Alexandra’s eyes widened with amazed delight. “Well! And there I was thinking I’d never be able to impress you with my charms.”
His lips slanted in a gorgeous smile that ripped her heart apart. Lord, this man was lethal. Just one smile and he had her panties scorching. His hands rode up her back and then lower, making her whimper as he settled back to holding her hips as they swayed to the sound of Trey Songz’ tender crooning.
“Now, I don’t mean to be crass but this is one panty-droppin’ song,” Cane said approvingly, and Alexandra gasped in delight at his words which made her laugh.
“Don’t tempt me, Hutchinson,” she purred, batting her eyelashes up at him as her hips swayed more seductively against his. A cut-off groan spilled from his throat as her intimate V rubbed up against his burgeoning trouser front. “You wouldn’t like to see me turn the she-wolf. Not unless you really want me to let her out.”
“Oh God,” he rasped, tugging her hard against him for a moment. His head lowered to nuzzle at her neck, and Alexandra’s eyes rolled back in bliss at the sensation of his lips grazing the base of her arched throat. She lost all sense of time and place when he kissed and sucked on her neck with a famished groan rumbling in his chest.
“When you walked in that first time and I saw you in that white mini dress…damn. I wanted to fuck you where you stood,” he groaned against her fevered skin. “I couldn’t stand the thought of coming out here and seeing other men see you looking like that. Desiring you, thinking of touching you the way I wanted to. They’d have been crawling over you like beasts in the wild stalking after a tasty looking bunny. It did occur to me that a few might then try to make their move on you…which would be too bad because then I’d have to kill them.”
Alexandra choked on a giggle, hiding her warmed face against his chest as her fingers closed around the lapels of his suit.
“Hmm, so I guess you did like that dress, didn’t you?” she said sweetly, looking up at him through her lashes.
“Too much,” he growled, his arms tightening around her. “I’ve got this vision of you dressed in it, doing a little striptease right before you give me a sexy lap dance. Just the thought of that’s enough to get a man’s blood pumping, in case you were wondering.”
“I guess now I know,” she said softly, staring straight up at him. The moments ticked by in a bubble of bliss as they swayed to the compellingly sensual music.
Shivering deep in her belly, Alexandra couldn’t help adding quietly, “Aren’t you even curious, just a little bit? About how good it could be between us? It could be just that one time…and at least we’ll know. But if we keep fighting it, it’s only going to be even more disruptive. I haven’t been able to sleep, or eat…or think without seeing you in my mind, touching me the way I need to be touched, claiming me with all your body and soul.”
Cane held her gaze unwaveringly for a few seconds.
There was no way to guess what he was thinking. Just hoping that he was considering what she said was making her inner thighs quivering with desire. But then his next, tonelessly spoken words put paid to any wishful thinking.
“My boss called me today – Noah. To tell me there’s a new assignment up next week that’s just my kind of thing. To work on the security team handling a group of engineers being transported through some Middle Eastern desert to a multinational energy plant. There’s a high kidnapping rate of expatriate workers down there and Noah feels I’d be more of use heading the expedition. And that he’d easily get one of the other guys who handles celeb protection to take over as your bodyguard.”
Alexandra gulped, her heart stilling as his soft words sank in. “And what did you tell him?” She was almost afraid to ask, now hating herself for practically flinging herself at him every chance she got especially in the past few weeks. She wouldn’t be surprised if he told her he’d decided to finally get off the tiresome task of ‘babysitting’ a horny ass female.
“I told him…that some motherfucker broke in on my watch and I’m duty bound to stick around and make sure I get to the bottom of it,” Cane said simply, and Alexandra couldn’t keep the huge grin of relief from breaking out on her face. His answering lop-sided smile had the effect of making her feel like she was rocking on her feet as suddenly, she had a startling realization – one that was now so glaring to see when before it had been so obscure.
Damn it all to hell! She’d fallen in love with Cane.
Chapter Nine