Charity Case - The Complete Series - Piper Rayne Page 0,267

against him to get off. My thirst will never be quenched with this man.

His phone vibrates on the coffee table, but his lips continue to sprinkle kisses along my neck.

Lucy barks at the phone now. I can’t see her but I can hear her up on all fours.

“Should you get that?” I ask, my eyes falling shut from the inducing pleasure he’s creating.

“No.” His word comes out as a throaty whisper.

Will we ever get enough of one another? Will there be a time when he’ll want to sleep in another bedroom or his hand won’t slide along my ass as I pass him by. Will he stop cornering me to sneak a kiss or ask me to sit with him to keep him entertained while he’s making a meal? Will all the little intimate moments fade away like they did in my marriage? My heart tells me no, but there’s that annoying part of my brain that says I’m living in dreamland.

The phone starts vibrating right after it stops.

Roarke’s lips pause on my skin until it stops ringing again. He positions my lips over his giving me the deepest and hungriest kiss I’ve ever gotten, besides our first night together. I sink into him, my body hyper-aware that it’s been granted another ride on the Roarke roller coaster.

One short beep signaling a text sounds from his phone and then the phone begins vibrating again.

I dislodge myself from his lap, but he locks his arms over my legs so they stay strewn across his lap. Reaching forward, he picks up the phone to see who’s calling. The smoothness of his palm running up and down my legs stops and his thumb scrolls down the screen.

“I’ll be right back.” He gently lifts my legs, stands and places them back on the couch.

Lucy jumps into his spot right away followed seconds later by Nickel who takes a seat on the top of the couch cushions.

This is the second time this week he’s sheltered himself away for a call. I don’t hear anything, not even a mumble until he comes out ten minutes later, after Baby’s dad finds out she’s been sleeping with the dance instructor. Just as Baby’s world crashes down around her, mine does too.

Roarke emerges from the hall in a pair of jeans, a polo shirt, and shoes. He’s even run some gel through his hair. Without missing a beat, he walks directly toward me, leaning down. “I have to run out really quick. I shouldn’t be long.” He places a chaste kiss on my lips.

At first, I’m stunned. What does he mean he has to leave right now?

“Where are you going?” I slide out from under Lucy’s body to follow him to the door.

“I have something I need to deal with for a client.” He waits, wrapping his arms around my body, pulling me into him. The roughness of his jeans pressed against my t-shirt clad body is not nearly as nice as his cotton pajama pants. “It kills me to leave you, especially when you’re dressed in almost nothing.” He presses his lips to my forehead.

“Then don’t.” I grip harder around his middle and his lips fall to the tip of my nose.

“If I had a choice…” His words trail off and I lean my cheek on his shirt, smelling the newly sprayed cologne he put on. “Order in some sushi and I’ll be back to eat it off you.” His lips linger above mine for a too-brief moment.

I release my hold on him reminding myself that if he’s leaving for something other than work I have no control of that. My relationship with Todd taught me that one thing. If Roarke wants to cheat on me, I can’t do anything about it.

He presses lips to mine, my cheek cradled in his palm. His tongue slides into my mouth and all the doubts of his rushed leaving tonight vanish as I rise to my tiptoes to keep the kiss going. One of his hands slides around my back, pushing me into his hold and we stay lip-locked for another few minutes. By the time he closes the kiss, I’m heaving for breath with swollen lips.

“That way you won’t forget me.” He smiles suggesting that’s a figure of speech. Just a tease, but his words sear right into my biggest wound.

Without saying more, he grabs his wallet from the front table, shoving it into his pocket and shutting the door behind him.

I don’t have long to stay in my own