him. Both breasts were now available to his gaze and she pulled the blanket up to cover them.
“No,” he shook his head and pulled the blanket back down to her waist. “I want to see them.”
Michelle blushed but indulged him, which delighted him. Maybe she was starting to trust him a little.
Rob’s eyes feasted on the dark pink nipples, hardening beneath his fingertips. He ran his hand from one to the other, just grazing the tips, then cupping the full weight of them. “You have the most beautiful breasts.”
Michelle turned her head away from him and stared off towards the closed window. “You don’t need to lie to me.”
Rob dropped his head and began sucking on one, just because he could. He continued until she gasped, then slipped a hand between her legs. She yelped this time, obviously too sensitive for some post coital petting.
Rob lifted his head and retrieved his hand, laying it casually across her rib cage.
“You were saying?”
Michelle didn’t smile but the light in her eyes was just as beautiful as if she had. Why did she keep doubting how much he wanted her?
“Tell me more about yourself.” She lifted a hesitant hand and stroked his cheek. Rob turned his face and kissed her palm, loving every second of her company.
“What do you want to know?”
Rob couldn’t think of anything specific he wanted to tell her. Well, he could think of all the places he hadn’t seen and would like to show her, but that seemed a little too forward.
“Tell me about your Uni course. Was it as hard as I think it would be?”
Rob bit back the groan that arose. “Work is the last thing I want to talk about, Michelle.”
Her face fell so quickly that Rob rolled on top of her to stop her from jumping out of bed. Shit! Wrong thing to say.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it the way it sounded.”
She looked hurt by his words and her adorable bottom lip was extended in a semi pout. Now that was a gorgeous look, and he wasn’t a man that went for sulky females.
He propped himself up on his arms so he didn’t squash her and tried to bring his scrambled thoughts together. “Uni, okay. Well, Uni was frikken hard work. Too many exams, too many long hours. Being young and pulling all-nighters, because I didn’t want to miss out on my life.”
Michelle smiled up at him. “You’re kind of squishing me.”
“Oh, sorry.” Rob rolled onto his side again but kept a hand on her waist. “Look, I love my job but I always thought I’d be settled by now. Wife and kids, all that. But my job doesn’t allow much time to socialize and I’m not one of those doctors that sleeps with the interns.”
Michelle rolled onto her side to face him and pulled the sheet up to cover herself. He didn’t try to stop her this time.
“Okay, so tell me more about this holiday then. What did you have planned?”
Rob smiled at the naked woman in his bed. His dream holiday seemed so far away at the moment and he didn’t care one tiny little bit. “I had a vision of myself driving Route 66 actually. Old Mustang, top down, just visiting the sites.”
Michelle smiled a truly beautiful smile and Rob felt his stomach flip. He had never believed in love at first sight, lust maybe. But his lust had been sated and he was now even more interested in this beautiful woman. He poked her gently in the shoulder.
“Tell me something about you.”
She smiled shyly, looking up at him through her eyelashes. “What would you like to know?”
I’d like to know if you would mind if I kissed your toes, was the first thing that came to Rob’s mind, but he swallowed that down and went for something even more confronting. “Your deepest fear?”
Michelle’s mouth hung open and he grinned. “Well, you asked.”
She turned onto her back. “Yeah, but I thought you’d ask my favourite colour or something like that.”
Rob laughed. “Nope, we only have one night. I’m skipping straight to the hard questions.”
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Michelle
Jessica Conant-Park, Susan Conant