innocence comment, I stiffened my spine and placed my hands on my hips. “So you think you’re what? Telepathic?”
Dash smiled huge and rubbed at his chin. The prickly hair on his chin grated against his palm as he did. For all intents and purposes, that could have been a mating call with the way my body reacted. I clenched my thighs against the flow of arousal coursing through me to land heavily there. Throbbing. Aching.
“No, no. You misunderstand. I’m merely stating that I’m observant. Not only have you told me that you are religious, but also you’ve been very concerned about how much or how little I’d be touching you. Then, of course, when I did touch you, there was your reaction.” He smirked.
That dirty devil. “My reaction? This ought to be good. Please, enlighten me.”
Dash pursed his lips. “You acted as if every touch was the first one you’d ever received. As if each kiss to your flesh was a new one. A brand-new beginning.”
I frowned and tightened my hold over my chest. “A new beginning. To what?”
Dash smiled wide and rested his hands on his hips. He’d left his shirt off and was displaying his golden body to me like a bronzed god bathing under the sun’s rays. Only it was actually track lighting that created the effervescent hue surrounding him, though it definitely fit the mood.
“Haven’t you figured it out?” He grinned.
I cringed and sucked in an irritated breath. “Figured out what?”
“That this is the beginning of us.”
DASH
How can she not see and feel what’s happening? My mind seized with the fear that I’d misinterpreted the connection between us. For me it was a live wire, filled with energy like a wild electrical current. Never ending, only getting stronger.
“Us? What us ? There is no us , Dash.” Her brown hair hid her face.
I wanted nothing more than to push it back and gaze upon the canvas in its entirety. “Amber, there is.”
She shook her head. “What planet do you live on?” Her voice cracked with the strain of her denial.
“What rock do you live under?” I shot back with a heaping dose of mirth.
The corresponding glare I received was priceless and so pretty I wanted to kiss it away. If I’d been certain she wouldn’t sock me, I’d have done so.
Amber sighed. God, each sigh she blessed me with was a direct shot to my dick. Every single one made me harder than the last. For all the money in the world, I couldn’t describe what her little sounds did to me, or why such a deluge of need was attached to her presence. It’s as if it always was. Kismet, fate, whatever you wanted to call it. And now, it was my duty, my pleasure , to get her to see the light, of what we were meant to be.
“Dash, I… We kissed, and it was good.”
I cringed. Good. When referring to a kiss, good sounds bad, especially the way she was circling around what she really wanted to say.
“Great even.” Another sigh and a slump of her shoulders said it all, until she put the nail right into the coffin.
“I’m not the girl for you. We need to stop whatever this is between us right now. Cut our losses and just be friends and partners for this class. Nothing more.”
“To hell with that!” The words left my mouth so harshly she practically jumped back a foot. “Amber, I have never in my life experienced what I did today. When I’m touching you, everything disappears. I’ve studied the Tantric arts and have put them to the test many times in my sex life, but nothing, absolutely nothing holds a candle to the simple act of putting my lips on your skin. Taking your mouth with mine. Holding you. I can’t explain, but I know enough that when the universe hands you a gift, you do not thrust it back in its face. You treasure it.” I stopped and strengthened my resolve. “Unless, of course, you can look me in the eye and tell me right here and now that you feel nothing. That this, whatever it is…is completely one-sided?”
I held my hands in fists at my
Dash smiled huge and rubbed at his chin. The prickly hair on his chin grated against his palm as he did. For all intents and purposes, that could have been a mating call with the way my body reacted. I clenched my thighs against the flow of arousal coursing through me to land heavily there. Throbbing. Aching.
“No, no. You misunderstand. I’m merely stating that I’m observant. Not only have you told me that you are religious, but also you’ve been very concerned about how much or how little I’d be touching you. Then, of course, when I did touch you, there was your reaction.” He smirked.
That dirty devil. “My reaction? This ought to be good. Please, enlighten me.”
Dash pursed his lips. “You acted as if every touch was the first one you’d ever received. As if each kiss to your flesh was a new one. A brand-new beginning.”
I frowned and tightened my hold over my chest. “A new beginning. To what?”
Dash smiled wide and rested his hands on his hips. He’d left his shirt off and was displaying his golden body to me like a bronzed god bathing under the sun’s rays. Only it was actually track lighting that created the effervescent hue surrounding him, though it definitely fit the mood.
“Haven’t you figured it out?” He grinned.
I cringed and sucked in an irritated breath. “Figured out what?”
“That this is the beginning of us.”
DASH
How can she not see and feel what’s happening? My mind seized with the fear that I’d misinterpreted the connection between us. For me it was a live wire, filled with energy like a wild electrical current. Never ending, only getting stronger.
“Us? What us ? There is no us , Dash.” Her brown hair hid her face.
I wanted nothing more than to push it back and gaze upon the canvas in its entirety. “Amber, there is.”
She shook her head. “What planet do you live on?” Her voice cracked with the strain of her denial.
“What rock do you live under?” I shot back with a heaping dose of mirth.
The corresponding glare I received was priceless and so pretty I wanted to kiss it away. If I’d been certain she wouldn’t sock me, I’d have done so.
Amber sighed. God, each sigh she blessed me with was a direct shot to my dick. Every single one made me harder than the last. For all the money in the world, I couldn’t describe what her little sounds did to me, or why such a deluge of need was attached to her presence. It’s as if it always was. Kismet, fate, whatever you wanted to call it. And now, it was my duty, my pleasure , to get her to see the light, of what we were meant to be.
“Dash, I… We kissed, and it was good.”
I cringed. Good. When referring to a kiss, good sounds bad, especially the way she was circling around what she really wanted to say.
“Great even.” Another sigh and a slump of her shoulders said it all, until she put the nail right into the coffin.
“I’m not the girl for you. We need to stop whatever this is between us right now. Cut our losses and just be friends and partners for this class. Nothing more.”
“To hell with that!” The words left my mouth so harshly she practically jumped back a foot. “Amber, I have never in my life experienced what I did today. When I’m touching you, everything disappears. I’ve studied the Tantric arts and have put them to the test many times in my sex life, but nothing, absolutely nothing holds a candle to the simple act of putting my lips on your skin. Taking your mouth with mine. Holding you. I can’t explain, but I know enough that when the universe hands you a gift, you do not thrust it back in its face. You treasure it.” I stopped and strengthened my resolve. “Unless, of course, you can look me in the eye and tell me right here and now that you feel nothing. That this, whatever it is…is completely one-sided?”
I held my hands in fists at my
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