Dean said.
She took another sip of champagne. “I’d like that. If you play gin rummy with me, I’ll play poker with you,” she promised.
“So, we will both indulge our vices.” he replied.
That sounded good to her. She wasn’t indulging any vices with Dash.
Dean was back within a minute, a deck of cards in his hand. While he amused her with stories of Dash’s friends, they played a game of gin rummy.
They had only played a couple of hands when it became apparent she would win. On her second glass of champagne, she was feeling warm and benevolent when she went out for the last time.
So, although she would much rather have played another game of rummy, when Dean's frown told her he did
“He touched you?” Dash asked.The deadly softness of his voice warned her that she had phrased that very badly. She spun in her chair to face him and regretted the action at once. First and foremost because it made her dizzy, but secondly because his expression was frightening. He looked like he wanted to kill someone and she thought that person might be Dean. She didn’t want to cause any problems between the two men, especially when the younger one had been so nice to her.She glared at Dash. “Not like that. I’m not like your other girlfriend, Olivia. I don’t go about kissing men in public places.” She said.Dash ignored the reference to Olivia. “How did he touch you, Tess? Tell me.” His voice was deadly soft.“He kissed my hand and he called me beautiful. If you want the truth, it made me feel nice.” She replied.A lot nicer than having Dash dump the suntan lotion in his sister’s
Shadows played across Tess's closed eyelids as the sounds of the party faded completely from her hearing. Then there was the sound of a door closing behind them. But still he didn’t lift his mouth from hers and she didn’t open her eyes.Awash with sensation, her sensory receptors were inundated with pleasure.The solid feel of a bed beneath her told her he had brought her into a guest room. The feel of his more than solid body on top of hers told her he intended to stay. Her legs instinctively parted, making room for him against her most sensitive flesh. Wearing only their swimsuits, masculine hair covered limbs slid against feminine softness. The sensitive flesh of her inner thighs thrilled to the press of hard, sculpted muscles.The hands she’d so desperately wanted to touch her were all over her skin, leaving a trail of hot desire in their wake.She moaned and arched up toward him, pressing he
She sat up, curling her knees into her chest and effecting as much modesty as possible without her clothes on. His hardness had not abated, but his breathing was growing calmer. She looked away, embarrassed by the intimacy of seeing him like this. She wanted to know the miracle of being connected to him in the most personal way any woman could know a man, but she didn’t doubt he would stand by his ultimatum.Marriage, or nothing.“Dash,” she said tentatively.“Yes?” he replied.“Um…” How did a woman ask this kind of question? “Do you believe in fidelity?” she asked.He sat up and glared at her, supremely unconcerned by his nudity. “Once we are married, there will be no other man.” he said.Was he really that dense? “I meant you. If I marry you, will I have to worry about you taking a mistress?”“No.” he replied. There was a rock-solid certainty in
"Excuse me? You are doing what exactly with him?" Victoria's said, almost yelling. "Here I am waiting for you to get this over with and come back here, and you're telling me shit about enjoy your stay with him. You are not thinking straight""Would you relax a little bit Vicky?" Savannah said. "Calm down"She had just returned from her evening walk on the beach. It had become sort of a habit. Sometime Matt joined her, but today he had to work so she had gone alone. She had just returned to the living room when Vicky called.Vicky hissed. "No I will not calm down" she replied. "I don't understand why you are doing this to yourself. Have you forgotten how much he hurt you? Well if you have, I haven't. I'm your best friend, Savannah, and I know how hurt you were when he pushed you away. And there is a chance that he might do it again. I don't want to lose you. I almost did the last time"Savannah smil
He blew out his breath. “Let’s not talk about that, okay? Whatever happened in the past, the point is, I don’t want you to walk away now. I can’t stand the thought of it.”“Okay,” she said so quietly he almost didn’t hear.He reached out and nudged her chin up. “Okay?” he asked.“I want to stay. I have no idea how we’ll work all this out, but I want to try.”Satisfaction ripped through him, so savage that for a moment he couldn’t breathe. He had to temper his reaction because he wanted nothing more than to grab her, haul her into his arms and hold her so damn tight that she could never escape.“We’ll do more than try,” he vowed. “We’re going to fix this, Savvie. We’re going to make it work this time.”Savannah nodded, but she sai
She was turned on. She wanted this as much as he did. And that was a lot.More than anything he’d ever desired in his life.He moved away from her with a teasing grin on his face. Then he stepped back, kicking off his shoes and shrugging out of his shirt.Mesmerised, she simply stared at him. His shoulders were wide, his chest broad and tapering down to a lean waist, his skin gleaming like burnished gold in stark contrast to the mass of black curling hair arrowing down his strong body. His long arms were hard and muscular and had their own dusting of hair.His hands...his hands were unfastening his trousers. Savannah gasped, her heart skipping a beat."Something wrong, Savvie?" he asked as he moved towards her again. His hands settled on her waist and Savannah was glad of the support, shaken by the intensity of her own desire for him."No," she murmured. "Never more
She was damp and hot and aching for him and her legs moved apart instinctively. Her head burrowed lower, looking for a taut male nipple, one hand sliding over his lean hips searching for something else.Matt's hand tangled in her hair and urged her head up. "Not so fast, sweetheart" he said. He laughed softly, his face inches from hers. "I want to make this good for you, to make it last."With passion-dazed eyes she looked into his face, the smouldering black eyes, the dishevelled hair that she was responsible for, and the wickedly sinful mouth smiling down. It was the smile that goaded her even as her insides were melting like hot treacle.Daringly her slender fingers inched around his hip and touched the long velvet shaft, and she heard him groan. "Why wait?" she prompted breathlessly, her blue eyes widening to blaze with a need and knowledge as old as Eve. "We can always do it again."
He put a hand between them to touch her cheek and then he carefully pulled her away until he looked down into her eyes.The stark emotion there. The devastation. It was like a knife to the gut. She looked so very vulnerable.Fragile. And scared. She looked scared to death. Was she afraid of him? Of what had happened? He couldn’t bear it if she hated herself for giving in to the overwhelming tension that had been building ever since he’d brought her to the island.“What are you thinking?” he asked hoarsely. “Tell me you don’t regret this, Savvie. Anything but regret.”Slowly she shook her head and he felt something loosen inside him. Relief. But it was only the first step.He caressed her cheek, enjoying the feel of her satiny skin. No matter how much he’d told himself that he was better off without her, that he was well rid of her, he could