Excerpt - The Window - A Wicked One Night Stand
I find myself standing in front of 1414.
I stare. This is where he lives. K. McKale. This is the man I’ve been watching. The one in the window. The one on the street. The one I stripped for.
Holy shit! What was I thinking?
It’s one thing to do something like that for a complete stranger when glass and air and distance separate you. It’s more like a heightened fantasy than reality. This? Standing outside his door in person? This is…
The door opens.
Fuck!
K. McKale is standing there, dressed for a run in shorts, sneakers and a snug cotton t-shirt, showing off every single muscle that spans the man’s chest. I stare, open-mouthed, my fingers itching to touch. The muscles of his pecs twitch in response as if crying out to be touched in return.
Or more likely they are twitching in preparation for action because he moves so fast I don’t see it coming. He grabs my wrist, yanks me inside and pushes me up against the closed door. “Who the fuck are you?”
“My name’s Tessa Savage and—”
He grabs my other arm and raises my shackled wrists above my head to lean in close. So fucking close. Good lord! Not only is the man tall, he’s fucking strong.
“What are you doing here?”
My breath comes in quick sharp gasps leaving my mouth too dry to answer.
His eyes narrow as he takes a deep breath. “Jesus, you smell good.” The movement of his hips is subtle and I wouldn’t have noticed except that one second I feel his muscled chest pressing against me and the next I feel another muscle, just as hard, wedged against my pubic bone. “So…Tessa Savage, why are you here?”
Oh, very good question. Things seemed so clear the other night when I was putting on a show. Now? Hmmm…not so clear. In the coffee shop he seemed surprised but intrigued by the sight of me. Now he seems…surprised and something else.
Whatever that something else is, now is not time to show fear and I do my best to swallow my uncertainty. “I’ve watched you,” I say softly.
“I know.”
His grip tightens.
“I feel drawn to you.” I touch the corner of my dry lips with my tongue.
He moves his head to the other side, his gaze flicking down to my mouth and back up. “Why?”
“I don’t know.”
He waits for me to continue. When I don’t he says, “You took your clothes off in front of the window. Was that for me?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“Because I wanted to.” I lift my chin while my tummy does weird little flippy things.
His gaze is fierce and curious and aroused and…there’s still that something else. It sends a blaze of heat down my throat burning all the way to the pit of my topsy turvy stomach. He bites down on his lower lip and my imagination swiftly takes me to a scenario where he is biting down on my lip instead of his own. There is something between us that definitely says arousal—good God, the sheer size of his arousal is breathtaking—but it’s the other thing in his expression that confuses me, as if his arousal is unwanted and it’s making him angry. His nostrils flare like he’s taking in my scent, a wolf sniffing the air for the aroma of fear that always gives away the prey.
“It was a mistake,” I say slowly.
“Yes. It was.”
“Sorry. Sometimes I do crazy…” I stop talking. The intensity of his gaze, the barely tethered tension in his body surrounds me from all sides, stealing my breath and my words.
“But you’re here now.” His gaze drops to my mouth. He watches my tongue dart out, then back in again. He meets my gaze. Darkness staring me in the face. “And now that you are, what do you think I should do with you?”
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