sound from his throat, a rumbling groan that blended with her own breathless
moan.
Shivers of need ran through her as he thrust his tongue into her mouth and rubbed
it hungrily against hers. She could feel the coiled tension in his hands, which trembled
against her as he tried to maintain control. She dropped to her knees on the carpet
and slid her fingers up his hard abdomen, aching to touch all his muscles, to soak
up his strength.
With a pleased grunt, he grabbed her hips and dragged her onto his lap as if she weighed
no more than air. Her legs slid around his hips as he deepened the kiss, and within
seconds, they both went animal, making deep, hungry moaning noises and groping each
other, her nails raking his biceps as she ground against his hardness. She sucked
his tongue and he bit her lower lip, and she burst to life as sensations tingled down
her bloodstream, her nerves, her skin.
The growl he released made her pussy water as he lay her down on the carpet, spreading
his enormous weight over her and tangling his legs between hers.
The heat of his chest seeped past her camisole and warmed her skin as his hands rasped
over her hips and slid under the material while their ravenous mouths tasted each
other more and more.
His dark voice spilled into her ear. “You know I’m going to fuck you, don’t you?”
His fast breath tickled her skin, sending a rush of heat down to her center as he
bent his head and bit her nipple through her bra.
She moaned, because this couldn’t happen no matter how much she wanted it to. “I don’t
have sex on the first date.”
Which was why she’d never really gotten a lot of sex in the first place. Still, that
didn’t stop her from undulating greedily against him.
His arms went like steel bands around her waist and his lips claimed hers again. “This
isn’t a date.”
He rocked his hips purposely against hers, and she arched by instinct, the talons
of some indescribable need deeply sunk into her womb, her body quivering for him to
take her hard enough to break her.
“I still don’t have sex with strangers…”
“Then let’s get on more intimate terms.”
He fingered the clasp of her bra behind her and unhooked it without preamble, then
he briskly yanked both bra and camisole over her head. She cried out, sat up, pulled
them back, and scowled at him.
Cade’s eyes flashed silver, and his nostrils flared as she hooked up her bra and quickly
put on her camisole.
“Ivy.” He halted her with one hand, looking at her. “I’ll forfeit the fucking game.
You take your two million. I want you naked and under me. Now .”
She shuddered at the animal need in his eyes, and she wondered if he could even control
himself. He looked positively ravenous.
“Please don’t try to pay me for sex.” Sucking in a breath, she edged back to her place
on the carpet a safe distance from him, her skin broken out in fever. “Let’s finish
the game first, please.”
He slowly crooked his finger, calling her back. “After I have you, Ivy.”
“The game first,” she stressed, breathlessly scowling at him. “Regardless of the outcome,
I don’t have sex on … first dates.”
It felt like a lie. Even her tongue tripped as she said it, and she knew that if Cade
was as smart as she believed he was, he could clearly see her nipples were puckered
under her bra. She ached so badly, was so aroused, she feared he also knew her panties
were soaked and that every cell in her body screamed against this rude awakening where
she wanted something she had never really had. She was by no means a virgin, but she
had never, ever, felt so aware of her body before. Aware of her body desperately wanting something.
Him.
This angry, lonely man. His rawness, his power, his anger—she wanted him so much,
she was only in a camisole, bra, and panties, and she was sweaty and baking inside
her skin.
Jaw clenched, he shuffled the cards