our mutual attraction and move on.”
She was so furious at being man-handled she could barely think straight. Her whole body was shaking with her fury at his high handed tactics. “Just because you say it, doesn’t make it so!”
“And just because you deny it, won’t make it go away,” he replied calmly.
“Let me go!” She tried to get her hands free, to scrape and claw at him and get out just a small amount of her fury. But he was too strong and his hands held hers captive. Thankfully, he wasn’t hurting anything but her dignity but she was spitting mad.
He turned her so she was facing him more fully and glared down at her. “No. Why are you afraid of me?”
“I’m not! I just don’t like you! And I really don’t like being man-handled.”
“Is it because of what you feel when I touch you?” His anger was gone and in its place was something more, a realization that struck her almost painfully since he was so on target.
“Don’t!” she gasped and tried to squirm away when the hand that had been holding her back moved around to caress her cheek. She didn’t get very far because his other hand holding her wrists were tight. She wished she could complain about him hurting her, but his grip was firm, gentle, not even pinching her skin slightly.
“So you wouldn’t mind if I touched you like this,” he said and his finger gently stroked her ear lobe.
Eva tried very hard but she knew he felt the shivers his touch caused. She closed her eyes and turned her head away. “Please don’t,” she whispered.
“I can’t seem to stop,” he replied, his voice husky.
She felt his fingers move from her ear lobe down her neck, following the line of her dress. When his fingers slid down her chest, barely brushing the skin along the fabric of her suit, she inhaled sharply, her whole body waiting with eager anticipation for his fingers to move downward. Her body was prepared, tense and desperate now.
“You have the softest skin,” he mumbled a moment before his mouth followed the same path, forming a trial of fire along her ear, her neck, his teeth skimming along her skin and sending more shivers along all of her nerve endings.
“Please don’t….” she initially was going to stay “do that” but when his finger slipped inside the jacket, coming so excruciatingly close to her already alert nipple, she breathed in harshly, her body waiting for him to touch her…right there.
“Please don’t what, Eva?” Damon asked as his hand went back up to her collar bone, then back down. His fingers found the button of her jacket and released it, giving him more access. “Please don’t….do this?” he asked as his index finger circled the indentation of her nipple through the lace camisole she was wearing underneath the jacket. He pushed the jacket a bit farther away. “Or…please don’t do this?” he suggested and his hand moved over to her other breast, circling that nipple as well but not touching it.
“Tell me what you don’t want, Eva. I’ll avoid any place that you don’t like.” His hand reached up and pushed her jacket off her shoulders, letting it fall to the limousine floor behind her. His finger pulled the strap of her camisole down and Eva gasped in anticipation. The camisole was her bra so she wasn’t wearing anything else underneath. She’d thought the suit was conservative and safe. She was finding out just how wrong she was. “I like this,” he said and his eyes watched as her body moved slightly.
“Please Damon!” she gasped, whispering because she didn’t have the energy for anything more.
The limousine pulled into the parking garage and Damon knew he had seconds before they would be pulling to a stop. His finger moved to her nipple, caressing it through the material and he almost groaned when her head fell back and she sighed, pressing her body against his fingers.
“Come inside with me,” he said and was rewarded with her nod of agreement. He knew she probably wasn’t reacting the way she normally would, but he didn’t care at this point. She’d been denying both of them for so long and he would finally be able to show her what they could do for each other.
He took her hand, quickly reaching down to grab her jacket and sliding it onto her shoulders before they stepped out of the vehicle and straight into the elevator. He didn’t wait until the