Bachelor Unleashed - Brenda Jackson [29]
“What I have in mind is stripping you out of every stitch of clothing you have on. Here and now. What do you think about that?”
She couldn’t help but chuckle. “Umm, not sure that’s a good idea.”
“But you would consider it?”
She smiled upon seeing the challenging glean in his eyes. “Let’s just say I don’t have a problem with you trying to convince me that I should consider it.”
He didn’t say anything for a minute, as if giving her words some thought. “I hope you know I can be very convincing when I want to be.”
“I’m very much aware of that.”
She knew Xavier well enough to understand her words were like a carrot dangling in his face. A carrot he intended to devour. This was the most fun she’d had lately. The summer months had been a complete bore to her and autumn hadn’t been much better. When Natalie and Donovan had returned from their honeymoon, the amorous newlyweds hadn’t socialized a lot, preferring to stay inside behind closed doors, probably burning the sheets. So with no lover to sleep with, no best friend to talk to, Farrah had had a lot of free time on her hands and had wondered if she’d done the right thing in breaking things off with Xavier.
But then, all it had taken was running into Dustin, his wife and daughter at the mall one Sunday evening in mid-October to recall why it had been the only thing she could do in order to protect herself and not get hurt by any man again.
“So what do you think about the view?”
She looked past Xavier to glance out the window. It was hard to believe they were in a car, riding down the Hudson on a barge. If he had deliberately set out to impress her, he had achieved that goal. “The view is beautiful. You definitely know how to wow a girl. I’m impressed.”
“Are you?”
“Yes.”
“Enough to let me take this dress off you?”
She shook her head smiling. “You won’t give up, will you?”
“Not until I have you naked.”
There was a determination in his tone that made shivers run up and down her spine. Heat began spreading through her stomach, and she felt a tingling sensation take life between her legs. She wondered if he had any idea just what was happening to her, how much she was fighting the temptation of giving him everything he was asking for. And then some.
She looked past him out the window again. Only Xavier would go to this trouble to impress a woman. And it was working.
Farrah glanced back at him, and the look he was giving her sent a burst of desire exploding through her. She found herself leaning toward him and his masculine mouth that was so sexy it should be declared illegal.
“And once you have me naked, what’s next?”
The erection beneath her hand seemed to get larger. “Then I plan to taste you all over.”
With his words, blatant and hot, her thighs seem to automatically spread apart, and she couldn’t help but remember how it felt to have his tongue between them, licking her with hungry strokes to sweet oblivion, fueling not one orgasm but several.
“So what do you think of that, Farrah?”
She swallowed, not wanting to think at all. Her body was pushing her to feel instead. Making her crave things she was better off not having, but making those damn hot memories invade her mind anyway. They were just too delicious to ignore.
She met his gaze, felt the heat emanating from the dark depths. And it was heat that was generating a slow yet intense sizzle within her. “Why are you doing this to me, Xavier?”
Without responding, his gaze seemed to say it all. The heat from his eyes nearly burned off her remaining clothes. Lust flowed up her spine as a fierce degree of need filled her all over. He continued to look at her, saying nothing, yet saying everything.
“I think you know the answer to that, Farrah,” he finally said in a deep, throaty voice. “But in case there’s a possibility that you don’t, the reason is simple. I never got over you. Our split was your idea, not mine.”
She lifted a brow. “But you didn’t disagree.”
“Because I knew it was what you wanted.”
“And now?