Dangerous Beauty: Part One: Destiny by Michelle Hardin Page B

myriad of sensation, she thought she would faint. Her body was on fire,
especially
when his hands left her hair and cupped her breasts, squeezing and caressing them. She panted, moaned, and whispered his name as she straddled his lap. Her body seemed to move against his all on its own. Carter wanted to rip off his clothes and beg him to take her right there in that parking lot, but once again Nathan broke the kiss before they got to the point of no return. She wanted to smack him for doing that.
    He looked into her eyes as he tried to catch his breath and said. “We should go walk on the beach.”  All Carter could do was nod yes.
    “What are you thinking about?” Nathan asked smiling at her curiously, and pulling her away from her wonderful memory.
    They were sitting on the beach. Carter sat between Nathan’s long legs with her knees to her chest staring at his gorgeous face while he messed around with strands of her hair.
    She smirked. “I’m thinking about what happened in the car before our walk.”
    Nathan laughed, and it was a low sensual laugh, one that made her body warm with desire. “Yes, I remember. You looked like you wanted to kill me when I stopped us, which I understand. I wanted to kill me too, but we should talk first, get to know each other.” The look in his eyes indicated he couldn’t believe the words had come out of his mouth. He pulled it together quickly. “And until we get to know each other, I have to stay away from those beautiful lips.” He ran his thumb across her bottom lip. “Because next time I won’t be able to stop.”
    Carter bit her lower lip. She definitely didn’t want him to stay away from her lips. That’s just not fair!
    “Okay, it’s my turn to ask you questions,” Nathan said to her in a deep baritone voice that dripped with sex.
Oh God
sex
. Why couldn’t she stop thinking about it?
    It’s safe to say that it’d been a long time since Carter had gotten laid.
    She knew she had to get her shit together. Taking a deep breath, Carter straightened her back. “Okay, ask away,” she said coolly.
    Nathan stared at her while he decided on what question he wanted to ask. When he made up his mind he cleared his throat. “Okay, why did you kiss the rose?”
    Carter’s eyebrows shot up in surprise. “You saw that?”
    She didn’t know he had seen her kiss the yellow rose at Hope Garden. She really didn’t know that anyone had been looking at her. Carter blushed, she had never really shared the story with anyone mostly because no one ever saw her do it.
    She looked up at Nathan and smiled, he was waiting for an answer but she was going to make him work for the more personal stories. “I’ll tell you that story after all the little questions, like my favorite color or food, stuff like that.”
    Nathan frowned. “I don’t want to know the little things yet, I want to know why you kissed the rose. I actually need to know because… Well just answer my question, please,” he said still messing with strands of her hair.
    Carter chuckled, he was really cute when he frowned. “No, Nathan we have to get the light questions out of the way before we get to the heavy stuff. Plus you said you wouldn’t kiss me until we got to know each other, and don’t know how much longer I’m going to let you keep me from getting what I want,” she said with a smirk. Carter knew exactly how to get him to forget that whole no kissing until we get to know each other thing.
    Nathan looked at her with his brows raised and grinned. “Let me?”
    Carter giggled and nodded. “Yes, let you,” she replied a smug smile on her face.
    Nathan laughed loud. “You’re cute. You know that?”
    Cute? I’ll show him cute.
    Carter raised an eyebrow. “Cute huh?” She moved closer to his body so he could feel her breath against his neck as she whispered her words. “I can be very persuasive, Nathan Salerno. Especially when I want something, or someone.” She placed a soft kiss on his neck while