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Time stood still. The feel of his lips against mine was electrifying, the culmination of all the snarky banter, the heated arguments, and the unresolved tension. It was everything I hadn’t admitted to myself I wanted, all in one desperate act.
Neil’s body went rigid, and then he responded, grabbing my shoulders and tugging me closer. The kiss was fierce, almost angry, but there was something else there too—something deeper. He was hard, and I didn’t know whether to rut against him or run for my freaking life. We were both breathless when we pulled apart, staring at each other with shock and something dangerously close to longing.
I stumbled back, adrenaline coursing through me. “There,” I said, my voice rough. “One way to shut you up.”
Neil’s eyes were dark, his breathing uneven. “You fucking asshole.”
“Takes one to know one.” Great comeback.Not.
I waited for him to hit me, and even though I could take him down in a second, I knew I’d let him get in the first hit. Hell, I wouldn’t fight at all. What kind of man forces a kiss on someone?
He gripped my jacket and dragged me closer, temper in his eyes. “You. Fucking. Asshole,” he repeated.
I braced myself for impact, only he kissed me. Hard and then gentler, his hands still twisted in my jacket, tasting every inch of me. I could feel his cock hard against my thigh, and I whimpered.
I freaking whimpered into his mouth, and it was that sound that made him step back.
“Wow,” I muttered, wiping my mouth with my uninjured hand.
“You…” He was flailing to find words, his pupils fat, his lips shiny, and his breathing labored.
“I’m an asshole, I know, you said already.”
He poked my chest. “Why won’t you just leave town.” Neil’s anger hadn’t dissipated; if anything, it seemed more intense. “You think you can distract me with a kiss, and it’ll be fine?”
“You kissed me!”
“You kissed me first!” he shouted, then closed his eyes briefly and attempted to settle his breathing. I was torn between patting his shoulder and kissing him again, but first, I needed to get my libido in check and my breathing right.
“You make me insane!” he snapped.
“Maybe you like that?” I deadpanned, and maybe that was the wrong tone because he stiffened.
“This reckless shit is exactly what I’m talking about!”
“Kissing you wasn’t reckless, it was necessary.” Hell, I couldn’t think of another word that described knowing I needed to kiss him like I needed to breathe.
After a moment of him vibrating with emotion, he rested a hand over my heart.
“You’re not indestructible.”
And then he straightened, stepped away from me, and turned to leave.
“Neil?” I asked in a soft tone, and he glanced over his shoulder. “We need to talk about more kissing.”
He snorted a laugh. “In your fucking dreams, asshole.”
Chapter Six
NEIL
“We needto talk about more kissing.”
Why the hell would Connor think that? He kissed me, I evened the score, that was all it was.
But as I walked back to the office, my mind replayed the moment, and I couldn’t shake the feeling it had stirred in me. It wasn’t only a kiss—it was the hottest, most intense kiss I’d had in a long time. I’d been thinking about kissing Connor for what felt like forever. That infuriating, smug man had a way of rubbing me up the wrong way, always getting under my skin.
I didn’t want to feel this attraction. It was inconvenient, a complication I didn’t need in my already complicated life. But damn it, the kiss had made me feel things I thought I’d buried deep. Need, want, an insatiable desire for more. My body was still buzzing, turned-on and burning with a heat that the cold autumn air couldn’t extinguish.
