Wanted by the Boss: Sleeping with the Boss / Cowboy Boss / Billionaire Boss. Maureen Child

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СКАЧАТЬ She moved on him, rocking her hips and bucking, arching her back as though she were riding a half-wild horse in a rodeo.

      Her skin still damp with rain, cold drops of water dripping from the ends of her hair to splatter against his body, she looked fierce and tender and free. Her head fell back and her eyes closed as she moved on him, taking him deep within her and grinding her hips against him. She drove him higher, higher than he’d expected. Higher than he’d thought possible. And the flashing need erupting inside him nearly strangled him.

      He reached up, covering her breasts with his hands, his fingers and thumbs squeezing her hardened nipples. She pushed herself into his touch and he smiled, before dropping one hand to the spot where their bodies met. He fingered her center, toying with that small nubbin of flesh that held her secrets, cradled her need.

      ‘‘Rick!’’ She groaned his name and moved harder on him, swaying, moving with a rhythm that rocked him to his bones.

      ‘‘Feel it,’’ he ordered, watching her face, seeing the pleasure streaking across her features.

      ‘‘Too much,’’ she murmured, shaking her head, biting her bottom lip.

      ‘‘Never enough,’’ he told her, and kept stroking her center as she moved on him, rocking, swaying, taking.

      She gasped as her body tightened on his. The first tremors took her and she moved quickly, fiercely, heightening her own pleasure while demanding his.

      ‘‘Never enough,’’ she echoed as he erupted inside her, then cradled her gently as they took the fall together.

      Minutes, hours…heck, it could have been days later, for all Eileen knew—or cared—she collapsed beside him in a boneless heap. She licked her lips and tried to fight off the buzzing in her head long enough to say, ‘‘That was…amazing.’’

      ‘‘In a word,’’ he said, his voice nearly lost in the crash and boom of thunder.

      ‘‘You know…’’ Eileen took a long, unsteady breath and blew it out again before continuing. ‘‘For a guy who looks like Mr. Uptight and Closed Off, you do some great work.’’

      ‘‘You’re not so bad yourself,’’ he said.

      She smiled in the darkness, then felt that smile slowly fade away as reality came crashing down on her. ‘‘We’re gonna be sorry we did this, aren’t we?’’

      ‘‘Probably.’’

      ‘‘That’s what I thought.’’ Eileen studied the play of slashes of light across the beamed ceiling and listened to Rick’s heavy breathing in the quiet. Her thoughts raced across her mind in such a blur of speed she couldn’t really nail one down long enough to examine it. And that was, no doubt, for the best. Considering that if she really stopped to think about what she’d just done with Rick, she’d probably smack herself in the forehead.

      ‘‘I want you to know,’’ she said, ‘‘I’m not looking for a relationship.’’

      ‘‘Me neither.’’

      ‘‘That’s good, then.’’

      ‘‘Yeah. Good.’’

      ‘‘Still, this is going to complicate things, isn’t it?’’ she asked.

      ‘‘You mean, am I going to look at you sitting at your desk and picture you here?’’ he asked. ‘‘Oh yeah.’’

      ‘‘It’s not going to be easy for me either, you know.’’ She couldn’t even imagine being in the office with him and not thinking about those wild moments out on the balcony. Stupid, Eileen. Really stupid. She shouldn’t have done this. Shouldn’t have given in to her hormones like some vapid teenager who didn’t know better.

      She should have remembered that men were trouble and her track record was less than stellar.

      ‘‘Which is why we shouldn’t have.’’

      ‘‘True.’’ Eileen glanced at him, and noted that he, too, was staring up into the darkness. She wondered what he was really thinking. If he was wondering how to make a graceful exit from the bed. If he’d just fire her right now and avoid the whole embarrassing after-sex scene. ‘‘I’m only in your life—your world, temporarily. Two weeks. That’s it.’’

      ‘‘Should have been simple,’’ he said.

      ‘‘Not anymore.’’

      ‘‘Nope.’’

      She sighed and turned onto her side. Heat from his body reached out for her and she couldn’t resist touching him again. Sliding one hand up his chest, she murmured, ‘‘Just think, our grandmothers got us into this.’’

      He chuckled, caught her hand and threaded his fingers through hers. ‘‘I don’t think this is what they had in mind.’’

      ‘‘Hardly.’’

      ‘‘Look,’’ Rick said, his voice gaining strength, his fingers tightening on her hand. ‘‘What happened, happened. We’re adults. It shouldn’t be any big thing to deal with. It was just sex.’’

      ‘‘Amazing sex.’’

      ‘‘That goes without saying.’’

      ‘‘It’d be nice to hear, though.’’

      He looked at her. ‘‘Amazing sex.’’

      ‘‘Thank you.’’

      ‘‘No,’’ he countered, ‘‘thank you.’’

      ‘‘Trust me,’’ she said, a reluctant smile curving her mouth. ‘‘My pleasure.’’

      ‘‘Yeah, I know.’’

      ‘‘No ego problems here.’’

      He rolled over, pushing her onto her back and bracing himself up one elbow so that he could look down at her. ‘‘It’s one night. One night out of a lifetime. Neither one of us is looking for—or expects—roses and cherubs. We enjoy each other, then go back to business as usual tomorrow.’’

      Eileen looked up at him, studying his eyes, his face, the curve of his mouth. She wanted to kiss him again. To taste him. To feel his tongue sweeping against hers. Hunger arced inside her again, fresh, greedy. She’d never felt like this before.

      She’d been with a man before, of course. Her fiancé and then Joshua. But those experiences were nothing compared to what was going on inside her at the moment. She’d never felt the compulsion for more as she had tonight.

      Even though she’d just been with Rick, she wanted him again. Now. Inside her. She wanted to feel his body moving within hers. Wanted to feel a part of him. Wanted to be locked within his embrace—and that was new.

      A part of her wanted to explore these new sensations. And another, more wary part of her wanted to back off now, while she could still think logically. There was no future with Rick. He was just СКАЧАТЬ