Total pages in book: 103
Estimated words: 100661 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 503(@200wpm)___ 403(@250wpm)___ 336(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 100661 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 503(@200wpm)___ 403(@250wpm)___ 336(@300wpm)
“Are you okay?” I asked, my chest filling with concern. “I don’t have to go with Joe. I can come home with you in case you—”
“No.” She pinned me with a stare. “You are going up to his hotel room for some fun, because you deserve it. You are not going to panic. You are not going to let your nerves take over your mouth. You are going to relax and enjoy every single second of tonight. This is not the kind of opportunity that comes along every day, Mabel.”
“I know.”
“So be safe, but also be reckless. Be wild.” She grinned wickedly. “And remember every filthy detail because I will be asking you for all of them tomorrow. Now go.”
“Going.” I stood up. “Do I look like a drowned rat?”
“No. You look like a shimmering maid ready to be ravished by a rake.”
“You read too much romance.” Laughing, I leaned over and hugged her. “Thanks for the pep talk.”
“You’re welcome.” She sighed. “Someday I’ll have wild sex again.”
I covered my ears. “Good night, Ari.”
“Good night, Mabel.”
Without looking for Joe—we were trying to fly under the radar—I picked up my clutch and slipped out of the ballroom.
He joined me in the hallway a minute later. “All good?” he asked.
“Yes. I let Ari know I didn’t need a ride home. Did you say goodbye to your friends?”
“Yeah. They gave me a bunch of shit about leaving early, but I just said I had a bad headache. I’ve had enough concussions that no one really questioned it.” His gaze traveled over my body. “And I don’t fucking care anyway. Ready to go?”
“Yes.”
He took my hand and led me quickly down the stairs, through the lobby of the inn, and over to the elevators. Thankfully no one else was waiting, because the doors were not even closed behind him before he pinned me to the wall, cupped my jaw with one hand, and crushed his lips to mine. As the elevator took us up two flights, he slid his other hand up my ribs and covered one breast. My nipple was so hard it poked through the fabric of my dress. “I can’t wait to get my mouth on you,” he growled, teasing the stiff peak with his thumb. “I’m gonna make you come so hard.”
I believed him. Not only because he was so confident, but just the touch of his thumb had heat coursing through me like TNT in my veins. I could only imagine what the rest of him could do.
Behind him, the elevator pinged and the doors opened. He grabbed me by the wrist and yanked me down the hall so fast I nearly tripped in my high heels. Stopping abruptly in front of room 308, he pulled the key from his wallet. It took him three frustrated tries to get the door unlocked, but once the green light flashed, he shoved it open, stood aside so I could go in first, and hung the Privacy Please sign on the handle.
Before it even slammed shut, his mouth was on mine again, hungry and demanding. I dropped my clutch to the floor. He shed his jacket.
Ari’s words were in my head. This is not the kind of opportunity that comes along every day. Be reckless. Be wild.
I made up my mind that I was not going to be shy about what I wanted. I tugged at the knot in his tie and slipped it from his collar.
His palms skimmed over my shoulders, my back, my ass. He pulled me tight against him, and I felt the bulge in his pants, kicking up my excitement even higher. I was doing this to him. I was causing his body to heat up and get hard. I was the one he’d chosen to be with tonight. He could have left with any woman in that ballroom, but he wanted me, and he was making no secret about it.
“God, you smell so fucking good. I could swallow you whole.” Bending down, he pressed his nose and mouth to the skin beneath my ear and inhaled, then swept his lips down my neck and across my collarbone. Reaching the notch at the base of my throat, he teased it with his tongue, sending that pulse of desire through me again. My core muscles clenched. My thighs were damp. My nipples tingled as his hands slid up my sides and rubbed them with his thumbs.
Trembling with excitement, I slid my hand down between us and stroked the hard length of his cock through his pants. He groaned, bringing his mouth back to mine, his kiss lush and insistent. Reaching behind me, he dragged down the zipper at my spine, and my dress fell to the floor.
Before I had a chance to be self-conscious, he swept me off my feet and carried me over to the bed, laying me across the foot of the mattress, my feet dangling off one side. Then he switched on the bedside lamp.