trust to years ago. The fact that he had broken both couldn’t matter right now.
“Let’s talk after.”
Still holding her hand, he pressed a kiss against her palm and released her. “Race you to the bedroom.”
Like two teenagers, they ran to the house and entered through the side door, closest to the kitchen.
At the slam of the door, Zach slowed things down. Pressed up against the wall, Savannah watched as he moved in for another devouring kiss. This time, his mouth molded over hers, sipping and drawing deep groans of need from deep within her. Her only thought to get them skin-to-skin as soon as possible, one of her hands tugged at his shirt buttons while the other went for his zipper. Zach grabbed both of her wrists and, with one hand, held them above her head.
“What are you doing?” The breathless, needy voice barely sounded like her.
“I’ve waited too long to rush this.” His mouth roamed over her face and neck as he murmured softly, “We’re going to take it slow and easy and it’s going to last all …” He punctuated the last words with a hot kiss to her mouth. “Night.” And another deep kiss. “Long.”
Heat almost consumed her as Zach moved from her mouth, down her neck. He stopped briefly to unbutton the front of her cotton shirt and then expertly flipped open the front clasp of her bra. Before she could appreciate the coolness of bared skin, his hot mouth was covering her breast, drawing a nipple deep into his mouth and sucking hard. Savannah’s whimper of need joined in with Zach’s groan as he moved to her other breast and set up the same delicious suction.
With him still holding her arms above her head, her only recourse was to press her lower body against him. When the long, hard length of his penis settled against her mound in the perfect spot for maximum pleasure, she began a slow, steady rub against him. The throbbing in her sex flushed her entire being with a need she wanted to never end. At the same time, she wanted to end it immediately, to attain that seemingly insurmountable peak of exquisite bliss. As she reached for the glorious feeling she’d only ever felt with this man, the sound of a phone barely penetrated the roaring in her head.
She felt the change in him almost immediately. One moment he had been devouring and insatiable, the next he was pulling away. Though he was breathing heavier than normal, his eyes and expression changed in an instant from desire to almost expressionless. How could he turn it off so quickly?
As he grabbed the cellphone from his pocket, he let go of her arms. Savannah pulled away from the wall and wrapped her arms around herself. Feeling vulnerable and exposed, she turned away from him and looked out into the backyard.
Vile curses spewing in his mind, Zach answered the phone but kept his eyes on Savannah. Of all the fucking times for an interruption. He answered with a growling “Yeah?”
“Sorry to disturb you on your night off, Chief, but we got a situation over at Miller’s Feed and Seed.”
“What’s the problem?”
“Looks like the vandals struck again, only this time there’s a whole lot more damage than usual.”
Shit. Miller’s Feed and Seed was not on his list of probable locations. His theory of Henson’s and Dayton’s involvement just got a whole lot iffier.
“I’ll be there in ten minutes.”
Zach ended the call and looked over at the woman across the room. She didn’t need to say the words; her body language spoke volumes. Severe regret had set in. Didn’t matter that going to bed with her before getting the past out of the way had been a bad decision. He had never wanted to say to hell with doing the right thing more than he did right now. If that call hadn’t come in, Savannah would be wrapped around him right now and he’d be deep inside her. At that thought, a new wave of arousal hit him hard.
Teeth gritted with the need to shove aside his responsibilities and go after what he’d wanted for so long, Zach said, “I’m sorry … I’ve got to go.”
The quick and jerky nod of her head, along with the sight of her arms wrapped around her waist in obvious self-protection, hit him hard. He had hurt this woman in so many ways. If he was the good, decent man she had once called him, he’d turn around and