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covered my breasts, my hair swirling around me. My legs pressed against his as I floated in the dappled shade—I wanted to wrap them around him, but I didn’t dare, because it would be for all the wrong reasons. I could feel him breathing fast. His arm was around my waist; my hands were clasped over his shoulders.
    Behind me, barely audible over the lapping water, I could hear the soft trill of my ringing phone.
    Vince doesn’t trust me , I thought, in a brief and illuminating moment of despair. I’m already damned in his eyes, whatever I do.
    Nicholas and I moved toward each other in the same moment. My mouth brushed his, softening under his touch and then parting, opening. His lips were cool, but his tongue was warm as it slid against mine in an utterly sensual caress.
    As our kiss deepened, I heard him groan with pleasure. The sound struck a chord of desire within me, causing my fingers to dig into his shoulders and him to pull me closer, holding me tight against him, feeling the firmness of his well-muscled body and the more intimate hardness of his arousal. I thrust my hips against it, feeling its thickness, the outward physical embodiment of the same desire that had pooled inside me.
    The water might as well have been air or fire… I was no longer aware of it. I was aware only of the incredible, erotic dialogue of our lips and tongues. The hungriness with which he was kissing me—his actions so sensitive, surprisingly gentle and yet utterly masterful. It was as if he could read every thought I’d ever had about how I wanted to be touched. I could sense he was holding nothing back, and it was stoking a need deep inside me; an aching want begging to be fulfilled.
    “Erin,” he whispered, as we broke the kiss, both breathing roughly, my own astonishment at the intensity of what had just happened reflected in his eyes. “Jesus, Erin…”
    He stared down at me, his lips parted.
    Enough now. Enough—no more. I should say no, but I could not, as we were magnetically drawn toward each other again.
    And then a rather deliberate throat-clearing caused us both to freeze, and to jerk our heads guiltily round in the direction of the sound.
    Joshua stood a few yards away from the swimming pool, his hands behind his back and his gaze fixed on a small, white-blossomed bush that was nowhere near the pool at all.
    “Er—Mr. Nicholas, the car is loaded up.”
    “Thanks, Joshua. I’ll be there in ten minutes.”
    He turned back to me. His gaze devoured me. Holding me tightly, he paced slowly back into the shallow water before releasing me.
    “Come with me,” he said, and looking at the urgent need in his eyes, I knew this was not a question, but a command.

CHAPTER 7
    I snapped off my phone before hurrying back to my room to change into dry clothes. As I did so, I noticed that Vince had already called again twice. I didn’t know what to make of any of this. My head was throbbing with confusion, but other parts of me were throbbing for entirely different reasons.
    That single, forbidden kiss… I had never experienced anything so electric, so erotic, in my life.
    But what I had done was wrong, so very wrong. I had no way of justifying my behavior, other than that, in a moment of frustration and tired of defending myself from my husband’s unfounded accusations, I had deliberately chosen to give in to temptation.
    I was a weaker person than I’d thought, and I knew that I’d soon be paying for my actions with the heavy coin of guilt. I hoped that the drive with Nicholas would allow me to straighten things out between us. I just wished I wasn’t feeling such breathless anticipation at the thought of being in his presence again.
    My only set of underwear was now dripping wet, so I hung it up in the bathroom. Wherever we were going, I’d have to do without. I chose a close-fitting, lined tank top that would allow me to go braless and pulled a looser cotton shirt with elbow-length sleeves over it. My skin was cool and my

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