A Little Dare - Brenda Jackson [45]
I wish. “I’m not sure. If he just got back into town he’s probably, tired so I doubt it.”
“Oh.”
Although she was sure he hadn’t wanted her to, she had heard the disappointment in his voice anyway. He sounded just how she felt.
Dare couldn’t sleep. He felt restless. Agitated. Horny.
He threw back the covers and got out of bed, yanked a T-shirt over his head and pulled on his jeans. His body was a nagging ache, it was throbbing relentlessly and his arousal strained painfully against his jeans. He knew what his problems was, and he knew just how he could fix it.
He sighed deeply, thinking he definitely had a problem, and wondered if at two in the morning, Shelly was willing to help him solve it.
Shelly couldn’t sleep and heard the sound of a pebble the moment it hit her window. At first she’d thought she was hearing things, but when a second pebble hit the window she knew she wasn’t. She also knew who was sending her the signals to come to the backyard.
That had always been Dare’s secret sign to let her know he was back in town. She would then sneak past her parents’ bedroom and slip down the stairs and through the back door to race outside to his arms.
She immediately got out of bed, tugged on her robe and slipped her feet into her slippers. Not even thinking about why he would be outside her window this time of night, she quickly tiptoed down the stairs. Without turning on a light, she entered the kitchen and opened the back door, and, although it was too dark for her to see, she knew he was there. Her nostrils immediately picked up his scent.
“Dare?” she whispered, squinting her eyes to see him.
“I’m here.”
And he was, suddenly looming over her, gazing down at her with a look in his eyes that couldn’t be disguised. It was desperate, hot, intense, and it made her own eyes sizzle at the same time the area between her legs began to throb. “I heard the pebbles,” she said, swallowing deeply.
He nodded as he continued to hold her gaze. “I was hoping you would remember what it meant.”
Oh, she remembered all right. Her body remembered, too. “Why are you here?” she asked softly, feeling her insides heat up and an incredible sensation flow between her legs. Desire was surging through every part of her body and she was barely able to stand it. “What do you want, Dare?”
He reached out and placed both hands at her waist, intentionally pulling her closer so she could feel his large, hard erection straining against his jeans. “I think that’s a big indication of what I want, Shelly,” he murmured huskily, leaning down as his mouth drew closer to hers.
Ten
S helly felt a moment of panic. One part of her mind tried telling her that she didn’t want this, but another part, the one ruled by her body, quickly convinced her that she did. Her mind was swamped with the belief that it didn’t matter that it hadn’t been a full week since she laid eyes on Dare again after ten years. Nor did it matter that there were issues yet unresolved between them. The only thing that mattered was that this was the man she had once loved to distraction, the man she had given her virginity to at seventeen; the man who had taught her all the pleasures a man and woman could share, and the man who had given her a son. And, she inwardly told herself, this has nothing to do with love but with gratifying our needs.
Realizing that and accepting it, her body trembled as she lifted her face to meet his, and at that moment everything, including the ten years that had separated them, evaporated and was replaced by hunger, intense, sexual hunger that was waiting to explode within her. He felt it too, and his body reacted, drawing her closer and making a groan escape from her lips.
He covered her mouth with his, zapping her senses in a way that only he could do. Fueled by the greed they both felt, his kiss wasn’t gentle. It displayed all the insatiability he was feeling.
And then some.
Dare didn’t think he could get enough. He wanted to get inside her, reacquaint her body with his and give her the satisfaction she had denied herself for ten years.