Dirty Sexy Alphas (Twenty Book Box Set) - Hannah Ford Page 0,281

hers. “But I’m not going to take you against the wall of concession stand in the middle of broad daylight. No matter how badly I want to.”

Harper blinked against the haze in her head. He was right. Anyone could walk by and if they were looking to get pictures of Ethan, they might get her too. And if her father saw them...

She nodded her head.

Tension eased from his body and though he still looked like he wanted to devour her, his face relaxed. The urgency inside her had dimmed but it wasn’t gone. She didn’t want to leave. Not yet.

“Will you stay while I help pack up? We can go back to my place after?” He stroked his thumb over her collarbone and she leaned into the touch.

“I’ll even help you pack your gear,” she said, grinning. “Maybe I can be your roadie for the day.”

He shook his head and laughed. “You have a lot to learn, Harper.”

They both knew this was a bad idea, but neither wanted to admit it.

She knew this wasn’t going anywhere except for Ethan’s bedroom. Their time together was limited and any chance of a real relationship was completely doomed.

Harper understood all of that, but she wasn’t going to stop until the whole thing went down in flames, as she knew it eventually must.

Ethan was silent almost the whole drive back to the city.

Harper had stood to the side while he helped his crew load up the car and when he’d come out of the small trailer in jeans and a t-shirt, his shoulders were tense and his stride a little too long.

After a few tries at conversation, Harper gave up. Something was off. Ethan’s leg had not stopped moving and his thumbs tapped on the steering wheel. He was on edge. Cagey. Maybe he was mad at her for coming to his race out of the blue. Or he’d remembered that they were enemies but felt bad admitting his change of heart.

But he pulled up at a high-rise in the city and helped her out, his hand at her elbow. They went inside and he guided her to the bank of elevators.

“Ethan?” she finally asked when the doors dinged closed.

He still had his sunglasses on and she couldn’t see his eyes, but she could feel the weight of his stare.

“If you want me to go…” the elevator dinged at the forty first floor and he pushed away from the wall. Once again he guided her ahead of him along a brightly lit hall until he stopped in front of B304.

The door opened, she stepped inside and it closed behind her. The place was beautiful. She could see the river out of a wall of windows straight ahead.

“This is…” She turned to tell him it was stunning, but he’d taken his sunglasses off and his eyes were smoldering.

He took a step toward her, then another. Some primal instinct rose up and screamed for her to run. That she was the prey and he the predator. The back of her knees hit some piece of furniture and she had to stop.

His gaze roved over her body and left her breathless. He looked like he wanted to devour her.

“Take off your clothes, Harper,” he gritted out.

Her breath caught in her throat when he reached behind his head and pulled his shirt up and over. Her imagination had not tried to trick her after all. The tanned muscles that she remembered, that delicious dip on the side of his hips, had not just been in her imagination.

He toed off his shoes and flicked the button on his jeans open.

Not once had his stare strayed from her face. His jaw hardened, and the tension that had been radiating from him since the track, now she knew what it was. Her skin tightened and her pulse leapt.

“Clothes. Off.” The deep command sank into her bones and she forgot how to think for a second.

The zipper on his jeans came down and he shoved them over his hips, standing in only a pair of black boxer briefs. And holy shit, if she had any doubt at all whether he wanted her, there wasn’t any now. His cock was rigid, pushing against the thin cotton.

“Time’s up.” He stalked the few feet between them, dipped down and lifted her off her feet. When she tried to squirm from his hold, he smacked her ass.

“What are you doing,” she squeaked, and then she was on her back in his bed.

“I already told you I