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“I don’t understand. How did—”
“If I had found your phone,”—he cleared his throat, and I relaxed into him— “You wouldn’t be stuck here. With me.”
“I’m not,” I whispered, “If you had found it, you would have been alone in here where this happened.”
“Now you’re stuck with me.”
“I don’t mind it,” I confessed a moment before Aiden’s jagged intake of breath.
“Aria.” My name sounded like a warning.
One I should heed and not take lightly, but I found myself not giving two craps about it. I scooted back, closer into him, then froze. I came into contact with what I had thought I’d imagined moments earlier. My bottom brushed against a very thick and very hard bulge his dress pants did nothing to hide.
“Ari, baby,” he groaned, and his hands dropped to my shoulders.
“You’re hard,” I noted softly. A deep animalistic sound vibrated through him.
“It happens.”
“With anyone?” I boldly asked. Usually, I was too shy and quiet around him to even think of being that forward. But there was something about being so close to him and the adrenaline rush still swirling through me that had me saying just about every thought out loud.
“No.” His teeth mashed together. I could feel the tense way he held his body behind me. All I wanted to do was turn around and straddle him. Stroke his arms and figure out a way to sooth his frayed nerves with my touch.
But I wasn’t that bold.
Not yet at least.
“Oh,” I murmured, not sure what to say next.
My courage was slowly seeping out of me, and I suddenly started to overthink what I was doing. The situation we were in. Maybe he was hard because of the earthquake. Did adrenaline make men hard?
“I can move and sit over—" I started to move, but one of his long, strong arms wrapped around my waist and kept me in place.
“No. Stay,” he ordered, and even though I relaxed at his touch, I worried I’d overstepped. I turned to look at him. His eyes were shut. His head leaned against the metal wall as he had tipped it back. He looked conflicted. Almost in pain.
“Are you hurting?” I asked worriedly.
“No.” His jaw clenched.
“You look like—" His eyes opened, and that blue gaze locked with mine as he righted his head, dipping his face lower, closer to mine. He held my eyes with a hooded stare as his nose nuzzled mine, and my breath hitched in the back of my throat.
“Do I look like I’m tangled up in knots trying to keep my hands to myself? Tied up so damn tight, I feel like I am going to fucking explode if I don’t pin you against the floor below us and fuck you hard and deep?”
“Aiden.” I shifted, but he held me in place.
“Jesus.” His eyes shut tightly. My chest heaved up and down as my heart rate mimicked a hummingbird’s. “You move, I’ll spank your ass red.”
Warmth pooled between my legs as liquid heat started to dampen my panties at the image he painted. Who the hell was I kidding? My panties were more than ruined. The idea of Aiden Stark, my sexy boss and single dad, tossing me over his lap and spanking my ass red with his big more-than-capable hands was what so many of my dirty late-night fantasies were made of.
“Good girl,” he praised before running his nose against mine. I had no idea why I liked hearing that.Good girl.“Aria—" Not another word was said as the elevator flooded with light and a whirring sound started up. The phone below the panel of buttons started to ring.
We stared at one another for a moment. Neither of us saying anything as we tried to catch our breath. All I had to do was lean in an inch, and his lips would touch mine. I could kiss him.
I could kiss him like I had been dying to for the last year and finally have a taste.
Do it!a voice in the back of my head dared, and when I did, he leaned back before my eyes shut. I froze. “Oh.” I had completely misread the situation. Right? Because if he wanted to kiss me, he would have. He wouldn’t have pulled back. I stalled for a second before scrambling up onto my feet.
“Ari.” His voice sounded like gravel. Did he regret being close? Holding me? Almost kissing me?
