The maniac-slash-VIP again kept silent as he dragged her over to a supply closet beside the bar. Had the man lost his mind?
Heart pounding a bit, but still unwilling to believe that he meant her any harm, Jessamine tried once more for levity. “Let me guess...you can't find your room? I'll bet you a month's salary that this isn't it.”
Pulling the door open with a grunt, Steve shoved her into the darkened room and closed the door. With a tug and a profanity—not necessarily in that order—she freed her arm and tried to glare Steve down in the darkness. She blinked hard, part against the inky black and part in shock at finding herself half-naked in a closet—with a man who was also half-naked.
“Are you completely insane?”
“Shh.”
Fire ignited in her chest, and she raised her voice. “What? I'm not standing quiet in the dark while you have some kind of psychotic meltdown.”
She fumbled for the door handle, but jerked back when her hand found something warmer and decidedly more male instead. The nut job was blocking the door. “Let me out!”
The click of a lock told a different story, as did his husky whisper. “In a minute.”
“Now.”
The tease in his disembodied whisper edged into impatience. “Keep your voice down.”
The faint stirrings of his outline began taking shape against the black as she backed up, figuring there must be a mop handle or toilet plunger or some other such thing she could wield as a weapon, if need be. “Actually, I figure screaming my head off is better suited to the occasion.”
Then he was on her in a flash, her embryonic shriek cut off in an instant by his hand clamping over her mouth. Before she could struggle, he had her pinned between the wall and his superheated, powerful body.
His mouth tingled close against her ear. “I'm not going to hurt you, Jessamine. I swear. I'm just trying to avoid someone. Please. Trust me.”
The words flowed like honey around the edges of her panic, smoothing some of her instinct to struggle against him even as she wondered why. Why should she trust him? He was a near stranger, after all. A very potent stranger whose scent filled her head with odd thoughts, yes, but still. Not to mention that their current position made it quite obvious that he was erect. Rather impressively so. Oh, yeah. Sure. She should definitely trust a strange man with a raging hard-on who locks her in a dark closet and shoves her against the wall.
Chest heaving with the flow of adrenaline, she quietly nodded. His hand slid away from her mouth, fingers skimming her throat and the bare upper swell of one breast before dropping away. Her skin ignited, nipple hardening instantly in traitorous fury at having been slighted by his touch. Though she apparently warranted enough faith for him to risk her scream, he made no move to put any distance between them. The temperature in the walk-in climbed steadily with each moment hard muscles pressed against her.
After a few moments of trying to ignore a simmering stew of emotions—and the odd urge to whip out a tape measure and confirm an unbelievable suspicion about his anatomy—she ventured a low murmur. “Who's out there?”
His low rumble purred into her ear until something well south of her abdomen tingled. “Someone I'd rather not get into explanations with right now.” She felt a hand stroke back a section of her hair and shivered. “You'll be rid of me soon enough.”
Suddenly, being rid of him didn't sound like such a prize deal. Sliding a hand against his chest to steady herself, she tiptoed up to reach his ear. “Are we in danger?”
His whisper roughened as he gently plucked her hand away. “You might be, if you keep doing that.”
A soft gasp caught in her throat. “But I...”
“Don't worry,” he said, squeezing her hand as he lowered it back to her side. “I'm the Good Guy in this story. But I am a guy. And you are so damned beautiful.”
He turned his head as he spoke, the last whispered so close to her lips that her stomach flipped itself over. God, but even in the dark the man's eyes glittered in a lose-your-mind shade of green, and that was just what she did. Those lips, muscles, the feel of his cock pressed against her—riding just at the junction between her thighs, now that she'd raised herself up—she couldn't help herself. An inch, maybe two, was all she had to lean in...and her lips brushed against his.
He stiffened in shock, his groan immediate and not quite in keeping with his wish for silence as his hand snaked into her hair. Her body sizzled to life, and with a gasp of surprise at the flood of want he ignited in her she deepened the kiss until her breasts were pressed tight against the silken hair on his chest. His tongue sought hers first, teasing along her top lip to prod them into parting for him. This she did willingly, and the taste of him tightened her nipples with a delicious tingle. Rubbing them back and forth against his chest heightened her longing, a sensation denied her after scant moments as his hands took charge and kneaded them until she was breathless.
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