Just One Kiss (Very Irresistible Bachelors #2) - Layla Hagen Page 0,41
couch when I returned to the living room, moving his finger in a come here motion. I practically flew to him. He patted the spot next to him.
“Finally going to reveal your tricks?” I teased.
“Neck massage.”
I sat on the couch with my back to him. He lowered the zipper of my dress.
“That’s necessary for a neck massage?” I asked.
“Definitely. Most points of tension are actually on the upper back.”
Wow, his hands were pure magic. I wasn’t sure why this all got to me. Maybe because Ryker was doing all this without any expectation. He pressed his fingers on the pressure points on my shoulder blades, then the muscles along my spine. Every time he touched my bare skin, I shuddered. I couldn’t help myself. It was an involuntary reaction. Oh God, if he kept doing that, I was going to ask him to stay the night, and I really couldn’t go there. It would take this to a whole new level, and I wasn’t even sure what this was.
But when Ryker dropped his hands, placing his mouth on my bare back, he wiped all thoughts from my mind except how much I wanted him here with me.
He touched his lips to my skin first, and then the tip of his tongue. My entire body already felt on fire. How was this possible? And how was I supposed to stop this when I wanted nothing more than to turn around and wrap myself around him?
He pushed the dress off one shoulder, moving his mouth over the exposed skin before slowly turning me around, pulling me into his lap. Ryker crushed his mouth to mine, and I responded to the kiss with no restraint. I’d never felt anything like this, and I didn’t have to pause and think why: it was just Ryker. I couldn’t be with him and not be completely consumed by him. I moved my mouth down his jaw and neck, sucking a little on his Adam’s apple. He fisted my hair, keeping me close.
“Babe, wait,” he murmured. I straightened up, noticing Ryker had clenched the blanket on the couch with his free hand. His knuckles brushed my thigh. He’d been seconds away from sliding his hand under my dress.
“If you continue that way, I’m going to try to seduce you, and we can’t have that, because I wouldn’t leave until the morning.”
I’d completely lost track of... everything, and he was the one who remembered where we were? Sensed that I wasn’t ready for him to spend the night here?
I might just have to do everything in my power to make him fall in love with me. I mean, what other option did I have to make sure I didn’t lose him?
I chose my next words carefully. Hopefully he couldn’t guess where my mind had just been.
“You’re going to try and seduce me?” I teased. “What do you call what you’ve been doing until now?”
“Looking after you. If I wanted to seduce you, I’d do this.”
He let go of the blanket, lazily stroked his thumb on my outer thigh until his hand disappeared under my dress. The second goose bumps formed on my thighs, our gazes locked. He slid his hands to my inner thighs, stopping just at the hem of my panties. He kissed one corner of my mouth before biting my lower lip. When he stroked over my panties, I shuddered, clenching my thighs. I wanted him so much, and the way he pressed the drenched fabric over my sensitive skin was pure torture.
“Baby, fuck. You’re wet.” His voice was almost a growl. My entire body was on fire... even more so when Ryker traced the strap of my bra with his other hand, as if he was seconds away from taking off my clothes. To my surprise, he dropped both hands.
“This wasn’t part of the plan,” he said.
“Enlighten me. What are you planning?”
“At least a couple more dates before we move on to the overnighter.”
“Mmm, you think I’m so easy to win over, do you?”
“All evidence points that I’m on the right path. Plus, I’m willing to learn.”
Oh, man. He was making it harder and harder for me to climb out of his lap and see him to the door, and that feral glint in his eyes made one thing clear: he was walking a fine line, and was very close to falling over the edge.
I had to be the one to keep my head cool. The only problem was that I already felt very... seduced.