more peppermint, hot peppermint against the skin of his face. Her eyes smoldered with want. It was clear she felt it, too, the heat between them, the confusing, beautiful, delicious heat.
He grabbed her forearm and drew her closer, slanting in to her chest. The shock of their bodies against each other caused them both to freeze. Not even a breath passed between them, but he knew exactly what he needed to do. He clenched the back of her head, and his lips dipped to her neck, dripping down her skin like melting ice. Fuck, he had to taste her. He opened his mouth, and his tongue lapped at her tender skin.
“Alec,” she breathed.
“Follow my lead.” He couldn’t stop, though she certainly didn’t seem like she was asking him to.
If anything, she was yielding to him. He trailed a finger down the center of her neck, playing with the top button of her shirt, pausing so he could think. Ten years. He could have gone to see her so many times. He hadn’t at first because of how they’d left things after graduation, and then because their careers got in the way and they had both gotten into the routine of being like pen pals, but maybe he had really been avoiding their attraction.
There was no avoiding it now. There was no thinking. She needed this, and he was going to give it to her.
His hands rushed to her chest, undoing one button then another until her shirt was open and her pale pink bra was visible—her tits pumping up and down with deep, unsteady breaths.
Her fingers played with the bottom of his shirt.
“Take it off,” he directed.
She heaved it over his head and ran her nails down the curves of his chest, her scratch creating an insatiable itch.
He slid his tongue against her clavicle, the hardness of it mirroring his own. The skin tasted like she smelled, like flowers in a vase, petals floating on water. He cupped his hand around her breast, and she yelped.
“Did I scare you?”
“Yes.” She slipped her tongue into his ear. “Scare me again.”
He teased at both her breasts, the delicate lace fabric in delicious opposition to her hard nipples. He circled his fingers around them slowly at first, then faster to meet her increasing gasps. She let out a slight moan like a whisper, like she was saying please.
Please.
She was so polite, even in her need.
He kissed the vertical line of her neck and continued to travel up. He still hadn’t savored her lips.
The word “friend” should have stopped him, but they were in too deep now, and the word on his mind hadn’t been friend—it had been fuck.
Fucking her—now.
“Two minutes,” Randy yelled from outside the door.
A growl raged deep within. If he only had two more minutes, he was going to make the most of it. He clutched her ass with one hand and forced her skirt up with the other. The whine in her breath made his already hard cock throb.
Less than two minutes. Not enough time to fuck her properly, or even kiss her properly, but he couldn’t stop.
And she couldn’t, either. She thrust herself against his hand. Her movements were all instinct, all want. Just like his.
He trailed his fingers along her drenched lace panties. Holy fuck was she wet. He longed to slip them to the side and slide his cock deep. Take her slow, so slow they both wouldn’t be able to stand it, before he slammed against her so relentlessly her breath broke. The whine at the back of her throat spiraling into a beg, a shriek, his name.
But this was Val, and they had a suite to share and a whole weekend together. Did he really want to fuck her in a broom closet?
Hell yeah, he did, but she was his best friend.
But she was also a woman soaking through her panties for him, and he was a man holding what felt like the whole of the Capitol Records Building in his pants for her.
But she was also his best friend.
“We can do this, Val. But I need to hear the words. Do you want me to fuck you?” he rasped, pressing two fingers against the fabric over her clit.
Her breath
Robert Asprin, Lynn Abbey