Body Shot (Last Shot)(26)

So that was all this was. Fun and sex. Nothing wrong with that.





Chapter 7


Hayden was pretty sure she’d lost her mind.

Maybe the tequila last night had done something to her, affected her brain cells or something so she was permanently aroused, aching and wet between her thighs, her nipples tingling, excitement buzzing in her veins. The practical part of her knew that wasn’t true. People talked about certain foods being aphrodisiacs, but she was skeptical.

The only thing that could account for this state of stimulation was…Beck.

She got that. He was hot. Gorgeous face; muscled body; bad-boy beard, hair¸ and tattoos. A sinful smile. On top of that, he made her laugh, and that was always sexy.

What she didn’t get was why he was interested in her.

He was smooth with those compliments that she wanted to believe, but some of that high school inferiority complex lingered in her. She needed to be more confident. She needed to accept that he was attracted to her and just enjoy it.

Easier said than done.

She fought with herself all the way back to her Pacific Beach condo. Was she seriously going to bring him into her home and have sex with him…again? Could she really do that? Could she just toss aside all her responsibilities, the work she’d planned to do today, preparing for her important meeting tomorrow, the grant that could provide more funding, which would allow her to continue the work she loved? There were people counting on her. This wasn’t like her. She was conscientious, orderly, and sensible. Not sandy feet in flip-flops, laughing over meaningless arcade games, impulsive beer and burgers for dinner.

He parked on the street in front of her condo, his black Jag beautiful but a little out of place among the Fords and Chevys.

She shifted in her seat and faced him. This was it. If she was going to tell him no, she had to do it now. It would be wrong to take him into her place and let him think something was going to happen if it wasn’t.

He regarded her with a warm, gentle expression, his beautiful lips lifted at the corners in a half smile. And just the fact that he waited, that he knew she was hesitating and he waited for her to decide, made her heart flip over in her chest and made her want him even more.

“Let’s go in,” she said in a husky tone.

His eyes darkened and his smile deepened, and her panties got even wetter. “Yeah.”

She led the way up to the third floor, to her unit, and unlocked the door. She knew what was going to happen. There was no point in playing coy.

Her condo was dim, since it faced east. She walked into her spacious living room/office and turned to face Beck. He shut the door and strolled toward her with a predatory gleam in his eye that excited her even more.

And yet there was a sense that he was restraining himself. The idea that he wanted her that badly but was being careful with her inflamed her. She swallowed, her throat thick.

“Show me your bedroom, Hayden.”

She nodded and led the way down the short hall and into her bedroom, also dim with the same eastern exposure. In the room he moved up behind her, pulling her back to his front. His arms wrapped around her and his face pressed to her hair. “You smell like sunshine and the sea,” he murmured.

Hot sensation poured over her at his touch and her body melted against him.

“Yeah,” he muttered. “Push that hot little ass back into me.”

His mouth lowered to the spot where her neck and shoulder met, opening slowly over her skin there. Shivers worked their way down her spine.

He leisurely kissed and licked over her shoulder, pulling the wide neckline of her T-shirt aside, far enough to slip it down one shoulder. His tongue blazed over the top of her shoulder, up the side of her neck to below her ear, then he captured her earlobe between his lips and tugged.

“Oh God.” Weakness slid down her legs and she softened even more.

His hands cruised over her abdomen, one up to cup a breast, the other down, over her belly, slipping between her legs, while his hot mouth continued to lazily kiss and suck on her, even closing his teeth lightly over her skin. It was the most erotic embrace she’d ever experienced. Her back arched a little, her breast swelling into his palm. She wanted to kiss him but his hands on her like this felt so lovely. “Need my hand here between your legs, sweetheart?”

“Mmmm.” Her eyes fell closed and her head dropped to his shoulder as he caressed and petted her so intimately, squeezing her breast, rubbing her pussy through her shorts. “Yes. That feels good.”

“Good. Wanna make you feel good.”

“Oh God, you do.”

His hands slid languidly into her hair, gathering it all up into the ponytail that he used to move her head, and he shifted to kissing the other side of her neck. More shivers cascaded over her body, the sensation of him tugging her hair amplifying the thrill of his mouth and tongue on her neck.