Playing the Part by Robin Covington Page B

sensitive to the slightest touch. It was as if her entire body pulsed with the pleasure created by their desire.
    Mick roared out his release against her neck, his hips still as he remained frozen inside of her, so deep she could fill the pulsing of his cock as he came.
    The phone sounded again, a distant sound, adding to the ringing in her ears as her blood pounded in her veins, her heart racing in time with Mick’s own as they lay tightly entwined in a jumble of arms and legs. The weight of him and her weakened limbs made movement impossible on her part. Mick, however, was quicker to recover, gently pressing a kiss to her bare shoulder and pulling a sheet over her body before rising to remove and dispose of the condom.
    Piper summoned enough energy to roll over to her side, enjoying the view of his long muscled legs, tight ass, and glorious cock as he returned to the bed.
    He slid in next to her, propping himself up on one arm to look down on her. The smile on his face indulgent, tender, and altogether smug.
    “You’re pretty good at that,” she drawled.
    “I was inspired by the subject matter,” he said, tracing lazy circles on her hip. “You’re very much worth my A-game.”
    “Really? Does that mean you don’t bring out the A-game for everyone? Do they know that? Because I’d be pretty pissed if I knew I was only getting second best.”
    She remembered the two telephone calls. “Maybe we should ask one of them,” she teased. Quickly, she climbed over Mick’s body to reach for his phone where it lay beside the bed.
    He laughed and tried to tickle her into submission until she ended up sprawled over his body, the two of them tangled together in a knit of skin and heat.
    But she’d managed to grab the phone during the tousle, and waved it in the air, gloating. “Now let’s see who called and left two voice mails.” She tapped the screen, highlighting the recently missed calls. “Hmm…looks like your former costar Tanya is eager to speak with you. Wonder what she wants?”
    Mick brushed her hair out of her face, his smile unrepentant. “My A-game.”
    “I bet.” She waved the phone in his face, almost dropping it when it rang. Mick grabbed for it, but when she saw the name Tanya on the caller ID, she tapped the screen, answering it as she waggled her eyebrows. “Mick’s phone.”
    A brief pause met her greeting, then a sensual female voice said, “Put Mick on.”
    “I’m sorry, Tanya, he’s busy.” Piper used her free hand to run a fingernail over Mick’s chest, lingering over a nipple.
    “And who are you?”
    “I’m the one he’s busy with.” She ended the call, handing the phone over to Mick as she leaned in to take a kiss. “Tanya’s upset you won’t be playing with her tonight.”
    Mick shook his head, his smile slow and sexy. A low rumble of laughter in his chest shook them both. He speared his fingers through her hair, pulling her down into a possessive, hard kiss that promised round two of the evening’s activities.
    “Stay over,” he stated.
    “I can’t. That would break one of our rules, remember?”
    Mick cupped a breast, lazily tweaking her nipple into a hard peak. Piper drew in breath, her eyes shutting briefly at the sparks of pleasure traveling down her belly and clenching the walls of her sex.
    “That’s not fair,” she gasped out as he drew the peak into his mouth, sucking gently. Damn that man’s mouth. It did things to her that made it impossible to think.
    Mick released her flesh with a low, sexy chuckle. “I don’t play fair. I play to win.”
    “What’s the prize?”
    He nuzzled against her breast, his brown eyes darkening with desire. “I’ll let you know when I win it.”

Chapter Ten
    “Piper, the pages were amazing.”
    In the trailer the studio had loaned her, Piper grinned into her computer’s camera, hoping Chris could see her smile clearly through the Skype connection. She’d finished nearly thirty pages the other night and had sent them off