Fatal Intent - Jamie Jeffries Page 0,18

Wanted him to tell her she was beautiful and know he meant every part of her. Something was different about them being together tonight, and she couldn’t pin it down.

Alex firmly turned off her analytical side and gave herself to the moment. Dylan bent his head to kiss her, slowly and thoroughly, slipping his tongue between her lips to dance with hers. When she swayed toward him, he caught her around the waist and shoulders with his muscular arms and bent her back, trailing kisses down her jaw to the hollow of her throat, licking the salty skin with a growl.

Alex’s insides turned to molten lava then, and her fingers curled into his arms, digging into his skin. Dylan picked her up as if she were weightless and carried her into her bedroom. He set her down on the bed and gave her another look that curled her toes, before taking the few steps into her bathroom and turning on the shower.

When he returned for her, he was naked. She’d shed her clothes too, and his eyes burned her skin as they roamed over every inch of it. Then, still without a word, he took her hand and pulled her up, then led her into the bath and helped her over the rim of the tub into the shower. Alex found her voice as Dylan turned her back to him and pulled her close.

“Wait, no fair!”

“You’ll get your turn.” Dylan’s husky voice betrayed his feelings as his soapy hands came around the front of her and began to stroke her.

Alex closed her eyes and leaned back against him. The evidence of his arousal settled in the curve of her ass and made her hyper-aware of every sensuous stroke of his hands. When one hand cupped a full breast and the other dipped between her legs, she almost lost the ability to stand, but his arms held her firm. It took only moments to reduce her to a quivering blob of jelly. Dylan turned her again and snuggled her close.

“Shall we go to bed?”

“No!” she managed. “You promised me a turn!”

He chuckled softly. “I thought that was your turn.”

In answer, she reached blindly for the soap and began stroking him from shoulders to thighs, coming close but teasing him by not touching that part of him that was waving for her attention.

“Woman,” he warned. “That’s a loaded weapon.”

He managed to persuade her to get out of the shower before she was through teasing him, but once in bed, they resumed their foreplay until they came together like never before. Alex figured out the difference then. Her reservations were gone. She loved him, deeply, irrevocably. She was his, and if she believed her heart, she always had been. She just hadn’t told him yet.

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Dylan woke up in Alex’s bed, with his arms wrapped around her and no one else in the house. He wouldn’t have moved from there for the rest of the day, but she insisted on getting up and going out for coffee and a pastry for breakfast, then on to the grocery store for some things to bake a cake. Dylan groaned when he realized the roommates were going to join the two of them for an actual birthday party.

“Alex, I’m too old for a birthday party.”

“You are not. Quit complaining, this is my gift to you,” she said. He considered reminding her of the gift of the previous night, but decided discretion would be better when he noticed how close the other tables were. Instead, he gave her a knowing smile that made her blush. He loved that about her. As smart, independent and self-sufficient as she was, she still blushed like a little girl when she was flustered. To have her flustered over him was the best part. His smile broadened and she rolled her eyes at him.

They lingered over their coffee, talking idly about what mischief Davi had gotten into lately, and whether he should try to get Juan interested in a baseball or soccer city league. Before he was ready to move, Dylan noticed Alex glancing at her watch.

“Do you want to go?” He smiled again, to let her know he didn’t mind.

“Not really, but we should, if your cake is going to have any frosting on it. It has to cool first.” She began listing ingredients she needed and he could see they had at least a twenty-minute shopping trip to get through as well.

“Okay, let’s go.”

As they stood, a voice called out from