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Sotempting.
I blink, shuffle nervously, and then there’s three. Did he do that or did I? Why is the distance between us diminishing without either of us seeming to consciously close the gap? If I unfurled my little finger and he did the same, we’d be touching. Sparks would fly. I know it. I can feel the energy, themagic,crackling between us. Does he feel it too?
Tearing my gaze away from the three inches ofpossibilitybetween us, I find myself staring into his dark unreadable eyes.
Only, they’re not unreadable tonight. It’s like looking in a mirror. Everything I’m sure is showing plain as day on my face, is reflected right back at me in his heated look.
Attraction. Desire. Need. Want.
Somehow I manage to unclasp the railing, and then my body is turning towards the professor like a flower that has to follow the path of the sun. Like a magnet, our hands find each other, those little fingers brushing innocuously yet causing a fire to ignite within me.
I gasp, but the sound is swallowed by the professor crashing his lips against mine. I feel the moment his control snaps, because mine explodes right alongside his.
Hands tangle in my hair, yanking me closer –adios those three little inches –and I stumble into his hard chest. This time, he doesn’t let me fall to the floor, holding me captive against him and his exquisite kiss.
He sets my body , and I groan into his mouth, eagerly kissing him back. I’ve waited so long for this. Longer than I even realised. And it was worth every excruciating second we made ourselves wait.
Sure, we may have given into temptation and kissed and things before now, but not like this. Even in his study, it wasn’t like this. I could feel him holding back then, now the restraint between us has been snuffed out like a flame.
This is finally it, I’m sure of it.
When he pulls away, dropping me like I burned him, and scrubs a hand through his dark hair, I whimper.
“Malia—”
“Don’t.”
I wrench myself out of his spell and turn back to the beach, breathing hard. I can’t take the rejection. What cruelty it would be to have all of this wrenched away now that I’ve finally had a taste? Ifelthis control snap. I could taste it. It was different this time.It was.
“Malia, I shouldn’t. We shouldn’t.”
“Because I’m your ‘student’?” I spit, making air quotes around the word but refusing to look at him. I don’t want him to see the tears shining in my eyes, the devastation written on my face. How can he say that something so damn right can be so painfully wrong?
He places a burning hot hand on my bare shoulder, and I shrug him off. I can’t stand his touch. Can’t stand knowing how amazing he makes me feel but being unable to enjoy it yet again.
“You know it’s not that, Malia. I’m sworn to protect you. It’s a line we shouldn’t cross.”His voice in my head is smoother than any scotch I’ve seen him drink.
I’m hearing shouldn’t, shouldn’t, shouldn’t.
But damn it, Iwantto. I don’t think I’ve ever wanted anything as badly as I want to continue this with the professor.
“I want you, Malia. I’m just trying to be a better man here.”
I know it’s wrong. I know it’s dangerous. But I can’t seem to help myself when it comes to him. He’s got a hold on me that I can’t explain.
“I don’t want a better man. I just want you.”
With a growl that makes my heart pound, the prof reaches out and grabs my wrist, his strong fingers encircling my dainty bones like he could crush them with zero effort. Even in shadow, his dark skin is a stark contrast against my creamy complexion, but no sooner than I’ve noted the differences between us, I’m distracted by him hoisting me into his arms.
“Do not make me regret this,”he threatens, stepping back into Cove’s room.
I half expect – and hope – he’ll drop me on Cove’s bed and continue what we started on the balcony, but of course he doesn’t. He wouldn’t.
With confident but slightly hurried strides, like he’s rushing before he changes his mind, he carries me along the corridor, through the door and up the stairs to his attic bedroom.
I blush when I remember the last time I was here. He rubbed my feet and I lost myself in the music, his touch, the stars above me…and I orgasmed.
How mortifying.
