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Erin cupped my face, keeping her gaze locked on mine.
No deception there, my dragon insisted.
I nearly groaned at the contact. Wait, I did groan. The jeans I’d pulled on usually fit comfortably, but they were getting tight fast.
I slid my hands to her wrists and tugged them gently away.
“You know what they say about playing with fire…” I rasped.
She grinned slyly. “Oh, I know all about fire.”
Whoosh!My inner furnace jumped up another ten degrees.
“What about ‘don’t mix business and pleasure’?” I tried.
She raised an eyebrow. “Since when do you do what other people say? I don’t.”
I didn’t have time to answer, because Erin brushed her lips over mine. Just a tiny brush but flames erupted throughout my body.
The Milky Way in her eyes turned into comets, and she did it again. And again and again. Then, just as my eyes were glazing over and my hands sneaking to her waist, she pulled back a little and gazed directly into my eyes.
My feet were firm on the ground, but inside, I teetered. Or maybe the earth had started spinning faster, around and around like one of those merry-go-round spinners that got kids all dizzy and excited.
Yeah, that was how I felt. Dizzy. Excited.
Erin ran her thumb slowly over my chin, then my lips.
“Every time I get close to you, this happens,” she mumbled.
Thiswas the pull, the need to get close. To touch. To kiss.
“Not my fault,” I tried.
Destiny,my dragon whispered.
Erin chuckled. “Yes, it is.”
My mind spun. Yes, it was my fault, or yes, it was destiny?
My heart hammered. Any second now, Erin would turn pink, whisper a hastysorry,and disappear into the house. We would go back to bed quietly, separately, and lonelier than ever before. Then, we would get up in the morning and pretend nothing had happened.
I don’t want to pretend,my dragon growled.I don’t want to—
Erin cut off those protests with another brush of the lips. Then she slid her arms around my neck and kissed me hard. So hard, I stifled a groan. It was that good.
She paused, and when she met my eyes, she did a double take.
“Wow again.”
I gulped. “What are they doing now?”
She stared a minute longer, then shook her head and closed in for another kiss. “Hard to explain. But I like it.”
Which pretty much summed up the chemistry between us. Hard to explain, but boy, did I like it.
Those first few kisses were the kind that scouted the territory ahead. The next few went deeper and longer.
“I keep trying to resist this, but I can’t,” Erin whispered between shaky breaths. “I don’t want to.”
