One Special Moment - Brenda Jackson [25]
She was affected.
His mouth, at first, was gentle as he wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close against his hard, muscled body. Then suddenly his mouth became rough with some sort of need that was more intense than anything Colby had ever encountered. She had never been kissed like this before. His tongue took total possession of her mouth, and she was helpless to do anything but respond by doing likewise with his, imitating his every intimate movement. She heard the sound of groans echoing through the room and didn’t know if they were hers or his. And at the moment, she was too caught up in what was taking place between them to even care. His kiss was eliciting desires she had never felt or even known could exist. Of their own accord, her hands reached up and encircled his neck, and her long, neatly manicured nails rubbed against his hairline as her body pliantly molded itself to his hardness.
Sterling trembled at the feel of Colby’s softness against him. Her body felt warm, cozy, enticing. It elicited a degree of desire from him he hadn’t known possible. He’d known passion before, but never like this, not in all his thirty-five years. He was so out-of-control he couldn’t focus on anything but the woman in his arms and how his tongue was foraging the deep sweetness of her mouth. Her hands that encircled his neck and her fingernails that were lightly touching his skin were pushing him over the edge of sanity. He knew he had to put a stop to this madness now.
With great effort he lifted his mouth from hers and slowly stepped back. Patting the top of his head, he inhaled a deep breath, forcing himself not to reach out and touch her again. He had to put distance between them as soon as possible.
“I suggest you try not to be difficult again, Colby,” he said harshly, attempting to regain control over the situation and feeling the need to kick himself in the butt for ever losing it.
“I’ll be ordering dinner for the two of us in my suite. I expect you there in an hour.”
Then he turned and left the room, firmly closing the connecting door behind him.
Chapter 7
Colby stood transfixed in place, staring at the closed door. With trembling fingers she touched her throbbing, swollen lips. The kiss she and Sterling had just shared had shaken her to the core. It had been smoldering with heated fire and blazing passion, and although she didn’t want to admit it, it had been totally satisfying. Even her toes were still burning.
She hadn’t known anything could make her feel that way. During her teen years, she had been so busy going to school day and night she hadn’t taken the time to date much. And after she had left home for college, the guys she had met hadn’t been particularly interesting.
The senior guys at college had hung around the girls’ dormitory like panthers in heat, ready to pounce on the freshmen girls who were away from home for the first time. And some of the girls’ naïveté made them easy prey.
Because she had been raised by an older brother who knew the score, and who had schooled her on what to expect from the hot-blooded young men on campus, she’d kept her virginity intact, having no interest in being some guy’s conquest. And with the risk of AIDS, she’d thought having sex just for the heck of doing so made as much sense as holding a loaded gun to your head.
Upon finishing college and moving into her own place she had begun dating, but even the older, supposedly more sophisticated guys hadn’t impressed her. The only thing most of them wanted was easy sex with no thoughts of commitment.
So here she was at the age of twenty-six and still without her first sexual experience. She hadn’t given much thought to that fact until now.
Momentarily closing her eyes, she recaptured the moment in Sterling’s arms when she knew she had never before in her life felt so filled with desire for anyone.
But even with all of that heated excitement, she had felt something even more, something