Chapter 4
It had been a long time since I’d kissed a woman.
Longer than I wanted to admit.
Back when I’d been younger, I’d gotten around. I mean, I’d been a stupid teenage boy in a band on the road. I hadn’t been a saint, that was for sure.
But kissing Rosie was nothing like I had ever experienced in my entire life.
I pulled her closer into me, not worried about her feeling just what kind of effect she had on me and my body.
Fuck, I wanted her to know. Her soft moan was only confirmation she liked it, and the way her nails dug a little deeper into my shoulders made me want to pick her up and press her against the closest surface.
Even if it was the grassy ground beneath us next to the lake.
Rosie tasted like mint and long-lost dreams and wishes I had been too afraid to go after in the past. Mine, that voice in my head growled. The hand I had on her face held her just a little tighter, like I was afraid she would suddenly disappear and I would lose her. I couldn’t lose her.
I had no idea how the hell in less than an hour, my life had changed completely.
My tongue skimmed her bottom lip, silently begging her for access she granted me when her mouth opened, giving me permission to deepen the kiss. I felt like a warrior coming home from battle, ready to enjoy his spoils. My tongue delved deep.
Tasting.
Savoring turned to devouring.
And Rosie was right there for it.
My cock wasn’t just hard, it throbbed. So damn stiff I could pound nails with it.
Rosie clung tighter. Pressing her sweet body against mine even closer, so close I doubted a breeze could sweep between us.
All I could think about was feeling her skin to skin.
Sweat-soaked skin against overheat flesh in a tangle of limbs.
Thunder clattered through the sky, and we both jumped, breaking the magnificent kiss. The sound snapped us out of the momentary lusty haze we’d found ourselves in.
“Wow,” she panted. My cock twitched behind the zipper of my jeans at the breathless tone in her voice. “That was…” She pressed her lips together. “I mean, for a first kiss, it was pretty good.”
“Perfect.” I swallowed hard, stroking the side of her face. I couldn’t get myself to back off or stop touching her. Jesus, what is my problem? I’d just met the woman! I wasn’t this guy!
“Yeah.” She smiled. More thunder cracked, this time along with lightning illuminating the sky.
“Shit, baby, we should get somewhere safe.” I took my hand off her face but brought her to my side. “The lake’s not the best place to hang around if we’re going to get a lightning storm.”
“Afraid of the sparks?” Her eyes shone as brightly and wildly as her hair.
“Not of this.” I pulled her in and was unable to stop myself from kissing her again.
“Right.” She looked around, and something flashed in those pretty, green eyes of hers. “I have an idea. Come on.” She took my hand and walked ahead of me in the opposite direction of the resort, where my hotel room was.
“Shit,” I cursed under my breath. “Rosie, we should head into the resort. We could go to my room.” She glanced back at me with a naughty little gleam in her eye, one I wanted to see time and time again.
When she was beneath me. On top of me. In front of me or bent over my knee as I turned her creamy ass the prettiest shade of red.
Bent over my knee?
Spanking?
I wasn’t sure what it was about this woman that brought out a side of me that had lain dormant until we’d bumped into one another, but I wanted to keep her. I wanted to protect her. Love her. Fuck her down and dirty and then soft and sweet. Forever.
Forever? What the hell?
“Your hotel room, huh, Mr. Walker?” My cock twitched at her calling me that. My mind swirled with all the other dirty things she could call me.
One thing in particular.
Something I’d never thought I would want, especially after becoming a parent. My face felt hot as the sexy, gorgeous woman in front of me laughed. Rosie reminded me of everything good in the world. Of endless possibilities. Mine. My heart thundered, and my mind nodded in agreement. Rosie was mine.
“I didn’t mean it that way,” I rasped, tugging on her hand while the rain seemed to fall harder. She stopped and closed the arm’s length space between us.
“That’s a shame,” she whispered, and even though I knew better, what with the weather being what it was, I wrapped cupped the back of her head and kissed her with an urgency and hunger I felt from the top of my head to the soles of my feet.